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The Human Resource Integration has transpired. The Department of Health and Social Services has a Management Consultant Services Team and a Technical Services Center assigned to the department. The Juneau offices are located on the 1st floor of the Alaska Office Building, the Anchorage Technical Service Center is located on the 5th floor of the Frontier Building, and the Anchorage Management Consultant Services Team will be located in the Atwood Building the week of November 10th. Attached a list of employees and the functions they perform, in order to assist you in finding the service that you need. There will be changes as the integration is further defined; we appreciate you working with us as these changes occur.

A new report titled "FY04 Work Servicess Standards and YTD Performance Summary" was posted on the Performance Measures website. We will update this report monthly with year-to-date performance.

Campaign starts September 29, 2003 and ends December 12, 2003. (Late donations are always welcome)

The SHARE Campaign is an annual event for support of voluntary community programs that meet established criteria and provides a method by which voluntary financial support from State of Alaska personnel may be achieved through the state payroll system.

Over the past several months, the division has been considering the Food Stamp Program's simplified reporting option that was introduced in the Farm Bill. We have been talking with staff around the state to hear feedback regarding this option, as well as communicating with states that have implemented this change.

Based on communications with staff and other states, we have decided to move forward with a Simplified Reporting option. In using the FY 03 QA data, we estimate our FS accuracy rate may improve by as much as 2.5% overall. This policy option benefits FS recipients in that it stabilizes benefits, and has shown a marked improvement in accuracy rates in the 20+ states that have adopted the policy.

People who surf the 'net to find information about their state's welfare program and other social benefits may find themselves adrift in confusing Web sites that don't always deliver.

All 50 states use Web and Internet technologies to provide basic information about state welfare, unemployment and other social safety net programs, but only a few states, such as Pennsylvania and Washington, provide "one-stop shopping" that connects citizens to everything for which they may qualify.