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Jennifer Piper – West Region program director for the American Friends Service Committee – cited a series of so-called “show your papers” laws passed in Colorado between 2006 to 2013, which led to some of the highest deportation numbers in the nation. “Here in Colorado, we already know what the policies of mass deportation look like intimately,” said Piper. “And what we found is our businesses suffered, our schools suffered, our kids suffered.”
The Guardian on Tuesday published an investigation about how rightwing forces successfully blocked a ballot measure that would have rolled back the Arkansas abortion ban ushered in by Roe’s demise. Alongside that story, we are also publishing this story about Little Rock Family Planning Services, and accounts from women who were served there.
A destroyed property in Barre, a town near Montpelier that endured the worst flooding in the region in 2023 and was hit by another flood in 2024.
The diverse array of bacteria, fungi and other microbes present in mud and soil play a crucial role in our health and is key to what immunologists call “immune training”. This is the process by which the immune system learns to distinguish between harmful pathogens and benign environmental substances.
From 2021-24, 150,400 Hongkongers arrived in the UK under British National Overseas [BN(O)] visas, enabling them to live and work in the country for either two-and-a-half or five years, bringing dependant family members with them…. The introduction of the BN(O) visa was followed by a significant uptick in applications from Hong Kong-qualified social workers to register with Social Work England.
Mental health struggles are not uncommon among Hong Kong’s 340,000 domestic workers, who are vulnerable to financial problems and poor working conditions while supporting their families back home. Above: Inna Abrogena, a research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s social work department
Supporters of Calgary’s Sheldon Chumir supervised consumption site rally at City Hall on Tuesday October 29, 2024. City Council was scheduled to debate on whether to ask the province to close the site.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib
The gun has come to embody many contradictions over America’s history: individual liberty and the police state, empowerment and violence, defense and death. To understand America’s complicated culture of guns is an interdisciplinary pursuit: legal, historical, sociological, economic.
New children’s minister Janet Daby wants to ease the burden on social workers – her own professional background – to make the role more attractive and reduce the incentive for staff to move to agency work.
We are now exploring in humans whether successfully treating a depressive episode depends on reactivating these neural networks.
Eddie Tse, a social worker who protested against the board’s restructuring, said it was “unreasonable” that the social workers had their licenses suspended when they were renewed by the previous board, which would have been aware of their convictions.
Every summer some New Lebanon School students get the chance to attend summer camp, thanks to their school’s social workers, Sandra Corrente and Kristen Mulhearn.
The way Maddie Lockett sees it, the crux of social work involves helping, empowering and connecting people with community resources. Lockett has found that job at Lawrence Humane Society but with a bonus: also helping animals.
Asbestos exposure can have an insidious effect on health. It can take decades for symptoms to become noticeable but, once diagnosed, most patients die within two years. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety, more than 5,000 people die from asbestos-related diseases each year, making asbestos the leading cause of work-related deaths in the UK.
ALICE families are Asset Limited, Income Constrained and Employed, which means they are working but do not earn enough money to cover their expenses…. The current federal poverty line is $31,200 a year for a family of four. According to the United Way, in 2021 about 36 million households met the criteria to be labeled ALICE. The organization has seen a significant increase in calls to its 211 call centers from people seeking help with housing, child care and utilities.
Clare O’Loan said she has lots of contact with parents, families and school teachers as part of her role as a social worker
Hull City Council is the latest local authority utilising cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) technology to educate social workers about the effects of adverse childhood experiences, with the aim of enhancing outcomes for at-risk adults and children.
In 1969, Feld joined the UM School of Social Work as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment as a researcher at the UM Institute for Social Research (ISR) and was promoted to professor in 1972
The hate group’s protest will be alongside the public sidewalk at Roosevelt high school on Oct. 28.
The biggest player is a company called EviCore by Evernorth, which is hired by major American insurance companies and provides coverage to 100 million consumers — about 1 in 3 insured people. It is owned by the insurance giant Cigna. A ProPublica and Capitol Forum investigation found that EviCore uses an algorithm backed by artificial intelligence, which some insiders call “the dial,” that it can adjust to lead to higher denials. Some contracts ensure the company makes more money the more it cuts health spending. And it issues medical guidelines that doctors have said delay and deny care for patients.
Good balance, muscle strength and an efficient gait contribute to people’s independence and well-being as they age. How these factors change, and at what rate, can help clinicians develop programs to ensure healthy aging. Individually, people can train their balance without special equipment and work on maintaining it over time.
The service, which would transfer social care responsibility from councils to a new national body, has already been delayed for three years due to cost saving measures…. Unveiled by Nicola Sturgeon in 2021 as the most ambitious reform of the devolution era, the National Care Service has been repeatedly postponed and scaled back. Above: Green health spokesperson Gillian Mackay says she cannot support the bill in its current form
The asks of this campaign are essential if we are to tackle the issues that threaten the existence of social work as we know it in Scotland.
The opioid epidemic claims more 70,000 lives each year in the U.S., and lifesaving interventions are urgently needed. Although naloxone, sold as an over-the-counter nasal spray or injectable, saves lives by quickly restoring normal breathing during an overdose, administrating the medication requires a knowledgeable bystander – limiting its lifesaving potential.
For women, commuting in Indian cities usually means enduring more than just the usual inconveniences of public transit. During a recent survey covering several cities across India, as many as 56% of women said they regularly face sexual harassment on public transport. Autorickshaw drivers are aggressive; male co-passengers on buses and subways grope women commuters; taxi drivers masturbate while ferrying customers; waiting at train and bus stations can leave women vulnerable to abuse. Newspaper reports are rife with incidents of violence against women on the move.
