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March 31, 2009

F Dahlmeyer

Seth Kalichman, professor of social psychology, with copies of his new book, Denying AIDS.

This letter sets out new resources being made available for the health sector for the year 2008-09 for work in relation to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including the deprivation of liberty safeguards, which come into effect on 1 April 2009.

The advent of modern contraception has been hailed for its public health achievements and for advancing women’s self-sufficiency and their educational, social and economic opportunities. Yet, although contraceptive use is nearly universal today, ensuring that every pregnancy is wanted and planned is difficult. Women and couples need assistance in the form of meaningful access to family planning options.

S SIMONIS | STAR-LEDGER

The Bushko family, including the widowed Anthony Bushko Sr. and the youngest of his adopted children, Anthony Jr., lives in Elizabeth.

With the renewed interest in reducing the number of uninsured, many strategies to address the problem have emerged. The purpose of this Guide is to describe these myriad strategies. While not exhaustive, the options presented here represent the major approaches to increasing the number of Americans with health insurance coverage.

This study explores the implementation of policies that respond to chronic poverty in Ethiopia. It demonstrates that Ethiopia’s two PRSPs contain a range of policies which are either inclusive of the poorest or are specifically targeted at addressing the roots of chronic poverty and ameliorating its symptoms.

R Homer

Each extra hour of TV (above the average) was associated with an 8 per cent greater risk of depression, said lead researcher Dr Brian Primack

This report from Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) makes a research-based case for federal provision of out-of-school complementary learning supports from birth through high school, particularly for poor children, so that all students gain the skills that economists, educators, and employers agree are necessary for success in the 21st century.

E Murray | Star-Ledger

Mindy Bandeira and Gerald Ogennaya paint a bedroom today as part of an effort to help refurbish an East Orange shelter for teenage girls.

In the UK mental health social workers reported role conflict, role ambiguity and fulfilling statutory responsibilities as possible sources of stress. Burnout was related to workload, degree of involvement with patients, lack of social support and role conflict. Further work, which investigates coping strategies and stress management interventions, is recommended.

• Services for children with learning disabilities
• Safety for psychiatrists - from trainee to consultant
• Shared care for treatment of opioid dependence and the new General Medical Services contract
• Primary consultation clinics in child psychiatry: an evaluation of referrers’ views of the service
• Characteristics of suicides in recent contact with NHS Direct
• Evaluation of an integrated weight management and fitness programme in a high-security psychiatric setting
• Patient characteristics and clinical activities at a British military department of community mental health
• A survey of in-patient and out-patient antipsychotic prescriptions in Hong Kong
• Audit of advice on driving following hospitalisation for an acute psychotic episode
• What is the role of the MRCPsych course for the new specialist training grade in psychiatry?
• Training in transcultural psychiatry and delivery of education in a low-income country
• Preparing for the MMC interviews: a practical guide for trainees

Father Gregory Boyle, an activist priest and founder of Jobs for a Future and Homeboy Industries, nationally recognized employment programs for at-risk and gang-involved youth, shares personal stories about kinship at the USC School of Social Work All School Day.

We estimate the short- and long-term effects of maternal and paternal death on children’s school enrolment, educational attainment and health in Indonesia, and compare it with the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any gender dimensions of the effects.

Scottish Government

Education secretary Fiona Hyslop has announced the development of an electronic system designed to improve standards of child protection in Scotland by facilitating the rapid sharing of information.

March 30, 2009

The primary objective of this study was to assess social and economic impact of the non-contributory pension in Nepal, commonly known as Old Age Allowance (OAA). Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from one urban and two rural settings of Tanahun District.

Prisoners in Scottish jails should all face mandatory drug testing, according to the Conservatives.

This report is based on interviews with 27 families from six cities across the U.S.. It finds pervasive uncertainty over job security and households teetering on the financial brink, stretching to pay for basics such as food and housing and ill-equipped to cope with unexpected costs for things such as a medical emergency or a necessary home repair.

CBS/Photofest

A scene from “The Waltons.” Much of our wistfulness about multigenerational households is rooted not in fact but in nostalgia, demographers say.

Hideyuki Inoue teaches social entrepreneurial theory at Keio University.

S Platt | Getty Images

Tens of millions of Americans are enrolled in private employer-sponsored retirement plans — the great majority of them in 401(k) plans, which long ago replaced traditional pension benefits. These plans are easy to participate in with payroll deduction, and most people — once signed up — don’t spend much time thinking about the investments they’ve chosen. All that has changed in recent months.

If the first report examined the dimensions of the problem of chronic poverty, the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 looks at possible solutions. Through our research we identify five main traps that underpin chronic poverty – insecurity, limited citizenship, spatial disadvantage, social discrimination and poor work opportunities – and outline key policy responses to these.

This Statistical Brief presents estimates of health care expenses by type of service and distributions by payment sources for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2006.

More than 650 volunteers work for the 'Mission of Mercy' in five different US states

The Social Work Activities Network (SWAN) describes itself as “a loose network of social work practitioners, academics, students and social welfare service users united in their concern that social work activity is being undermined by managerialism and marketisation, by the stigmatisation of service users and by welfare cuts and restrictions.

Monitoring and reporting on measures of child well-being across North America can help us better understand the diverse experiences of childhood in different contexts. But monitoring is not an end in itself. Its purpose is to highlight our successes and challenges. Both can help to drive change.

Chris Martin, left, and Melissa Caron

• Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure of Children and Youth with Serious Chronic Illness: Establishing an Agenda for Research and Action
• Introduction to the Special Issue: Tobacco Control Strategies for Medically At-Risk Youth
• Prevention of Tobacco Use Among Medically At-risk Children and Adolescents: Clinical and Research Opportunities in the Interest of Public Health
• Developing Smoking Cessation Programs for Chronically Ill Teens: Lessons Learned from Research with Healthy Adolescent Smokers
• Reducing Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Children and Adolescents: Emerging Issues for Intervening with Medically At-Risk Youth
• Measuring Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Children: An Ecological Measurement Approach
• Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: Opinions of Pediatric Psychologists and Pediatricians
• Unintentional Injuries in a Twin Study of Preschool Children: Environmental, Not Genetic, Risk Factors
• Review of the Literature: Integrating Psychoneuroimmunology into Pediatric Chronic Illness Interventions
• The Role of Parental Coping in Children with Asthma's Psychological Well-being and Asthma-related Quality of Life
• Brief Report: Lie-telling in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Because long-term care has evolved since an of Institute of Medicine report, this research report examines the characteristics of adult long-term care users. In analyzing the care, the report distinguishes between community-based and institutional care and also the age of recipients.

Conclusion Our findings support the results of previous studies, implying that action recommendations within IPV prevention are still not evidence based. Methodological problems of the papers reviewed should be solved to obtain more useful data. Scientific evidence about the aetiology of IPV should be increased to guide effective prevention programmes.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom compares the issue of same-sex marriage to racial discrimination and chastises politicians who claim they support equality for all, yet do not support gay marriage. "How can you argue separate is not equal and then argue that separate is equal, but only if you're gay?"

March 29, 2009

This paper consolidates knowledge about the damaging interplay between homelessness and sexual violence. It clarifies steps researchers, policy-makers, and service providers can take to intervene with victims and prevent future sexual assaults.

Radical reforms are even more necessary during the recession, Mrs May said.

Lauren Kaney took $17,500 in benefit money that she knew she wasn't entitled to.

KP Snipes

Rom Moore, a United Methodist community developer and now farm manager, plows ground.

Research can help physicians and other health care professionals guide patient decisionmaking for care at the end of life. Findings resulting from research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are discussed. This research can help providers offer end-of-life care based on preferences held by the majority of patients under similar circumstances.

No evidence from randomised controlled trials or quasi-randomised controlled trials exists regarding the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural interventions for gang prevention.

This Applied Research paper provides a review of the current literature on screening women for sexual violence in health care facilities, and discusses the reasoning and rationale behind screening women for sexual violence.

F Dahlmeyer

Eleanor Lyon, associate professor-in-residence of social work and director of the Institute for Violence Prevention and Reduction.

This book by four Victorian academics builds on these earlier reports by documenting the specific experiences of 40 people who grew up in Catholic orphanages in Victoria and left care between 1945 and 1983.

This leaflet offers top safety tips room by room for parents and carers along with a few simple safety measures that can be used around the home to make it a safer place.

P SAPONE | STAR-LEDGER

This is the Government's response to a consultation on proposed changes to the lasting power of attorney forms, the restructuring of the supervision of deputies by the public guardian and alterations to fee structures.

