From the editor.
With all of the clinical, financial, legal and regulatory challenges you and your agencies grapple with, does staff compensation sometimes get lost in the shuffle? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As we embarked on publishing our second annual Almanac for Mental Health and Addiction Professionals (the CD enclosed...

Drucker award to London's pivotal.
LONDON -- Pivotal Services of London received the The Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation award for 2003. For its "Alternative Canadian Business Model," a packaging company which integrates a business in a social service program. Pivotal teaches people how to be employable. It has created employee loan...

Employer-based training programs for TANF recipients: a public policy examination.
INTRODUCTION Although the United States is one of the most affluent nations in the world, a substantial number of people in this country continue to live in poverty. In 2003, 35.9 million people lived below the poverty threshold, 16.7% of whom were children. (1) Policy makers have...

State asked to try harder to register more voters.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard Oregon's social services agency is stepping up its efforts to comply with federal law by handing out voter registration cards to people seeking public assistance. The Department of Human Services scheduled training for employees later this month after it became...

Real-world applications.
Far from the ivory tower of education, IBM Multimedia is today providing "real-world" benefit to a range of industries. Around the world, companies are finding that such core-multimedia attributes as visualization and interactivity provide vast improvements in many areas of information exchange. Here's a look at some...

Tailored version of EAP will debut at Mass. university.
Northeastern University in Boston will become the first test site of a university assistance program (UAP), a version of an employee assistance program made possible by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Northeastern's program, already in development, will receive its official launch in...

Improving intervention: the advantages of a team approach.
"You can't help someone who doesn't want help!" This has been one of the most unchallenged myths across the broad spectrum of helping professions and self-help groups globally. There are professionals, recovering individuals, family members and even books that continue to perpetuate this belief. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Advance planning for workplace violence.
Violence in the workplace is a disturbing trend that continues to draw media attention. However, long after the television cameras are gone and the carnage and debris have been cleared, employers. families, and communities must continue to repair the psychological damage created by violent acts and tragedies. Human resource...

Spillovers from MNCs through worker mobility and technological and managerial capabilities of SMEs in Mexico.
SUMMARY At international level, there is a consensus that the Multinational Corporations (MNCs) can function as a channel of diffusion of knowledge and technology, and that they can contribute to accelerate the economic development processes in the countries where they are established, by means of technological spillover...

Developing labor force preparedness as a response to major job loss: government, business and education as partners.
Abstract While extensive research has documented the individual characteristics of displaced workers and the subsequent impact of job displacement on earnings and quality of re-employment, virtually no research focuses on the responses within communities when major job losses occur. This research, a case study of four southwestern...