East Atlanta Village, a historically Black neighborhood in Atlanta with about 3,000 residents, is trying something different. In the fall of 2023, with support from the Atlanta City Council, the mayor’s office and Intown Cares, a local nonprofit that works to alleviate homelessness and hunger, the neighborhood hired a full-time social worker to support people experiencing homelessness.
SB 1931 repealed state laws “relating to the care of indigent persons by the county and county commissioners,” which had been in effect since 1910. It threw the future of social services departments of the state’s largest counties into question.
Chronic mold has become an epidemic as severe as lead paint, but neither cities nor landlords are taking responsibility.
New research from the School of Social Work and Social Policy has found that 98% of abused disabled women feel that having a disability has major impacts on seeking help and coping with intimate partner abuse…. Dr. Susan Flynn… said: “The findings of this unique research report tell us that disability has big impacts on help seeking and coping. The impacts of intimate partner abuse on disabled women in our study were extremely serious.
It is an experience as exhilarating as it is rare, but sometimes you can actually feel the electric crackle of history being made in the air around you. On June 7, 2020, amid the tumult of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) uprising, a long-hated statue of the seventeenth-century slave trader Edward Colston was lassoed with ropes and pulled off its pedestal in Bristol by a crowd of hundreds of mostly young protesters.
This reading list gathers seven recent books that explore issues central to Mad Wife, concerning women’s desire, consent, and autonomy, especially as distorted by marriage: How much do we owe our spouses and partners, of our bodies and our care? What are we willing to do and risk to be true to ourselves and honor our heart’s desires? In a patriarchal culture that tells us to be and desire what men want of us, how can we even recognize our own desire or lack of it?
A screenshot of the virtual reality app called Trauma-Informed Spaces
The authors analyzed non-research industry payments—including travel fees, consulting fees, meals, and gifts—to 56,955 psychiatrists between 2015 and 2021 using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Open Payments Database (OPD)…. They found that during this study period, psychiatrists received 2,600,264 industry payments totaling $357,971,774. A total of 42,713 psychiatrists (75.0%) received at least one payment between 2015 and 2021. But the distribution was highly unequal: The top 10% of psychiatrists (N=4,271) received a median of $11,459.41, accounting for 93.6% of all industry payments, while the top 1% received a median of $362,631, accounting for 74.7% of all payments.
An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur. Undercover filming has revealed the existence of the organisation, formed two years ago as the Human Diversity Foundation. Its members have used podcasts, videos, an online magazine and research papers to seed “dangerous ideology” about the supposed genetic superiority of certain ethnic groups.
Emilie moved with her dogs to Dundee from Colorado, USA, in July of this year, to pursue her Masters in Social Work at the University of Dundee, with which she dreamed to help serve the underserved communities of the world.”
A significant number of Dumfries and Galloway Council’s workers who run adult services, housing options, and homelessness services for the region are nearing retirement age. A total of 252 employees – almost one third of the overall workforce in these departments – are aged 55-64. Above: Dumfries and Galloway Council HQ
The government is seeking to double the amount by which a person’s social welfare can be cut if they don’t engage with the State’s employment services. The current penalty is €44, but it would increase to €90 if legislation by Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys passes.
The Chartered Institute of Social Work Practitioners of Nigeria (C-ISOWN) has stepped up collaboration with the federal government in order to deliver more quality social work services in Nigeria.
The complex relationship between Eros and Thanatos is foundational to Western cultural output – and, in Freud’s wake, the basis of significant empirical studies in psychology. Though the concepts exist as opposite sides of a spectrum, in their collision one finds some of life’s most clarifying and intense moments.
The 80-year-old communications engineer from Texas had saved for decades, driving around in an old car and buying clothes from thrift stores so he’d have enough money to enjoy his retirement years. But as dementia robbed him of his reasoning abilities, he began making online political donations over and over again — eventually telling his son he believed he was part of a network of political operatives communicating with key Republican leaders.
Labour backbencher urges profession to speak to MPs and “demystify” misunderstood profession
In the famous 2007 neo-western crime thriller directed by the Coen brothers, the not-so-young sheriff, magnificently played by Tommy Lee Jones, is warned by his cousin: “This country’s hard on people. You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you.” The Cohens’ film is No Country for Old Men, so why have I paraphrased this title to write about the situation of young people in Europe’s democracies?
KUALA LUMPUR: The women, family and community development ministry has postponed the tabling of the Social Work Profession Bill. Its minister, Nancy Shukri (above), said the ministry was unable to finalise the bill in time for it to be tabled before the current Dewan Rakyat session, which began on Oct 14.
Becoming very old does not mean lingering in the dim twilight of irrelevance; it is to become an ever more valuable vault stuffed with experience and knowledge.
A new study out of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa found that meth is the leading cause of drug-related deaths among older adults in the state…. Treena Becker of UH Mānoa’s Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health Center on Aging said the purpose of the study was to identify the unintentional drug overdoses and the demographics of those fatalities.
The research center is part of the University of Kansas’ School of Social Welfare, where scholars will study health equity and access issues from a social worker’s perspective.
Yu’s intended readers—who are employed by universities and corporations—are made to believe they can build a disability-inclusive world by doing such things as diversifying your feed or hiring what Carrie Sandahl, Professor of Disability and Human Development calls “the easily assimilated able-disabled.”
On health, the increased income had insignificant effects on most indicators – not too surprising, given that the study took place over three years, while health problems develop over lifetimes. However, mental health was one clear exception consistent with other studies on basic income-like interventions. The study found “large improvements… in mental health measures like stress and psychological distress.” This could be observed, however, only during the first year of the experiment. Why was this improvement so short-lived?