• Review of corruption in the health sector: theory, methods and interventions
• Has donor prioritization of HIV/AIDS displaced aid for other health issues?
• Hierarchical linear modelling of smoking prevalence and frequency in China between 1991 and 2004
• Comparison of cost-of-illness with willingness-to-pay estimates to avoid shigellosis: evidence from China
• Public social policy development and implementation: a case study of the Ghana National Health Insurance scheme

This experimental poetry video is about all the things that anger us i.e., the manner in which major corporations control the way people live today. Putting together all our ideas into a poem to open up peoples' minds, we hope to show what's really going on - that behind every image there is something hiding.

March 28, 2009

G Baglo | Vancouver Sun

Anthony Hutchinson (right) was in a street gang when he was a kid but his former teacher Fred Lepkin turned him on to learning.

Historically, both Thailand and Indonesia have had relatively limited social security programmes, in terms of labour-force coverage and public expenditure. In the last decade, both have embarked on apparently ambitious reforms to move towards a more embracing system. This paper examines the political context of pension reform in Thailand and Indonesia.

This Applied Research paper examines the frequent co-occurrence of alcohol and sexual violence perpetration. Identifying the different ways alcohol relates to perpetration can aid in the development of effective sexual violence prevention strategies.

D Janisse | Windsor Star

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: Adam Vasey, poverty reduction co-ordinator with the Windsor-Essex County Poverty Reduction Strategy, chats with Neyrda Ollett, chairwoman of the Glengarry Neighbourhood Strengthening Committee, at the Glengarry Drop In Centre.

Older Persons in Nigeria suffer a lot of hardship in an increasingly hostile, competitive and intolerant society. Older people constitute the poorest group in Nigerian society.

Dr. Bradley S. Peterson/Columbia University

Images of the right and left hemispheres of the brain, as viewed from the side. The colors represent the differences in cortical thickness between the high-risk group, which has a family history of depression, and the low-risk group, which has no known risk. Blue and purple represent the thinning of the cortex, with purple regions having the greatest thinning. Green areas show no significant differences between the two groups.

This study examines the impact of small-scale old age allowance (per capita US$3 per
month in cash) on health-related quality (HRQoL) of life of elderly persons initiated by the
government of Bangladesh in 1998. The beneficiaries have been increased from 0.5 million in
1998 to 1.6 million in 2006.

Ten studies were identified that met the inclusion criteria for the review in which a total of 847 children participated. The evidence suggests that CBT may have a positive impact on the sequelae of child sexual abuse, but most results were statistically non-significant.

Evening Herald

Job seekers queue outside the social welfare office in Dublin.

This Applied Research paper provides an overview of the current state of treatment of adult male sex offenders, with a focus on the effectiveness of treatment.

R Pedroncelli | AP

A homeless encampment known as Tent City, in Sacramento, California.

This statistical first release reports on absence in primary, secondary and special schools, city technology colleges and academies during the 2006-07 school year.

This report presents national statistics on the projected number of households in England and its regions to 2031. . . . The number of households in England is projected to grow to 27.8 million in 2031, an increase of 6.3 million (29 per cent) over the 2006 estimate, or 252,000 households per year.

Video from the recent round table discussion on Working towards prevention in older people's service

• Sign Language and the Brain: A Review
• Social Integration of Deaf Children in Inclusive Settings
• The Signed Reading Fluency of Students Who Are Deaf/Hard of Hearing
• Accommodations Use for Statewide Standardized Assessments: Prevalence and Recommendations for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Your Case Will Now Be Heard: Sign Language Interpreters as Problematic Accommodations in Legal Interactions
• Text Communication Preferences of Deaf People in the United Kingdom
• Parents' Views on Changing Communication After Cochlear Implantation
• Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary, and Word Reading in Children Who Use Cochlear Implants: Does Age of Implantation Explain Individual Variability in Performance Outcomes and Growth?
• Adapting Tests of Sign Language Assessment for Other Sign Languages—A Review of Linguistic, Cultural, and Psychometric Problems

Services in Aberdeen and Moray have been criticised in recent months. A lack of resources means social workers dealing with vulnerable children have "one hand tied behind their back", a union has warned.

• The characteristics of depressive symptoms in medical students during medical education and training: a cross-sectional study
• A generalizability study of the medical judgment vignettes interview to assess students' noncognitive attributes for medical school
• Medical students' and facilitators' experiences of an Early Professional Contact course: Active and motivated students, strained facilitators
• Self- and peer assessment may not be an accurate measure of PBL tutorial process
• Integrated online formative assessments in the biomedical sciences for medical students: benefits for learning
• The influence of the cultural climate of the training environment on physicians' self-perception of competence and preparedness for practice

March 27, 2009

The Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital (HRSRH) wishes to congratulate Registered Social Worker (RSW) Gary Petingola on receiving the Council of Nephrology Social Workers (CNSW) Award.

This report shows that investment in adequate site provision can generate income for local authorities, improve community relations and provide safe and decent accommodation for Gypsy and Traveller communities.

In its gradual approach to economic transition, China deferred the difficult process of restructuring state owned enterprises (SOEs) until the mid-1990s. When restructuring of large scale SOEs accelerated after 1997, China witnessed sharp declines in the employment of urban residents. While some dislocated state sector workers made a transition to work in the non-state sector, large shares of laid off workers spent long periods unemployed or out of the labor force.

Find out how you can do your part to rescue Joseph Kony's child soldiers.

RW Hamilton | The Oregonian

Although the paper has become newsier since its inception, the primary mission remains giving homeless men and women a way to earn some money and self esteem. At any given time, about 80 people - such as David Hudnall, who works the corner of Northeast 15th Avenue and Broadway - sell the paper on corners in the area

The absence of a mandatory tier of the South African contributory system makes it unique from an international perspective. Furthermore, the absence of any form of state provision (or delivery) of an earnings-related retirement system is unusual.

B Falls

The survey of 3,500 workers, released today by the Families and Work Institute, found that 69 percent of mothers under age 29 say they want to move up the career ladder, while 66 percent of women without children have the same ambition.

There is currently little evidence about the efficacy of behavioural or cognitive-behavioural training
intervention for foster carers. The need for further research in this area is highlighted.

Medical marijuana advocates are up in arms over yesterday's federal raid of a marijuana provider in northern California, claiming that the action is at odds with a policy change announced last week by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

This is the final report of Stephen Houghton's tackling worklessness review. It contains recommendations on how multi-agency and cross-sector local partnerships can best tackle worklessness in their communities.

K Wentz-Graff

Henry Wilde, deputy secretary for the Department of Children and Families, listens to information presented Tuesday during a semiannual community meeting about the performance of the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare.

This report provides the overall findings of the follow-up review of services for children in hospital. It summarises the main areas that needed to improve in the original review of 2005-06 and explains how the commission developed the indicators to measure the performance of trusts to assess whether they had made improvements since then.

This document provides a set of learning opportunities designed to help children develop the social, emotional and behavioural skills that children ought to possess.

A narrative film about a young man that was born into the Bloods. It follows a young man in his experience while in the gang, showing how hard it was for him to get out and struggles in life he had to overcome. The film depicts how gang life is not a life that people should want.

Shayne Abegg, in a pre-2007 photo.
The state and three other parties have agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of a boy who was intentionally starved by his father and the man's girlfriend.

• The challenge of embracing a smoke-free lifestyle: a neglected area in smoking cessation programs
• Women's participation in a cervical cancer screening program in northern Peru
• Iatrogenic stigma in outpatient treatment for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in Brazil
• Beneath the surface: discovering the unvoiced concerns of older adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Beyond Good Intentions: the development and evaluation of a proactive self-management course for patients recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes
• Use of social network analysis to map the social relationships of staff and teachers at school
• Social psychological determinants of the use of performance-enhancing drugs by gym users
• Factors related to adolescents' estimation of peer smoking prevalence
• The impact of health education in managing self-reported arthritis-related illness among elderly persons in rural Bangladesh
• A snapshot of community-based research in Canada: Who? What? Why? How?
• A video-based lifestyle intervention and changes in coronary risk
• Factors associated with young children's self-perceived physical competence and self-reported physical activity
• Community development and HIV/STI-related vulnerability among female sex workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Factors associated with the duration of exclusive breast-feeding in asthmatic families
• An Internet-based diabetes self-care intervention tailored to self-efficacy
• Comparing MSM in the Southeastern United States who participated in an HIV prevention chat room-based outreach intervention and those who did not: how different are the baseline HIV-risk profiles?

March 26, 2009

This report concerns the future of care and support and the role it can play in promoting human rights, equality and good relations.

Tribal dancers from throughout the Midwest will participate in the Pow Wow along with students, faculty and staff from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

This document gives practical advice to enable NHS organisations to address their responsibilities relating to sexual orientation and employment or healthcare delivery.

Douglas Alexander MP, Secretary of State for International Development

This paper synthesizes information on African American female victim/survivors. It addresses historical context, survivor traits, risk factors, health consequences, culturally sensitive responses, and resilience of survivors.

Sarah Martin

This Applied Research paper examines both single- and mixed-gender rape prevention and risk reduction programs, and provides suggestions for practitioners to design, implement, and evaluate programs.

