Archive for June 2024

Crisis responder Chris Jones, left, talks with a community member in Washington state

Health experts have long described gun violence as a public health crisis, one that disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic residents in poor neighborhoods. In 2022, more than 48,000 people were killed by guns in the U.S., or about 132 people a day, and suicides accounted for more than half of those deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An additional 200-plus Americans are injured each day, according to estimates from Johns Hopkins University research.

To rid us of the wealth inequality virus and create a world of greater equality and human decency will require major changes that include the antidote of confiscatory policies directed at seizing much of the wealth of the super wealthy, and utilizing it to benefit everyone, especially those with the greatest unfulfilled basic needs.

The director of the city’s new Community Assistance Response and Engagement told Boston 25 News that the team is preparing for a rollout as soon as July…. The CARE Team will not be accompanied by police unlike some other alternative response programs recently deployed in other cities across the country.

In August, the union raised concerns once again after CBC News reported — from documents acquired through an access-to-information request — there were 99 vacant social work positions in the Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development alone. That department and Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, the provincial health authority, are N.L.’s two largest employers of social workers.

The role of the board is to oversee the running of Social Work England, review management performance, set the regulator’s strategic objectives, ensure it has the human and financial resources to meet them and make sure it complies with its statutory, regulatory and common-law duties. The chair’s role is to lead the board, including by formulating its strategy, ensuring that it takes account of government guidance, promoting the effective and efficient use of staff and resources and delivering high standards of propriety.