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The expansion of the Palm Springs Navigation Center is nearly complete, with 80 beds for homeless individuals slated to become available next month. The additional beds will complement the 50 existing ones currently available at the facility, raising the overall shelter space within the city. The new beds will be in modular units, which are meant to provide a transitional space for individuals as they seek more permanent housing.
Nationally known for her scholarship focused on critical analysis and socially constructed power, Dr. Robbins has applied these perspectives to human behavior theories, practice methods, pedagogical issues in social work education, and epistemological methodologies.
Walz, who is in the middle of his second term as governor, has secured a number of policy wins during his tenure, from universal free school meals for K-12 students to paid family and medical leave after Democrats won full control of the statehouse. On the higher ed front, he is known as someone who believes in the importance of postsecondary education and investing in the state’s public colleges and universities.
The Interior Department has concluded an unprecedented yearslong review finding nearly 1,000 children died, separated from their tribes and families, with many buried across hundreds of institutions created for ‘forced assimilation.’ Above: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland embraced boarding school survivor Delores Twohatched at the first stop on the “Road to Healing” tour in July 2022
“Understanding your legal rights, whether it’s about the care you receive or your connections to loved ones, helps Fosters and their supporters advocate more strongly for a better experience in foster care,” Minnesota’s Assistant Foster Youth Ombudsperson Hannah Planalp (above) said in an email. As a former foster youth and representative of the Office of The Foster Youth Ombudsperson, she described how critical it is to have these rights be “clear and comprehensive.”
Midlothian’s chief social work officer Joan Tranent, outside Fairfield House, Dalkeith.
BASW Cymru’s National Director, Prof. Sam Baron (above), has congratulated Eluned Morgan MS on not only becoming the new First Minister of Wales, but also being the first woman to do so.
Sara, a university professor, describes a typical working day for her as including a barrage of “back-and-forth e-mails, Slack, last-minute Zoom meetings”. These, she says, “prevent me — and everyone in general, I feel — from actually having the time to do deep work, think, write, with high quality”. Above: Marie Curie’s research straddled many decades and involved periods of rest and reflection in the French countryside.