This review examines the evidence from recent experimental design evaluations on the impact of after-school programming on youth context (i.e., student location, supervision, and safety); participation in activities; and behavioral, social and emotional, and academic outcomes.

Seventy percent of Americans said they had so much debt it contributed to distress in their home lives.

This report publishes data showing that in the first term of the Every Child Counts programme, children have made an average of 12 months' progress over three months with just 20 hours tuition, meaning that they are progressing at four times the expected rate.

Many accounts of pension politics assign primary importance to societal forces. In the well-known formulation, pensions are the “third rail” of politics: politicians cannot cut benefits without suffering electoral retribution. In addition, some see the preferences of business as a key determinant of pension policy. This study takes aim at this problem by exploring what factors lead citizens and firms to support public pension systems and various reform efforts.

Community Care's Maria Ahmed reports from the launch of Lord Laming's report on improving child protection

• The Lausanne cohort Lc65+: a population-based prospective study of the manifestations, determinants and outcomes of frailty
• A water-based training program that include perturbation exercises to improve stepping responses in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled cross-over trial
• Haemoglobin, anaemia, dementia and cognitive decline in the elderly, a systematic review
• A new approach to physical activity maintenance: Rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota trial
• The MOBILIZE Boston Study: Design and methods of a prospective cohort study of novel risk factors for falls in an older population
• The association of APOE genotype and cognitive decline in interaction with risk factors in a 65–69 year old community sample
• DeLLITE Depression in late life: an intervention trial of exercise. Design and recruitment of a randomised controlled trial
• Adverse outcomes following hospitalization in acutely ill older patients

March 25, 2009

Since 1994, Ultra-red has established a unique position in the world of sound art. Their highly analytical projects, which range from radio broadcasts to art installations, directly link social activism to sound experiments.

This in-house review paper summarises statistics on the gap in attainment between pupils from deprived backgrounds and their peers; explores research on the factors that contribute to this gap; and examines evidence on how schools can improve the educational outcomes of deprived pupils.

This is a report on nurse-led projects improving environments for care in mental health and learning disabilities services.

H. Wayne Johnson
Two text books were authored or edited by Wayne, one published in five editions. Numerous journal articles were published along with chapters in other books and book reviews.

The long-term shift in coverage from defined benefit (DB) pensions to defined contribution (DC) plans may accelerate rapidly as more large companies freeze their DB pensions and replace them with new or enhanced DC plans.

L Nylind | Guardian

Economist Richard Layard examined the costs to the economy of a failure to foster better mental health.

Conclusions Current best evidence supports using immediate release methylphenidate as first-line treatment for most adults with ADHD.

PANAMA. High-risk youngsters, called such for their involvement in gangs, have three doors in their destiny: one that leads to death, one to jail, and one last that removes them from this world filled with drugs, crime, and delinquency.

This leaflet provides advice to parents on how to reduce the risk of cot death. Since parents and carers have been following the risk reduction advice, the number of babies dying has fallen by over 70 per cent.

The vilification of social workers after the death of Baby P shows the public ignorance of the challenges they face

AP

Gov. Bev Perdue's budget proposal has some social service advocates nervous. Perdue unveiled a budget proposal that would slash state government's overall work force by more than 1,000 positions next year and boost cigarette and alcohol taxes to help narrow a $3.4 billion budget gap.

16-year old students explore themes of money problems and how it impacts their daily lives. This film was was created through PRO-TV, DCTV's youth media arts training program.

• Integrated care for homeless people—sharing knowledge and experience in practice, education and research: Results of the networking efforts to find Homeless Health Workers
• ‘Children and obesity: a pan-European project examining the role of food marketing’
• Individual, group and community risk and protective factors for alcohol and drug use among Swedish adolescents
• Boys soccer league injuries: a community-based study of time-loss from sports participation and long-term sequelae
• Associations between sport participation, demographic and socio-cultural factors in Portuguese children and adolescents
• Socioeconomic disadvantage, social participation and networks and the self-rated health of English men and women with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities: cross sectional survey
• Health behaviours as explanations for educational level differences in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a follow-up of 60 000 men and women over 23 years
• A survey of hepatitis B and C prevalence amongst the homeless community of Prague
• Community-level socio-economic status and cognitive and functional impairment in the older population
• Parental smoking behaviour and effects of tobacco smoke on children's health in Finland and Russia
• Does smoke-free Ireland have more smoking inside the home and less in pubs than the United Kingdom? Findings from the international tobacco control policy evaluation project
• Adolescent mental health predicts quitting smoking in adulthood: a longitudinal analysis
• Chronic conditions and the risk of long-term institutionalization among older people

This document assesses the impact of legislation to assist the Child Support Agency in securing child maintenance for 40,000 more children, which equates to an additional £70 million in child support maintenance collected, and to reduce the number of non-resident parents that avoid their child maintenance liabilities.

March 24, 2009

This paper presents an overview of changes in household wealth accumulation and saving using wealth data from three micro-level surveys: Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

Corbis

Sylvia Plath, who suffered from bipolar disorder.

This report presents key findings and recommendations of a review of local services and includes examples of good practice in supporting people with learning disabilities and complex needs.

At 107, Clermont resident Florence Stevens has always looked younger than her age, a common trait in her family she said. The mother of six joked that she decided to have the picture at right taken when she was 50, after having had her hair permed in an old-fashioned electrical contraption. "I walked out of the salon and there was a photo studio across the street, so I said, 'Why not?,' " she said.

R Cohen | P-D

The only time Darryl Burton found himself behind bars was during his trip home where he toured an offender re-entry housing program in north St. Louis in Feb. 2009. Burton was released from prison last August after serving 24 years for a murder he said he never committed.

This report highlights key milestones in the history of the commission and describes its tasks of improving the quality of social care and influencing policy and practice to improve the experiences of people who use services.

The lack of conclusive findings and poor methodological quality of the studies reviewed highlights the need for better quality research. Self-efficacy and post-traumatic distress may be associated with the development of LWS but this needs further investigation.

Today's senior citizens don't want to play bingo. They want to socialize in Starbucks fashion, in a cozy setting, with lunch and coffee and maybe even Wi-Fi connections.

This Applied Research paper examines restorative justice for sexual assault from the perspective of survivors. A large international literature promotes restorative justice options as satisfying and empowering to crime victims.

D Levene | Guardian

Year 6 sex education at a school in Lambeth.

This report and its recommendations are aimed at making sure that good practice becomes standard practice in every children's service. It includes recommendations on improving the inspection of safeguarding services and the quality of serious case reviews and recommendations on improving the help and support children receive when they are at risk of harm.

Some people think teenagers would do better if school began at 11am

C Thomond

A shop in Middleton, Greater Manchester that is fitted with the Mosquito device.

This is the century when living and working demand ever higher levels of literacy and self-reliance.
Fully 42% of Canadians aged 16 to 65 (48% of all adults) do not have sufficient literacy skills to handle the complex tasks required to live and work in today’s society

• Searching for Chinese characteristics: a tentative empirical examination
• Predicting the trajectories of emotional well-being of Chinese community dwelling oldest old adults: urban and rural differences
• Social development needs assessment in China: lessons from an international collaborative field school in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region
• Commuting assignments in mainland China: cost and benefits of cross-border work arrangements
• Household assets and health in China: evidence and policy implications

Social care experts explain the concept of personalisation and how it will impact on social workers

• Study protocol of psychometric properties of the Spanish translation of a competence test in evidence based practice: The Fresno test
• Exploring health stakeholders' perceptions on moving towards comprehensive primary health care to address childhood malnutrition in Iran: a qualitative study
• An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada
• Community based yoga classes for type 2 diabetes: an exploratory randomised controlled trial
• A pharmaco-economic analysis of patients with schizophrenia switching to generic risperidone involving a possible compliance loss

March 23, 2009

The social care school will close in 2011. Last week scores of angry students, staff and academics staged a demonstration against the plans and launched a petition which attracted more than 300 signatures.

N Ayoub

Her Majesty Queen Rania delivers the opening address at the launch of the Columbia Global Centres-Amman

Mental health care in America is in crisis. The nation’s mental health care system gets a dismal D. As the nation confronts a severe economic crisis, demand for mental health services is increasing -- but state budget cuts are creating a vicious cycle that is leaving some of our most vulnerable citizens behind.

This booklet provides guidance for those whose doctor or health and social care professionals are thinking about introducing a care plan in which a family member or friend will be deprived of their liberty in a hospital or care home.

Evaluation is an integral component of every stage of media campaign planning, design, and implementation, providing campaign creators with the opportunity to examine how their message resonates with the target audience. This paper attempts to provide brief information on core concepts relevant to media campaign evaluation strategies and showcases several sexual violence prevention media campaigns that have completed evaluations at various stages of the implementation process.

