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Guest columnist and attorney Karen G. Luther describes the important work of the Legal Aid for Children and Families program in the Oakland County Bar Association journal, LACHES.

Debra J. Wolf, an attorney at LegalHealth, describes disclosure requirements under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), and protection against workplace discrimination for individuals with cancer or other chronic illnesses.

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Know Your Legal Rights in the Workplace. Coping with Cancer. May/June 2009; 23(3): 32. Debra Wolf.

Article concludes that children’s asthma is associated with reduced parental employment among single parents and increased welfare receipt among single- and 2-parent families. These associations with children’s asthma may have implications for policy makers interested in increasing employment and decreasing welfare use.

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The Association of Childhood Asthma with Parental Employment and Welfare Receipt. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association.  Winter 2002.  LA Smith, JL Hatcher & R Wertheimer.

Article in the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association:

As clinicians, we have no choice but to respond to the social forces that so profoundly affect the health of the families we serve; we must take advantage of our capacity to make substantial contributions to the health and well-being of our patients.

Study concludes children whose families have applied for welfare and children who are uninsured are at high risk medically and may require additional services to improve health outcomes.

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Relationships Between Welfare Status, Health Insurance Status, and Health Care Among Children with Asthma.  American Journal of Public Health.  2002; 92 (9): 1446-1452.  PR Wood, LA Smith, D Romero, P Bradshaw, PH Wise & W Chavkin.

Study concluded that welfare recipients and applicants with chronically ill children face substantial barriers to employment, including high child health care use rates and missed work. The welfare reform reauthorization scheduled to occur later in 2002 should address
the implications of chronic child illness for parental employment.

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Employment Barriers Among Welfare Recipients and Applicants with Chronically Ill Children.  American Journal of Public Health.   2002; 92 (9): 1453-1457.   LA Smith, D Romero, PR Wood, NS Wampler, W Chavkin & PH Wise.