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The GAO analysis, which does not include all the Pathways administrative expenses detailed by the news outlets, shows that as of April the Georgia program had spent $54.2 million on administrative costs since 2021, compared to $26.1 million spent on health care costs. Nearly 90% of administrative expenditures came from the federal budget, the report concluded, meaning that Georgia’s experiment is being funded by taxpayers around the country. Federal spending will likely increase given that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved $6 million more in administrative costs not reflected in this report because it was published before the state submitted invoices.

A few years ago, Keshia MacDonald took a leap of faith and enrolled in the inaugural class in the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program at Cape Breton University (CBU).

Professor Kim Gryglewicz (left) and Associate Professor Susanny Beltran (right) hold Sully the Seal, the College of Health Professions and Sciences’ first PARO therapeutic robot, being studied to help older adults with dementia feel less lonely and more connected.

Public school officials in Las Cruces have found success in curbing chronic absenteeism through a program partially staffed with social work students from New Mexico State University. The partnership between NMSU’s School of Social Work and the Las Cruces Public Schools began in 2021 under the Attendance for Success program. As part of the program, NMSU students analyze and monitor daily attendance data and work directly with families and students to identify root causes of chronic absences.

The Diana R. Garland School of Social Work received backlash following the revocation of a grant researching inclusion and the LGBTQ community.

After two weeks of waiting to finalize the vote and a night full of public disagreement, the Wilmington City Council moved forward with an anti-camping ordinance though council members’ changes from the last meeting prompted the ordinance’s implementation to again be delayed another week. However, the council did agree to start up a new program to embed social workers within the city’s police department.

The pilot program, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, amounts to a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires patients or someone on their medical team to seek insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. It will affect Medicare patients, and the doctors and hospitals who care for them, in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington, starting Jan. 1 and running through 2031.

When I look back on the final months of my Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Edinburgh, I remember a strange duality: the thrill of intellectual accomplishment and the gnawing dread of what would come next.

Men most at risk of dying from drugs, alcohol or suicide in Scotland are a “policy blind spot”, according to health economics researchers.

“AI is no longer a distant horizon – it is here, transforming daily life, the information space, and the global economy at breathtaking speed,” Mr. Guterres said at the Council’s high-level debate on the technology’s security implications for transforming warfare. “The question is not whether AI will influence international peace and security, but how we will shape that influence.”

“Unlike older people, young people are often forced to spend extended periods of time around others they don’t get along with,” says Dr Ben Lohmeyer (above) from the Flinders University College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. “So rather than loneliness being about isolation, in this case it can be about being surrounded by people who make you feel unsafe.”

On April 29, the U.S. Department of Education notified 49 grant recipients that it would cancel roughly $168 million that had been appropriated for mental health services to students in California, stating that recipients had violated their standard of “merit, fairness and excellence in education” and failed to comply with the “priorities and policy preferences” of the administration.

Accounts of subway surfing date back to the earliest days of the city’s transit system, but the death toll has increased in recent years. Subway surfers often gravitate toward aboveground trains including the 7 and the J.

Jessica comes from a family that embodies Wisconsin values. Her grandfather was raised in the Great Depression in Minnesota and was a career-long Teamster truck driver. Her grandmother was raised in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. Her Marine veteran father, who served in Desert Storm, now relies on VA services. Her registered nurse mother worked through the pandemic in Oak Creek emergency rooms. Four generations of veterans. Union members. Teachers. Small business owners. Nurses. Social workers. This is what Wisconsin families look like.

Lakeside Behavioral Health, owned by Universal Health Services. Since 2010, 34 of UHS’ psychiatric hospitals have been cited with violations for failing to provide emergency care as required by law.

AmyAnne Smith winner of the poster competition at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Barcelona for her work on sexual violence among sexual minorities in Canada, shares more about her research and vision for the future.

“What’s exciting is that so many different parties are involved – but that is also the challenge. There are a lot of meetings, but it’s been very rewarding,” says Eva Samuelsson, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University (right). Together with other colleagues and programme director Professor Mats Ekendahl, Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University (left), she leads the research effort, where one of the central aims is to build long-term relationships with practice.

