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CAB-LA is a highly effective HIV prevention method, administered by intramuscular injection every two months. However, data regarding the safety of CAB-LA during pregnancy are limited.
Tents line 5th Street in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 28, 2024.
BASW England acknowledges the publication of the first module report of the Covid-19 Inquiry, which examines resilience and preparedness. This report is crucial for understanding the UK’s pandemic response and learning vital lessons for the future.
One of Labour’s rising stars has said the party will have failed in government if it does not reduce inequality, even as the prime minister faces a bitter internal battle over a key poverty-reduction measure. Above: Torsten Bell – ‘What matters is actually reducing child poverty – not parliamentary game-playing.’
In addition to walking speed, studies have found evidence that invention, job diversity, social interactions, restaurant diversity and crime also increase in bigger cities, and also follow the 12 per cent rule. There is some variability from city to city, but the average increase is 12 per cent per doubling of the population. These studies show that, in general, cities foster greater social interaction (both positive and negative), diversity, culture and generation of ideas. These principles are summarised by the 12 per cent rule (and a few others) and seem to apply across cultures and over time, as far back as 1150 BCE.
2U was a pioneer in the online education space, joining with schools including the University of Southern California, Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to design and operate online courses in fields including nursing and social work.
Five universities in Michigan are partnering with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to help increase the number of child welfare workers in the state.
Michigan State University’s Director of Social Work, Dr. Anne Hughes, to see how the fellowship program will help their mission. She said “we support them through professional development, training around child welfare services and what it means to work in child welfare. We do a monthly educational session with all of our fellows.”
For decades, opinion polls such as the European Values Survey have been sending worrying, yet unheeded, signals for the future of liberal democracy. More and more voters agree that a strong leader who does not have to worry about parliament and elections is a good way to govern a country, and far right voters agree most strongly with this authoritarian drift. The younger generation’s favourable view of “strongman” leaders adds another layer of concern about the future of democracy. Above: Protests against the far right AfD in Germany.
The disorder was sparked on Thursday night after police responded to calls from children’s social workers who reported being met with hostility when dealing with a child protection matter. Children’s social care staff were withdrawn to a place of safety but the incident escalated, with officers being subjected to thrown missiles and bricks. Above: The cordon in Harehills
Kathlina Martin (right), an alumna of the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is helping to bring Micronesian culture to global audiences through her involvement with TeAda Productions, a traveling theatre company.
Social worker Paula Barthelmess, Crisis Director and founder of Idaho Community Outreach Behavioral Services (COBS) speaks at a fundraiser in Eagle, Idaho.
The vast majority of public restrooms have not yet embraced this aspect of wellbeing. On the contrary, the poor state of them often elicits disgust and repulsion. In severe situations, for some people, these adverse psychological responses can escalate to pathological levels, including incontinence, urinary problems, anxiety, and significant alterations to their normal social life.
The state of Iowa has agreed to reinstate the license of a social worker who had a sexual relationship with a client she bailed out of jail using stolen money.
On Wednesday 17th July, King Charles opened the UK Parliament and delivered his speech outlining the government’s legislative plans for the year ahead. While BASW is concerned with legislation that affects social work practice and issues that affect people social workers work with, there will be other pieces of proposed legislation that are worth noting.
Dr. Ruth Alison Clemens, a lecturer in modern English literature whose work has been published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge, claimed authors hadn’t been contacted about the AI deal.
Bristol City Council lost track of £1.8m petty cash transactions by staff last year… Social workers issued payments of up to £500 without anyone checking what they were for, investigators concluded.
It means the experience of those in care must be considered as part of equality impact assessments – a tool used by councils to assess how different people will be affected by its decisions. Characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 also include age, race, disability and sexual orientation – but so far it does not include people who have been raised in care.
After the government proposed changes to a body responsible for registering the city’s social workers, there was little open discussion about the overhaul within the social work sphere. The silence was a sign of Hong Kong’s times, but uncharacteristic of the historically outspoken sector.
