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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..

Ismael Ahmed has been named director of the Michigan Department of Hum...
September 01, 2007

The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy.
September 01, 2007

Connecticut addresses high number of black and Hispanics in foster car...
September 01, 2007

Number of minority kids in foster care draws concern in Oregon.(state ...
September 01, 2007

Allegheny County (Pa.) Mental Health Court viable alternative to jaili...
September 01, 2007

Pennsylvania county child welfare agency draws praise.(state and local...
September 01, 2007

ISM's 40th annual conference a smashing success.(affiliates' corner)(I...
September 01, 2007

NASMD holds Spring meeting, Plans for fall.(affiliates' corner)(Nation...
September 01, 2007

What gets measured gets done.(affiliates' corner)(Brief article)
September 01, 2007

NASTA to hold annual conference.(affiliates' corner)(National Associat...
September 01, 2007

Two get NAPCWA awards for excellent work.(affiliates' corner)(National...
September 01, 2007

Worker safety: a hidden issue.(the field works)
September 01, 2007

Susan Dreyfus is now executive vice president of strategy for Rogers B...
September 01, 2007

Kate Houston has been named deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition ...
September 01, 2007

Emma Forkner is the new Medicaid director of the South Carolina Health...
September 01, 2007

Marsha Morris is the new Medicaid commissioner in West Virginia.(newsm...
September 01, 2007

Michael Coulson has joined the American Public Human Services Associat...
September 01, 2007

Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wa...
September 01, 2007

FY 2008 forecast provides look ahead at SAMHSA grant opportunities.(no...
September 01, 2007

The child tax credit is a $1,000 partially refundable federal income t...
September 01, 2007

In 1992, federal policy for cash welfare allowed families to exempt $1...
September 01, 2007

APHSA conferences and major meetings in 2007.(American Public Human Se...
September 01, 2007

Musings on policy.(director's memo)(Viewpoint essay)
September 01, 2007

Reaching for new heights.(editor's note)(Editorial)
September 01, 2007

My turn.(health insurance policy)
September 01, 2007

Family Services Technology Council to identify best practices for adop...
September 01, 2007

Troubled homes better than foster care.(first things first)(Brief arti...
September 01, 2007

Domestic, intercountry adoptions increase.(first things first)(Brief a...
September 01, 2007

Uninsured women much more likely not to get Pap smears.(first things f...
September 01, 2007

New rules lead to Medicaid decline.(first things first)(Brief article)
September 01, 2007

Rachel Demma.(staff spotlight)(American Public Human Services Associat...
September 01, 2007

Disabled face multiple barriers to employment.
September 01, 2007

Calling for consumer directed and inclusively designed technology.
September 01, 2007

Quality through equality: people with disabilities as employees and cu...
September 01, 2007

Information technology is NOT about technology.(technology speaks)(Vie...
September 01, 2007

Food stamp challenges sweep the country: new "diet" taken by governors...
September 01, 2007

How to write a board report.(words on words)
September 01, 2007

Reauthorizing SCHIP: opportunities for promoting effective health cove...
September 01, 2007

Basic facts about child support.(noted studies)(Brief article)
September 01, 2007

From poverty to prosperity: a national strategy to cut poverty in half...
September 01, 2007

Missouri No. 1 at delivering food stamps.(state and local news)(Brief ...
September 01, 2007

Boomers are ready for nonprofits, but are nonprofits ready for them?(n...
September 01, 2007

Don't hide when the news turns ugly.(communications corner)
September 01, 2007

Finances and affordability of caregiving.(making things happen)
September 01, 2007

Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, food stamp...
September 01, 2007

Disconnected families have the highest incidence of multiple barriers ...
September 01, 2007

Each year, about 50,000 children are adopted from foster care.(numbers...
September 01, 2007

The vast majority of adoption tax recipients completed private or fore...
September 01, 2007

Continuing a 14-year decline, the U.S. teen birth rate reached an all-...
September 01, 2007

Girls ages 12-17 made up less than one-third of adolescent treatment a...
September 01, 2007

Our do'ers profile.(James W. Payne from Department of Child Services)
September 01, 2007

Low-income families can't afford to follow USDA dietary guidelines.(fi...
September 01, 2007

Interactive process for hiring the disabled.(legal notes)
September 01, 2007