Experts estimate 5% of social housing properties in inner city areas could be being unlawfully sublet.

Conclusion: Our data suggest that LPT is effective treatment for a large range of pathologies, with moderate to large effects.

F Costantini | NY Times

Carol Goss, Skillman Foundation chief executive, said local charities had “nowhere else to go.”

This paper examines labor force participation rates of older workers considering both chronological age and remaining life expectancy. Results show that participation by remaining life expectancy declines for men through the early 1990s, leveling off in the next decade.

Click on the state name . . . to retrieve the specific eligibility, benefit, funding, and other characteristics of your state's adoption subsidy program. You can also review a chart that compares the major aspects of states' adoption assistance programs.

The clearest documented impact of parental involvement laws is an increase in the number of minors traveling outside their home states to obtain abortion services in states that do not mandate parental involvement or that have less restrictive laws.

F Webb | Save The Children

Nyaniayel at home in one of the IDP camps. The 21 years of conflict between north and south Sudan and the continuing fight in Darfur has resulted in this mass displacement. The majority of displaced people in Khartoum are very vulnerable, living in temporary structures in shanty villages

Save the Children has been asked by the Sudanese authorities to suspend its operations in Sudan. This has very worrying implications for the 50,000 children the charity is supporting in Khartoum and the north-east of the country. These are some of Sudan's most vulnerable children - many are living in camps having been forced to flee their homes by the ongoing conflict.

Krystal Skinner was inducted posthumously into an honor society for social work students.

Dr. Alicia Fernandez explores health disparities and their affects on human rights.

This paper examines the effect of changes in immigrant eligibility for Supplemental Security Income in 1996 on the employment and retirement behaviors of foreign-born elderly persons. I find that denial of SSI was associated with a 5 percentage point (15 percent) increase in the employment of non-citizen elderly men and a 5.6 percentage point (11 percent) decrease in their retirement rate.

• CATIE and CUtLASS: can we handle the truth?
• The long and the short of it: are shorter periods of hospitalisation beneficial?
• Childhood sexual abuse and non-suicidal self-injury: meta-analysis
• Public health significance of mixed anxiety and depression: beyond current classification
• Self-harm in first-episode psychosis
• Perceptions of disadvantage, ethnicity and psychosis
• Facial fear processing and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia: functional magnetic resonance imaging study
• Pilot investigation of the changes in cortical activation during facial affect recognition with lamotrigine monotherapy in bipolar disorder
• Cognitive–behavioural intervention for self-harm: randomised controlled trial
• Psychosocial intervention for war-affected children in Sierra Leone
• Cognitive–behavioural therapy v. mirtazapine for chronic fatigue and neurasthenia: randomised placebo-controlled trial
• Predictors of employment for people with severe mental illness: results of an international six-centre randomised controlled trial

March 22, 2009

This study uses a dynamic microsimulation model to examine the aggregate and distributional consequences of alternative scenarios about the distribution of future wage growth among workers. We find fairly marked changes in projected Social Security benefit distributions, poverty, and long-term financing status with relatively modest changes in assumptions about wage differentials.

C Petersen

An Everton resident
Everton is very much at the heart of Liverpool's history. Towering over the city, the area was once home to thousands of workers who manned the docks and heavy industry of the waterfront. In 2006, however, a report singled out Everton as the poorest ward in the UK. After reading about this, photographer Christian Petersen began documenting the inner city community, starkly highlighting in the process the huge gap between rich and poor in the 2008 European capital of culture

Many experts, the public and the Government agree that the UK needs a new care funding system: evidence shows that the present system is unfair, unclear and unsustainable. This summary updates a Solutions produced in 2007, and suggests four costed, fairer and more sustainable methods of funding .

M Godwin

Gino Meriano, the author of a new book on civil partnerships, never intended to become a campaigner for gay rights. But, he tells Mary O'Hara, marriage was not the motivation for his fight against discrimination and hate crime

Eighty percent of Americans say the economy is a significant source of stress. The number, recorded in September 2008, was up from 66% in April 2008.

Academic performance was found to correlate significantly with Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness.

A hundred years ago, substances that are internationally controlled today were unregulated and widely abused. The consumption of opiates in China alone was estimated to be more than 3,000 tons in morphine equivalent, far in excess of global consumption, both licit and illicit, today. In the United States, about 90 per cent of narcotic drugs were used for non-medical purposes. As drug abuse spread, an increasing number of people became familiar with the wretchedness, misery and
evil connected with that affliction.

M Tullett

Creative Personalities 2009 is a day of film, art, debates, interactive workshops, and theatre performances on Friday 30 January 2009. Hosted by Yorkshire-based mental health charity Community Links, the festival - at The Carriageworks, Millennium Square - has been organised in association with user-led group Personality Plus, Tate Modern, and the venue

S Smith | Guardian

A portrait of 21st-century poverty.

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Children queuing, circa 1900, for soup at Manchester's Wood Street Mission

This brief provides the following recommendations for recent foster and adoptive parents to prepare their child for school: ensure a physical has been done, fill out necessary paperwork, know the education plan of the child, make sure the child knows the address and phone number of their new home, practice the route to school, attend an open house of the school, practice opening lockers, create a cover story for the child so he or she doesn't feel awkward, and prepare teachers.

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Denise Stephens trying out a mobility scooter at the Enable 08 consumer show.

Documentary - The journey of recovery for soldiers returning from Iraq-Afghanistan. Brain injury and Post Truamatic Stress Disorder are major problems for returning vets and their return to civilian life.

This document provides the technical definition of national indicator 38 from the national indicator set.

• Adelaide revisited: from healthy public policy to Health in All Policies
• Changes in smoking among restaurant and bar employees following Norway's comprehensive smoking ban
• School children as health change agents in Magu, Tanzania: a feasibility study
• People and money matter: investment lessons from the Ontario heart health program, Canada
• Australian pension funds and tobacco investments: promoting ill health and out-of-step with their members
• Understanding barriers and facilitators of fruit and vegetable consumption among a diverse multi-ethnic population in the USA
• Using qualitative methodology to inform an Indigenous-owned oral health promotion initiative in Australia
• Promoting health in response to global tourism expansion in Cuba
• Relations between Internet use, socio-economic status (SES), social support and subjective health
• Shaping the future of health promotion: priorities for action

March 21, 2009

M Macleod

Scottish-based composer Sally Beamish seen with her brother Christopher at her home in the village of Gartmore, Stirlingshire.

Illustration | PF Nessen

For Philadelphia-area Jewry, the crisis is hitting home hard. Local organizations, philanthropies, synagogues and day schools are struggling to raise funds and do more with decreasing resources.

This study examines financial hardship rates in the years before qualifying for Social Security retirement benefits at age 62 and investigates how the availability of Social Security improves economic well-being at later ages.

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Shop steward Dora Challingsworth (fifth from right), on strike with machinist colleagues in the late 1960s fighting for equal rights for women at the plant. Their cause was taken up by employment minister Barbara Castle and the Equal Pay Act followed in 1970

Eighty years on from Ford laying the foundations for its car plant in Dagenham, which employed 50,000 workers in its heyday, what remains of the UK's car industry is again under threat from recession.

Photo supplied by Kathryn Libal

Scott Harding, left, and Kathryn Libal in Amman, Jordan, where they are studying the Iraqi refugee population.

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the related Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) to examine the impact of health problems at older ages on out-of-pocket health care spending and other types of expenditures.

Hai Chau district volunteers help build a road in the mountainous commune of Hoa Phu.

Results indicate that both qualitative and quantitative methods have identified the following key factors that contribute to the underuse of hospice services by members of the African American community: personal or cultural values in conflict with hospice philosophy, lack of awareness of hospice services, concern about burdening family, economic factors, mistrust of the health care system, and expected lack of ethnic minority employees in hospice agencies.

J Barford: University College Falmouth | Bridging Arts

Names and dates are scratched on the suitcase showing where he has been.
An exhibition of suitcases and sculptures about people who make journeys to change their lives has opened at DMT Galleries in Camborne, Cornwall. It aims to throw a spotlight on the pressures faces by immigrants and the role of transient migrant workers and those who choose to settle in this country permanently

Examines the scale and cost of prison, jail, probation and parole in each of the 50 states, and provides a blueprint for states to cut both crime and spending by reallocating prison expenses to fund stronger supervision of the large number of offenders in the community.

Swansea Council said its priority was to ensure that children were safe.

Some states have handbooks that assist prospective adoptive parents in negotiating the adoption process. Some handbooks are available on-line.

