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RaeAnne Lindsay, MSW, was named Ms. Wheelchair USA and has been a strong advocate for inclusive playgrounds (those that allow people with disabilities to use) in Fisher Community Park and at Fisher Grade School…. Lindsay, who earned a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Illinois, works virtually for Vanderbilt University in charge of a research study for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which protects qualified individuals from discrimination based on their disability.

The former UF president tripled his office’s spending compared to predecessor

Monica says she’s tormented by the question of whether her son Bobby would be alive if the overdose reversal drug Narcan had been easily accessible in his UCLA dorm room. She keeps a “Museum of Bobby” in her living room.

In the fast-food industry, worker stress is built into the system by design. The more unnatural and unsustainable the pace, the greater the corporate profits.

Dr. Isabel Logan, Associate Professor of Social Work, and Tina James, ‘18, at the Milford, Conn., police department, where James serves as a social worker

Austin Urlaub says he comes from a long line of “helpers,” including special education teachers, counselors and psychologists. But the Michigan native is still the first in his family to go directly into social work. He says it’s a calling, that he has “a knack for helping people.” He has served in student government but said many in his social circle questioned his decision to enter the field at first, at least from a financial perspective.

Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the four-year Inspiring Students into Research Scheme (INSIGHT) will be delivered in partnership with health and social care employers throughout the North West. It will focus on training newly qualified health and social care professionals to understand research and use it effectively to underpin their practice.

Disturbances broke out in Harehills on 18 July as police responded to reports of social workers experiencing hostility while dealing with a child protection issue. Unison said staff faced “incredibly challenging jobs” in situations that were “often intimidating, threatening and potentially violent”.

Scientists should be compensated and credited when artificial intelligence chatbots pull information from their papers, a collecting society has said. The call comes amid news that two major academic publishers sold access to their research papers and data to large tech firms to train their artificial intelligence models without consulting authors…. The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) collects royalties annually from various organisations around the world including businesses, educational institutions and government agencies on behalf of its over 120,000 members. ALCS’s members include academic researchers, freelance journalists, literary authors, scriptwriters, audiovisual artists and more. This year, ALCS paid out around £44 million to its members.

Last week I attended “Teaching and Learning With AI,” organized by the University of Central Florida and held in Orlando, Fla. I was curious to hear how academics are talking and thinking about those tools, especially given the threat many professors feel that generative AI poses to teaching and learning. Would they be enthusiastic? Skeptical? Realistic?

Short answer: all of the above.

A roundtable discussion on the global networks and political strategies of nationalist conservatives.

My mother’s journey with self-storage showed me how, for many Americans, these units hold much more than material possessions.

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa gerontology social work educator was awarded the Rising Star Early Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America, Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education. Dr. Yeonjung Jane Lee, an Associate Professor at the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, was recognized as a faculty member whose teaching and leadership stood out as impactful and innovative.

Every Monday when Ashlea Sleiman arrives at her office, she’s greeted with referrals. Sleiman, the first ever social services liaison for the Oxford Police Dept., said one of her first tasks when she joined the department two years ago was to create a basic form for officers to fill out when they thought her services might be needed.

Demand for adult social care is spiralling as Britain’s population gets older and more sick. But jumps in bills and wages mean the costs of delivering care have soared and local authority finances are crippled. Nowhere is this more evident than on the Isle of Wight. The island off the south coast of England is the nation’s care bill capital.

Sometimes it takes a crisis to develop new solutions to intractable challenges. Right now in Scotland we have not one but several crises – a national housing emergency coupled with social care and health services under severe strain, with ever-growing waiting lists. We urgently need fresh thinking if we are to find a way forward and create a better, more sustainable and equitable future in which our housing stock and our health and care services are fit for purpose.

Top takeaways:
> Politics is increasingly recognized as a significant source of chronic stress, affecting both mental and physical health negatively across a broad swath of the population.
> Political anxiety is distinctly different from psychological conditions such as general anxiety, with its unique impact on emotional well-being and societal cohesion.
> Effective coping strategies include regulating exposure to political information and fostering positive social connections.

Economic power is political power. We spoke with Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital, about how the capitalist class is subverting democracy and controlling the lives of billions through massive investments in everything from food to war.

Emily Dalton became a part-time social worker at Hoboken Public Library while finishing her master’s at Rutgers School of Social Work in 2022; she transitioned to full-time work at the library in 2023.

Far-right activists hold an “Enough is Enough” protest on August 2 in Sunderland, England. After the murders of three girls in Southport earlier this week, misinformation spread via social media and fueled acts of violent rioting from far-right actors across England.

Scammers are compounding tactics by using fake Amazon or PayPal tech support emails and text messages to get you to connect with an imposter Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who will try to convince you that your Social Security number (SSN) or record is compromised.

Continuing a ‘long and ugly history’ of British race riots, a mob attacks police outside a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers.

Last month saw another extreme weather milestone with the world’s hottest day on recent record registered on 22 July – yet another indication of the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are changing our climate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on Wednesday.

Leas Hollen distributed food and donated clothing to people living at the homeless camp along East 33rd Avenue in Midtown Anchorage on Thursday, August 8, 2024.

Graves for young women, girls and infants who died while detained at the New York House of Refuge for women and the New York State Training School for Girls, which operated on this Hudson, New York, property between 1887 and 1975.

During a MDMA therapy session, a blindfolded patient is wrapped in a blanket and lays on a couch.

