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The best and most innovative programs selected by state officials are now available in a brief, easy-to-read format with ideas for effectively and creatively solving significant state problems. Choose from this list of 1994 through 1997 CSG Innovations Award winner reports.

A subscription of the eight 1997 Innovations Awards Winners is $56. P013. Single issues also are available for $10.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE
California's Targeted Industries Partnership Program
Multi-jurisdictional law-enforcement effort that also promotes fair business competition. P013-9601. $10.

Connecticut's Alternative Incarceration Program
Saves money and prison bed space. S025-9400. $10.

Connecticut's Garner Correctional Institution Close Custody Phase Program
Reduces gang violence in prisons. P013-9602. $10.

Kansas' Transportation Assistance Program
Cost-effective approach to transporting prisoners. P013-9603. $10.

Michigan's Project SEEK (Services to Enable and Empower Kids)
Early prevention program that works with children who have a parent in prison. P013-9604. $10.

New Jersey's Comprehensive Enforcement Program
Collects court-ordered fines and restitution. P013-9605. $10.

North Carolina's Support Our Students Initiative
Prevents juvenile crime and steers young people into positive, constructive activities. P013-9606. $10.

Western Identification Network
Cooperative effort of law enforcement administrators to identify interstate offenders. S026-9400. $10.

EDUCATION
1997 Innovations Award Winner
West Virginia's Energy Express
Unique summer education and nutrition program. P013-9708. $10.

ENVIRONMENT
Cleaning Up Massachusetts: The Redesigned 21E Program
Establishes public-private partnerships to clean-up the state's lingering hazardous-waste sites. P013-9501. $10.

1997 Innovations Award Winner
Indiana's Environmental Circuit Rider Program
Encourages city-state cooperation on environmental compliance matters. P013-9702. $10.

Iowa's By-Product and Waste Search Service
Helps businesses find marketing uses for materials they no longer need. S027-9400. $10.

Kansas' State Deferral Program
Provides cleanup alternatives to the federal Superfund process. P013-9504. $10.

1997 Innovations Award Winner
Pennsylvania's Land Recycling Program
Cleans up contaminated industrial sites that are unused or abandoned. P013-9706. $10.

GOVERNMENT
1997 Innovations Award Winner
Hawaii's Pacific Regional Emergency Management Information System
Provides high technology information solutions to the emergency management community. P013-9701. $10.

Massachusetts' Telefile Program
Residents can file their state income taxes via a touch-tone telephone. P013-9502. $10.

1997 Innovations Award Winner
Massachusetts' Non-Tax Revenue Optimization Campaign
Turned a $1.1 billion budget deficit in 1990 into a $1.2 billion surplus in 1996 by helping the state collect more than $700 million in revenue. P013-9704. $10.

Texas' Performance Review Program
The model for Vice President Al Gore's Reinventing Government initiative. P013-9607. $10.

Texas' Volunteer Interpreter Service
Volunteer interpreters assist clients and Human Services staff. P013-9506. $10.

1997 Innovations Award Winner
Virginia's Mobile Mortgage Project
Reaches out to rural Virginians by delivering affordable housing programs to their doorstep. P013-9707. $10.

HEALTH
Arizona's Health-Care Cost Containment System
Reduces health-care costs and attracts providers. P013-9402. $10.

California's Medical Case Management Program
Medicaid managed-care program that improves access to health care and reduces costs. P013-9507. $10.

Florida's Volunteer Health-Care Provider Program
Increases access to health care for indigents. P013-9505. $10.

1997 Innovations Award Winner
Iowa's Divestiture Investigation Unit
Fraud unit that investigates and collects debts that are created when Medicaid applicants or recipients illegally transfer assets for less than fair market value to gain or maintain Medicaid eligibility. P013-9703. $10.

New York State's Partnership for Long-Term Care
Insurance program that helps pay for seniors' long-term care needs. P013-9403. $10.

PUBLIC SAFETY
Ohio's Operation Crackdown
Uses prohibition-era nuisance-abatement laws to tackle neighborhood drug activity. P013-9407. $10.

Washington's Mobile Intervention Supervision Team
Puts community-correction officers into mobile units. P013-9508. $10.

Washington's Neighborhood-Based Supervision Program
Helps residents to enhance neighborhood safety. P013-9608. $10.

REGULATION
New York State's Fair Hearings Decision Management System
Expedites the process of drafting and issuing decisions for various social programs. S030-9400. $10.

WELFARE REFORM
Illinois' Earnfare Program
Innovative program that moves people from welfare to work. P013-9503. $10.

Maryland's Primary Prevention Initiative
Incentive-based program that encourages school attendance and regular medical checkups for welfare recipients. P013-9401. $10.