S Maisey

The High Court agreed that the Surrey County Council was negligent in not stepping in to support the headteacher. As she left court, Mrs Connor, 57, said: "It is so unfortunate that matters have taken so long to resolve and at such a financial cost, but I finally feel vindicated in terms of the accusations of racism and Islamophobia against myself"

• Assessment of Parental Understanding by Pediatric Residents During Counseling After Newborn Genetic Screening
• Results of Newborn Screening for Hearing Loss: Effects on the Family in the First 2 Years of Life
• Birth Weight, Infant Growth, and Childhood Body Mass Index: Hong Kong's Children of 1997 Birth Cohort
• Incarceration and Psychotropic Drug Use by Youth
• Screening for Drug Abuse Among Medical and Nonmedical Users of Prescription Drugs in a Probability Sample of College Students
• Team Sports for Overweight Children: The Stanford Sports to Prevent Obesity Randomized Trial (SPORT)
• A Randomized Trial of the Effects of Reducing Television Viewing and Computer Use on Body Mass Index in Young Children
• Double Jeopardy: Depressive Symptoms and Rapid Subsequent Pregnancy in Adolescent Mothers
• Risk Factors for Death Among Older Child and Teenaged Motor Vehicle Passengers
• Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders in Females: Findings From the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study

Jobcentre Plus Lone Parents

March 20, 2009

In this paper we combine health care spending and insurance reimbursement data in the Medical Expenditure Panel Study with cash and noncash income data in the Current Population Survey to assess the impact of health insurance on the distribution of income and, in particular, on the age profile of income. Our estimates imply that gross money income and disposable cash and near-cash income significantly understate the resources available to finance household purchases.

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Paintings in the Wellcome Collection exhibition of Bobby Baker's 'visual diary' of her road to recovery from depression.

This letter informs inspectors of the planned stress work in the public services sector for 2009-10. The work will focus on assessing the progress made by selected public sector organisations to proactively manage the risk of work-related stress.

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34-year-old Alain sits with his bags packed outside the house in North London where he was staying for a while. He does not know where he will sleep tonight. After fleeing DR Congo and claiming asylum in the UK in 2002 he spent months destitute

A Favila | AP

A social worker comforting a young girl.

In general, the significant predictors of substance abuse treatment completion or transfer for clients discharged in 2005 were: alcohol as the primary substance of abuse, less than daily use at admission, being over age 40, having 12 or more years of education, being White, referral to treatment by the criminal justice system, and being employed.

R Friedman | NY Times

MANIC PHASE Dr. Alice W. Flaherty wrote everywhere, even on her arm.

Results: Treatment components of five interventions—Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), Family Behavior Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), and Multisystemic Treatment—were consistent with a majority of guidelines for effective treatment.

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Brenda McGowan, D.S.W., says that preventive services workers need more positive feedback to stem high turnover rates.

The study covers a range of subjects, including public attitudes to poverty and inequality, children and early years, education, health, employment, pensions, and migrants. It measures the extent of progress and also considers future direction and pressures, particularly in the light of recession and an ageing society.

In 2005, New York City's Administration for Children's Services asked the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct an independent review of the experiences of foster children who were enrolled in clinical trials for conditions related to HIV and AIDS beginning in the early 1980s. . . . This report identifies the procedures established to enroll and monitor these children, determines whether the procedures were followed, and discusses children's outcomes. It also includes the recommendations of Vera and its Clinical Trials Advisory Board to help child welfare staff, elected representatives, and community advocates address the concerns raised by some of the findings.

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Erin Maxwell is seen in this photo provided by her out-of-town relatives. She died in August at the age of 11.

How students at Lower East Side Prep segregate themselves and how it affects social dynamics.

- States vary widely in the share of children eligible for direct certification who are actually
enrolled that way; in 16 states, at least two in five children who could have benefited from
direct certification missed out.
- Contrary to common belief, many of the poor children missed by direct certification are not
enrolled for free meals based on a paper application but instead end up not receiving the free
meals they need.

• Critical Parameters for D-Cycloserine Enhancement of Cognitive-Behaviorial Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Anxious Depression and Response to Treatment
• Treatment of Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder: Are Antidepressants Mood Destabilizers?
• Divided Doses for Methadone Maintenance
• Issues for DSM-V: Internet Addiction
• Cognition in Schizophrenia
• Medication Effects in Neuroimaging Studies of Bipolar Disorder
• Joy of Caring
• A Depressed Adolescent at High Risk of Suicidal Behavior
• ECT for Catatonia in an Autistic Girl
• Alzheimer’s Madonna
• Augmentation of Behavior Therapy With D-Cycloserine for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Difference in Treatment Outcome in Outpatients With Anxious Versus Nonanxious Depression: A STAR*D Report
• Metformin Addition Attenuates Olanzapine-Induced Weight Gain in Drug-Naive First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study
• Prefrontal Function and Activation in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
• Facial Emotion Labeling Deficits in Children and Adolescents at Risk for Bipolar Disorder
• Acute Effect of Methadone Maintenance Dose on Brain fMRI Response to Heroin-Related Cues

March 19, 2009

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Joe Tomlinson, pictured with his carers, uses the Shop4Support scheme to buy the services he needs.

The results suggest that more specific theories are needed to explain differential effects of ethnic minority groups of caregivers. Intervention needs vary, in part, between ethnic groups of caregivers.

There is a clear link between abuse and suicidal phenomena occurring during childhood and adolescence.

Cigarette smoking in the United States results in an estimated 443,000 premature deaths and $193 billion in direct health-care expenditures and productivity losses each year (1). During 2007, an estimated 19.8% of adults in the United States were current smokers (2). To update 2006 state-specific estimates of cigarette smoking, CDC analyzed data from the 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey and examined trends in cigarette smoking from 1998--2007.

Including narratives in health-care interventions is increasingly popular. However, narrative information may bias individual's decision making, resulting in patients making poorer decisions. This systematic review synthesises the evidence about the persuasiveness of narrative information on individuals' decision making.

"On any given month, we have 150 to 200 new people walk in the door," said Sheila Weaver about the number of new welfare applicants in Warren County.

This report is the second in a series examining the role of volunteers and volunteering in public services. It highlights the valuable contribution that thousands of volunteers make to reducing crime and re-offending, delivering justice and bringing about safer communities. It also recognises the value of volunteer work carried out by offenders and ex-offenders.

J Munson |Star-Ledger

From left to right, students Sadiyah Muhammad, Daryl Sampson, Atiyah Fowler and Latoya Anderson make lasagna during the Food Service Training Academy class at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey in Hillside.

NASW Executive Director Betsy Clark twitters during trip to Whitehouse. Does such behavior convey appropriate respect for the President? Leadership involves judgment – at least it should.

L Celano | NY Times

In this economy, immigrant day laborers may find their quest for work more difficult.

NACDA acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use. By preserving and making available the largest library of electronic data on aging in the United States, NACDA offers opportunities for secondary analysis on major issues of scientific and policy relevance.

Adrianna Romero Cram

Adoption and assisted reproductive technology (ART) have much in common; most significantly, both processes are used to create families in which the child is not genetically related to one or both parents. Similarly, adoption and ART policy and practice must balance the sometimes-competing rights and interests of the parties involved, whether they are gamete providers, recipients and donor-conceived offspring, or birthparents, adoptive parents and adopted persons.

It’s World Social Worker Day and in Belize, social work is actively pursued by a robust enrollment of students who are pursuing degrees in social work at the University of Belize.

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Press and public banned from hearing any of the evidence, reports Gordon Rayner.

Jobcentre Plus Shirebrook

• Protein Kinase C Inhibition in the Treatment of Mania: A Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Tamoxifen
• Treatment of Vascular Depression Using Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Low Free Testosterone Concentration as a Potentially Treatable Cause of Depressive Symptoms in Older Men
• Depression in Young Adults With Very Low Birth Weight: The Helsinki Study of Very Low-Birth-Weight Adults
• Using Dimensional Models of Externalizing Psychopathology to Aid in Gene Identification
• Girls' Hyperactivity and Physical Aggression During Childhood and Adjustment Problems in Early Adulthood: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study
• Prenatal Hormone Exposure and Risk for Eating Disorders: A Comparison of Opposite-Sex and Same-Sex Twins
• Prevalence and Health Correlates of Prostitution Among Patients Entering Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
• Genome-Wide Association for Methamphetamine Dependence: Convergent Results From 2 Samples

This document provides the technical definition of national indicator 32 from the national indicator set.

March 18, 2009

Gaynor Arnold has been long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel Girl in a Blue Dress

Contains recent state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, accessible via an interactive map, by category, or by keyword search. Data are presented for over 400 topics in 11 major categories: demographics and the economy, health status, health coverage and the uninsured, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Medicare, health costs and budgets, managed care and health insurance, providers and service use, minority health, women's health, and HIV/AIDS.

This study assesses the impact of disability benefits. It summarises the questions raised and assesses alternative research options for further investigation.

This week is Social Work Week in Saskatchewan.

This research explores how older people plan, use and value the different resources available to them. Resources are broadly defined, to explore the relative value of different structural, social and individual resources and how they interlink. This holistic overview highlights the complexity of older people’s lives, the variety of resources that people draw on to help manage change and the work involved in maintaining continuity and preventing change.