I’m a social worker who became interested in the profession while doing volunteer work, after completing a Bachelor’s in Women’s Studies in Ottawa, Canada. Once I knew I wanted to be a social worker, I completed a Master’s of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

Since they debuted in 2023, the preventatives—a vaccine for pregnant people and an antibody shot for newborns—have reduced hospitalizations of the youngest babies by up to half…. Although the infant mortality rate is low, respiratory syncytial virus is the leading cause of hospitalization among infants in the U.S., with newborns up to the age of two months being at the highest risk, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 60,000 to 80,000 children under age five are hospitalized with RSV every year in the U.S., and an estimated 100 to 300 children in that age group die annually.

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) and 387 national, state, and local organizations signed on to a letter urging Congress to continue its nearly 30-year bipartisan commitment to fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), one of the nation’s largest federal nutrition programs, for fiscal year (FY) 2026.

The lawsuit alleges that trustees exhibited a pattern of illegally using the closed-door portions of their regularly scheduled meetings to hide “matters of grave public concern.” Clemens also accused trustees of conducting deliberations “without proper notice or public access” and of using auto-deleting messaging apps such as Signal “to evade records retention and public inspection.”

At a high-level side event held today on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (above), urged governments, civil society, and private sector partners to intensify efforts to prevent suicide and expand access to mental health care across the Americas.

Psychogeographical Guide to Paris: Discourse on the Passions of Love

The act of petting and even the sound of purring can trigger oxytocin release in our brains. One 2002 study found this oxytocin rush from gentle cat contact helps lower cortisol (our stress hormone), which in turn can reduce blood pressure and even pain.

In many ways, I’ve known sickness my whole life. Born with eczema that covered my arms and legs in red, rashy welts, peaking as a teenager and returning, uninvited, throughout my adulthood. As a teen, I had regular tonsil infections, two strains of mononucleosis at the same time—“I’ve never seen this before,” remarked my doctor—and the norovirus. In my thirties, a friend who’d known me since undergrad told me, “I’m not sure I’ve ever seen you not sick for more than a couple of weeks.”

Each week Jodie is joined by Amy McCarthy, Director of Clinical Social Work, Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Burdens associated with enrolling in a public program can substantially depress take-up among eligible individuals. The more time-consuming it is for a person to learn how and when to apply for coverage, the more steps they must take to enroll, the more challenging it is to complete application paperwork and submit documentation, and the more frequently enrollees must repeat these tasks to reestablish eligibility — the less likely it is that people will have coverage, even though they are eligible.

Ludwig’s arguments about traditional inflation measures not capturing the true state of Americans’ fiscal stability were backed up by a report from The Washington Post on Sunday, which examined recent trends in housing, healthcare, food, and utility prices, and found that all of them have been rising faster than the top-line rate of inflation as measured by CPI.

For years, local DJ Dave Gilmore soundtracked other people’s nights out in pubs and clubs. But now he’s curating a uniquely personal playlist – the songs of his own life to carry him through terminal illness. Above: Dave and Kate on their wedding day in 1986

Angi Naylor joined the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) as a student member in 1980 and was a member of the SWU Executive Committee from when the union was formed in 2011 until her retirement last year. Angi receiving her BASW Lifetime Achievement Award from SWU General Secretary, John McGowan.

If you’re one of the 45% of Australians with private health insurance, chances are the government pays, or has paid, a proportion of your premiums via rebates. Taxpayer spending on these private health insurance rebates is projected to reach A$7.6 billion in 2025. The rebates are a key source of revenue for private hospitals. In 2022–23, private health funds contributed $9.7 billion. This is around 45% of the $21.5 billion spent on private hospital services.

An eviction notice brought by a tenant to his court date in the Multnomah County Courthouse, Portland, Oregon

More than 100 new lawsuits have been filed against San Diego County in recent weeks by adults who claim they were taken to the Polinsky Children’s Center as minors to escape unstable homes only to be sexually assaulted by social workers who were supposed to protect them. Perhaps a minor point to some, but one unanswered question in this article – were these in fact “social workers”?

“Waiting for the next test results or doctor’s appointment, balancing daily responsibilities, and carrying the weight of fear and anxiety. It’s those spaces where we have a real opportunity to make a meaningful difference in someone’s life.” said Linda Mathew, DSW, MSW, LCSW-R (above). Mathew is the President of the Association of Oncology Social Work.

