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Richard Corcoran (right), was hired as interim president of the New College of Florida (NCF) in February. Corcoran, a Republican former state lawmaker, stepped into the job amid major political upheaval at NCF driven by a slate of new trustees appointed by DeSantis in January with the specific goal of forcing the small liberal arts college to the right. After the new board members pushed out NCF’s president, they quickly hired Corcoran with a $400,000 pay increase over his predecessor.

Mike Cross, director, pastor, and housing coordinator for Free on the Outside, in one of the common kitchen areas available for use for residents at The Carriage House in Oregon City, Oregon.

Whether personal or professional, the sting of rejection awaits us all. These strategies can help you heal and move on.

Rates of child marriage increase in communities displaced by conflict as well as communities affected by natural and environmental disasters.

The bill follows an abuse scandal involving staff at a facility run by the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children.

A chronic shortage of social workers and occupational therapists nationally is impacting on Falkirk residents, who can wait months for support, councillors have heard.

The van, used in outreach efforts by non-profit group Youth Guidance Outreach Services (YGOS), travels to “hot spots” where at-risk youth tend to hang out. The social workers invite young people in the area to hang out with them instead. The van is equipped with Wi-Fi, cushioned seating, a television monitor for playing games with a Nintendo Switch, and two extendable canopies on either side to provide shelter from the sun. The youngsters can also watch movies projected onto a cloth screen on the van’s exterior.

Donna Sadural, LCSW, M.P.H., arrived in the United States with her family when she was 11 years old. “Immigrating was a privilege,” she says, “a privilege that also came with challenges as I embarked on a journey to continue my schooling in a foreign land.”

The 68-page lawsuit filed on Thursday alleges the county’s caseworkers routinely supervise up to 90 cases, far more than the national standard. The Child Welfare League of America recommends caseloads of 12 to 15 foster children per caseworker. “It is really important to note, this is not the caseworkers’ fault” said Lowry.

The health insurance behemoth Humana enjoyed a banner 2022. The Louisville, Kentucky–based insurer made $2.8 billion in profits last year, while paying out $448 million in dividends to shareholders and more than $17 million in compensation to its CEO. The main driver of those earnings? The federal government spent $20.5 billion overpaying Humana and other private insurers for the Medicare Advantage plans they manage on behalf of seniors and people with disabilities.

Packs of Amanita muscaria mushroom gummies in various fruit flavors at Chillum, a mushroom and hemp dispensary in Tampa, Florida.

BASW’s campaign- Social Work Stands Against Poverty- is urging the UK Government to introduce a freeze on evictions during the cost-of-living crisis to prevent further homelessness.

The Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) programme was launched in the Solomon Islands by the Solomon Islands Government, in partnership with Australia and UN Women in the Pacific. Women and other marginalised groups are at the forefront of disaster response and recovery efforts in the Solomon Islands, a country prone to floods, earthquakes and cyclones.

Throughout the spring semester, University at Buffalo School of Social Work students had multiple opportunities to see the political process firsthand and consider how roles in politics and government — or macro practice more broadly — fit within their career goals.

Social worker Natalie Rincon said she has seen firsthand the benefit of having a fuller mental health team available for a community, especially for children. In Morgan County, there are an estimated 107 mental health care providers for every 100,000 people, according to Jacksonville Memorial Hospital’s Community Health Needs Assessment. That’s less than half of the average 245 in Illinois and 229 nationwide.

Over 815 homeless people have died in public places in New York since 2022, most recently and notably Jordan Neely, whose obstreperous destitution offended a fellow subway rider, Daniel Penny, who strangled Neely to death.

“We’re trained to shop for motherhood — to buy things to mold our own maternal identities according to someone else’s standards.”

In response to these alarming allegations, a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Social Development and Human Security officials from Saraburi province, prosecutors, social workers, psychologists, and police officers, immediately launched an investigation.

Like many other personalised responses to the spiraling cost-of-living crisis focused entirely on money-saving frugality, Oliver and the BBC miss the bigger picture behind food inequality across the country. Poverty wages, zero-hour contracts, anti-social shift work, a punitive benefits system, widespread ‘food deserts’ and driving it all, rampant supermarket profiteering are all screened out, replaced instead by calls for individual responsibility to cook on a budget.

Patients and their families are told by mental health services that an addiction needs to be treated first — and by addiction services that psychiatric issues need to be addressed first.

Hong Kong Family and Welfare Society has been holding events to educate the public about family well-being, from workshops for educators to street booths for parents

Fossil fuel executives have funded a massive, 50-year-long campaign to lie to the American people, cloud the science, and buy off Republican politicians. Untold millions will die and suffer as a result, but will their ever be one iota of accountability?

“For no real reason at all, hungry people are set to lose food while tax cheats get a free pass.”

The Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. In December 2021, the then-director of the city’s child welfare agency quietly struck a deal with the hotel’s operators to house foster youths and their social workers at the cost of $89 a night.