1997 Innovations Award Winner
Oregon's The Oregon Option: Welfare Reform
Inventive approach to putting people to work. P013-9705. $10.

South Carolina's Electronic Parent Locator Program
Tracks and locates deadbeat parents across the state lines. P013-9404. $10.

Reforming Welfare: Maryland's Primary Prevention Initiative
Emphasizes preventive health care and school attendance as a way to break the cycle of poverty and welfare dependency. P013-9401. $10.

STATE TRENDS
This quarterly publication reports on critical issues, emerging trends and best practices in state government. Drawing from current research, historical data and 50-state surveys, State Trends provides timely information from state, regional and national perspectives. Quarterly. Annual subscription. P011. $49.99. Single issue $15.

These past issues of State Trends are available:
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State Trends
1997 Volume 3 · Number 1
Articles in this issue: Education Reform: A Charter for Success? · Wheeling and Dealing: Is Retail Access the Answer to Electricity Deregulation? · The Battle Over Business Incentives: States Re-evaluating Costs · Benefits of Enticing Out-Of-State Firms · Polluted Runoff: The Next Frontier · ADA Compliance: Removing Obstacles to Education. 1997. P011-9701. List price $15. SALE PRICE $10.

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State Trends
1997 Volume 3 · Number 2
Articles in this issue: Corrections: Paying for the 'Big House'· Telecommunications Deregulation: A Taxing Problem · Electricity Deregulation: States Move to Keep it Green · Superfund: The Changing of the Guard · School-Based Health Centers: Improving Access to Children's Health Care ·ISTEA: Creating Local Links. 1997. P011-9702. List price $15. SALE PRICE $10.

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State Trends
1997 Volume 3 · Number 3
Articles in this issue: Hospital Conversions: To Profit or Not to Profit? · Geriatric Jail Birds: Creating Budget Ailments · College Savings Plans: Taking Stock · Campaign Finance: In the Footsteps of Term Limits? · Emergency Assistance: States to the Rescue. 1997. P011-9703. List price $15. SALE PRICE $10.

SOLUTIONS: Policy Options for State Decision-Makers
Experts offer policy options based on recent trends on critical issues and long-term structural and institutional changes in state government. Each issue of SOLUTIONS involves background research on the topic and data collection though 50-state surveys. Three issues annually. Annual subscription. P010 $65. Single issue $25.

SOLUTIONS: Policy Options for State Decision-Makers
Replacing Welfare
This SOLUTIONS issue highlights critical issues for states to consider when replacing the AFDC program with the new Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. The report offers five broad policy and management options for state policy-makers to consider when implementing their TANF plans. 55p. 1997. P010-9702. $25.

SOLUTIONS: Policy Options for State Decision-Makers
Reforming School Finance
This SOLUTIONS issue examines key school finance issues and recommends policy options for reforming school finance systems. Topics include school finance litigation, school spending, alternative finance approaches, student performance and accountability. 60p. 1997. P010-9703. $25.

SOLUTIONS: Policy Options for State Decision-Makers
State Legislative Term Limits
Get expert advice on how to govern effectively and efficiently in a term-limited environment. This SOLUTIONS issue includes 50-state surveys of legislators, legislative staff and lobbyists that provide one-of-a-kind perspectives on the impact of term limits on state legislatures. P010-9801. $25.

The following State Trends & Forecasts reports are available:
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State Trends & Forecasts
State Campaign Finance Reform: Options for the Future
This issue highlights the following policy options: public disclosure, contribution limits, empowering enforcement agencies, public financing and strengthening political parties. P010-9301. SALE PRICE $10.

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State Trends & Forecasts
Privatization in State Government: Options for the Future
Five policy and management options for privatization in state government are discussed in this issue. P010-9302. SALE PRICE $10.

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State Trends & Forecasts
State Business Incentives: Options for the Future
Are state business development incentives cost-effective? This report offers several options in dealing with tax and financial incentives. P010-9401. SALE PRICE $10.

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State Trends & Forecasts
Total Quality Management in State Government: Options for the Future
This report offers five options for state officials to consider when faced with making decisions on what to do with TQM in their states and agencies. P010-9402. SALE PRICE $10.

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State Trends & Forecasts
State Health Care Cost Control: Options for the Future
This report highlights six broad options for state policy-makers to consider when implementing health-care cost control initiatives: managed care based on negotiated capitation rates; purchasing alliances; health-care data and information systems; health insurance; Medicaid reform and primary and; preventive care. P010-9501 SALE PRICE $10.

State Trends & Forecasts
Lobbying in State Legislatures: Options for the Future
This report offers sensible, practical advice on how state lawmakers can effectively regulate lobbying in state legislatures and minimize the unintended and often detrimental consequences that result from overzealous clampdowns on legislator-lobbyist interactions. 60p. 1997. P010-9601. $25.

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