{"id":24626,"date":"2010-12-23T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=24626"},"modified":"2010-12-23T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:50:09","slug":"martinez-picks-squier-to-be-human-services-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/12\/martinez-picks-squier-to-be-human-services-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez picks Squier to be human services secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24627\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24627\" title=\"Squier, Sidonie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Squier-Sidonie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidonie Squier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov.-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martineztransition.com\">Susana Martinez<\/a> today nominated a former federal health and human services official, Sidonie Squier, to be the secretary of the state\u2019s Human Services Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSquier served as the director of the Office of Family Assistance at the U.S.\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0from June 2005 through January 2009, where she oversaw the provision of help to needy families through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF),\u201d a news release from Martinez\u2019s transition team states. \u201cShe has worked at both the state and federal levels on various social assistance programs and areas, including TANF, Medicaid, nutrition and\u00a0domestic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said Squier \u201chas the experience and talent necessary to ensure the most efficient delivery of health care and other social services in\u00a0New Mexico.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe provides a valuable and unique perspective, having served at both the state and federal level,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cWe face a significant budget deficit, and both Sidonie and I are committed to ensuring that the safety net for needy families and children in New Mexico remains strong and in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Squier has also served as an associate commissioner in the Office of Family Services with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, as well as the director of economic self-sufficiency and\u00a0welfare reform\u00a0administrator in the\u00a0Florida Department of Children and Families.<\/p>\n<p>She said Martinez has\u00a0\u201ccharged me with protecting health care services for\u00a0needy children and families\u00a0in New Mexico, which I plan to deliver on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov.-elect Susana Martinez today nominated a former federal health and human services official, Sidonie Squier, to be the secretary of the state\u2019s Human Services Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[117,107],"class_list":["post-24626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-health-care","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}