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A father whose children were sexually abused by a 19-year-old placed in their care has defended social services against what he calls a "witch hunt".

L Embry | Union-Tribune

Triple Threat player Jill Borg Spitzer (right) of North Park edges past Red Hots player Tina Taylor of Del Cerro during a San Diego Senior Women's Basketball Association game at the Mission Valley YMCA.

The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) surveys more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740), the study paints an emerging portrait of an aging America's physical and mental health, insurance coverage, financial status, family support systems, labor market status, and retirement planning.

There is an increasing interest in the use of boarding schools for disadvantaged youth, including youth in the child welfare system.

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Irwin Elman, Ontario's child advocate wants access to pediatric death review committee’s reports on kids who had open welfare cases.

No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility -- British Sign Language (BSL) version of green paper

Mary Hanafin: Unusually high numbers in some areas

This letter from David Nicholson outlines roles and responsibilities for health and social care providers under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards which 'go live' on 1 April.

• SEXINFO: A Sexual Health Text Messaging Service for San Francisco Youth
• Ethics in Public Health Research: Changing Patterns of Mortality Among American Indians
• Public Health Interventions for Addressing Childhood Overweight: Analysis of the Business Case
• Treating Tobacco Dependence in Clinically Depressed Smokers: Effect of Smoking Cessation on Mental Health Functioning
• Social Factors, Psychopathology, and Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy
• Adolescent Same-Sex and Both-Sex Romantic Attractions and Relationships: Implications for Smoking
• Emergence of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Overweight and Obesity in Early Adulthood: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
• Longitudinal Patterns of Health Insurance Coverage Among a National Sample of Children in the Child Welfare System
• Unfair Treatment, Racial/Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnic Identification, and Smoking Among Asian Americans in the National Latino and Asian American Study
• Disentangling the Effects of Racial and Weight Discrimination on Body Mass Index and Obesity Among Asian Americans
• I Think Therefore I Am: Perceived Ideal Weight as a Determinant of Health
• Effects of Individual and Proximate Educational Context on Intimate Partner Violence: A Population-Based Study of Women in India
• Burden of HIV Infection Among Aboriginal Injection Drug Users in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Workplace Discrimination and Health Among Filipinos in the United States
• Intimate Partner Violence and Cigarette Smoking: Association Between Smoking Risk and Psychological Abuse With and Without Co-Occurrence of Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Predictors of Sustained Smoking Cessation: A Prospective Analysis of Chronic Smokers From the Alpha-Tocopherol Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study
• Setting a Challenging Yet Realistic Smoking Prevalence Target for Healthy People 2020: Learning From the California Experience

• Evaluating Interventions in Child Mental Health: The Importance of Care Provider and Contextual Influences
• Depression in Female Adolescents: An IPA Analysis
• Social Capital and Childhood Psychiatric Disorders: A Cross-sectional Study
• Relationship Factors and Outcome in Child Anxiety Treatment Studies
• Therapeutic Limits from an Attachment Perspective
• Adolescents' Ability to Read Different Emotional Faces Relates to their History of Maltreatment and Type of Psychopathology
• Clinical Reasoning for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioners: The Mindful Formulation
• Psychological Needs, Service Utilization and Provision of Care in a Specialist Mental Health Clinic for Young Refugees: A Comparative Study
• A School-Based Mental Health Intervention for Refugee Children: An Exploratory Study
• Test of Time: What if Little Albert had Escaped?

March 17, 2009

Studies show that young Israeli women and adolescents have among the world's highest rates of mistakenly thinking they are overweight.

This letter informs local housing authorities in England that the Government intends to commence section 314 of, and Schedule 15 to, the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 on 2 March 2009. This will remedy the incompatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights of section 185(4) of the Housing Act 1996, (a provision of the homelessness legislation).

This report provides the latest data on the 38 key indicators selected by the Forum to portray aspects of the lives of older Americans and their families. It is divided into five subject areas: population, economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care.

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Tess Walker, head of Belhus Chase college, is concerned about the amount of time spent filling in forms.

AP | Khalil Senosi

Esther Nyaboke plays with her daughter's Veronica , left, and Rebbeca , right, outside her house near the town of Kisii in western Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. For Nyaboke, whose children display the sypmtoms of serious autism, the only way to keep the girls safe while she is away is to lock them up.

• “It Must Be Me ”: Ethnic Diversity and Attributions for Peer Victimization in Middle School
• Ethnic Awareness, Prejudice, and Civic Commitments in Four Ethnic Groups of American Adolescents
• Perceptions of Racism and Depressive Symptoms in African American Adolescents: The Role of Perceived Academic and Social Control
• The Impact of Racial Discrimination and Coping Strategies on Internalizing Symptoms in African American Youth
• Racial Identity and Academic Achievement in the Neighborhood Context: A Multilevel Analysis
• A Longitudinal Daily Diary Study of Family Assistance and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents from Mexican, Chinese, and European Backgrounds
• Mother-Adolescent Language Proficiency and Adolescent Academic and Emotional Adjustment Among Chinese American Families

SJ CODDINGTON | Times

From left, Christopher Gillham, 5, Maria Parks, 4, and Aliyah Newton, 4, work on a computer program that teaches geography at a voluntary pre-K program for homeless children at Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa

The rate of past month smokeless tobacco use remained relatively stable in the range of 3.0 to 3.3 percent between 2002 and 2007 among persons aged 12 or older; however, there were increases among certain subpopulations—in particular, among adolescent males

MELANIE BURFORD | DMN

A portrait is one of the few things Sergio Aviles has left of his daughter Sarah, who died of a 'cheese' heroin overdose in January at age 17.

I conclude that recent policy developments provide an excellent opportunity to improve transition outcomes for foster youth, but that lingering challenges still exist including: likely state reluctance to expand the parenting role; a poor knowledge base regarding the effectiveness of independent living services; the lack of established and well-evaluated models of coordination between child welfare agencies and other public institutions in supporting foster youth; the complex nature of “permanency” for foster youth in transition; and the fact that the new law still excludes important populations of foster youth.

Los Angeles Times op-ed columnist Gregory Rodriguez has written widely on issues of race relations and national identity. He discusses his recently-released book Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America.

• Alcohol-related deaths by occupation: what do data for england and wales in 2001–2005 tell us about doctors' mortality?
• The alcohol hangover–a puzzling phenomenon
• Effects of stress on emotional reactivity in hostile heavy social drinkers following dietary tryptophan enhancement
• A review of the literature on the cognitive effects of alcohol hangover
• Illicit alcohol consumption and neuropathy – a preliminary study in Sri Lanka
• Hazardous alcohol use among hospital doctors in Germany
• Modelling over week patterns of alcohol consumption
• Comparison of a food-frequency questionnaire method and a quantity-frequency method to classify risky alcohol consumption in women
• The impact of alcopops on adolescent drinking: a literature review

These statistics provide updated outcome data for 16 and 17-year-olds in education or work-based learning.

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Catherine Kenny of Dublin Simon outside the homeless shelter on Wolfe Tone Quay which closed yesterday.

March 16, 2009

The following is an examination of plans for foundation and corporate support in response to the current economic crisis. It is part of an ongoing Foundation Center research series intended to shed light on the impact of the economic downturn on the nonprofit sector.

Working the promotion booth for Habitat for Humanity at Red Deer College, first year social work student Maureen Gibson hangs a pink hard hat on the head of her classmate Allyssa Ebens on Friday morning. Habitat for Humanity volunteers were handing out information packages as well as popcorn and candi bars in an effort to sign up students for building projects in the city.

Renters most often have very different rights and responsibilities in a foreclosure than homeowners. An initial survey of the different state treatments of renters in foreclosure by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) revealed significant differences among states and the need for considerable education on the issue.

Kylene Rehder, social work program director, is pictured with Dr. Janet Cunningham, Northwestern president.

This research looks at the transfer of housing stock from councils to specially established housing associations, concentrating on the ‘second generation’ of transfers carried out since 1997.

J O'Boyle | Star-Ledger

Cutline John Forbes Nash Jr. and wife Alicia are urging elected officials to protect community mental health programs like the one that helps their son John (background), who has schizophrenia. The same disease long afflicted Nash, subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind."

Caregivers provide care or assistance, either in their home or the recipient’s home, to a family
member who has a physical or mental disability, is chronically ill, frail, or at the end of life.
Balancing Paid Work and Caregiving Responsibilities: A Closer Look at Family Caregiving in
Canada portraits the key issues and challenges facing employed caregivers in Canada and identifies the support that key stakeholders (e.g. the dependent, family, organizations, and governments) could offer to assist caregivers.

C Anderson | Blend Images/Corbis

"In order to understand the nature of the human mind, we must unravel the mystery of how the brain tells time, in both normal and pathological states."

