08/09/2018 – Update: Since writing the blog post below, more information about changing the status of legal immigrants has emerged. There is now serious consideration of penalizing legal immigrants seeking permanent status when they accept health-care services paid for by the government. The prediction is 1 million less lives using everything from food stamps, to […]
The Supervisor’s Instincts
For several years I supervised in a partial hospitalization program, where it was common work to have to engage a new family, argue with the insurance company about some obscure billing error, coordinate transportation for an upcoming community outing, and figure out how to deal with the violent outbursts actively occurring in the program when […]
CDR CANS Firearms Risk Item
In the wake of last month’s school shooting in Florida, there have been several news stories discussing how it was possible for the child who opened fire with an AR-15 on his school and classmates to have “fallen through the cracks.” One of the most troubling observations has been the fact that the accused assailant […]
Community Data Roundtable Vlog Series
We are starting a series of videos as a part of our blog series. These “vlogs” (video logs) are an attempt to provide some informal quick descriptions of how to do various tasks with communimetric data. These kinds of instructions are better done on video since they involve looking at graphs, pressing buttons in data […]
The Developing Communimetric Community
I first met John Lyons in 2011 when he was doing a training in Pennsylvania. Instantly impressed by his vision for how to measure outcomes in social services, I started up a conversation with him after his lecture, on the business model he was using to roll-out CANS. I was confused: he doesn’t have an app? He […]