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The gun has come to embody many contradictions over America’s history: individual liberty and the police state, empowerment and violence, defense and death. To understand America’s complicated culture of guns is an interdisciplinary pursuit: legal, historical, sociological, economic.
New children’s minister Janet Daby wants to ease the burden on social workers – her own professional background – to make the role more attractive and reduce the incentive for staff to move to agency work.
We are now exploring in humans whether successfully treating a depressive episode depends on reactivating these neural networks.
Eddie Tse, a social worker who protested against the board’s restructuring, said it was “unreasonable” that the social workers had their licenses suspended when they were renewed by the previous board, which would have been aware of their convictions.
As a great loss loomed, I feared straying too far from the hard truth. But I learned to distinguish denial from hope
Every summer some New Lebanon School students get the chance to attend summer camp, thanks to their school’s social workers, Sandra Corrente and Kristen Mulhearn.
The way Maddie Lockett sees it, the crux of social work involves helping, empowering and connecting people with community resources. Lockett has found that job at Lawrence Humane Society but with a bonus: also helping animals.
