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The proposed welfare changes include getting rid of cash payments in favour of a voucher or catalogue system and redefining the eligibility criteria and assessment process. The Centre for Social Justice’s Chief Executive, Andy Cook, stated: “With the welfare system now grappling with the combined challenges of economic inactivity, school absence and mental health, this consultation provides a meaningful opportunity to shape the future of Britain’s welfare state.”
Every day, 700 people in Germany experience violence at the hands of their partners or family members. Two thirds of the victims are women…. Germany is lagging behind in support for victims seeking protection. Currently, around 7,000 women and children live in women’s shelters, but an estimated 14,000 additional places are required to offer protection to all those in need.
Crisis responder Chris Jones, left, talks with a community member in Washington state
Health experts have long described gun violence as a public health crisis, one that disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic residents in poor neighborhoods. In 2022, more than 48,000 people were killed by guns in the U.S., or about 132 people a day, and suicides accounted for more than half of those deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An additional 200-plus Americans are injured each day, according to estimates from Johns Hopkins University research.
To rid us of the wealth inequality virus and create a world of greater equality and human decency will require major changes that include the antidote of confiscatory policies directed at seizing much of the wealth of the super wealthy, and utilizing it to benefit everyone, especially those with the greatest unfulfilled basic needs.
The director of the city’s new Community Assistance Response and Engagement told Boston 25 News that the team is preparing for a rollout as soon as July…. The CARE Team will not be accompanied by police unlike some other alternative response programs recently deployed in other cities across the country.
In August, the union raised concerns once again after CBC News reported — from documents acquired through an access-to-information request — there were 99 vacant social work positions in the Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development alone. That department and Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, the provincial health authority, are N.L.’s two largest employers of social workers.
The role of the board is to oversee the running of Social Work England, review management performance, set the regulator’s strategic objectives, ensure it has the human and financial resources to meet them and make sure it complies with its statutory, regulatory and common-law duties. The chair’s role is to lead the board, including by formulating its strategy, ensuring that it takes account of government guidance, promoting the effective and efficient use of staff and resources and delivering high standards of propriety.
Thirty-eight states, three US territories and the District of Columbia allow cannabis for medical use, and 24 of these states also permit recreational use. Stigma over cannabis use has fallen likely due to these legal moves. While there has been an increased perception that its use is risk free, cannabis potency has increased.
Financial records from the Horatio Alger Association archives show the group has been fundraising off of an event hosted by Thomas inside the Supreme Court building.
Demonizing opioids has unintended consequences
After graduating from East Carolina University with a Master of Social Work (MSW), Breanna Culler moved away from her hometown of Stokes, North Carolina, to live and work in Poughkeepsie, New York. Then one day she received a call from Sue Anne Pilgreen, manager of the Eastern Carolina Injury Prevention Program and the Pediatric Asthma Program at ECU Health.
Carlot Celestin, a psychologist with Mattapan’s Immigrant Family Services Institute, said cultural and language barriers can lead to misunderstandings between migrant families and state agencies.
When someone eats a poor quality diet, there is reduced gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) and elevated glutamate — both neurotransmitters, along with reduced grey matter volume — in the frontal area of their brain. This could explain the association between what we eat, and how we feel.
Smaller towns and villages in Sweden have suffered economically as a result of out-migration.
Cross-national comparison in social work research is challenging, but this study tries to bridge the gaps.
To reduce the use of group homes, and combined with budget constraints, the Arizona Department of Child Safety has denied pay increases to home operators and cut loose 16 providers during the contract renewal process. Yet even as the state cuts back, one group home provider with close ties to Gov. Katie Hobbs has benefited beyond all others. Above: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs
The profession has four pillars, Strand said: grief and bereavement counseling for pet owners; facilitating intentional well-being for vet staff experiencing compassion fatigue and conflicts with clients; being vigilant for the link between human-animal violence; and providing animal-assisted interventions where appropriate.
The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Wednesday called on the U.S. Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Health and Human Services to do more to crack down on corporate profiteering that is further degrading the nation’s healthcare system and driving up costs for patients.
The 1990s were the heyday of the Social Security “crisis.” The problem wasn’t that Social Security actually was in crisis. The problem was that all the pundits, very much including the news and editorial pages of the Washington Post, insisted that Social Security was in crisis.
Professor Ray Jones, holding the Northern Ireland review of children’s social care services report, with Josephine Dowell, who has been through the care system and was a member of the Expects By Experience Reference Group who contributed to the review.
I spent several months with about a dozen former prisoners, filming this week’s Four Corners about a halfway house in Sydney.
More than 150 bills have been introduced targeting DEI efforts, tenure and the teaching of “divisive concepts,” according to the faculty association.
The Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell got a bit of a surprise this year when Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the Banking Committee chair, launched into his opening statement. “The biggest corporations are always finding new ways to charge people more to increase their profits,” Brown said. “Fast-food restaurants and big stores are experimenting with electronic price tags, so they can change prices constantly, making it easier to sneak prices up little by little.” He called for legislative measures “to take on corporate price-gouging,” which, he argued, had “nothing to do with higher interest rates.”
Two of the groups involved, Feeding Our Future and Partners in Nutrition, were small nonprofits before the pandemic, but in 2021 they disbursed around $200 million each. Prosecutors allege they produced invoices for meals that were never served, ran shell companies, laundered money, indulged in passport fraud and accepted kickbacks.
Studying social work at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is a profound and inspiring journey. The programme gives me the opportunity to acquire high-quality academic knowledge as well as to develop skills and understanding of the social field.
Dorling sees nostalgia as a key rhetorical element used to add credence to the stories we are told, and tell ourselves, about a nation which by all objective metrics has severely lost its way. The book goes on to shatter many of the remaining illusions we may still hold about life in the UK.
