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It seems obvious that all of this is creating a climate of fear and stifling academic discourse

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoed two bills on April 2, 2024, aiming to implement work requirements for individuals enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Both bills passed along party lines in the Republican-controlled legislature.

So what do we do? How do we fight back? We asked some of the smartest people we know.

She said their study opens numerous doors for future research, chasing down possible connections between the alcohol-protective alleles and conditions that have no apparent connection with alcohol consumption. “Understanding the underlying mechanisms of these effects could have implications for treatments and preventative medicine,” Sanchez-Roige noted.

People with drug felonies on their criminal record are uniquely excluded from receiving benefits in Missouri from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, after they are released from prison. This deprivation of SNAP benefits is solely because of their categorization as a former drug felon. This treatment of people charged with drug crimes — and not people with any other type of criminal record — is inconsistent with other ways in which Missouri promotes public safety in aiming to reduce recidivism post-incarceration.

At the general assembly of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) held in Panama, Azerbaijan’s mine problem was brought to the agenda… Representatives from 153 countries participated in the hybrid event.

Ruth brings a distinguished background to her new role as president. After a long career in social work practice, development and leadership, Ruth joined the British Association of Social Workers as Chief Executive. She is a member of the Executive committee of IFSW Europe and has a long commitment to IFSW and international social work. She brings commitment to our principles of social justice, transparency, accountability, responsibility, participation, responsiveness and inclusion in all we do.

DWP is forcing tens of thousands of people looking after relatives to repay huge sums after buildup of erroneous overpayments. MPs have called for an overhaul of the carer’s allowance, saying it was wrong that carers were being treated like fraudsters for mostly inadvertent errors.

New systematic review pieces together findings on cortical thickness, growth factors, and more, zeroing in on what may make ECT effective.

“For years, a mysterious figure preyed on gay men in Atlanta. People on the streets called him the Handcuff Man—but the police knew his real name.”

First Lady Aimee Kotek Wilson is not a paid state employee and she does not hold outside employment. She has a master’s degree of social work from Portland State University, and Kotek’s office confirmed Kotek Wilson has attended behavioral health meetings, attends weekly meetings related to the governor’s schedule and travel, and occasionally attends events on behalf of the governor’s office. Above: Gov. Tina Kotek and First Lady Aimee Kotek Wilson admire Oregon artwork

The document alleges failures in multiple aspects of Leach’s leadership, including fostering a culture of fear, retaliation and intimidation; poor communication with faculty; and what the resolution says are “misallocated resources.” The resolution said senior leaders in Leach’s office, Academic Affairs, have “a pattern of governance by administrative fiat,” handing decisions down. It later accuses the leaders of “unprofessional conduct.”

Wen-Jui Han, Ph.D., from the Silver School of Social Work at New York University in New York City, examined how employment patterns throughout working lives, based on work schedules, may shape health (sleep hours and quality, physical and mental functions, and the likelihood of reporting poor health and depressive symptoms) at age 50 years. The analysis included longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 with employment patterns starting at age 22 years (approximately 7,336 participants).

The issue here: in most states, foster kids receive their care for free. The only children who are singled out to pay for their own care are those receiving federal benefits, either because they are disabled, or have a deceased parent.

The Cameroon-born former asylum seeker, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, is a grandfather-of-two who has also worked as a youth pastor, housing officer and teacher. The tribunal, which continues, has heard he has been a Christian since the age of four and believes in the literal truth of the Bible.

In the latest Academic Freedom Index, Hong Kong scored 0.24 out of 1 in terms of the extent to which academic freedom was respected in the city in 2023. It marked a significant decrease compared to 0.69 recorded in 2013.

In a cross-institutional collaboration from Mass General Brigham’s founding members, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers examined the number of nights and people potentially affected by the sound of nighttime versus daytime gunshots and the relationship between the sound of nighttime gunshots and median household income in the United States.

SS is a former youth in care who is grateful for improved support services from the province, but says youth are still confused about what is available to them and how to access it.

The family has a long history of forced displacement. John Spence (Gros Ventre/Sioux) is a child of boarding school survivors, and he and his descendants were robbed of their lands and livelihoods under the 1956 Indian Relocation Act. In the 1970s he found a way to overcome, becoming steeped in “guerilla social work,” which Spence’s memoir describes as “unconventional actions from the heart and fearless advocacy for the poor.”

John McGowan, General Secretary of the SWU, said: “While politicians try to kid themselves that the cost of living crisis is over, the reports from our members show just how dangerous this winter has been.”

Professor Julia Waters will tell the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) she is worried that those who can bring about change with the watchdog could be “paying lip service” and she will demand faster action from the Government and Ofsted. Ofsted has come under greater scrutiny in the past year following the suicide of headteacher Mrs Perry.

Significant reforms in U.S. health care and economic policies are needed to mitigate the stark disparities in perinatal mental health diagnoses and treatment that place women of color at greater risk of mortality and morbidity, according to Social Work Professor Dr. Karen Tabb, the senior author of a paper published in Health Affairs.

The growing power in the counsel’s office can have negative consequences. Caution about legal vulnerability can lead campuses to overreact to restrictive laws, or even shield allegations of abuse from public scrutiny. It has led to the prevalence on college campuses of what one critic calls “repressive legalism.”

