Archive for August 2024

Due to a nationwide need for social workers, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with five universities in the state for a program that aims to bring people into the field and keep them there.

In medicine, so-called “conscientious objection” occurs when a healthcare professional refuses to provide a legal medical service based on their personal or religious beliefs. This happens mostly for abortion and contraceptive care. I propose a more accurate term: Belief-based care denial.

The chairman of the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice resigned Tuesday, amid an inquiry into how he responded when one of his own employees allegedly had an improper relationship with a client.

The recent acts of racism and violent disorder in parts of the UK is of huge concern to us all. It is shocking, distressing and abhorrent to see hate-driven, racist crime being planned and targeted against citizens from migrants and ethnic minority communities, including social workers and practitioners. While incidents have thankfully subsided in recent days, we are acutely aware that many people will still be worried and concerned about possible future attacks, and risk to their own safety.

With a fertility rate of 1.1 children per woman – way below the 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain a native population – and more deaths each year than births, China’s future is one of declining population, with an enormous increase in the numbers of elderly. Compounding the problem, China has long been hostile to the idea of supplementing its native population through immigration; just 0.1% of its population is foreign-born – that’s the smallest percentage of any major country in the world.