Archive for August 2025

“It feels helpless, because there is more than you can fix,” said Nick Zepponi, a social worker at the Hill Country Community Clinic CARE Center in Redding. The mental health urgent care clinic is one of the last lines of defense in the fraying behavioral health system in Shasta County, where the suicide rate is more than double the state average and overdose deaths increased more than threefold during the pandemic. “There’s more people than you can help that need it,” Zepponi said.

LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

A German city is building an eco-friendly public housing scheme using an innovative modular timber construction method. The project in the southwestern city of Tübingen uses special wooden building blocks developed by local startup TriqBriq. These timber blocks fit together using wooden dowels, eliminating the need for mortar or glue.

Chief executive will hold dual role as chief social work adviser to ministers, while agency will be formed from existing Office of the Chief Social Work Adviser

The sign reads, ‘escape room, half price’ on popular pedestrian street in Seoul- the city is on a mission to stave off growing loneliness among its people

Many job applicants are turning down offers, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency, according to internal documents examined by ProPublica. The records show nearly 4 in 10 of the roughly 2,000 doctors offered jobs from January through March of this year turned them down. That is quadruple the rate of doctors rejecting offers during the same time period last year.

Investing in potential is part of wraparound support.