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Over 30 leaders from community, health, Aboriginal and research organisations are calling on the NSW Government to prioritise prevention and early intervention on the agenda at next week’s Drug Summit in Sydney.

SOAR volunteers test clients for infections spread through injection drug use, like HIV, and offer other medical advice.

There’s a huge difference between the way Zoomers “find themselves” and the way those who came of age before them did it: they’re doing it online, anonymously and in secret.

That is no excuse, however, for what the historian Timothy D. Snyder, in On Tyranny, calls anticipatory obedience. Snyder argues that a key lesson from 20th-century authoritarianism is “don’t hand over the power you have before you have to.” UNT’s overcompliance feels precisely like we are conceding our power — our academic authority over teaching and research — in advance to aspiring authoritarians in Austin, Tex. Our administration cheerfully assures us that we are not abandoning our values as an institution of higher education. The necessity of such assurances, though, should alarm any faculty who hear them. As we creep into self-censorship, that is precisely what we are doing: not speaking truth to power, but letting power tell us what truths we can pursue.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, centre, and Rebecca Wilcox, right, daughter of Esther Rantzen, among supporters of Dignity in Dying as they celebrate the result of the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) bill, outside parliament on Friday.

Dr. Ken Barter — one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s leading experts on child protection for decades — says the child and youth advocate should have rejected the premier’s request for a review related to a high-profile sexual exploitation case. The retired Memorial University social work professor said the advocate’s review won’t turn up anything that hasn’t already been flagged by numerous reports in the past.

Dignity in Dying campaigners react to the passing of the assisted dying bill in Parliament Square.

“This is a district service; it’s not designed for drop-offs from Kingston or London.”

The bill, introduced by Republican representative and former IDF paratrooper Mazi Pilip, ultimately went on to pass the county legislature and went into effect immediately — with all twelve Republicans voting in favor and seven Democrats abstaining. Pilip celebrated the win in an Instagram post by decrying mask advocates as “the thug protestors whose aim was to intimidate, harass, promote violence and spread hate.”

Students from the UNK social work program recently led group sessions at Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska as part of the nonprofit organization’s behavioral health services program.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who put forward the bill, joined supporters outside Parliament after the vote

A man steps off a trailer outfitted with showers for homeless residents in Gaston County… The trailers were made possible by the county’s Community Support Services division.

The Fields in Yorkshire now has a social hub

My mother, Janie Thomas, a social worker and lecturer, who has died aged 95, became a leading light in the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), of which she was president from 1984 to 1986. She began her career in 1955 at St George’s hospital, central London, before working with children and families at the London county council (LCC) and then the borough of Tower Hamlets. In 1964 she switched into academia, lecturing in social work at the London School of Economics (LSE) for more than a decade before finishing at Hong Kong Polytechnic (now the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) as a principal lecturer.

An unhoused man carries a tarp and some of his belongings across Polk Street during a homeless encampment sweep in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Unhoused people on Cedar Street are forced to move their shelters and belongings on a regular basis by San Francisco city workers

An office sits vacant in San Francisco in October 2022. The city is one of several across the country offering incentives to convert unused office space into housing.

According to Rebecca Niemiec, who was the state’s first Bureau of Animal Protection (BAP) director before returning to Colorado State University’s animal-Human Policy Center as the director, Colorado has some of the most comprehensive programs to address animal cruelty and neglect.

The election takes are still flowing as freely as the Dom Pérignon at one of Kamala Harris’s Silicon Valley fundraisers. Many liberals agree on one thing: the American people suck, especially the working class.

The number of children’s social workers employed by councils will need to increase by 13,000 – nearly a third – over the next decade as a result of growing need for the care and support of children and young people and to reduce increasing reliance on agency staff, new research by the Local Government Association forecasts.

Physical cash not only influences how much we spend but also fosters a profound sense of psychological ownership that digital payments cannot replicate, according to new research.

A latrine shelter with a floodwater mark about 4 feet above ground level, leading to toilet dysfunction, in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia.

LGBTQ+ farmers are over three times more likely to “experience depression and suicidal intent,” a recent study found.

The 8-7 vote by Texas officials arrives as Christian nationalist groups nationwide intensify their efforts to inject religion into state curricula. Earlier this month, a federal judge temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments by January 1. Meanwhile, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, Ryan Walters, sent a memo in June ordering all 5th through 12th grade teachers to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans.