Despite overwhelming evidence of the wide-ranging risks of COVID-19, a great deal of messaging suggests that it is no longer a threat to the public. Although there is no empirical evidence to back this up, this misinformation has permeated the public narrative. The data, however, tells a different story. COVID-19 infections continue to outnumber flu cases and lead to more hospitalization and death than the flu. COVID-19 also leads to more serious long-term health problems. Trivializing COVID-19 as an inconsequential cold or equating it with the flu does not align with reality.
Our study in the journal Clinical Psychology Review was a meta-analytic review. It combined data from 154 studies examining activities that either decrease or increase arousal and their impact on anger and aggression.
Rather than co-opting Republican policies on immigration and policing, Democrats could offer a positive vision of government that can build on some of Democrats’ legitimately economic populist accomplishments in recent years and shape them into a more intelligible narrative of welfare and fairness.
Review follows Roma organisations’ concerns about community’s ‘negative experiences’ of social work, in wake of disorder linked to practitioners reportedly removing children from family
ernie Sanders has not chosen the easy road in American politics. During the Cold War, in the early 1960s, he decided to join the Young People’s Socialist League. In the 1970s and ‘80s, he pursued third-party and independent politics in Vermont. In the 1990s and ’00s, he was among the few progressive voices in a rightward-moving Congress. All along the way, however, from his years in the Burlington mayor’s office to his stint as an outsider in the House of Representatives to his sometimes lonely work in the most elite of all American bodies, the US Senate, Sanders remained committed to what he calls a “political revolution”—a mobilization of working-class people from the bottom-up to create egalitarian change.
In the 3-2 vote, the three Democrats on the board voted as a bloc to reject recognizing JFA, which is running Dr. West (above), an opponent of the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, as its presidential candidate. This is despite the fact that the party submitted over 17,140 signed and verified petitions, over 3,200 more than the 13,865 required by state law…. the NCSBE did admit We the People Party (WTP), which has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a stalwart defender of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, as its candidate…. Both parties submitted more signatures than required prior to the June 1 deadline. Nevertheless, last month, after complaints about the petitions were raised to the board by the North Carolina State Democratic Party and a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC, Clear Choice Action, Democrats on the board refused to grant party status to JFA or WTP.
Such a diverse selection of ties.
“We look at our oncology patients as [the people they were] before they came to us,” said Jessica Kreitman, head of social work at the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer Institute and the Tisch Cancer Center at Mount Sinai in New York. “They [had] their own concerns, their own issues, their own financial challenges. And then they received a cancer diagnosis, which doesn’t pause their other concerns and needs.”
“We know nature plays an important role in human health, but behavioral health and health care providers often neglect to think about it as an intervention,” said Joanna Bettmann, a Professor at the University of Utah College of Social Work and lead author on the study. “We set out to distill some evidence-based guidance for those providers.”
The first properly mounted attack on the commercialization of the university came more than a century ago, not in the UK but in the United States. In The Higher Learning in America (1918), Thorstein Veblen, a sociologist and author of the classic analysis of conspicuous consumption The Theory of the Leisure Class, lambasted the growing conception of the university “as a business house dealing in merchantable knowledge,” where corporate interests prevail over intellectual ideals. “This incursion of pecuniary ideals in academic policy,” Veblen bemoaned, leads to the “supersession of learning by worldly wisdom”.
Plans to introduce a cap on social care costs – which would limit people’s lifetime care cost contributions to a maximum of £86,000 – in October 2025 will be impossible to deliver, the County Councils Network (CCN) said.
Unison Scotland local government lead David O’Connor said: “We know councils are struggling to recruit carers, social workers and school staff. These are the essential services we all rely on. Local government can no longer be neglected like this.”
Japan’s “super-ageing” society, where the proportion of older people is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, has put immense pressure on the workforce. Advances in technology are stepping in to address these challenges, but also present issues for the world’s largest health profession: nurses.
In a February interview with The European Conservative, Vance elaborated on his stance toward higher education and suggested farther-reaching actions. Those include taking away the tax-exempt status of private universities and going “after the university bureaucracy focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.” He touted Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s approach to dealing with “left-wing domination of universities,” which he said should be a model for the conservatives in the United States. That approach has involved seizing control of state universities.
