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Alec Stratford, the registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers, said he’s been surprised by the department’s lack of accurate data about caseloads for all of the eight years he’s been in his role.
Scheer and Foster debate and discuss the conditions in America that led to the ideas presented in Foster’s new book, The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy. The main idea in Foster’s book suggests that a new sort of paradigm has emerged throughout the Biden administration and in response to the pandemic, where the guarantee of income and healthcare no longer faces the same stigma it once did.
Dozens of students and faculty members were arrested at a demonstration last month at New York University.
The chairman of the Social Workers Registration Board has stressed that the statutory body reviews every application on a case-by-case basis, after the government suggested the board might have erred in renewing and approving licences from people who had committed serious crimes.
Researchers have found that 54% of older American Indians have cognitive impairment, including 10% with dementia, highlighting a significant disparity with the rates of cognitive impairment and dementia in the general American population.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is among the specialized services available at the new UW Medicine Center for Behavioral Health and Learning, on the UW Medical Center-Northwest campus in North Seattle.
California Assemblyman Alex Lee: I am one of five renters in the entire state legislature, and the youngest member of the legislature (twenty-eight). If the status quo persists, even at my current lifestyle and compensation, I can’t afford to buy a home or live comfortably in my own district. In San Jose right now, the average home price is around $1.65 million.
Emmaus Soup Kitchen first opened its doors in January 1974 at the former Immaculate ConceptionChurch on East 16th Street. It celebrated 50 years of service to Erie’s poor and vulnerable earlier this year.
A Calgary pet charity is accepting pets from Fort McMurray. Melissa David Smith from Parachutes for Pets says her organization has so far arranged for the care of 40 animals. She says there is also a social work team offering support to evacuees.
Regional price caps on the amount paid by local authorities for agency social workers will not come into force until spring 2025, according to latest Department for Education guidance.
Hong Kong’s Executive Council has approved proposed legislative amendments that will allow a statutory body to promptly deregister social workers convicted of certain crimes and permanently disqualify those involved in serious offences such as endangering national security…. The Social Workers Registration Board oversees 27,000 social workers.
No one will be forced to undergo substance abuse treatment, nor will anyone be subject to drug testing, San Francisco officials insist. Rather, starting in January 2025, San Francisco’s public assistance recipients who screen positive for addiction on a 10-question drug abuse test will be referred to treatment. Those who refuse or fail to show up for treatment will forfeit the $109 a month that the city grants to homeless adults who qualify for city shelters or supportive housing, or the $712 a month it grants to adults with home addresses.
Judging from the new encampments springing up around the country, the harsh countermeasures of the last couple of weeks are counterproductive. But more than that, they are dangerous. Overreactions like this can lead to social breakdown — on both sides of the barricade.
Dr. Stacey Freedenthal is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Denver. A licensed clinical social worker, Freedenthal…. provides training and consultation to social workers and other professionals who treat clients at risk for suicide.
Extravagance is only admissible when it comes to certain kinds of spending. It’s spending that will not promote wage inflation or empower labor or the poor.
A new kind of data revolution is unfolding around the world, one that is unlikely to be on the radar of tech giants and the power brokers of Silicon Valley. Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) is a rallying cry for Indigenous communities seeking to regain control over their information while pushing back against data colonialism and its myriad harms.
They are austerity’s children, born after 2010, perhaps now at secondary school – and they account for 3.4 million of Britain’s 4.3 million children in poverty. Most have never known what it is like to be free of poverty. And yet in almost every single year of the past decade, even as their need has been mounting, the government’s support for children has been spiralling downwards, each year more difficult than the year before as, with almost surgical precision, the government has made the already poor even poorer and propelled the number of poor children up by 100,000 a year.
What makes Paul Lafargue’s case for leisure distinctive is that he unapologetically endorses hedonistic idleness.
Op-ed: A home is a home, no matter where. As a Palestinian American housing activist, I’m stunned by the pro-housing movement’s silence. Above: At least 370,000 housing units in Gaza have been damaged since Oct. 7, 2023, according to the U.N. Another 79,000 have been destroyed completely, such as those pictured here in the city of Gaza.
Of the students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the 2021–2022 school year, 49% graduated from public, four-year schools with an average federal debt burden of $20,700 and 52% graduated from private, nonprofit, four-year schools with an average burden of $22,200. The companies servicing those loans, which have seen dozens of lawsuits accusing them of coercing, harassing, and misleading borrowers, stacked the deck against student debtors even more. Exorbitant interest rates leave others making payments on a debt that just keeps expanding.
OSU Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work Dr. Smitha Rao said the research is meant to be a conversation starter about how older adults are faring, and a launching point for area agencies on aging to help determine who is most vulnerable.
Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Social Services says its mobile outreach team is doubling in size. A total of 20 social workers will now provide services in the community rather than from a government office.
While many people immediately picture young adults when thinking about the current addiction and overdose epidemic, this crisis is affecting all generations. In fact, more than 7 million older Americans struggle with substance use disorders. Opioid use disorder, in particular, has skyrocketed among Medicare beneficiaries, with opioid overdose death rates rising higher among people 65 and older than in any other age group.
More than a decade after her death and 34 years since she left Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher continues to haunt us. After Liz Truss’s cosplay as the Iron Lady, Rishi Sunak has drawn comparisons between “the grocer’s daughter and the pharmacist’s son”. In December last year, Keir Starmer admiringly said that Thatcher “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism”. All this suggests a very British mixture of muddle and masochism: her spirit, it seems, must be summoned so we can be magicked out of our current mess, even if so many of the UK’s crises began with what she did.