The director of the Liaison Office Zheng Yanxiong on Monday called on the social welfare sector to spread patriotism and national pride…. “Friends in the social welfare sector connect thousands of households, and have the unique advantage of spreading and promoting mainstream values. We have a new mission in this new stage – promote the great tradition of loving the country and loving Hong Kong, and strengthen national pride and the sense of ownership.”

Health chiefs have raised the alarm about the plans, suggesting that vulnerable people would be “left in limbo” and put at risk of harm. They also pointed out that only the police could publicly section people in a mental health crisis.

Ihorangi was one of many tamariki struggling to find adequate mental health support according to a recent report from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.

Meals on Wheels, which originated in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, is not a climate organization — or even an emergency-response organization in the traditional sense. Rather, these programs are best known for delivering hot meals to lower-income seniors. But in recent years, as climate disasters increase in frequency and intensity, the broader mission — to “improve the health and quality of life” of the seniors these programs serve — has taken on new urgency.

Prof Alexis Jay’s inquiry lasted seven years, and interviewed 6,000 victims and survivors.

Around $400 million worth of U.S. warplanes—including F-35 Lightning fighters, one of which is seen docked to a KC-135 for refueling.

Romania must legalise same-sex civil unions, Europe’s top rights court ruled, in a victory for LGBTQ+ campaigners in the socially conservative southeastern European country.

This innovative housing project on the waterfront in Aarhus, Denmark’s second biggest city, is pioneering a new form of intergenerational living that could offer a solution to the crisis in social care while also boosting the supply of affordable housing and delivering high quality pre-school education.

The PRC said in a statement Wednesday that no applicant passed the licensure exam given by the Board for Social Workers in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Al Ahmadi, Kuwait.

The world has waited decades for vaccines to protect older adults against RSV. One, made by GSK, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month. A second, made by Pfizer, is expected to follow by the end of May. Both will likely be in use this fall, in time to protect seniors going into the next RSV season.

NIH-funded research effort identifies most common symptoms, potential subgroups, and initial symptom-based scoring system – with aim of improving future diagnostics and treatment.

A four-year-old recorded sermon Ohio state Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery (above), which was posted on the YouTube channel of Fremont Baptist Church, where Click is a pastor, shows Click defending conversion therapy and suggesting that homosexuality and the idea that one can be trans are pushed by Satan in order to undermine the family.

With the support of more than 70 Democrats, the Republican-controlled U.S. House on Thursday passed legislation that would permanently classify fentanyl analogues as Schedule I drugs and impose mandatory-minimum prison sentences on people found guilty of distributing the substances—an approach that critics slammed as a return to “failed drug war strategies of the past.”

Ms Kristina Sperkova, President of Movendi International said reducing alcohol harm was crucial for the WHO to achieve its aim of giving every person an equal chance at a safe and healthy life. 

The current government and the governor of the Bank of England believe that wage increases cause inflation. But my research, with James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum and Doug Nicholls of the General Federation of Trade Unions, looks at how UK price rises are more likely to have been caused by high profits, falling wages and weak production over decades.

Gilda Salvaña, CSWDO Children and Youth Welfare Division head, said at the ISpeak forum that beneficiaries will receive P1,000 (elementary level), P2,000 (high school level), and P5,000 (college level) compared to last year that ranged between P300 to P2,500.

About 303 jobs in the social work field open up every year in the South-Central Washington region, WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor Sandra Haynes said. The median salary for family social workers is $58,200, while those in the health care field earn about $61,300.

Mayor Brandon Scott, joined by Shantay Jackson, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, second from left, and other city and community partners, announces the city’s summer youth engagement strategy, called B’More this Summer.

After months of student organizing, the Silver School of Social Work announced that it intends to reduce its field work requirement for graduate students by the fall 2024 semester.

As a proposed funding ordinance for the initial construction plans of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, better known as Cop City, works its way through Atlanta City Council, new information suggests the ordinance could come with a total price tag of $51 million in public funds, instead of the $30 million that city officials promised since 2021.

If Success Academy were run by the city Department of Education, it would be subject to rules that explicitly limit the circumstances under which schools may call 911 on students in distress…. But the regulation doesn’t apply to Success Academy, which is publicly funded but privately run and — like all of the city’s charter school networks — free to set its own discipline policies.

With unprecedented access to young people in the care of Coventry Children’s Services, Kids follows teenagers through a crucial year in their lives

The Government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) represents an important milestone, seven years after the inquiry first began its work.

As the housing crisis gets worse, driven by a shortage of affordable housing and exacerbated by the real estate lobby, including megalandlords and private equity, tenants are organizing to advocate for their rights.

Despite the surgeon general’s warning about its risks for youth in general, researchers and teenagers say it can be a “lifeline” for L.G.B.T.Q. youth.