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Charles Johnson and his wife, Ann, collected more than $38 million in tax deductions as a result of donating their estate.

Our agency helps individuals and their families cope with a terminal diagnosis and end of life decisions. We provide RN’s, LVN’s, CNA’s, Social workers, and Chaplain’s, as well as volunteer services to help our patients and their families.

So how does it happen? Fraudulent or coercive debt is established when the victim’s identity is stolen by their traffickers, or they are forced to open a credit card in their own name and pay for items or services that support their trafficking such as cellphones, hotel rooms and transportation. This fraud stays with the survivor long after they’ve escaped, overburdening them and often taking them by surprise. Survivors cannot get credit, a job, or safe housing, thereby drastically impeding their recovery.

Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) saw a 50 per cent rise in patients being abandoned over three years, with the 239 cases in 2020 rising to 358 cases in 2023. In the first five months of 2024, around 166 abandoned cases were recorded in HKL, local media reported. Some 50 per cent of the cases involved patients above the age of 60, with the remainder being younger patients with medical complications. A majority of the patients said they did not have relatives, HKL Social Work Department chief Zulhan Ambi told The Star.

Democratic state Rep. Mari Leavitt noted “Hunter Ross, Director of DCYF, should resign. His handling of the movement of folks from Green Hill, lack of support of social workers when confronted with violence, lack of vision of planning for additional juvenile facilties, etc.. There’s a lack of leadership that is needed.” Above: Ross Hunter

Much attention has been paid to the antidemocratic aspects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a radical playbook for the first 180 days of a new Trump term. But few have focused on its plan to kneecap unions and attack workers’ rights.

Reactionary forces like AIPAC who want more death and misery in Gaza are going up against Rep. Cori Bush…. During Bush’s time in Congress, she has pursued a strong progressive agenda on renewable energy, climate resilience, public transit, environmental justice, veterans’ health, and women’s rights. Like her fellow Squad members, Bush has elevated left and working-class concerns in national political discourse and pushed the Democrats left, strengthening legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act.

Today, the majority of professional firefighters in California are trained through apprenticeship programs, said Yvonne de la Peña, who oversees the joint committee. She said getting to that point took more than 30 years of incremental work, negotiating apprenticeship agreements department by department.

2U’s struggles have played out in what’s become an increasingly hostile environment for online-program managers, or OPMs. More colleges are looking to move their online operations in-house, dissatisfied with revenue-share arrangements that can siphon off 50 percent or more of tuition dollars.

The city’s principal social worker Jenny Rogers says the city’s turnover rate in children’s services is 9.4% compared to 15.9% nationally, which is through initiatives to recruit and retain staff, Wolverhampton City Council says. Meanwhile, the turnover rate in adult services is 10.6%, compared to 14.5% across England.

Migrant healthcare workers protest outside the Department of Justice in Dublin against the fact that the current family reunion policy denies them the right to bring their spouses or children to Ireland.

Since 2013, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has allocated 2,500 bursaries per year to students starting their second year of a three-year undergraduate social work course, along with 1,500 to trainees beginning a master’s qualification, which tends to take two years.

The Royal Commission of inquiry into Abuse in Care says at least 200,000 of the estimated 655,000 children and young people put in the care of state or religious institutions since 1950 were subjected to abuse including violence and sexual abuse.

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) social workers continue to coordinate with Carina-affected local government units to determine other needed interventions during the recovery phase, according to Dumlao.

Older workers are sometimes perceived as “doddering but dear,” Christina Matz, Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work, and director of the Center on Aging and Work (above) told BBC. “They’re labeled as slower and set in their ways, well-meaning on one hand and incompetent on the other. People of a certain age are considered out-of-touch, and not seen as progressive and innovative,” Matz said, adding that women face additional hurdles.

“2U’s executives have shown time and again that they have no strategy to turn around their failing company,” said Student Borrower Protection Center executive director Mike Pierce in a statement. “Today, many … investors are now working with 2U executives to use federal bankruptcy laws to keep the lights on at 2U—a perverse outcome when those same bankruptcy laws deny a path to a debt-free future for the students harmed by 2U’s schemes.”

While some consider the long, shared dining table outdated or inconvenient, it is actually a powerful social tool

The Scottish Human Rights Commission and UK National Preventive Mechanism published a report on prisons and forensic mental health settings in Scotland, identifying 10 areas of concern including mental health, segregation and deaths in custody. The comprehensive study concludes that little progress has been made against 29 international human rights recommendations.

Family and friends take their shoes off when entering the new house after a blessing from kaikarakia Morehu Pewhairangi.

Marikina Mayor Marcy Teodoro said they recorded 5,848 families, or 30,128 individuals, being rescued and brought to evacuation centers during the onslaught of Typhoon Carina on Wednesday, July 24.

The building, designed by renowned architect Paul Philippe Cret, was once home to University Junior High, the first desegregated school in Austin. It also contains murals by celebrated local muralist Raúl Valdez.

His ideas about human thinking and behaviour – largely dealing with their imperfections – infiltrated fields from health policy to politics, casino gambling to baseball. His impact was perhaps most dramatic in economics, the discipline for which he won the Nobel Prize in 2002. He often joked about the fact that he had never even taken an economics class. He described his influence on that field, and on every other, as entirely accidental. He was just trying to have fun with his work, and answer some questions about the human mind along the way.

The Oxford team studied the health records of more than 200,000 US citizens vaccinated for shingles, about half of whom received the new vaccine. Over the next six years, the risk of dementia was 17% lower in those who received Shingrix compared with Zostavax.

The onus will be on social workers to complete a report to inform licence conditions and to supervise released prisoners in the community, and we know how stretched our colleagues are in that profession.

J. D. Vance’s selection as Donald Trump’s running mate has unnerved many Democrats. He is closely tied to the architects of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation plan to purge large swathes of the civil service. He is friendly with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Alex Jones, and he warns darkly about falling birthrates and rising immigration. All of this strikes many as remarkable given that Vance began his political career as the darling of the liberal establishment

BASW and BASW England will continue to work with government and all our partners to promote the safety and wellbeing of social workers.

SINGAPORE – A novel project that gave 75 low-income households between $300 and $550 a month for 18 months has broken new ground in understanding the effects of unconditional cash transfers here.

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