Policy & Practice August 2017

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3 President’s Memo

Leading with Purpose: Pioneers for Thriving Communities

5 Locally Speaking

The Road to Zero: How Chronic Homelessness Is Ending in a Major Rust Belt Community

6 Technology Speaks

When Data Insight Is a Matter of Life and Death: The Role of Data and Analytics in Addressing the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Promising Practices for Incident Management HowWe Can Keep Vulnerable Citizens Safer

Tapping into the Potential of Public Health and Social Services Partnerships A Framework to Improve Outcomes for Disadvantaged Workers

28 From the Field

National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise: California’s Experience

30 Legal Notes

Foster Children, Foster Parents, and Drunk Driving

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31 Good Child Welfare Metrics May Help Avert Lawsuits

32 Association News

A new publication and the upcoming conference from NSDTA

38 Staff Spotlight

Candy Hill, Senior Director of Policy and Government A airs

40 Our Do’ers Profile

Bring It On A Provider, A Researcher, and A NewWay of Improving Lives

Mindful Medicaid Using Behavioral Economics to Move the Needle on Maternal and Child Health

Cheryl Boley, Director of the Perry County (OH) Job and Family Services Agency

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Destination Employment The Benefits of Work and the Importance of Subsidized Employment

Cover Illustration by Chris Campbell

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