AP Photo | Southside Virginia Community College

Andrea Hatcher at the Southside Virginia Community College Daniel campus in Keysville, Va. Hatcher is part of The Virginia Community College System's Great Expectations program uses grants and donations to provide money for tuition, transportation and living expenses for kids in foster care.

This paper evaluates state usage of the Federally-funded AdoptUsKids photolisting service during its first five years of operation.

• Consumer Indebtedness and the Withering of the American Dream
• New research developments
• The Case for a Two-Tier Health System
• Empowering Individuals in the Health Care System
• Reducing Disparities by Targeting Mothers & Children
• Transforming the EITC to Reduce Poverty and Inequality: Policies for the 21st-Century Labor Market

Choosing Life: Empowerment, Actions, Results (CLEAR)

Working with Families: Children's centres and Jobcentre Plus supplement

This supplement showcases the early progress and future plans of the work-focused services pilot, highlights some examples of partnership working and provides tips and advice on how to make and maintain links from those who are already making a big success of helping to support parents into work.

'At least 20,000 homeless' in Angola floods

Violence Comes With Territory For Homeless



Tuesday, the body of an Augusta homeless man was found beneath a bridge over the Augusta Canal, near downtown. He had been killed by a blow to the head, and it was considered a murder. For those living on the streets, life is already tough. Now, they face the murder of a person who shares their plight.

Women and Violence in a Diverse Community

Constance L. "Connie" Rice, a civil rights activist and lawyer, is the co-director of the Advancement Project, a policy "action tank" committed to racial justice. She has received more than 60 major awards for advancing multi-racial democracy, including the 2001 Peace Prize from the California Wellness Foundation and the 2002 John Anson Ford Humanitarian Award from Los Angeles County.

March 15, 2009

Psychiatrist Awarded for Research on Psychoanalytic Therapy

Can Mental Training Games Help Prevent Alzheimer's?

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: State-by-State Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is designed to boost employment and the
economy. It contains a number of spending and tax measures crafted to inject more aggregate demand into the sagging economy. This paper provides state-by-state estimates for a number of the major spending and tax provisions that will affect low- and moderate-income Americans (some provisions cannot be allocated on a state-by-state basis).

Expected closing of 4 mental health centers in Chicago prompts fear, sadness in patients who consider them a lifeline


Tribune | K Takahashi

"I don't look like I'm sick," said Jerome McCloud, who wears wire-rimmed glasses and a neatly trimmed Fu Manchu mustache, "but I can go off." Diagnosed in 1973 with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, he has been a patient at the Woodlawn clinic since 1989.

Phony vendor pulls fast one on homeless

Kansas gets a D for treatment of mental illness

Link sought between animal cruelty, domestic violence

Accidents and Child Development

This guide addresses particular issues related to child safety and focuses on the actual experiences of field workers. Its aim is to share the experiences of practitioners with a wider audience so that effective interventions can be publicised and common pitfalls can be avoided.

Hawaii's homeless vulnerable to new, ‘epidemic' bacteria strain

Mental-health system faces a severe crisis

America faces new Depression misery as financial crisis worsens




Carol Carlile washes dishes outside her tent in Sacramento, California

Jury Convicts Former Social Worker of Defrauding The Department of Veterans Affairs and Obstructing Justice

Healthy People Library Project

The Healthy People Library Project is a five-year project to bring to the nation's 16,000 public libraries the latest information about biomedical research. The project is designed to provide minority groups and other consumers easy access to current, reliable information on selected health topics at their local libraries.

Program Helps Psychiatrists Cope With Patient's Suicide

Follow Northampton Community College students as they rebuild homes in New Orleans


Express-Times | E SAVILLE

Twelve students and two professors from Northampton Community College are headed to New Orleans with the Lower Nine Organization, helping to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Study Tests Reliability Of More Accurate Measure Of Patient Pain

Patients' Violence Risk Tied to Specific Factors

World Social Work Day this Tuesday

Oswald's '53 school transfer card flunks out on eBay




High school transcript belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald (below)




Future Rules: Children's advice on the regulations to be made under the Children and Young Persons Act 2008

This report is the outcome of a national conference where 136 young people in care and care leavers gave their views on a range of subjects relating to regulations that will affect their future. The new government regulations will need to say how often every child in care must be visited by someone from the council to make sure they are being looked after well.

Ashkelon Foster Care Group Confronts Terror

CWDC moots foundation degrees for children's social care staff

Gifted Children Shape Their Personalities According To Social Stigma

The Difficult Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in the US: Implications for the State as Corporate Parent

In this report, I briefl y describe the U.S. child welfare system, summarize research on the transition to adulthood for foster youth showing that they generally face a very difficult transition, and examine the evolution of U.S. policy towards foster youth using the concept of “corporate parenting.”

Index Reveals Capriciousness and Cruelty of Michigan Child Welfare

Program Is a Godsend to Israeli Abuse Victims



Renée G. Sackey (left), chair of Federation's Women of Vision Foundation, welcomes ELI founder and chair Hanita Zimrin to Philadelphia.

Don't Rule Out Psychoanalysis in Treating Autistic Children

Children's services sent looked-after children's data to wrong person

More training for children's services directors to understand pressures of work following death of Baby P

President signs adoption law

Obesity Linked To Hormone Imbalance That Impacts Sexual Quality Of Life

General Hospital Psychiatry, 31, 2

• Inpatient suicide: preventing a common sentinel event
• Inpatient suicide in a general hospital
• Psychosocial stress and anxiety in musculoskeletal pain patients with and without depression
• Assessing patterns of adult attachment in medical patients
• Smoke-free policy in acute mental health wards: avoiding the pitfalls
• Pain locus of control predicts return to work among Spanish fibromyalgia patients after completion of a multidisciplinary pain program
• Psychotic symptoms in narcolepsy: phenomenology and a comparison with schizophrenia
• Success of mental health referral among pregnant and postpartum women with psychiatric distress
• Frequency and clinical features of pervasive developmental disorder in adolescent suicide attempts
• Prevalence and correlates of poor medication adherence amongst psychiatric outpatients in southwestern Nigeria

Rehabilitating rape victims and families in Congo

Cases of sexual violence skyrocket during and after battles and along frontlines. Armed groups are deeply aware of the stigma surrounding rape and they exploit it in order to destroy families and bring women — and men — to their knees. Because they are both perpetrators and victims, more and more womens organizations work with men, too, to educate and counsel them.

Social worker visited two children just days before mother left them trapped in house fire



Suspicious: Dawn Nash's children Emma, 3, and Christian, 6, who were rescued from their burning house

Reaction: child protection report

Database of Disasters Resources

Baby Matters: A Gateway to State Policies and Initiatives

Baby Matters: A Gateway to State Policies and Initiatives! Baby Matters is a searchable database that contains resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families. The policies and initiatives are searchable by category, state, or keyword.

Age & Ageing, 37, 2

• Elder abuse and neglect
• The prevalence of elder abuse and neglect: a systematic review
• Educating nursing home staff on fracture prevention: a cluster randomised trial
• Changes in the prevalence of chronic disease and the association with disability in the older Dutch population between 1987 and 2001
• Self-rated health and a healthy lifestyle are the most important predictors of survival in elderly women
• What predicts compliance rates with hip protectors in older hospital in-patients?

A White Paper on Educational Opportunities for Youth in Foster Care

Provides statistics, background and research information on the importance of enhancing post-secondary education and vocational training opportunities for youth in foster care.

March 14, 2009

What I Was Doing Vs. What I Did: How Verb Aspect Influences Memory And Behavior

Role-play puts Social Work students in shoes of poor

Hatha Yoga Practice Lessens Fear Of Falling In Older Adults, Study Suggests

BU student-run charity looks to optimize work of nonprofits

NGOs decry Chomutov's plan to relocate debtors



Heitmann

Single mother Helena Koňová awaits forced relocation to what she calls "dirty and rundown" units as part of Chomutov's proposal.

Review of Pupil Behaviour: Interim report four

This report advises on how school behaviour and attendance partnerships might be developed so as to maximise their effectiveness, the impact on pupil behaviour of consistently applied school policies on learning and teaching and the links between behavioural standards, special educational needs and disabilities.

350 social welfare fraud cases prosecuted in 2008

Lord Laming: Renowned Social Worker


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Lord Laming chaired the probe into the death of eight-year-old Victoria Climbie

Glamorgan launches inquiry into tragic placement of abusive teenager

High IQ Linked To Reduced Risk Of Death

Improving the Outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Pupils: Literature review

This review presents research evidence and literature from the UK over the last ten years on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils and their parents. It also provides a European perspective to provide a valuable context for the review.

Cross-System Dialogue: An Effective Strategy to Promote Communication between the Domestic Violence Community, Child Welfare System, and the Courts

Cross-system dialogue is an approach that . . . . provides a formal structure to address conflict in a productive manner. Cross-system dialogues bring people together, lay the groundwork for effective communication, and give those who work with families experiencing both domestic violence and child maltreatment an increased confidence that meaningful cross-system communication is possible.

