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The distribution of these locks continues as long as the supplies last, “We know that talking about guns and firearms can be a stigmatized or politicized conversation, and we just want to talk to folks about safety,” Sarah Carter, a social worker at Kennedy Krieger Institute, stated.
The number of people taking ADHD medication is at a record high – and the NHS is feeling the strain as it tries to diagnose and treat the condition. Since 2015, the number of patients in England prescribed drugs to treat ADHD has nearly trebled, and BBC research suggests that it would take eight years to assess all the adults on waiting lists.
As a clinical social worker and health scholar with 40 years of experience in end-of-life care and bereavement, I knew that I needed some way to tend to my grief for my mother. While in lockdown, I began looking for resources to help me. Then I heard about the wind phone.
Social workers who work with older people will know how important the Winter Fuel Allowance is for health and wellbeing. The Allowance gives older people the confidence to keep their homes heated without fear of large bills that they cannot afford to pay.
Budget negotiations are coming to a head as the countdown is on within Government for Budget Day on October 1…. The welfare package for Budget 2025 will be finalised by ministers and senior officials shortly.
Organizers with Camp Nenookaasi say the situation is untenable for the city’s unhoused residents. They’re pushing local elected officials to decriminalize safe outdoor encampments, keep encampment evictions to a minimum, and protect residents’ rights and dignity during necessary evictions. And in the meantime, they’re finding creative ways to help protect residents – such as building yurts to protect unhoused individuals during Minnesota’s cold winters.
At age 15, Mariana Abarca moved with her family from Mexico to Little Rock, where her father was excelling as a bicycle mechanic.
Hilary has had a much-lauded career in social work practice, education and research, spending many years up to her retirement as a Professor of Social Work at Kingston University. She is a researcher, a social work educator, a university leader and a social worker with a passion and commitment to the advancement of the profession.
In September 2023, the UK Health Security Agency urged students to use condoms and get tested regularly for STIs to help prevent the spread of infections. This is wise advice for everyone, not just students. The most recent data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shows that syphilis cases rose by 34% from 2021 to 2022, chlamydia cases by 16% and gonorrhoea cases by 48%.
DA MPL Wendy Kaizer-Philander stated that the ongoing victimisation of social workers in the Western Cape had ‘reached a critical point and could not be tolerated’. ‘The Western Cape government has implemented measures such as unmarked vehicles and collaboration with law enforcement to protect social workers,’ said Kaizer-Philander.
Hong Kong’s three-tiered student suicide prevention system needs streamlining, experts say, after 280 cases were reported in the highest tier. They said cumbersome procedures and parental reluctance are hindering access to support services, while schools are concerned about long waiting times for psychiatric care.
Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and Payment for Placements (P4P)(Opens in a new window) recognize the significant impact of the cost of higher education on students’ overall well-being and are committed to making social work education more accessible. CSWE remains committed to collaborating with the P4P movement(Opens in a new window) regarding ways to reduce the cost of social work education, including paid internship opportunities.
In a recent report, the four surviving former lords chief justice of England and Wales have laid out how changes in sentence lengths and aggressive sentencing legislation have increased the prison population. As they write: “Over the half-century that we have been involved in the law, custodial sentence lengths have approximately doubled and the same is true of prison numbers. The connection between the two is obvious”
A new study has found that more than half of Black and Hispanic infants were born into very low-opportunity neighborhoods, and that babies born into these neighborhoods had a 16-percent greater risk of being born preterm. The study sheds new light on the health consequences of structural racism and historically discriminatory practices — such as redlining and disproportionate exposures to pollutants — that continue to shape modern-day neighborhood conditions and circumstances.
Trust is the glue that binds us: it is the force of the social contract and the bedrock of democracy. Trust fosters co-operation, strengthens social cohesion, facilitates policy implementation and encourages public engagement and participation. Without trust, societies fall victim to fragmentation, which favours populism and undermines social stability amid geopolitical confrontation.
Josselyn Valenzuela, a graduate student in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work, serves as the bilingual research coordinator for the Mindful Moms Study, which studies the impact of mindfulness activities and social connectedness on people who are experiencing depression while pregnant.
Canyon Crest Academy students Litong Tian and Kevin Wang, both 17, pose at their school in Pacific Highlands Ranch… Tian and Wang published an investigation of their school’s foundation that focused on fees charged to student clubs, unidentified spending expenses and more.
Components common to most U.S. social housing proposals are bound to replicate problems we already have. Above: Public housing residents and allies from around the city rally outside Chelsea Houses in Manhattan in 2023, after plans for demolition were announced.
Plan will advance knowledge of virus biology to improve detection, treatment and prevention.
“This is new, dangerous ground, funding new voucher schools,” said Josh Cowen, a senior fellow at the Education Law Center and the author of a new book on the history of billionaire-led voucher efforts. For decades, churches have relied on conservative philanthropy to be able to build their schools, Cowen said, or they’ve held fundraising drives or asked their diocese for help. They’ve never, until now, been able to build schools expressly on the public dime.
Means testing insanity in the United Kingdom.
My husband, Alan Rushton, who has died aged 79, ran a post-qualifying course for social workers specialising in mental health for many years and played a prominent part in research into children placed away from home.