Secretary for Labour & Welfare Chris Sun today said the Government has to improve the governance of the Social Workers Registration Board.
China’s over-60s make up 7.2 per cent of migrants, about 18 million people. Treated as ‘servants’ by family, stuck indoors with grandchildren, they often feel lonely.
A fentanyl test strip helps users test for the presence of fentanyl in their drugs. Harm reduction kits show the thoughtfulness in helping addicts reduce the risk of infection and even death.
StolenBenefitsStolenPeoples volunteers Raquel Shaye and Reva Stewart drag a wagon filled with bottled water and other supplies to start handing out at a bus stop on 19th Avenue and Dunlap in Phoenix during an outreach effort
Jasmine Dearman, who will graduate this May with a Master’s in Social Work, was recently voted Outstanding Student of the Year by the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP), a non-profit that advocates for social work ideas and funding on Capitol Hill.
Researchers at the nonprofit Office of Health Economics, based in London, analyzed four adult vaccine programs — for the flu, pneumonia, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and shingles — across 10 countries including Australia, France, Japan, and the United States. They found that adult vaccination programs paid for themselves many times over, returning up to 19 times the initial investment in societal benefits.
Scottish scientist Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk was a respected research scientist at Dundee University for nearly 20 years, specialising in child development, before leaving academia
New Zealand’s teachers, nurses, and other essential workers are moving overseas in droves. Whether they’re chasing sun, sea, or salary – we are gifting Australia its workforce. That leaves Kiwis dealing with long wait times and inaccessible services.
Branch secretary of Barnet Unison John Burgess applauds the mental health social workers who are beginning three weeks of strike action against low pay, unsafe workloads and poor retention
USC’s master’s degree in social work was a lightning rod, leaving students with six-figure loans and low-paying jobs for what many said was a subpar product. A 2021 Wall Street Journal investigation into the program led to inquiries by lawmakers and heightened scrutiny of the revenue-sharing model on which 2U relied…. Last November, 2U and USC announced they would unwind nearly all their partnerships. USC paid 2U $40 million, which a person familiar with the arrangement said covers the tuition revenue the company would have gotten for students it had already they recruited.
Sandra Samons, a longtime clinical social worker in Ann Arbor and University of Michigan grad, in the center of her family at her April retirement ceremony.
An aerial view of the new Liberty Square next to the old pre-World War II row houses. When the project is completed there will about 1800 new units.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announced a new regulation to expand access to legal representation for children who are eligible for title IV-E foster care, their parents, kinship caregivers, Indian custodians and tribe by allowing state and tribal child welfare agencies to use federal funds to provide legal representation.
Then, Education Minister Jason Clare announced the federal government would be introducing paid placements for students studying teaching, nursing and social work – undergraduate degrees that all require mandatory placements before students can graduate. Sounds good, right? Well, hold on because here’s where the fine print kicks in.
The team is led by Consultant Geriatrician, Dr Gerry O’Mara and consists of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Frailty, Senior Physiotherapist, Senior Speech and Language Therapist, Senior Dietitian and Senior Occupational Therapist with access to Clinical Pharmacy and Medical Social Work.
The Social Workers Registration Board issued a 2,000-character statement on Saturday to address the “fabricated” allegations made by the welfare minister. Above: Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun.
Frank Baskind, Ph.D., who served as dean of the School of Social Work from 1992 to 2008, was recognized at halftime during a VCU men’s basketball game
Quinn Flowers has been a social worker for 17 years. Twelve of those, at Roosevelt High School in Northwest, D.C. 7News asked Flowers what types of challenges kids are grappling with.
The poll of more than 2,000 scholars conducted for the University and College Union (UCU), which represents 120,000 faculty and staff members in the U.K., highlights growing unease over the digital tools commonly used in academe, such as the virtual learning environments used to facilitate teaching, electronic systems to evaluate teaching performance and metrics-based systems such as SciVal that enable managers to scrutinize research publications and citations.
The “latte line” is the infamous, invisible boundary that divides Sydney between the more affluent north-east and the south-west. Historically, people north of the line enjoy better access to jobs and education, and can capitalise on rising property wealth. This has reinforced economic inequality. Despite our image as a classless society, similar spatial divides have long marked Australia’s other capital cities as well.
In 1782, a judge in England gave husbands the right to use violence on their wives as long as any implement used was not thicker than their thumb. This standard of measurement led to the coining of the term “rule of thumb”. Society has thankfully made enough progress to find such archaic ideas abhorrent…. UN data shows that, on average, five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family.
The State’s child and family agency, Tusla, terms such arrangements ‘Special Emergency Arrangements’ (SEAs). The accommodation used includes short-term rental properties and Airbnbs. They are operated by private, for-profit companies, and provide accommodation for children who are no longer in the care of their family having been court-ordered into the care of the State.
The youth program that introduced Birchmore to the officers is among hundreds of such chapters at police agencies around the country. Created by the Boy Scouts of America decades ago, law enforcement Explorer posts are designed to help teens and young adults learn about policing.
Students at Brown University dismantled their encampment after reaching an agreement with officials to present a divestment plan to Brown’s governing board.
To understand broad trends, it can often be helpful to dig into a particular case. With respect to the tumult over the encampments protesting the US-backed Israeli offensive in Gaza, it would be hard to find a more illuminating example than Columbia University.
Many parents ponder why one of their children seems more emotionally troubled than the others. A new study in the United Kingdom reveals a possible basis for those differences.