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Citizenship, Benefits & Services

By Will Humble| 2012-08-17T16:35:48-07:00 August 3rd, 2010|Behavioral Health, General|

Many of our Stakeholders and the folks that we serve have asked about how Arizona and Federal laws affect the kinds of services that the ADHS provides. The answer is (of course) “it depends.” It depends on what kind of benefit or service you’re talking about. Tom Salow, Lynn Golder and others have put together [...]

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ADHS E-Communications Site

By Will Humble| 2010-08-02T14:26:51-07:00 August 2nd, 2010|General|

Just a reminder that you can sign up for electronic notifications in your in-box of our media releases, and lots of other cool communications like our weekly, in-season, healthy recipe at: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1101362445484. Tell your friends too.

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Farmers' Market Locator

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:12-07:00 August 2nd, 2010|General|

We’ve got a groovy new Farmers' Market Locator up on our WIC website. It help anybody in Arizona find the closest farmers market. Simply go to the application link and put in any address and city and push “Find Market”. The program will list all the markets including links that give you the time of year, dates [...]

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Farmers’ Market Locator

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:12-07:00 August 2nd, 2010|General|

We’ve got a groovy new Farmers' Market Locator up on our WIC website. It help anybody in Arizona find the closest farmers market. Simply go to the application link and put in any address and city and push “Find Market”. The program will list all the markets including links that give you the time of year, dates [...]

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Healthcare Reform Questions

By Will Humble| 2010-07-23T08:00:38-07:00 July 23rd, 2010|General|

I know that many of you are getting questions from your stakeholders about healthcare reform. The website that HHS posted recently should help, as it provides the latest information on the health care reform law. It’s seems to mainly be focused on consumer awareness etc. For example, the website provides information about the new option [...]

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Aging Healthy in Arizona

By Will Humble| 2010-07-22T09:45:31-07:00 July 22nd, 2010|General|

In the next 2 decades Arizona’s population will age rapidly, increasing the demand for services related to management of chronic illnesses and disability, as well as increase health care and long term care costs. That’s why we need to focus efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of all older adults in Arizona. Our new [...]

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ADHS Status

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:13-07:00 July 21st, 2010|General, Newborn Screening|

We’ve got a lot to be proud of over the last year and an half. It’s been hard, I know because of all of the budget reductions and the lower staffing level. On the other hand, we’ve got an incredible mission and we’re doing a good job. I often tell people that we work in [...]

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Medical Marijuana (Proposition 203)

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:13-07:00 July 15th, 2010|General|

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, an Initiative called the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act will be on the Ballot this November. We organized several teams (behavioral health, substance abuse, public health, licensure, rules, IT, and administrative council etc.) to examine the Initiative over the last few weeks. You can read a news article this week [...]

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AZ Obesity Update

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:14-07:00 July 6th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The Trust for America’s Health released their annual obesity report. Overall, the national trend toward increasing obesity rates continued it’s march forward. Arizona ranked in the middle of the pack, but the pack itself in increasingly unhealthy. More than two-thirds of states have adult obesity rates above 25 percent. In 1991, no state had an [...]

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CDC’s “Science Clips”

By Will Humble| 2010-06-30T10:00:56-07:00 June 30th, 2010|General|

I have a new bookmark spot for you. It’s called Science Clips; it’s the CDC’s newest weekly publication. Each week selected science clips will be posted on the site for the public health community with the goal of enhancing awareness of emerging scientific knowledge. The focus is applied public health research and prevention science that [...]

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