Archive for November 2025

Lead author PhD Candidate Bianca Johnston, from the Department of Social Work in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care, who was supervised by Monash University’s Associate Professor Catherine Flynn and Australian National University’s Associate Professor Faith Gordon, said it is hoped that by understanding and providing visibility to what young women are already doing to keep themselves safe, recover and heal in the face of IPV that the findings of this research can inform youth-informed strategies in direct social work practice.

“Every day without funding stretches social workers and law enforcement thin, putting vulnerable children in danger,” said Marisa Cummings, a citizen of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and a tribal consultant with 20 years of experience in federal policy and advocacy.
Starting Nov. 1, millions of people may not receive their food stamps benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP. Also frozen: the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; Head Start preschool funding; and Women, Infants and Children subsidies as the federal government heads toward a “fiscal cliff.”

Guest: Dr. Michelle Munson, Professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University.

New international research initiative connects scholars from Canada and New Zealand to explore Indigenous knowledge and community-based climate adaptation. Above: Mira Azzasyofia, right, with Elder Kerri Moore during sage picking at Nose Hill Park.

While he was state schools superintendent, Ryan Walters demanded Bibles be placed in every classroom, created a state Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism, and encouraged schools to use online “pro-America” content from conservative media nonprofit PragerU. He called teachers unions “terrorist” organizations, railed against “woke” classrooms, threatened to yank the accreditation of school districts that resisted his orders and commissioned a test to measure whether teacher applicants from liberal states had “America First” knowledge.

The term ‘borderline’ itself is not very helpful for understanding the condition. It originally referred to the idea that the problems of BPD exist between, or at the border of, ‘psychosis’ and ‘neurosis’ – an idea rooted in early psychoanalytic concepts. This understanding of the disorder does not reflect the majority of current research on BPD or people’s personal experiences with it, but the term ‘borderline’ has lived on.

The suicide prevention charity says that suicide is and needs to be treated as an issue of inequality, with the rate of suicide mortality in the most deprived areas in Scotland being 2.5 times higher than the least deprived area. The charity says that tackling inequalities across Scottish society and in services is the only way to reduce the number of lives lost to suicide in our communities.