Last Monday, to be exact, when State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues reportedly directed the system’s 12 public university leaders to conduct an urgent and sweeping review of faculty syllabi, textbooks, and test banks for evidence of “antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias”…. in follow-up communications Friday, Rodrigues and Emily Sikes, the system’s interim vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, clarified that universities should first conduct keyword searches of all course descriptions and syllabi for the words: Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish, and Jews. Then, any fall courses using one or more of those terms are to be reported to the System Board of Governors, alongside a list of “related instructional materials,” by August 16.

Staff in social care teams across Lancashire walked out Friday in their second bout of strike action over pay this year.

‘It is despicable and perplexing that Goldsmiths is exploiting the generalised sense of crisis in the higher education sector to burn down its own house. We call on the institution’s senior management to immediately halt its arsonist ‘Transformation Programme’ and work with us to protect jobs.’

This type of peer counseling session is relatively common at San Quentin these days, where hundreds of volunteers come in every week to help people heal and prepare to reenter society. The prison is so well-known for its rehabilitative culture that Gov. Gavin Newsom last year formally renamed it a “rehabilitation center.” The governor also uses it as the centerpiece for his “California Model,” which focuses on humanizing incarcerated people and normalizing positive interactions between them and the guards.

Michael Bruneau, president and chief executive officer of Aurora Recovery Centre — a private drug and alcohol treatment centre north of Gimli — purchased 23 units at 873 Waverley St., with plans to renovate and rent the suites out as the Aurora Family Reunification Village, in which children would live with their parents who were undergoing treatment.

Another step officials say will help address student safety this year is that there are now eight police social workers with CCSD PD.

Columbia’s AAUP chapter has received numerous reports of individuals, both inside and outside of the University, calling for the sanctioning or dismissal of specific Columbia faculty members, according to its statement. The statement reads that the calls for “punitive action” have been based on the comments faculty members have made in the public sphere, classroom, and “in response to faculty efforts to de-escalate provocations during campus protests.”

“There’s no mincing words: Tenure’s gone. It’s been replaced by a five-year contract,” said Meera Sitharam, president of the United Faculty of Florida union’s UF chapter. She said UF’s implementation of the policy “really gives them a chance to get rid of people they don’t like.”

Dr. Jeff Karabanow, a Dalhousie University Professor of Social Work who does research on homelessness, said in an interview Thursday the potential impact of a code of conduct would depend entirely on how it’s set up and what’s included in it. “I hope people in the encampments are around the table … I think that can be quite empowering for people to provide their voice,” he said.

The spokesperson says that social workers in the province who drive government vehicles are often targeted by criminals and hijacked. The social workers are left traumatised both physically and emotionally resulting in them taking leave. With a vehicle also in the hands of criminals, the Department of Social Development has fewer vehicles for workers to use.

Areas identified for improvement were the experiences and progress of children who need help and protection, the impact of leaders on social work practice and overall effectiveness. The service was rated ‘Good’ in the experiences and progress of children in care, and those who leave care, including when they reach adulthood. Above: Reading Borough Council offices.

Mental health experts say people with depression often try to self-medicate with alcohol, but celebrities discussing their problems breaks the taboo

A Nelson-based organisation that supports the most vulnerable tamariki and their whānau across the top of the South Island is set to lose almost 40 percent of its frontline staff, as Oranga Tamariki reduces its funding.

The expansion of the Palm Springs Navigation Center is nearly complete, with 80 beds for homeless individuals slated to become available next month. The additional beds will complement the 50 existing ones currently available at the facility, raising the overall shelter space within the city. The new beds will be in modular units, which are meant to provide a transitional space for individuals as they seek more permanent housing.

Nationally known for her scholarship focused on critical analysis and socially constructed power, Dr. Robbins has applied these perspectives to human behavior theories, practice methods, pedagogical issues in social work education, and epistemological methodologies.

Walz, who is in the middle of his second term as governor, has secured a number of policy wins during his tenure, from universal free school meals for K-12 students to paid family and medical leave after Democrats won full control of the statehouse. On the higher ed front, he is known as someone who believes in the importance of postsecondary education and investing in the state’s public colleges and universities.

The Interior Department has concluded an unprecedented yearslong review finding nearly 1,000 children died, separated from their tribes and families, with many buried across hundreds of institutions created for ‘forced assimilation.’ Above: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland embraced boarding school survivor Delores Twohatched at the first stop on the “Road to Healing” tour in July 2022

“Understanding your legal rights, whether it’s about the care you receive or your connections to loved ones, helps Fosters and their supporters advocate more strongly for a better experience in foster care,” Minnesota’s Assistant Foster Youth Ombudsperson Hannah Planalp (above) said in an email. As a former foster youth and representative of the Office of The Foster Youth Ombudsperson, she described how critical it is to have these rights be “clear and comprehensive.”

Midlothian’s chief social work officer Joan Tranent, outside Fairfield House, Dalkeith.

BASW Cymru’s National Director, Prof. Sam Baron (above), has congratulated Eluned Morgan MS on not only becoming the new First Minister of Wales, but also being the first woman to do so.

Sara, a university professor, describes a typical working day for her as including a barrage of “back-and-forth e-mails, Slack, last-minute Zoom meetings”. These, she says, “prevent me — and everyone in general, I feel — from actually having the time to do deep work, think, write, with high quality”. Above: Marie Curie’s research straddled many decades and involved periods of rest and reflection in the French countryside.