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How to handle a disagreement with a homeowner’s association

Living in an area with a homeowner’s association helps to ensure that your property value is protected. All homeowners in the area are subjected to the bylaws and covenants. These can sometimes lead to a dispute between the association and a homeowner. There are many things that can occur when a homeowner and the association

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

6 Typical Rules For an HOA

If you haven’t dealt with a homeowners association before, you should prepare for rules. Rules govern many of the activities of daily residents. HOA’s aren’t for everyone, so before you make an offer on a home and move-in, you should understand how one may affect your living experience. HOA’s are more commonplace in certain parts...

10 Ways to Practice Institutional Racism at your Non-profit Organization

I realize that institutional racism may not be your goal or intention. You may not even be aware of the complexities of racism at your organization.

Association Tune Ups: 4 Steps to Maintaining Your Association Management System

For a professional member-based association, your database is your most valuable asset. The success of your association is dependent upon a robust association management system...

How To Find Mental Health Services in Your Area

Mental health services are critical because they provide essential support for people who are struggling with their mental health. Treatment can allow people to better manage their mental health conditions, connect them with resources, and provide support for their families. Mental health care providers are a meaningful and integral part of the overall health care system. However, it can be difficult to know where to look…

Is Your Medical Practice A Social Service Or A Business?

Is your practice a social service or is it a business? These are two entirely different goals and if a definitive answer doesn’t immediately pop out of your mouth you’re in trouble. A dog may have four legs, but it can only walk in one direction at a time. Today, with the communal notions of … Continue reading

Social Services for the Elderly: How Can I Get Help?

Have you considered how you can get help should you need it? There are a range of social services available to you as a senior.

Can health services handle the Apple Watch?

Apple's Watch upgrade brings new features that some warn could put strain on health services.

Preventive Health Service Use among Rural Women

Research Alert from the Rural Health Research Gateway for: Preventive Health Service Use among Rural Women

Petition: Increase funding to Children's Mental Health services

NHS children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHs) are so poorly funded that young people are often left to suicide before they get the help they need. CAMHs are having to turn away children with complex psychological conditions. No child should be told they are not ill enough to get help.

How 3 Districts Are Bolstering Their School-Based Mental Health Services

A federal grant program is giving school districts opportunities to expand mental health services.

Condominium Association Management: Easy Ways to Prevent Residential Burglaries

Condominium Association Management providers can assist HOA boards with ways to prevent residential burglaries

How Low-Code Development Will Deliver The Future of Public Health Services

Low-code development is a critical tool for delivering the public health services of the future and meeting the demands of our time.

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Meet the Disruptor: Providence Health & Services Building an Amazon-like Culture

Providence Health & Services has hired a team of experts from Amazon to help disrupt the health care industry and create closer ties with consumers.

Pondering A Social Services Career?

So you’re thinking of getting into the field of Social Services? Why? I’ll bet it’s because you want to help people; make a difference. Noble of you really, and we can never have enough good people with good intentions who care and are willing to serve others. ...

WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services

The Framework on integrated people-centred health services represents a call for a fundamental shift in the way health services are funded, managed and delivered. This is urgently needed to meet the challenges being faced nowadays by health systems around the world. The fact that people are living longer, along with the burden of treating long-term chronic conditions and preventable illnesses which often require multiple complex interventions…

Women More Likely to Use Other Preventive Health Services After Mammography

Medicare beneficiaries who undergo breast cancer screening with mammography are more likely than unscreened women to undergo other preventive health services like screening for cervical cancer and osteoporosis, according to a major new study appearing online in the journal Radiology

Social Services: Listen to People Who Have Experienced Poverty

We need the people who administer social services at the state and local levels to do a better job of providing programs and policies that work in people’s lives.