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I had a story mentioned today in US News & World Report. They wanted a few marriage counselors to tell how they proposed marriage in inexpensive ways.
My girlfriend and I were just out of college, broke and teaching english in the Czech Republic and Japan.
This was a fun story the link is here:
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Last week I was interviewed by Monster.com as a couples expert for an article they are doing on how your spouse can make or break your career.
Though the topic was a bit presumptuous it is worth exploring how those we love can assist us and occasionally interfere with our career goals.
As with all interviews I offered them ideas, thoughts and what I see as words of occasional wisdom and their editors cut it down into several quotes that they then sprinkle throughout the ...
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I am officially pissed!
I read yesterday that effective October 1st, 2014, the service definition for intensive in-home has been changed so that IIH teams can now carry a caseload of 12 families, up from 8 families!!
This is a 50% increase in workload for what raise?
0% raise!
If you want to see the actual letter take a look at this link: Letter from North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
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Hot off the internet presses!
Looks like CoastalCare and East Carolina Behavioral Health are merging. They are charged with merging by July 1, 2015.
Here is part of the press release with important words bolded:
Continue Reading →Maintaining a local presence and taking the least disruptive approach for consumers, families, providers, the community, and employees of the current agencies is paramount for the new organization. With a total population of 1,259,757—and an estimated 165,000 of those people eligible for Medicaid–the combined ...