In recent years, alternative ways to scrutinise research have emerged which attempt to fix some of the problems with the peer-review system. One of these is the “publish, review, curate” model. This reverses the traditional review-then-publish model. An article is first published online, then peer reviewed.

Warm, supportive parenting continues to be a good influence on development through the emerging adulthood years. Therefore, it is not surprising that emerging adults continue to seek guidance from their parents. Most parents and adult children find their new, more egalitarian relationship lets them connect in new, more mature ways.

Without downplaying these positive and beneficial aspects of having a sibling, what alarms my research colleagues and me is that the ‘bad’ in this story may be more invisible, serious and pervasive than is currently recognised. I’m talking about the often unspoken problem of sibling bullying.

Bob Hawke in the 1987 election campaign, when he pledged no child would live in poverty by 1990.

Alzheimer’s is named for Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist who, according to the National Institute on Aging, “noticed changes in the brain of a woman who died of an unusual mental illness.” Her symptoms included memory loss, language problems, and unpredictable behavior. After she died, he examined her brain and found many abnormal clumps (now called amyloid plaques) and tangled bundles of fibers (now called neurofibrillary tangles.) These features, which Dr. Alzheimer observed in 1906, remain defining pathologies of Alzheimer’s.

Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump.

NHS managers who silence whistleblowers could be barred from working in the NHS, under proposals being announced this week.

The CSU’s Stephan Stracke, social policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group, told DW that while anyone fleeing “war and violence” had a right to protection, “This does not mean, however, that there must be an automatic entitlement to the citizen’s income in Germany.” Friedrich Merz, CDU chairman and Germany’s likely next chancellor, wants to revisit social welfare payments for Ukrainian refugees.

Outreach workers with Prevention Point, a social services center in Philadelphia, checking on a man who they believe injected tranq dope.

Micaurys Guzmán, M.S.W.’24, gave a presentation on providing care for Latinx people living with HIV at a summit at the White House in September.

Adolescents who snore frequently were more likely to exhibit behavior problems such as inattention, rule-breaking, and aggression, but they do not have any decline in their cognitive abilities, according to a new study. This is the largest study to date tracking snoring in children from elementary school through their mid-teen years and it provides an important update to parents struggling with what medical measures to take to help manage snoring in their children.

The federal government’s proposed social media ban for under-16s has sparked widespread debate, affecting millions of young Australians, their families and educators. But will it actually work?

In a significant move aimed at strengthening the country’s response to gender-based violence (GBV), the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development in partnership with the Council of Social Workers Zimbabwe, has initiated a comprehensive review of the curriculum for social work studies in tertiary institutions.

The benefits of early intervention apply across age groups, but they may be especially important for adolescents, a fact that the World Health Organization recently emphasised in its guidance to improve access to mental healthcare for young people. “With one-third of mental health conditions emerging before the age of 14 and half before the age of 18, early action is essential to enable children and young people to thrive and realise their full potential,” it said. The challenge, however, is finding the appropriate means to deliver the support – and that may be easier said than done.

“What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration. Some doctors and scientists are bracing themselves for the gutting of public health agencies, a loss of scientific expertise and the injection of politics into realms once reserved for academics. The result, they fear, could be worse health outcomes, more preventable deaths and a reduced ability to respond to looming health threats, like the next pandemic. “I’m very, very worried about the way that this all plays out,” Dr. Offit said.

For more than a year, the building that houses SOYA, a multi-purpose food bank, clothing depot, and resource centre, has been without heat, with no way to reach the new owners of the building.

A bill, HR 9495, which would allow a presidentially appointed treasury secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of its status if deemed a “terrorism-supporting” organization, has passed in the US House of Representatives. The bill passed 219-184, mostly along partisan lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats opposing; 15 Democrats broke with their caucus to vote in favor of the bill. It is important to know who voted in favor.

This month the Korean Association of Social Workers met their Swiss and British counterparts for shared learning and strengthening links.

We don’t yet know how the Australian teenagers came to be poisoned in this tragedy. But it is a good idea when travelling (particularly in areas with traditionally fremented drinks, such as south-east Asia, the Indian subcontinent and parts of Africa) to always be careful.

BASW UK Chair, Julia Ross reflects on issues being raised in the assisted dying debate.

Women in Afghanistan have been banned from speaking in public.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would empower the Treasury Department to eliminate the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems to be supporting terrorism. The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act was approved in a 219-184 vote, with all but one Republican backing it and only 15 Democrats voting for it, on Nov. 21, 2024.