With most jobs, our looks should be regarded as irrelevant to our suitability and remuneration. What matters is that we have the skills for the job and put them to good use. Yet appearance discrimination, or ‘lookism’, is pervasive and consequential in the workplace. Can lookism in employment ever be justified? And, when it can’t, should we legislate against it?

This push for evidence to back up teaching methods has become particularly strong in the past ten years. The movement has been driven by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), a charity set up in 2011 with funding from the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government to provide schools with information about which teaching methods and other approaches to education actually work.

Director of the scheme Professor Sarah Wendt will work with Dr. Carmela Bastian (above), who has been appointed as the board’s presiding member to establish the program.

Amid the aftermath of heightened xenophobia and racism toward Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health exposed the challenges and resilience of these communities in three publications.

According to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of high schoolers who use marijuana actually fell 30 percent over the past decade. Compliance check data from California, Colorado, Nevada, and other legal marijuana states show that licensed marijuana retailers do not sell products to underage patrons. Also contrary to some critics’ claims, legalization states have not experienced any spike in either psychosis or mental illnesses.

We used survey data drawn from over 53,000 middle-aged adults from the U.S. and 13 European nations from 2002 to 2020…. Our study makes clear that middle-aged Americans today are experiencing more loneliness than their peers in European nations. This coincides with existing evidence that mortality rates are rising for working-age adults in the U.S.

While working her internship at a brand new outpatient mental health and resource navigation program Cook noticed a problem for some of the program’s clients.

Nonprofit groups like Link Health worked in health centers to sign patients and community members up for discount internet through a national program that is set to run out of funds this spring.

This is the third in a three-part series investigating North Carolina’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities where children with complex behavioral needs are sent for care. Above: A bathroom in a patient room of the UNC Youth Behavioral Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

BASW is campaigning for a more socially just context. We want to reduce poverty and inequality, and challenge austerity policies.

Obesity is now the most common form of malnutrition in most countries, with the rates rising in all categories of men, women, children and adolescents since 1990. Obesity rates in adult men have nearly tripled since 1990, with obesity rates in woman doubling in that time. The rates of obesity in children and adolescents quadrupled in that time frame, as well. As of 2022, nearly 880 million adults and nearly 160 million children were living with obesity.

In a new study as part of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, researchers identified 20 different novel psychoactive substances (NPS) in wastewater treatment plants across Australia (between Feb 22-23) with pentylone detected at every collection site. Other NPS, eutylone and phenibut were also commonly detected.

The fight for shorter hours can unify workers everywhere.

“Age as an identity factor is not given much attention in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education,” said Dr. Nancy Morrow-Howell, the Betty Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and lead author of the study Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education

“We have fallen far behind in what we owe, as a democratic and humane society, to the people who raised us.”
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS

In her remarks Monday night, Mulvaney-Stanak said she was “eager to rebuild a police department that is right-sized for Burlington” and which includes officers, social workers and first-responders. Above: Mulvaney-Stanak is the first woman and the first openly LGTBQ+ person to be elected mayor.

The Circle, is the UK’s first mental health crisis cafe for young people and children. It’s run by the charity Mind for Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow (HFEH), and one of the 10 existing early support hubs for young people in England. Above: Sadhbh O’Sullivan outside Circle in Ealing

Representatives from different organisations in HCM City sign commitments to eliminate violence against women and girls.

The people who feed, clothe and clean up after the West’s rich newcomers can’t afford to live alongside them. Above: RV stands on a street in Bozeman, Montana, in December 2022, a housing “fix” many locals are turning to as rents rise.

As the six-year term of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) draws to a close and the country prepares for the upcoming presidential election, plenty of attention has been given by the pseudo-left press to the cash transfer programs as well as to the raises to the minimum wage that have been implemented under his administration. Above: Artisan in Capácuaro, Michoacán

Dr. Aimee Hilado, at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and chair of the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, has worked with frontline staff on helping migrants feel settled in communities… Before they arrived in the United States, these migrants had already endured a hard journey, Hilado told me. “They witnessed so much loss of life. They take pictures of people that are floating in the rivers, and they see people that can’t make it or who will die by suicide on the path to come to the United States.”

Martin ’70 MSW, ’80 Ph.D., was a former Associate Dean and Professor Emerita at the UConn School of Social Work.

UNISON Isle of Wight’s local government branch secretary, Mark Chiverton said he was non-plussed with the council’s stance. “This is an award-winning social work team that’s always worked extremely hard to ensure Isle of Wight residents are provided with an excellent service, seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” Chiverton said.

In the last 18 months two-fifths (40%) of social workers have raised concerns about cases where they don’t believe appropriate action was taken. Of these, almost a third 29% have highlighted more than 5 cases in that time. The findings come in an exclusive report in The Independent which commissioned research among members of the Social Workers Union (SWU).

A multimillion-dollar IT platform vital to safeguarding children at risk of abuse has lurched into the danger zone and had to be reset. Oranga Tamariki is trying to overhaul technology so old its frontline social workers and analysts cannot get the information they need.

Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine El-Qabbaj announced that the Arab Fund for Social Work has opened special bank accounts for the public to donate for aid and relief to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

This is about more than a self-help switch – we need structural changes that reject capitalism’s productivity obsession