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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.
As we reported in March, powerful business groups and conservative think tanks helped engineer the new ruling. The effort was part of a decades-long push by corporate interests to limit the scope of laws prohibiting corruption and bribery.
A baby’s exposure to air pollution while in the womb is associated with the development of certain mental health problems once the infant reaches adolescence, new research has found. The University of Bristol-led study… examined the long-term mental health impact of early-life exposure to air and noise pollution.
Having absorbed these idealised norms of positivity, people might come to believe their natural reactions to inevitable difficult experiences in life (be it bereavement, job loss, pandemics or relationship failures) are somehow wrong. They risk developing habits of experiential avoidance: the consistent denial, suppression or avoidance of difficult thoughts and emotions. Of course, it’s fine to put on a happy face to get through a rough meeting, or positively reinterpret a situation to cope with momentary hassles but, at some point, we all need to stop and address our ongoing unresolved problems and issues.
Representatives of the Albany Police Department met with community members at the main branch of the Albany Public Library to discuss plans to incorporate social workers into the force.
The world of well-being finds bliss in the fight against poverty. In the happiest countries ranking, Finland, Denmark and Switzerland always top the World Happiness Report. Underneath their high happiness index are sophisticated systems of poverty alleviation programs and models of social innovation and inclusion.
The National Human Trafficking Hotline’s statistics for 2021, the most recent available, reported 59 human trafficking cases in New Mexico involving 267 victims. Of the cases, 41 were sex trafficking, seven were sex and labor trafficking, and six were labor trafficking. The victims included 43 adults and nine children, 44 of whom were females, eight were males, and three were gender minorities. Seven victims were foreign nationals. Since the organization began collecting statistics in 2007, numbers of trafficking cases in New Mexico have increased each year.
Yaqoub Saadeh graduated this month from Indiana University Indianapolis with a degree in psychology and a certificate in social work. But instead of celebrating the accomplishment with family and friends, he spent the last weeks of his undergrad in an encampment setup on a concrete corner of the campus.
Britain’s Labour Party, the likely winner in the nation’s next parliamentary elections, is showing no interest whatsoever in subjecting the UK’s richest to any significant tax hike. “We have no plans for a wealth tax,” Rachel Reeves, the Labour Party’s likely choice for finance minister, announced last summer — and no plans either to put in place a mansion tax or a higher levy on either capital gains or top tax-bracket income.
“I don’t see the way to prosperity as being through taxation,” Reeves went on. “I want to grow the economy.”
About 60 people delivered a petition – signed by more than 16,000 – to Labour MP Jan Tinetti on Tuesday. The petition calls for students to receive a fortnightly stipend to help cover costs.
Labour Party shadow chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves (right) and opposition leader Keir Starmer (left) visit Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Stevenage, UK, May 28.
Speaking at the session, NA deputy Nguyễn Lâm Thành, from the northern province of Thái Nguyên said that the National Assembly (NA) was advised to consider passing the amended law at the eighth session, not now, because it was a challenging draft law, impacting various social groups.
Representatives of the social work sector display slogans decrying “political intervention” and the proposed changes to social workers registration board outside government headquarters on May 29
Graffiti in a downtown Windsor alleyway. The city’s revitalization plan aims to make the core shiny and new.
While we are grateful for the chance to provide feedback on the revisions to the IPF PPS as well as the development of an IPF patient assessment instrument (PAI), we urge CMS to proceed on the latter with more caution and less haste.
It didn’t used to be that way. For years, the Oregon State Hospital (above) primarily housed people with chronic mental illness, some of whom stayed there for years. That began to change as the state shifted away from long-term institutionalization. In the 1970s, the Oregon Legislature passed laws to send people charged with crimes to the state hospital — both those who were deemed mentally unfit to stand trial and those found guilty except for insanity.
Using population-wide registry data, researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Manchester investigated whether mental disorders can be transmitted within social networks formed by school classes.
Practitioners come into contact with dogs frequently. However, they lack training, including on how social workers can keep themselves and others safe. A new study aims to fill the gap, writes Denise Turner
More social workers could be employed in East Renfrewshire as the council plans to invest over £1.8m of reserves to ease “serious financial challenges”.
The Czech government has launched an affordable housing program, offering specific parameters to support the construction of affordable rental housing. In the first phase, the state will provide CZK 8 billion in preferential loans for the construction of apartments with rents lower than the market average,
For hundreds of years, the U.S. military has been killing people. It’s been a constant of our history. Another constant has been American military personnel killing civilians, whether Native Americans, Filipinos, Nicaraguans, Haitians, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and on and on. And there’s something else that’s gone along with those killings: a lack of accountability for them.
Across the country 19 states permit earlier and often more meaningful parole hearings for youth serving lengthy or life sentences, and four states permit earlier hearings for those ranging in age from 18-25 at the time of the offense.
The final approved budget does not include the $200 million sought as payouts for legal settlements, frustrating survivors and the agencies that once served them.
Re “Want to Fix Social Security? The Well-Off Must Accept Smaller Checks,” by Peter Coy (Opinion, nytimes.com, May 13)
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys said that given widespread community transmission of Covid-19 it was ‘unclear’ to her how it could be proven ‘with reasonable certainty’ whether a person had got sick in work or not.
