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This past week in Vilnius, at a conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.

All this should serve to remind us about a basic simple truth. We can’t change the generation we get born into. We can change how the world we enter distributes income and wealth.

“The goal is to support positive relationships between those who are justice-involved and those who work in the justice system,” said Sam Burgett (above), Executive Director and founding member of Community Change Center. Burgett is also one of two social workers for the Porter County Sheriff’s Office.

Firms had the ability to not just match the input cost increase, but tack on a few extra percentage points and so increase their margins during the pandemic. It’s not a simple story; it’s a combination of supply chain pressures and firms exploiting the situation to increase prices. They took the opportunity provided by rising prices and consumer expectations, believing consumers might not notice the difference between a 5 percent increase and a 7 percent increase.

“Our interest originated from our clinical practice with survivors, and with questions raised by professionals who wonder how to react toward BDSM practices in trauma survivors,” explained Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, a senior faculty member at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa and a certified sex therapist.

Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has won the electoral first round in France. Welcome to a Europe Orwell would have recognised. Above: ‘Newspeak’, from the Ministry of Truth, in Orwell’s 1984

A statement from the Department of Health said: “Minister (Mike) Nesbitt and the Department recognise the sustained pressures that social workers are facing”. It added that “the Department and Health and Social Care Trusts are undertaking a series of both short and longer term actions to ensure that social workers have safe and manageable workloads.”

The 235 children, under the care of two social work departments – Dublin southwest/Kildare west/Wicklow and Dublin south central – still have no allocated social workers and some have had no allocated worker for years, according to Judge Conor Fottrell. The failure to inform the courts of this, as the agency was obliged to do, was “a failure of management at local, regional and national level” and raised “serious concerns” about issues of governance and communication within the agency at all levels, he said.

They wait on you at your favorite restaurants. They help raise your children as early childhood education aides. They patrol your streets. They change your parents’ bedpans at the personal care facility. They cut your grass. They are young families trying to get a start and save some money to buy a house. But they aren’t good enough to live next door to you. Actually, not even next door but across a state road and more than 200 yards away. They see your signs expressing contempt for them, hundreds of households in desperate need, like you were once and your kids are now, for a decent place to live. They need homes they can afford.

Young adults who have higher levels of inflammation, which is associated with obesity, physical inactivity, chronic illness, stress and smoking, may experience reduced cognitive function in midlife, a new study out of UC San Francisco has found.

Allison is currently pursuing her other dream of helping the future generation after finishing her master’s degree in social work from Arizona State University in 2023.

Is it possible to decode how we feel from our movements? How can emotions be studied “from the outside” by using empirical methods? To answer these questions, a large international and interdisciplinary research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has developed an integrative scientific methodology. Using artistic and digital means such as motion capture technology, the researchers developed the EMOKINE software to measure the objective kinematic features of movements that express emotions.

Faculty for Social Wellbeing voices its concern over proposed amendments to laws governing social work, counselling and the psychology profession, saying they were carried out without consultation with stakeholders

Established in 1988 by the Royal Mencap Society, Jutland Place is a care home for adults with learning disabilities. Families were informed in January 2024 that Mencap was closing the service in June as it had cost more to run than it had received in funding from SCC for the past three years.

Authorities have accused the board of failing to take firm action to prevent people convicted of national security offences from registering to join the profession.

Perhaps we owe children a new adage, as oversimplified as the ones with which I began but no less true: The shameless shall inherit the earth, while the blameless grapple with the mess they make of it.

GZ was fortunate. He survived the chaos of the streets. With the help of social workers, he moved into a temporary shelter and was approved for a monthly Supplemental Security Income (SSI) of $800, which allowed him to escape the horrors of homelessness.

“Normal stressors, or stressful experiences, that we all experience on a regular basis tend to be things that one can reasonably manage. Or, in the case of a child, with the help of a supportive caregiver,” says Dr. Nim Tottenham, a professor of psychology at Columbia University.

Liverpool Council’s children’s services department has taken steps forward but social work is “not consistently strong enough” yet, according to inspectors.

A parent complained that social work did not ‘adequately safeguard’ their child after they admitted to being abused.

BASW and SWU react to the election results

Tuesday’s job fair came in the wake of Retreat’s corporate collapse over the past two weeks, with the sudden closure of its 80-bed in-patient addiction treatment center… on June 21 and its outpatient clinic… on June 24. Retreat also shuttered its Pennsylvania and Florida facilities at the same time, stopped paying hundreds of employees — including more than 160 full-time and part-time workers in New Haven — and discharged patients en masse. All of this came as two corporate executives died by suicide within five days of one another, and the company’s financial woes continued to mount.

There is no simple answer, said Dr. Judy Krysik, Associate Director for Academic Affairs at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work. The answer is “it depends,” although there is some agreement that age 12 is a reasonable starting point.

“Neither of the major parties is willing to acknowledge that until we have a welfare system that recognises the inherent value of human life – beyond reductive ideas of ‘productivity’ – disabled people will remain trapped in a system that ultimately wants to force them into work at the expense of their physical and mental health.” Kieran Lewis, rights and migration policy officer at National Survivor User Network, tells me.

The social worker shortage in KwaZulu-Natal is “a ticking time bomb for vulnerable communities”, according to Mlungisi Ndlovu, the KZN spokesperson for the Public Servants Association of South Africa.

Over the past four decades, the world’s “ultra-high-net-worth individuals” have seen their fortunes increase, after taking inflation into account, an average 7.5 percent per year. How much annually have these rich paid in taxes? They’ve been paying, Zucman calculates, an effective tax rate “equivalent to 0.3% of their wealth.” (emphasis added) A 2 percent global billionaire tax minimum would raise, Zucman calculates, as much as $250 billion a year from a mere 3,000 individuals worldwide. Extending this tax to centi-millionaires — deep pockets worth at least $100 million — would add another $140 billion annually. Raising the global billionaire minimum tax rate to 3 percent could raise the annual take to as much as $688 billion.

