APHSA News Alert

Judith Schagrin of Baltimore County to receive NAPCWA child welfare award
(3-17-2010)

APHSA Letter to OMB on Fed-State Partnership
(3-16-2010)

Russ Sykes Testifies Before House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Role of TANF in Helping Struggling Families
(3-15-2010)

NASMD letter to CMS on Treatment of Annuities
(3-10-2010)

Executive Summary of NASTA Recommendations for TANF Reauthorization
(3-5-2010)

CFSR Issues and Recommendations-Child Welfare Policy Council
(3-3-2010)

APHSA Urges Senate to Support Maintaining TANF Emergency Fund
(2-26-2010)

Letter to Congress in Support of Extension of FMAP Increase and White Paper
(2-5-2010)

Highlights of President Obama’s FY 2011 Budget
(2-4-2010)

APHSA Unveils Guide on Training Systems
The guidebook helps support functions expand their roles to strengthen their organizational effectiveness.
(1-29-2010)

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reauthorization
Preview of the National Association of State TANF Director's (NASTA) TANF reauthorization recommendations released January 19.
(1-19-2010)


APHSA Unveils 'Focal Point'
(2-2-2009)
'Focal Point' is the organization's operational blueprint to help the new administration and new Congress carry out a viable and effective
health and human service program.

APHSA's "For Those We Serve" and "A Starting Point" Policy Recommendation Documents

This Week in Washington
(3/19/2010)
Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) have introduced an amendment (S.A. 3453) to the Federal Aviation Administration legislation (H.R. 1586) being considered by the Senate. The amendment would place a cap on all non-military discretionary funding through fiscal year 2014 at the levels outlined in the FY 2010 congressional budget ...

In the Headlines  (Friday, Mar. 19, 2010)

Arizona Drops Children's Health Program
New York Times
“Arizona is navigating its way through the largest state budget deficit in its long history,” said Ms. Brewer, a staunch conservative who said she had never ...

Release of Medicare data could help reform health-care system
Washington Post
Though it supported wide use of Medicare data, the Department of Health and Human Services opposed the release of this information based on its ...

Social services to extend review of some child-abuse cases
Baltimore Sun
Now, Department of Social Service employees will include cases that occurred since 2006. Human Resources Secretary Brenda Donald said the department did not ...

The Health Debate: Crunch Time
New York Times
The access woes of Michigan Medicaid patients illustrated so movingly in your article are reverberating nationwide and are a real problem for physicians and...

Investigation targeted food stamp fraud in Florida
MiamiHerald.com
Twenty-one store owners and clerks in Florida were arrested following a 10-week investigation into food stamp fraud. The Florida Department of Law ...

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APHSA in the Media

Zeinab Chahine of Casey Family Programs to Receive Peter Forsyth Award
(3-18-2010)

Getting Welfare to Work When Work Is Scarce
Aid to the poor hasn't kept pace with unemployment, prompting calls for a hard look at rewriting the law.
(CQ Weekly, 2-16-2010)

Kentucky's bet on Medicaid help might be safe
(Louisville Courier-Journal, 2-16-2010)

Rockefeller Leads Effort To Extend Increased Medicaid Matching Funds Through Jobs Bill
(INSIDE CMS, 1-29-2010)

Welfare rolls up in '09; more enroll in assistance programs
WASHINGTON — Welfare rolls rose in 2009 for the first time in 15 years, but the 5% increase was dwarfed by spikes in the number of people receiving food stamps and unemployment insurance.
(USA Today, 1-25-2010)

Medicaid provision for Nebraska raises ire
The rebellion against the $100 million promise has spread to nearly one-third of the nation's attorneys general, including two Democrats.
(The Washington Post, 1-17-2010)

States With Expanded Health Coverage Fight Bill
States that have already broadly expanded health care coverage are pushing back against the Senate overhaul bill,
(New York Times, 12-27-2009)

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