Archive for June 2024

A Brantford, Ontario area social worker whose clients include first responders dealing with trauma faces allegations of professional misconduct and sexual abuse after an investigation by the professional college.

Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs call for a change in sentencing policy, a halt to prison-building, a cut in the jail population and investment in communities and alternatives to custody.

Dennis Reed, Director of Silver Voices said: “Providing social care support at home is much cheaper than older people occupying expensive hospital beds. It is also healthier for the patients to have the security, mental well-being and mobility which comes from adequate home support.”

A large analysis of data from nearly 400,000 healthy U.S. adults followed for more than 20 years has found no association between regular multivitamin use and lower risk of death. The study, led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute, was published… in JAMA Network Open.

Salvatore is an outspoken environmental advocate. Much of his advocacy has centered on open-air burn pits at the Clean Harbors waste disposal facility in Colfax. Salvatore argued this advocacy has put him crosswise with the administration, and he has filed a federal free speech lawsuit against the university.

Social worker Tina Yap says the Social Work Profession Bill will give her the relevant recognition and ensure that her work is regulated.

People holding a banner saying “Protect children from joint custody after divorce” during a rally outside the National Diet Building in Tokyo against the Japanese government’s plan to allow joint custody after divorce.

As progressives and Bowman himself have noted, the race wasn’t just about Bowman versus Latimer — the latter of whom made a number of brazenly racist comments in recent weeks — but rather, Bowman and progressive, pro-Palestine lawmakers versus AIPAC and the power of the dark money-allied political establishment. Which “Democrats” supported Latimer? Hillary Clinton for one ( cf., https://www.newsweek.com/jamaal-bowman-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-primary-aipac-1917651 )

This sabotage began in the 1970s, culminating politically in the Reagan years and institutionally with the Clinton administration’s decision to “end welfare as we know it” in 1996. At its root is a carefully manufactured suspicion of undeserving recipients of assistance, and a determination that support should only be earned through work. In its current form, this project is cultivated by a network of conservative think tanks and embraced—at the expense of their own citizens—by Republican statehouses and governors. We saw it in cuts to unemployment programs after the Great Recession, in the decisions to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, and in the eager and early retreat from pandemic-era programs and program extensions. And we see it in the politics of food assistance.

Dr. Roslyn Christopher, a school social worker and faculty of social work at the University of Kansas, said her team tries to cover all its communication bases by reaching out to families through text, email or social media. “We all know at the end of the school year is crunch time,” Christopher said.