Archive for April 2024

Four Master of Social Work students, Brandi Stokes, Christian Thompson, Kyra Spengler, and Mandi Carroll, all worked together to create a simulation at Trauma Informed Oregon’s Day of Empathy event. The simulation highlighted the communication barriers mothers and their families experienced in Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that contains more than 20 unique compounds, including isotonitazene, which was first identified in 2019 and is known on the streets as ISO. It also includes protonitazene, metonitazene and etonitazene. Nitazenes are psychoactive substances, or “designer drugs,” that aren’t controlled by any laws or conventions but pose significant health risks to the public. These substances have recently surfaced as illegal street drugs.

A memorial to Bubba, which was unveiled on March 26, 2024. Part of the Smiths Station memorial sidewalk, the marker is located in front of the Historic Jones Store Museum, a local heritage project that he had championed and that opened in 2019.

Three and a half years after it began, we finally have the findings of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into NHS youth gender identity services. It is a damning indictment of how badly we, as a society, have let down a group of vulnerable and highly distressed children.

Roma London chairperson Toma Nikolaeff Mladenov, 58 (above). Mr Mladenov told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “We’re making a peaceful protest in front of the council because a social worker from this council took three small children [from their father].”

NT Police said officers and social workers had been involved in more than 300 interactions with young people in the no-go area during the curfew period. An “interaction” was where a young person was spoken to, to ascertain their reason for being in the curfew zone during curfew hours.