The provision of cognitive behavioural therapy by qualified clinicians across Wales is inconsistent and there is a shortage of accredited practitioners – primarily because it is difficult to train to Level 2 in Wales, which is the minimum training level needed to apply for accreditation with the governing body.

In the 30 years that biomedical researchers have worked determinedly to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, their counterparts have developed drugs that helped cut deaths from cardiovascular disease by more than half, and cancer drugs able to eliminate tumors that had been incurable. But for Alzheimer’s, not only is there no cure, there is not even a disease-slowing treatment.

The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) says some of the groups it represents are on “life support” with their funding cut to $143,000 per organisation each year, which staff say is not enough to continue advocacy and education work.

Lisa Wattoff, a police social work intern with PJPD this year, has completed her Master of Social Work program at Adelphi University and is currently finishing her clinical certification. PJPD will accept a new intern participant with the Social Work Law Enforcement program this fall, which Wattoff participated in through earlier this year.

At Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Staten Island (above), federal regulators at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have determined its past problems are severe enough to make it a candidate for a “special focus facility,” or SFF, designation. If the federal agency eventually slaps it with an SFF label, it would then have to be inspected every six months.

“Often, sexual violence is labeled as a feminine experience. When men go through it themselves, there may be this need to reassert their masculinity and prove to themselves that they are a ‘man,’” Dr. PettyJohn (above) explained. Baby Reindeer depicts this through Donny’s complicated relationship with Martha. While he is fearful of her behaviors, he also appreciates feeling desired as a man following the sexual violence he experienced earlier in his life.

While virtually everyone values independence, no one is fully independent. Each of us depends on others to grow our food, care for us when we are ill, give us advice and emotional support, and help us in thousands of interconnected ways. Being disabled means having support needs that are outside what is typical and therefore those needs are much more visible. Because of this, the disability community has reckoned more explicitly with what it means to need help to live than most nondisabled people. This disability community perspective can be invaluable in approaching new technologies that can assist both disabled and nondisabled people.

20,500 social workers are employed at VA

A computer-generated cross-section of the FGC-9. FGC stands for “fuck gun control”, and the acronym reflects the ideological leaning of its designer – and many others involved in the development of 3D-printed weapons.

This was the first year that Gate City Pride, a nonprofit organization, organized Pocatello’s pride festival. Above: Dr. Jona Jacobsen speaks to two attendees to the festival.

Populations that experience health disparities are frequently underrepresented in spine pain clinical trials, according to an analysis of data from eight randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of spinal manipulation for chronic back or neck pain.

As a teen, Sara Glass — then known as Malka — she had accepted her calling as a servant of God: to become a dutiful wife and bear children while growing up in the Gur Hasidic sect of Brooklyn. However, she had questions. Hardest of all was to understand why she so deeply and powerfully felt a love that she was taught to hate.

A Westchester Social Worker who was brutally beaten by a man for knocking on the wrong door during a home visit in a Peekskill apartment has died. Maria Coto, 56, was on life support at the Westchester Medical Center since the May 19th incident before her breathing tube was removed on June 19.

In our new study, published in the journal Social Forces, we wanted to find out to what extent this remarkable change in living arrangements has changed the gender division of care work within the ex-couple. We hypothesised that the effect of such union dissolution may lead to more gender equality than when children went to live only with their mothers.

According to Independent Age, around 75% of people aged 65+ have experienced significant anxiety or low mood. Yet older adults are also less likely to be referred to therapy; one study even found that younger adults were 80% more likely to receive therapy. This underrepresentation is also present in Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT), the NHS pathway for treatment for anxiety and depression, where older adults represent just 5.1% of referrals.

A former masseuse who provided “happy endings” to clients, the single mother joined the sex trade about 20 years ago to support her child, then a toddler. Nina (not her real name) is one of those who have benefited from a Project X programme called The Next Step, which was set up in October 2023 to help sex workers looking to find alternative career pathways.

Ithaca resident Theresa Alt also spoke in support of the good-cause protections, saying it would keep good tenants in their homes and free up resources for more vulnerable populations. “Social workers will be able to concentrate on the harder cases for unhoused people who need support to become good tenants.” But some landlords in the city are unhappy with the proposal, saying it would increase their operating costs.

At the age of 76, David Glesener, who lives in the Duluth area, received his Ph.D. in social work this past May at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities…. While Glesener attended the U of M Twin Cities, the Senior Citizen Education Program is available at all state-supported higher education institutions in Minnesota at a cost of $10 per credit.

More than half of people in their late teens are specifically calling for more youth work that offers “fun”, with older teenagers particularly hankering for more jollity, according to a study by the National Youth Agency (NYA). One in 10 said they have zero options to access youth work.

Following an outcry from students, lecturers, and parents, the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education has urged the Council of Social Workers to reconsider its decision to deregister the social work curriculum offered by the Women’s University in Africa.

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and its government emerged consolidated from the European Parliament election earlier this month, with 28.8 percent of the votes obtained by her far-right Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy). The European political group to which the party belongs, the European Conservatives and Reformists, is now the third force in the parliament with 83 MEPs. Identity and Democracy, the other far-right group—which includes, among others, Italy’s Lega and the French Rassemblement National—can count on 58.

Universities have closed courses or whole subjects to tackle debt.

The departure of more members from a social worker regulator would not affect its operation, according to Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun, after six of them had left amid a looming reform of the statutory body

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the justices ruled in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson that officials can criminalize sleeping and camping on public property including parks, even when housing options are unavailable or unaffordable.