Cindy Rupp, social service division manager with Washington County community services, recalled that Bachmann & Associates had hoped to carve out a faith-based niche among the dozen or so recovery programs contracted with the county.
As you report in a March 24 front-page article, President Bush's new faith-based social services initiative is creating divisions between blacks and whites and between Jews and Christians.
I appointed a Hispanic deputy commissioner of social services, as well as three division heads, and I elevated two Hispanic police officers to inspector positions, a first in Suffolk.
There is minimal specialist palliative care cover but no generic care" (generalist) "The division between social services and health care is an absolute nightmare.
She is the director of research for the Sanctuary Institute, a division of Andrus, a social services agency in Yonkers that provides training, research and consulting to organizations that offer services to children and families.
Her father is the founder and a former executive director of Family Dynamics, a private child-abuse prevention center in Brooklyn, which is now a division of SCO Family of Services, a social services organization in Glen Cove, N.Y.
Her mother is the chairwoman of the psychology department at the Sage Colleges in Troy, N.Y., and a psychotherapist in the community services division of St. Anne Institute, a social services agency in Albany.
Her mother retired as a social-work supervisor in Milford, Del., for the family services division of the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families.
Substance use initiation in adolescence appears so closely linked to other behavioural and health problem, that division in different compartments of health and social services seems groundless.
