Policy & Practice

A professional journal publishing articles on current health and human services issues for wide audience. Coverage includes social policy issues, reports of significant works of human service practitioners, social work theory and legislation, and editorials from various ideological perspectives..

Mary Lou Hanley.(newsmakers)
June 01, 2006

Cynthia LaWare, deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Servic...
June 01, 2006

Document/content management in Minnesota: a tale of two approaches.(te...
June 01, 2006

Average family income.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Chief executive made 279 times.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Ventura County combines automation and collaboration.(making things ha...
June 01, 2006

Our do'ers profile: in our do'ers profile, we highlight some of the ha...
June 01, 2006

Michigan disburses Child Support payments electronically.(state and lo...
June 01, 2006

Meth sending more children to foster care in Idaho.(methamphetamine)(B...
June 01, 2006

Child support collection continues to increase in states.(state and lo...
June 01, 2006

Iowa and Mexico sign child welfare accord.(state and local news)(Brief...
June 01, 2006

New Hampshire leads in Medicaid services.(state and local news)(Brief ...
June 01, 2006

Child care is big business in N.J., study finds.(state and local news)...
June 01, 2006

Iowa hails drop in repeat child abuse cases.(state and local news)(Bri...
June 01, 2006

Richard Anderson, director of child and family services at Utah's Depa...
June 01, 2006

Mary Dale-Bolson, secretary of the New Mexico Department of Children, ...
June 01, 2006

In Oregon, Allen Douma has been named director of the Office of Medica...
June 01, 2006

Cynthia Holland.(joins Florida Department of Children and Families)(Br...
June 01, 2006

In Georgia, Kenneth Joe has been named director of the Fulton County o...
June 01, 2006

In Rhode Island, Ronald Lebel has been named director of the Departmen...
June 01, 2006

In Nevada, Thomas Morton, founder of the Atlanta-based Child Welfare I...
June 01, 2006

In Ohio, Deborah Ortiz, assistant director of Lucas County Job and Fam...
June 01, 2006

Mary Sheehan.(human services director )(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Welcome, new and returning local agency members in 2006.
June 01, 2006

Food Stamp Directors prepare Phoenix conference.(affiliates' corner)(B...
June 01, 2006

How to write a good lead.(words on words)
June 01, 2006

Protecting vulnerable adults financially.(the field works)
June 01, 2006

Welfare Reform in Motion.(Book review)
June 01, 2006

Technology in Social Work Education and Curriculum.(Technology in Soci...
June 01, 2006

Low-income.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Children lived with relatives.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Victims of abuse or neglect in California.(numbers in the news)(Brief ...
June 01, 2006

Safe child safety seat.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

American babies.(infant mortality)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Seniors.(senior americans)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Adult abuse.(adult protective services )(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Safety net.(senior Americans )(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Medicaid outpatient drug spending.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
June 01, 2006

Medicaid spending on drugs for disabled.(numbers in the news)(Brief ar...
June 01, 2006

Welfare intern program helps both sides.(Deficit Reduction Act of 2005...
June 01, 2006

25 million depend on emergency food assistance.(first things first)(Br...
June 01, 2006

More uninsured after welfare reform.(first things first)(Brief article...
June 01, 2006

Recovery coaches can help reunite families.(first things first)(Brief ...
June 01, 2006

Meth epidemic doubles crime committed by addicts.(methamphetamine)(Bri...
June 01, 2006

Social workers make a difference in the lives of children in foster ca...
June 01, 2006

Staff spotlight.(American Public Human Services Association's Jo-Ann M...
June 01, 2006

Media strategies for CEOs.(chief executive officers)
June 01, 2006

Maryland woman leads adoption effort by example.(focus: adoption)
June 01, 2006

Calif. County gets high marks in care of abused children.(state and lo...
June 01, 2006

Say what?(euphemisms)
June 01, 2006

Tell your truth slowly.(Cover story)
June 01, 2006

Noted studies.(medically uninsured people, community colleges, food st...
June 01, 2006

ISM prepares for 39th annual conference.(affiliates' corner)
June 01, 2006

Suicidal clients: law, ethics, and documentation.(legal notes)
June 01, 2006

It's all about relationship.(human services)
June 01, 2006

Inside story.
June 01, 2006

A tale of two leaders.(John Stoffa, Eric M. Bost )
June 01, 2006