Professor of Accounting at the University of Edinburgh, Christine Cooper, said: “The evidence suggests that measures to bring back outsourced contracts would enable better public services at lower cost. “Whether to outsource to the private sector is no longer a question of ideology, it is a question of economic interest and empirical evidence.”
In short, in the spring semester of 2024, many of our campuses came to resemble armed camps. What’s more, alongside such brute displays of force, there have been congressional inquisitions into constitutionally protected speech; federal investigations into the movement for divestment; and students suspended, evicted, and expelled, not to speak of faculty disciplined or simply dismissed.
Welcome to Repress U., class of 2024: a homeland security campus for the ages.
Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has given $5 million to 12 state universities to encourage social work in behavioral health.
Located in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec, the town of Val-des-Sources is home to what was once the world’s largest asbestos mine. Indeed, the town and the mineral, which was long used for insulation but is now considered a carcinogen, are so inextricably linked that, until 2020, it was named Asbestos. In the short documentary Once the Dust Has Settled, the Canadian filmmaker Hervé Demers finds the town in a period of transition – long removed from its heyday as a thriving mining town, but with many residents uncertain about proposals to vote for a new name.
There were between five and 10 suicide attempts and 10 incidents of self-harm in January 2024 alone at the site in Essex – the highest since the site opened in July 2023 – according to data exclusively given to ITV News by the Helen Bamber Foundation and Doctors of the World. But Home Secretary James Cleverly said people weren’t telling the truth about their mental state. Responding to ITV News’ findings, Mr Cleverly said: “The simple truth is, often when people come to this country illegally they do lie to further their own causes.”
Dozens of people working for 11 different care providers have told the Guardian they paid thousands of pounds to agents to secure jobs working in UK care homes or residential care, with most finding limited or no employment when they arrived.
Researchers asked volunteers with COVID-19 to breathe into a contraption known as the Gesundheit II Machine, developed by Milton and colleagues to measure viruses in exhaled breath. Participants breathed into the machine for 30 minutes at a time and also repeated the alphabet, sang “Happy Birthday” and even repeatedly shouted “Go Terps!”—first with masks on, and then without. “Data from our study suggests that a mildly symptomatic person with COVID-19 who is not wearing a mask exhales a little over two infectious doses per hour says first author Jianyu Lai, a postdoctoral researcher at the PHAB Lab. “But when wearing an N95 mask, the risk goes down exponentially.”
The origins of austerity and its relationship to capitalist ideology and practice extend far beyond the 2010s, or even the 1970s. Despite the recent emergence of an ‘Austerity 2.0’, it never went away. It has always been around in some form or another, from Tories to Labour, liberals to Keynesians.
Dr. Tamarah Moss, along with M.S.S. candidate Shelby Statham, is working to measure the outcomes of Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Next Level pilot program, which is taking place at two LGBTQ+ community centers in Rochester, NY and Allentown, PA.
Gardens are human-made habitats, but they mimic the woodland edge, so they also hold on to water, slow down wind, create shade and provide food and homes for wildlife. In cities they can absorb pollution and help reduce urban temperatures. Crucially, they also link together to form vast corridors that connect other ecosystems (the woodlands, peatlands and other terrestrial systems mentioned above), enabling species to move between them, potentially giving them space to adapt to climate change. Of course, they also absorb and store carbon – in lawns, in the bark of trees, in the sludge at the bottom of garden ponds, in soil, in leaf litter and compost.
Earlier this month, after all, Hillary Clinton—who propelled many of those neoliberal youth-improvement schemes in her first major policy tract, It Takes a Village—appeared on Morning Joe to berate anti-Gaza protesters on campus for their faulty grasp of Middle East history. This headmaster reflex was particularly awkward since Clinton herself had championed many of the most lamentable fiascos making up the United States’ recent history in the region.
The Veterans Administration has announced that veterans will not need to pay copays on their first three outpatient mental health care and substance use disorder visits each year through 2027.
One of the other watchwords of the protest was “scholasticide” — the destruction of education and knowledge. This is obviously a huge problem right now in Gaza, where schools and universities are being obliterated by the Israeli state, and students and teachers are being killed day after day. Some of the most eloquent speakers at the protest connected, with minimal hyperbole or rhetoric, that destruction to what’s happening in New York City public schools and universities, where budget cuts, austerity, and the persecution of pro-Palestine teachers are degrading the state of education in this city.
A research group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, German used data from the UN World Population Prospects 2022 report (the most recent year available). Researchers were able to make probabilistic predictions of what the families of the future will look like.
Throughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 to 1914), set in an era of early 20th-century free-market enterprise, Kafka portrays the gruelling consequences of overwork on desperate people…. Commemorating 100 years since Kafka’s death, many are revisiting his stories. A focus on how disabled bodies relate to the workplace brings a new appreciation of his fiction, as well as both his professional and personal life.
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare will assist in establishing a child welfare research and training center at the University of Namibia (UNAM).
Lawmaker Connie Lam, a registered social worker by profession, asked if the amendment would trigger a “wave of resignations” in the sector. Sun dismissed the concern…. Two veteran social workers earlier described the amendment as “political interference” in the sector’s professional autonomy – a claim which Sun also denied.
MDMA is part of a new wave of psychoactive drugs that show great potential for treating conditions such as severe depression and PTSD. But not everyone is convinced. And even if such drugs gain FDA approval, safety protocols could render them extremely expensive.
The circles model started in Canada in 1994. But in the U.S., only Vermont and Minnesota have built CoSAs into state reentry policies. The results have been remarkable.
City Councilmembers Yusef Salaam and Erik Bottcher on Thursday introduced legislation to require the city Department of Health to staff each New York City Police Department precinct with a licensed social worker.