Policy & Practice August 2017

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Vol. 75, No. 4

August 2017

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August 2017

Policy&Practice

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TODAY’S

EXPERTISE

FORTOMORROW’S

SOLUTIONS

departments

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 28 From the Field National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise: California’s Experience 30 Legal Notes Foster Children, Foster Parents, and Drunk Driving 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 Cheryl Boley, Director of the Perry County (OH) Job and Family Services Agency

features

Promising Practices for Incident Management HowWe Can Keep Vulnerable Citizens Safer Bring It On A Provider, A Researcher, and A NewWay of Improving Lives Destination Employment The Benefits of Work and the Importance of Subsidized Employment Tapping into the Potential of Public Health and Social Services Partnerships A Framework to Improve Outcomes for Disadvantaged Workers Mindful Medicaid Using Behavioral Economics to Move the Needle on Maternal and Child Health 8 16 24 12 20

Cover Illustration by Chris Campbell