President of the Student Association for Psychedelic Studies Emily Berriman addresses the crowd at Entheofest hosted at The Diag on the University of Michigan campus.

The Bibby Stockholm barge which housed asylum seekers in Portland Port, Dorset, England, in 2023.

Social workers are often afraid to share information about children due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) concerns, the chief operations officer of the Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) has said. Caroline Strong said there needs to be an overhaul of how different organisations share information in cases where there are concerns about a child’s welfare. Ms Strong noted that many social workers, or other stakeholders who engage with children, are “genuinely afraid” to share information.

“Obviously I exaggerate,” said one young woman who told her followers she thought birth control was “evil.” “On social media you can’t have a lukewarm take.”

He said he was waiting for a postdated cheque to clear and would pay me back that Friday. Could I lend him the amount till then? He even flashed me the cheque. I had been dating G for three years; what was not to trust? Sure, he’d had a bit of a chequered past, with a ‘white collar’ mistake thrown in and a couple of long stints between jobs, but when I met him, I was nursing a broken heart and didn’t much care. He appeared to be the perfect Band-Aid.

UC Berkeley is facing backlash after disclosing the names of 160 students, faculty and staff to Trump administration officials as part of a federal investigation into allegations of antisemitism on campus. The university sent the documents over several months and notified those named earlier this month. Among them is Ussama Makdisi, a history professor and leading scholar of modern Arab history…. In an interview with NPR’s Leila Fadel, Makdisi discussed academic freedom, censorship and campus climate.

Local officials conducted a Community Health Needs Assessment that found 9.5 percent of community members were food insecure in 2021. But a more accurate assessment is the one conducted by the nonprofit United Way, which determines how many people are ALICE—“asset limited, income constrained, employed.” ALICE residents in Jackson are nearly a third of the population, said Hole Food Rescue Program Director Iván Jiménez.

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears. Above: A tank drives through Beijing after the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

An unidentified 40-to-50-year-old patient is seen in this photo. Anyone with information that could help identify him or connect him to loved ones is urged to call the hospital’s social work department:
– Nathalie Rivera, Clinical Social Worker — 323-409-7546 (M–F, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.)
– Los Angeles General Medical Center Department of Social Work — 323-409-5253
– After-hours inquiries (5 p.m.–8 a.m.) — 323-409-6883
– Weekend on-call (8 a.m.–5 p.m.) — 323-409-5254

After the Istanbul concert, however, the band’s promising future seems to now be a thing of the past. The public prosecutor’s office is investigating them for “indecent and immoral acts” and “exhibitionism,” with the stage show said to have “violated and offended the feelings of shame, morality and the moral values of society.” In addition, it’s claimed the women have a bad influence on children and young people…. Oktay Saral, chief adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called the band members “immoral, shameless, demonic creatures” in a Turkish post on X and demanded legal action to prevent them from “further alleged exhibitionist acts.”

Patients in specialized psychiatric care face a variety of social risks that are intertwined, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland published in Nordic Social Work Research. Social risks tend to accumulate among the most vulnerable segments of the population. They include, for example, financial difficulties, housing challenges and violence.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health joined Indigenous scholars, community leaders and practitioners from around the world at the 7th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference in August at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Above: Aimee Chung, Theresa Kreif, Lynette Paglinawan, Halaevalu FO Vakalahi and Meripa Godinet.

In just one cross-country trip, a single private jet, the Gulfstream IV, emits nearly double the CO2 that the average American emits in an entire year. Owning and flying in a private jet is a reckless behavior in times of climate crisis, and the billionaire, private jet–owning class are conspicuous carbon consumers…. Right now, the United States has more private jets than the next top ten countries combined, and 71 percent of all private jet flights take place in North America. Private jet growth in the United States is projected to rise by $270 billion in new jets over the next decade, encouraged by… billion-dollar tax cuts, which included a 100-percent write-off on all private jets—in addition to the fact that private jets are already taxed at a rate forty times less than commercial flights.

Several Northeastern states and America’s largest city have been collaborating since early 2025 and today formally announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, a voluntary regional coalition of public health agencies and leaders, brought together to share expertise, improve coordination, enhance capacity, strengthen regional readiness, and promote and protect evidence-based public health.

Conservative Christian teachings are often key in how tradwife influencers explain their view of gender roles.