OIG received about 27,000 scam allegations in the second quarter:
– About 45% of reported cases claimed there was a problem with a person’s Social Security number.
– Nearly 17% of cases mentioned a problem with Social Security benefits.
– One-third of scams used official-looking documents or images (such as the Social Security logo).
It’s a Wonderful Life and the Dream of Small-Town Life
Dr. Saltanat Childress is an assistant professor at UTA’s School of Social Work focused on family well-being, economic empowerment, and improving the responses of criminal justice.
This time around, the Trump team will be more prepared to govern. To assist in that effort, the conservative Heritage Foundation has spearheaded an effort known as Project 2025 to recruit and train employees to serve in the administration and provide a blueprint to radically reshape the federal government, higher education policy included. Trump has recently tried to distance himself from Project 2025, although several of its proposals—abolishing the Education Department, for one, and rescinding Biden’s Title IX rule—overlap with his own agenda and the party’s platform. Further, several former officials who worked in the DeVos-led department helped write the Education Department section of Project 2025.
Opioids have long been known as natural substances with substantial pharmacological effect. They have been used as effective painkillers. Researchers have now identified a natural active substance that may prove to be an effective alternative to opioids in the long run and could also help mitigate the opioid crisis.
In Helena, Montana, three machines purchased by Lewis and Clark County have been distributing free Narcan nasal spray for more than a year.
“Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have a dark and dystopian vision for America’s future, in which women are hunted across state lines for accessing basic healthcare,” said one Democratic lawmaker.
NIH study highlights need for greater education, training, and policies to increase adoption of evidence-based care for addiction among physicians
Let’s start with Project 2025. Its Mandate for Leadership laid out an ambitious plan to reshape education at all levels, including at the college level. You get a sense of that ambition in its proposal to eliminate the Department of Education. Project 2025 envisions that a second Trump administration would use the threat of cutting off federal funds to reshape the ideological landscape of colleges and universities. It would do so by claiming to protect civil rights.
15-year adult social care workforce strategy, developed by Skills for Care, says action needed to address profession’s high vacancy and turnover rates, in order to meet future needs for complex care
A teenager has killed himself at one of Scotland’s only young offender facilities, a month after a Holyrood bill intended to prevent under-18s from being sent to prison became law…. His death comes five years after a significant review of mental health services for young people in custody was conducted after a succession of high-profile suicides, and as children’s rights campaigners claimed the Scottish government had been repeatedly warned that continuing to imprison children put lives at risk.
The new study is based on a large, diverse group of families at research sites across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It confirms the same research group’s 2011 findings about the likelihood of autism in siblings.
“Social workers are on the frontlines in responding to the Administration’s priorities, including meeting children’s mental health needs, responding to the opioid epidemic, and addressing maternal depression,” said HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson. “Today’s announcement is a critical step in helping social workers serve people in need, particularly in rural and underserved communities across the country.”
All the stories in CIO Views are paid for, a salesperson for the magazine confirmed. That’s despite the fact that none of the stories are labeled as such, and the publication in many ways presents as independent and journalistic…. Several publications stand ready to satisfy colleges’ demand for journalism-ish stories. Two university media-relations officers told The Chronicle they’re increasingly the targets of pitches from websites like CIO Views. Above: A selection of CIO Views covers
The North Carolina General Assembly passed a law in 2012 allowing the use of continuous alcohol monitoring systems as a condition for pretrial release or probation, to mitigate punishments for impaired driving offenses and to ensure compliance with child custody and visitation orders. These systems, commonly referred to as CAM bracelets, fit around the ankle similar to GPS-tracking ankle monitors that are often used as a condition for bail or probation. CAM bracelets monitor the presence of alcohol through the skin by testing samples of sweat every 30 minutes. Above: SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring® (SCRAM CAM®)
Réhabex’s roaming “Réhabus,” unveiled on Friday, will offer people access to a shower, laundry room, clothes, snack area and a private area to speak with a social worker…. Patrick Pilon, Réhabex’s general manager, said the project is a response to the fact that “[some] people to this day still do not have access to … basic needs for human dignity.”