The $40 million, 12-month campaign will feature on television, online videos, social media and cinemas and encourage adults to check their understanding of consent, before discussing it with each other and young people.
A German study finds the new working class lacking in class consciousness yet strongly aware of social inequalities. Above: Ver.di has bucked the trend of declining trade-union membership in Germany
A group of over 200 protesting MU Health’s cancelation of transgender minors’ prescriptions approaches Columbia City Hall Sept. 15. MU Health backed out of gender-affirming care for minors after the passage of a new state law including broad medical malpractice provisions.
Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.
Urbicide is the destruction of the city; domicide, of housing and dwellings; educide or scholasticide, of educational facilities; ecocide, of the natural environment; and, of course, genocide, the destruction of a population, in whole or in part. Above: The destruction of buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Welsh Liberal Democrat leader and Mid and West Wales MS has urged the Welsh Government to ensure that children seeking asylum in Wales, especially those on their own, are granted protection as part of Wales’ role as a nation of sanctuary. Above: Jane Dodds MS
The new rules make getting a Swiss passport far harder for those who are struggling financially, especially those without work. This includes many asylum seekers who often arrive with little education. This group is also penalised for starting on a different visa. Years spent on a refugee visa don’t count towards the 10 year residency requirement.
A total of 1,790 complaints were made to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) about children’s public services in Ireland last year, with education once again the biggest concern, followed by health and complaints about Tusla. Uncertain Times, the OCO’s Annual Report for 2023, shows that complaints are becoming more complex, with one in five relating to more than one State agency.
Amazon’s Just Walk Out AI technology faced scrutiny when claims arose it was powered by humans based in India. Madhumita Murgia’s “Code Dependent” explores AI’s human impact, highlighting societal issues and serving as a cautionary tale for readers and policymakers alike,
A San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy holds a “less lethal” weapon during an anti-genocide protest at UC San Diego, May 6, 2024.
“Pandemic-induced economic hardship had this downstream spillover effect that was ultimately linked negatively with their children’s mental health,” said Dr. Joyce Lee, lead author of the study and Assistant Professor of Social Work at Ohio State University.
In a report published this week, the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Poverty says higher costs for fuel, energy, transport, food and housing are pulling too many people in rural Scotland below the poverty line. On average, they pay an extra £50 a week more on travel than people in urban areas.
“The situation remains critical for children in Nunavik,” said the Report on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report on Youth Protection Services in Nunavik, released May 17 by Quebec’s Human Rights and Youth Commission. The report points to the need to focus on the “root causes” behind what it calls a “widespread violation” of Nunavik children’s rights.
All We Imagine as Light does not show us the rich, elite Mumbai of Bollywood stars and billionaire industrialists. Instead the filmmaker overlays the street images with voices of real immigrants of Mumbai who are the city’s heartbeat.https://ifp.nyu.edu/wp-admin/post-new.php
Above: Nenquimo, centre, protesting with Indigenous peoples from nations whose lives and lands are threatened by oil drilling. The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir
Rose Brooks is now the first unionized domestic violence shelter in the state. Organizers say they hope the union helps stabilize an industry with high levels of burnout and turnover.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology in Canada, Dr. Elbers Carlisle followed her interest in social work to the UW for graduate school, where she completed a master’s in social work and a Ph.D. in social welfare.
The papers are among a cache of documents found in the archives of Lambeth Palace Library which detail the direct links between the Church of England and chattel slavery on plantations owned by its missionary arm, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Above: Codrington College, an Anglican theological college in St John, Barbados.
Dr. Maura Clancy, Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology TUS Midwest, Professor Vincent Cunnane, President TUS and Kate Duggan, Tusla CEO
UNISON issued a serious legal letter to the Chief Executive of Barnet Council John Hooton regarding a decision made by senior officers to procure the services of an organisation called Imperium Solutions to procure these workers to operate LBB’s mental health duties and triage functions.
All patients at Broadmoor are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and have serious conditions like schizophrenia which mean they can’t be in normal prison. The average length of stay at Broadmoor is five-and-a-half years. Broadmoor has space to cater for 240 patients who suffer from mental illness and personality disorders.
Regardless of where or when a heat wave strikes, one pattern is a constant: Older adults are the most likely to die from extreme heat, and this crisis will worsen in the coming years. We study climate change and population aging. Our research documents two global trends that together portend a dire future. Above: Rickshaw drivers have little escape from the sun in New Delhi
Chinese migrants’ encounters with U.S. border authorities were 10 times higher in 2023 than in pre-pandemic years. The economic slowdown back home coupled with human rights concerns is prompting many to seek new lives in America.
Last week, the United Auto Workers faced a setback in its organizing drive with a union election loss at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama. An autoworker at the factory reflects on why the union lost and what it might do differently next time.
The bulk of this megacompany’s earnings, however, comes from selling food. Out of CAD $13.6 billion in total revenue the company reported in the first quarter of 2024, $9.4 billion came from food retail, representing 69 percent. Shareholders pocketed $460 million in profit, a 10 percent increase from the first quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, 18 percent of Canadian households face food insecurity…. The boycott campaign, organized by members of the r/loblawsisoutofcontrol subreddit, is demanding price caps on certain essential items, a commitment to end price gouging, increased cost transparency, and for the company to sign on to the federal government’s grocers’ code of conduct.