BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE Issue Date: Online ExclusiveOnline Exclusive One parity goal reached, yet others remainFour more doors must be opened in order to ensure fair, effective care for behavioral health by Ronald W. Manderscheid, PhD, Executive Director, NACBHDD On Tuesday, Feb. 2, the U.S. Departments of HHS, Labor, and Treasury published the long-awaited “Interim Final Regulations”Read… Read more »
[Note this is cross posted from my blog] Last week, the Web 2.0 Practitioner’s (W2P) Community (of which I am a part) held its informal mixer as it does every 3 weeks. I happened to be on point for organizing the event this time, although truth be told I couldn’t have done it without aRead… Read more »
So much of the 2.0 part of the web is community in collaboration. One of the emerging questions with this technology and tools is – how does it benefit all Americans or help to reach traditionally underserved populations? What caught our attention this month is how native communities are using Web 2.0 tools to enhanceRead… Read more »
USAJobs.gov is the federal government’s official job board where all federal government employment opportunities are posted. For the past four or so years, this site has been the go-to for jobseekers looking to become feds. However, the user experience has been pretty lacking. Many jobseekers become frustrated with the user interface and then even moreRead… Read more »
If you have been around the Washington DC area long enough, you will know that whenever there is a single snowflake forecasted to fall on the ground, there is run at the grocery store for critical items such as: I have never understood the critical need for milk, bread and toilet paper during a snowstorm.Read… Read more »
The Senate has confirmed Martha Johnson as Administrator of the General Services Administration. The vote was 94 to 2. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) praised the vote. Read more here.
Federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., area are open under an unscheduled leave policy according to the Office of Personnel Management. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the Washington area from 10 a.m. Friday to 10 p.m. Saturday. Accumulations of 16 to 24 inches of snow are expected. Senior CorrespondentRead… Read more »
While our livelihood at PubliVate revolves around crowdsourcing (or ideation, innovation management, idea sourcing, idea collection…would be good to land on a common title…part of the growing up process, I suppose), it has been fascinating over the last few years to watch the area evolve. A central focus for us from our earliest days hasRead… Read more »
Federal offices in the Washington area will operate with unscheduled leave status on Friday as a major snowstorm nears the nation’s capital. Continue reading this post >>>
The Office of Personnel Management released the first strategic plan last month to increase the hiring of Veterans in the Federal Government. Below is a summary of the main points outlined in the strategic plan. First, some Veteran hiring facts: – Federal Government is the Nation’s leading employer of Veterans. – Veterans make up moreRead… Read more »