Archive for October 2025

Researcher Connie Chan at her exhibition on the 1980s and the 1990s LGBTQ culture in Hong Kong

Library Manager John Elford says the reimagined main street has brought new visitors to the public library and helped residents see that social workers at the library are helping unhoused members of the community connect to nearby resources.

If you’re considering a career in social work, now is the time to act. Maryland, and the nation at large, is facing a mental health crisis that demands a robust, compassionate, and highly trained workforce. Clinical social workers are at the forefront of this response, providing therapy, crisis intervention, and advocacy in communities that need it most.

Plymouth State University has received a $1.56 million federal grant to launch the Plymouth-Area Rural Opioid Training Collaborative, which will support workforce development and professional training to address the ongoing shortage of behavioral health providers in northern New Hampshire.

I have found that the same far-right groups that sought to defeat public housing construction and maintain racially restrictive agreements in post-World War II Los Angeles also advocated to ban immigrants from U.S. housing programs. Among the leaders of these efforts was the far-right politician and activist Gerald L.K. Smith. Described in 1976 by historian John Morton Blum as “the most infamous American fascist,” Smith helped bridge the American right’s 1940s conspiratorial and isolationist America First era and its 1960s anti-civil rights era.

BASW has been campaigning for Liberty Protection Safeguards to be implemented across England and Wales. The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) scheme, which was agreed by parliament in 2019, is designed to replace Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). However, it has been subject to repeated delays, leading to uncertainty as to whether it would be implemented at all.

Germany’s Social Democrats often sound the alarm about the rising far right. It would help if their own elected officials didn’t constantly spread misinformation about migrants stealing from the welfare system. Above: SPD labor and social affairs minister Bärbel Bas has emphasized the need to combat undeclared work and to hold accountable those allegedly involved in the “organized abuse” of benefits.