Archive for April 2024
Erving Goffman and the Cold War
Becoming a mother in neoliberal academia: Subjectivation and self‐identity among early career researchers
Highlights for Social Workers in the Medicare 2024 Physician Fee Schedule
How crumbling buildings, improper practices caused a Dover nonprofit to lose federal money
Delaware News Journal | G Emeigh
The Dover Interfaith Mission for Housing building in Dover (above). Since Interfaith was formed in 2008, the organization boasts on its website that it has helped over 3,000 homeless men. It has been contracted with the state to provide emergency transitional housing since 2011 and, in the last few years, was infused with over $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding from the state on top of its state, federal and local government grants.
What Happens When States No Longer Have Federal Pandemic Child Care Dollars?
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson’s Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness
Province pushed for more funds for CFS system in ‘crisis’
Winnipeg Free Press | M Deal
Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine said the government isn’t taking any money out of the system.
Handouts for property developers are worsening the housing crisis
The extension of social health protection to refugees
Association of greenspaces exposure with cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Face and content validity of a mobile delirium screening tool adapted for use in the medical setting (eDIS‐MED): Welcome to the machine
National ERPO Resource Center at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain
The joy and pain of being a harm reduction worker: a qualitative study of the meanings about harm reduction in Brazil
What features of drug treatment programs help, or not, with access? a qualitative study of the perspectives of family members and community-based organization staff in Atlantic Canada
Grey Matters: A Guide for Collaborative Research with Seniors
Key Senate Republicans’ Reported Position on Child Tax Credit Would Weaken Bill’s Support for Kids and Families, Inserts Poison Pills
Should tobacco sales be restricted to state‐run alcohol outlets? Perspectives from 10 US alcohol control states
Drug Policy and Decriminalization, Racially Biased Policing, Coalition Building – Kassandra Frederique, MSW
OVC FY24 Anti-Trafficking Housing Assistance Program
The Community Guide | Be Well™ Baytown: Reducing Skin Cancer Risk
Individualized prediction of critical illness in older adults: Validation of an elders risk assessment model
Two nonprofits have dropped out of Philly’s child welfare system. The disruption will cost the city $66M.
Philadelphia Inquirer | T Gralish/TNS
Turning Points For Children is one of two nonprofits to leave Philadelphia’s child welfare system in recent years.
Sleep disorders and criminal behavior
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the social sciences: summary data report
Closing the Digital Divide
Psychological mechanisms of the development of suicidal ideation: Longitudinal cohort study
Commentary: Broadening the Reach: Multidimensional Sleep Health and Cultural Diversity in Pediatric Sleep Research
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana
Barnet social workers step up pay fightback
Socialist Worker
Mental health social workers in Barnet, north London, are set to launch two weeks of strikes next Monday as part of a nine‑week programme of action. The workers, in the Unison union, have already struck for 27 days as they fight for a recruitment and retention payment to reduce staff turnover and patient waiting lists.
Community views on active case finding for tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Metanarratives of visual impairment rehabilitation: the discursive positioning of disabled service users in South Africa
Health inequity assessment in Brazil: is EQ-5D-3L sensible enough to detect differences among distinct socioeconomic groups?
Globalization, platform work, and wellbeing—a comparative study of Uber drivers in three cities: London, Helsinki, and St Petersburg
What the European Social Survey can tell us about supporters of protectionist parties
A legacy in three discourse shifts: Stafford Hood, culturally responsive evaluation, and the continual interrogation of and resistance against European/Euro‐settler colonial/capitalist hegemony in, through, and around evaluation
Censoring offensive language threatens our freedom to think
PSYCHE | G Le Querrec/Magnum
The modern obsession with textual purity stems from a misapplication of the philosophies of Wittgenstein and Derrida
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China
Values, challenges, and responses associated with high-priced potential cures: perspectives of diverse stakeholders in South Korea
Ayahuasca ceremony leaders’ perspectives on special considerations for eating disorders
Gender, Political Resources, and Expressions of Democratic Evaluations
Guidance for Videos Submitted as NIH Application Materials
Platform Working: Submission to the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Perceptions and attitudes of Rohingya community stakeholders to pregnancy termination services: a qualitative study in camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
A rapid review to inform the policy and practice for the implementation of chronic disease prevention and management programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in primary care
Examining patterns suggestive of acquisition during functional analyses: A consecutive controlled series of 116 cases
Navigating the Social Work Spectrum: Understanding Professionalism in Kashmir
Kashmir Reader
In Kashmir, there’s a bit of confusion swirling around the term “Social Worker” It’s like a jigsaw puzzle where everyone seems to be fitting into this role, but not everyone might understand what it truly entails.