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On April 29, the U.S. Department of Education notified 49 grant recipients that it would cancel roughly $168 million that had been appropriated for mental health services to students in California, stating that recipients had violated their standard of “merit, fairness and excellence in education” and failed to comply with the “priorities and policy preferences” of the administration.
Accounts of subway surfing date back to the earliest days of the city’s transit system, but the death toll has increased in recent years. Subway surfers often gravitate toward aboveground trains including the 7 and the J.
Jessica comes from a family that embodies Wisconsin values. Her grandfather was raised in the Great Depression in Minnesota and was a career-long Teamster truck driver. Her grandmother was raised in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. Her Marine veteran father, who served in Desert Storm, now relies on VA services. Her registered nurse mother worked through the pandemic in Oak Creek emergency rooms. Four generations of veterans. Union members. Teachers. Small business owners. Nurses. Social workers. This is what Wisconsin families look like.
Lakeside Behavioral Health, owned by Universal Health Services. Since 2010, 34 of UHS’ psychiatric hospitals have been cited with violations for failing to provide emergency care as required by law.
AmyAnne Smith winner of the poster competition at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Barcelona for her work on sexual violence among sexual minorities in Canada, shares more about her research and vision for the future.
“What’s exciting is that so many different parties are involved – but that is also the challenge. There are a lot of meetings, but it’s been very rewarding,” says Eva Samuelsson, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University (right). Together with other colleagues and programme director Professor Mats Ekendahl, Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University (left), she leads the research effort, where one of the central aims is to build long-term relationships with practice.
I’m a social worker who became interested in the profession while doing volunteer work, after completing a Bachelor’s in Women’s Studies in Ottawa, Canada. Once I knew I wanted to be a social worker, I completed a Master’s of Social Work at the University of Toronto.