Archive for June 2024

The circles model started in Canada in 1994. But in the U.S., only Vermont and Minnesota have built CoSAs into state reentry policies. The results have been remarkable.

City Councilmembers Yusef Salaam and Erik Bottcher on Thursday introduced legislation to require the city Department of Health to staff each New York City Police Department precinct with a licensed social worker.

As we reported in March, powerful business groups and conservative think tanks helped engineer the new ruling. The effort was part of a decades-long push by corporate interests to limit the scope of laws prohibiting corruption and bribery.

A baby’s exposure to air pollution while in the womb is associated with the development of certain mental health problems once the infant reaches adolescence, new research has found. The University of Bristol-led study… examined the long-term mental health impact of early-life exposure to air and noise pollution.

Having absorbed these idealised norms of positivity, people might come to believe their natural reactions to inevitable difficult experiences in life (be it bereavement, job loss, pandemics or relationship failures) are somehow wrong. They risk developing habits of experiential avoidance: the consistent denial, suppression or avoidance of difficult thoughts and emotions. Of course, it’s fine to put on a happy face to get through a rough meeting, or positively reinterpret a situation to cope with momentary hassles but, at some point, we all need to stop and address our ongoing unresolved problems and issues.

Representatives of the Albany Police Department met with community members at the main branch of the Albany Public Library to discuss plans to incorporate social workers into the force.

The world of well-being finds bliss in the fight against poverty. In the happiest countries ranking, Finland, Denmark and Switzerland always top the World Happiness Report. Underneath their high happiness index are sophisticated systems of poverty alleviation programs and models of social innovation and inclusion.

The National Human Trafficking Hotline’s statistics for 2021, the most recent available, reported 59 human trafficking cases in New Mexico involving 267 victims. Of the cases, 41 were sex trafficking, seven were sex and labor trafficking, and six were labor trafficking. The victims included 43 adults and nine children, 44 of whom were females, eight were males, and three were gender minorities. Seven victims were foreign nationals. Since the organization began collecting statistics in 2007, numbers of trafficking cases in New Mexico have increased each year.