Archive for July 2024

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) social workers continue to coordinate with Carina-affected local government units to determine other needed interventions during the recovery phase, according to Dumlao.

Older workers are sometimes perceived as “doddering but dear,” Christina Matz, Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work, and director of the Center on Aging and Work (above) told BBC. “They’re labeled as slower and set in their ways, well-meaning on one hand and incompetent on the other. People of a certain age are considered out-of-touch, and not seen as progressive and innovative,” Matz said, adding that women face additional hurdles.

“2U’s executives have shown time and again that they have no strategy to turn around their failing company,” said Student Borrower Protection Center executive director Mike Pierce in a statement. “Today, many … investors are now working with 2U executives to use federal bankruptcy laws to keep the lights on at 2U—a perverse outcome when those same bankruptcy laws deny a path to a debt-free future for the students harmed by 2U’s schemes.”

While some consider the long, shared dining table outdated or inconvenient, it is actually a powerful social tool

The Scottish Human Rights Commission and UK National Preventive Mechanism published a report on prisons and forensic mental health settings in Scotland, identifying 10 areas of concern including mental health, segregation and deaths in custody. The comprehensive study concludes that little progress has been made against 29 international human rights recommendations.

Family and friends take their shoes off when entering the new house after a blessing from kaikarakia Morehu Pewhairangi.