Archive for May 2025

PhD candidate Ogechi Kalu has received the 2025-2026 CSWE Doctoral Student Policy Fellowship.

They were the children of domestic violence, parents haunted by drug addiction and other traumas, taken from their homes by social workers convinced that they would be safer in the custody of San Diego County than with their own parents…. Some of them were drugged to keep them vulnerable, and easy to molest, the plaintiffs say. In addition to repeated sexual assaults, others say they suffered physical and verbal abuse by social workers at the Polinsky Children’s Center.

Marcel Ballin also argues that there are many different reasons for promoting physical activity. However, large-scale interventions or policy changes intended to apply to the entire population must be based on reliable estimates — otherwise there is a risk of expecting effects that have in fact been overestimated. “Our results should not be interpreted as if physical activity and exercise are ineffective or that you should not try to promote it. But to create a more nuanced understanding of how big the effects of fitness actually are on different outcomes, we need to use several different methods. If we just ask the question in the same way, we will always get the same answer. It’s only when we get the same answer to a question that we have asked in slightly different ways that we can be sure that the findings are accurate,” says Marcel Ballin.

People with both heart disease and diabetes were also found to be at high risk, as were those with chronic lung conditions like asthma or COPD — chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Liver and bowel conditions also showed a noticeable link to depression in both men and women. Women with joint and bone problems, such as arthritis, were particularly affected, but this pattern was not as prominent for men.

North East Lincolnshire Council is taking a proactive approach to ensuring social workers and partner agencies are working collaboratively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people across its district.

How relatedness to nature is linked to well-being is determined by district-level socioeconomic status. The Kobe University analysis is based on survey results from two major Japanese metropolitan areas.

The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice. To signal that certain boundary lines have been crossed. To insist that advisory roles must expand knowledge and be more than appendages to predetermined decisions.