From 1979 until his retirement, Alan taught mental health social work to qualified social workers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, inspiring his students and teaching them research skills. His work on family placements of older children gained him a doctorate in 1999.
Social workers here have not encountered victims of deepfake harassment, but warn that South Korea’s situation should be a warning to the rest of the world. The Straits Times found more than six Telegram channels offering deepfake services that allow users to develop “nude renders” using photos of real people within seconds.
By the end of the month, the Austrian Freedom party (FPÖ), founded by two former members of the SS, Anton Reinthaller and Friedrich Peter, is expected to form an anti-immigration, pro-Russian government. It will cement a new hard-right axis across Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, and more importantly, Italy, where step by step the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni (who met Keir Starmer on Monday), is accused of taking control of the press and the judiciary.
The United States is a leading consumer of beef with only Argentina and Zimbabwe consuming more per capita. That’s according to 2022 data, the latest available, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Americans account for about 83 pounds of beef per year, per person. And while that number is lower than in recent decades, it’s still four times more beef than the global average.
My research examines the role of perceived threats to national status in domestic and international politics. I ran an experiment in March 2024 with 1,079 Americans, aimed at trying to understand how their concerns about national decline affect their foreign policy opinions.
Millions of Americans are endangered by extreme heat due to federal policies that steer billions of dollars away from the nation’s hottest regions…. The programs treat extreme heat as a discomfort rather than today’s deadliest weather events by denying millions of people federal aid to cool their homes and barring homeowners from using tax credits and government-backed mortgages to pay for window air conditioners.
What can pull people on opposite sides of the political spectrum to cooperate with one another, if they cannot agree on what is factually correct?
The Liberation Health Model is a clinical framework that acknowledges the sociopolitical factors that contribute to a person’s mental health challenges. The model posits that the problems of individuals and families can only be understood with a rooting in the political, economic and social conditions of the person’s context.
In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted so-called “pronatalist” measures in the belief that doing so will defuse a demographic time bomb. These range from tax breaks and housing benefits for couples who have children to subsidies for fertility treatments.
The Chat-Tea Train initiative, which started in October 2023, was led by Shona McEleney, a Social Work Assistant based at Glendermott Medical Practice.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms “receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation” a report published Thursday revealed.
The study by Heriot-Watt University and funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation looked at those with No Recourse to Public Funds – those subject to immigration control – or other restricted eligibility for state support. They include asylum seekers, people who have arrived on spousal or student vias, and people from the European Economic Area who cannot access housing and welfare benefits after Brexit, even if they have lived and worked in the UK for many years. Above: Refugees from Syria arrive at the train station in Dortmund, Germany
Migrants wait in line for clothes and supplies in a makeshift camp in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico
The Slovenian Democratic Party manifesto announced: ‘We must protect our European way of life by preserving our Christian values and fundamental principles’
“The truth is not a lot of governments are moving as proactively as the one in Thailand,” Suen Yiu-tung, Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Above: Participants march during the Bangkok Pride Parade in Thailand’s capital on June 1, 2024.
A strong belief in their own academic ability can help children from low-income families defy the odds and achieve academic success, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin.
Proponents of white Christian nationalism continue to seek a religiously run, white-dominated government. A recent PPRI study also found that white Christian nationalists were twice as likely to support political violence. Above: Supporters of Donald Trump attacking the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
If Senator JD Vance of Ohio had a moral compass, a shred of decency or a belief in anything other than his own ambition and will-to-power, he would resign his Senate seat effective immediately, leave the presidential race and retire from public life, following a mournful apology for his ethical transgressions.
Aberlour Children’s Charity joined with Govan Law Centre, urging politicians to make transformational changes to the way public debt is collected in Scotland to help end child poverty.
NHS Digital figures show 30,030 under-18s were in contact with mental health services at the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board. This was up from 20,170 in June 2019, the latest comparable period before the pandemic, and means the number of children receiving mental health support in the area has risen by nearly half in the last five years.
University of Southern Indiana social work faculty are thrilled to celebrate the remarkable milestones of the USI Social Work Program—50 years of social work at USI, 40 years of the Bachelor of Social Work degree and 30 years of Master of Social Work (MSW) degree.
Fordham University has filed an objection to 2U’s bankruptcy restructuring, claiming the online program manager was “negligent” and cannot carry out its contract…. “2U’s repeated breaches and its inability to cure them, much less give adequate assurance of future performance, renders 2U unable to assume the agreement with Fordham,” the filing states.
UNISON has written to the charity to say that if its workers back industrial action there could be mass walkouts by Enable Scotland’s social care staff later in the autumn. The union says this is the first strike ballot for over a decade in Scotland’s charitable social care sector and shows the deep dissatisfaction that exists over pay.
All but the poorest pensioners will no longer receive the winter fuel allowance after MPs voted to make cuts to the payments. After a Conservative motion to prevent the change was defeated by 348 votes to 228, only those in receipt of benefits such as pension credit, universal credit or income support will receive the £200-300 payment to help with their heating bills.
It’s time finally to jettison the convenient claim that taxing the rich more would only reduce tax revenue. Above: The consumption patterns of the 1 per cent contribute disproportionately to greenhouse-gas emissions
Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe, has called for urgent employment of 55,000 social services professionals to tackle the ongoing problem of gender-based violence, poverty, and crime due to rising social services demands in the country.