Pressure on Social Insurance Fund

Belfast social worker suspended from register

Community Care campaign demands media respect for social workers





We need to value social workers as much as teachers

Rosie Varley says sharing is key to weeding out bad practice

Social work should be a Masters level profession, says Balls

MH Services on Chopping Block as States Slash Spending



Decade of Neglect Has Weakened Federal Low-Income Housing Programs

Yet despite rental housing’s importance to the well-being of a large share of American households — and the clear failure of the private market to meet the existing need — it has been the neglected
step-child of federal housing policy. Since 1995, federal spending on low-income housing assistance has fallen by well over 20 percent both as a share of all non-defense discretionary spending and as a share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Teen Heroin Use Concerns Suburban Virginia Parents

Teenage Boys Who Eat Fish At Least Once A Week Achieve Higher Intelligence Scores

More and more kids homeless in Oregon

Responding to Child Maltreatment: Children's Hospitals Child Abuse Services, 2008 Survey Findings and Trends

The National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) and
children’s hospitals are committed to assembling evidence that supports the children’s hospital
response to child maltreatment.

Alberta sees exodus of foster parents

Teens Falling Short on Key Health-Improvement Goals

Bill would revamp child-welfare system with private contractors



M HARRISON | SEATTLE TIMES

Social worker Christine Kerns, far right, has been working with Robert Dunlap, center, and his family, of Lacey. Dunlap was granted custody of his sons Jeremy, 9, right, and Zephan, 12, in December. Dunlap is skeptical of the privatization plan.

Lengthy Daily Stints In Front Of The TV Linked To Doubled Childhood Asthma Risk

State slows international adoptions of foster kids

Self-Destructive Acts Linked to Limited View of Future

Adoption, foster-care bill is dead for session

Enhancing Education

A compilation of trends and findings on the Internet (Noted), use examples (Solutions) and in-depth explorations (Primers) related to technology use in education. Entries are compiled by the staff of the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.

Research in Higher Education, 50, 3

• A Simple Unifying Measure of State Support for Postsecondary Education
• Strategies and Intervening Factors Influencing Student Social Interaction and Experiential Learning in an Interdisciplinary Research Team
• Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Graduate Geography Programs
• Situational and Personal Causes of Student Cheating

Shoesmith goes to High Court and employment tribunal over sacking

CBT for Depression

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for depression described by Dr. Joel Becker.

Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Suicidal Behaviors

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 5, 15-24

• How to make the rhetoric of joined-up government really work
• The role of law in the control of obesity in England: looking at the contribution of law to a healthy food culture
• I don't think general practice should be the front line: Experiences of general practitioners working with refugees in South Australia
• The rise and fall of Australian physical activity policy 1996 – 2006: a national review framed in an international context
• Using deliberative techniques to engage the community in policy development

Welfare gets €16,489 in conscience money



An envelope containing €4,000 in cash was hand-delivered to The Irish Catholic offices in recent days with a note asking that the money be forwarded to the Department of Social and Family Affairs.

March 13, 2009

Over 30% of Iranian addicts have higher education

Public warned on crimes against women

'Social workers deserve better treatment by the press'

Spotlight on social work training




Lord Laming carried out a review of the Victoria Climbie case

Students are undertaking practice learning without social worker supervision

Self-Employed Women and Time Use

The 20th century saw a dramatic increase in the number of women in the labor force. This increase in labor force participation represents a striking change in the allocation of women’s time between work and home activities. The flexibility afforded by selfemployment is often regarded as a way to better balance work and home activities. However, just as little is known about the nonmarket activities of women, little is known about the differences in time allocations between self-employed women and women employed in other organizations.

Give more uni spots to the poor

The Front Lines Against Domestic Violence

Child abuse report to be released

Welfare-to-Work Program Benefits and Costs

Most welfare programs seek to ensure that poor families have adequate income while at the same time encouraging self-sufficiency. Based on studies of 28 programs involving more than 100,000 sample members, this synthesis compares the costs, benefits, and returns on investment of six welfare program strategies -- from the perspectives of participants, government budgets, and society as a whole.

W.Va. bill requires drug tests for welfare recipients

Compulsive Hoarding Poses Safety And Psychological Risks



Image courtesy of University of Michigan Health System

Hoarders face the real prospect of becoming buried under an avalanche of trash.

Battered: Examining domestic violence

Mental stress spirals with economy

Children's chiefs to be retrained in wake of Baby P case

New Haven and the problem of change in the American city

The American city has been seen as problematic at least since the time of Jefferson. Crowded, noisy, inflamed by dangerous ideas, harboring eccentric strangers, welcoming wave upon wave of unwashed immigrants, vulnerable to epidemic, notorious for crime and corruption, the city has been the object of endless moralizing, social engineering, and academic condescension.

Poverty Shields Berlin from Downturn

Sacramento and Its Riverside Tent City



J Sullivan | Getty Images

Renee Hadley covered her bicycles with a tarp outside her tent on Tuesday in Sacramento, Cali

Obama should not tamper with Social Security

Untreated Psychiatric Disorders Common In Single Mothers On Welfare

'Chocolate tax' to tackle obesity

Minority Meltdown: Immigrants Blamed for Mortgage Crisis

It was a stunning revelation: Illegal immigrants hold 5 million bad mortgages in the United States. Conservative commentators pounced on the statistic last October. Many of them were already blaming immigrants for the subprime mortgage mess. Now they had numerical proof, and from no less an authority than the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Just one problem: It wasn't true.

Abuse linked with lack of social work support

Time is of the essence


C Thomond

Dr Michael Lavalette says restrictions and demands on social workers mean they are not able to assess people's needs.

Popular Kids Earn More When They Grow Up

A Lesson for Parents: Arguing in Front of Your Teens Has Lasting Impact, Researchers Find

Regular Family Meals Result In Better Eating Habits For Adolescents

California legislators consider extending foster care through age 21

Rising U.S. Teen Fertility

The United States has higher fertility rates among teenage girls compared with other developed countries of the world. For example, girls ages 15 to 19 have fertility rates more than five times higher than their counterparts in developed countries such as France, Italy, Japan, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

Where others fear to tread


F Baron | Guardian

Retired social workers are being targeted in an effort to fill shortages in the wake of the Baby P tragedy, but will they be tempted back to the frontline? Val Rigby: 'I fear that a lot of people who have got out don't want to go back.'

Samantha Morton supports threatened children's home

MH Parity Mandate Added to SCHIP, Giving More Children Access to Care

Adult orphans in Beijing to get subsidies for independence

Oklahoma employees blocked from DHS lawsuit

Review Set Of Police Work on Girl's Case

What's In A Name? Perhaps More (or Less) Money

The Indian Child Welfare Act

Series of videos by the National Urban Indian Family Coalition addressing urban Indian America. This video features Mary Trimble Norris, Executive Director of the American Indian Child Resource Center, discussing Indian Child Welfare.

Treatment of Patients With Substance Use Disorders, Second Edition

Cardiac Death Risk Rises With Both Antipsychotic Types




Alcohol and Alcoholism, 43, 2

• Alcohol-related deaths by occupation: what do data for england and wales in 2001–2005 tell us about doctors' mortality?
• Effects of stress on emotional reactivity in hostile heavy social drinkers following dietary tryptophan enhancement
• Review • A review of the literature on the cognitive effects of alcohol hangover
• Illicit alcohol consumption and neuropathy – a preliminary study in Sri Lanka
• Hazardous alcohol use among hospital doctors in Germany
• A longitudinal study of alcohol use and antisocial behaviour in young people
• Modelling over week patterns of alcohol consumption
• Comparison of a food-frequency questionnaire method and a quantity-frequency method to classify risky alcohol consumption in women
• Review • The impact of alcopops on adolescent drinking: a literature review

Evaluation Review, 33, 2

• Evidence for Substance Abuse Services and Policy Research: A Systematic Review of National Databases
• Use of Web and In-Person Survey Modes to Gather Data From Young Adults on Sex and Drug Use: An Evaluation of Cost, Time, and Survey Error Based on a Randomized Mixed-Mode Design
• Mapping Excellence in National Research Systems: The Case of Italy
• Projected Sustainability of Innovative Social Programs

Maximizing Impact: Our Focus on Children 0 to 3

While we recognize that significant focus is being given to children 0 to 8 in a number of different arenas, CCF’s emphasis on children zero to three speaks directly to the greatest opportunities and challenges in preventing child abuse and neglect.

March 12, 2009

Sex-Offender Commitment Law Ruled Unconstitutional

Demo over bid to axe social workers’ training

Not So Sweet: Over-consumption Of Sugar Linked To Aging

Community poverty services try to adjust in scuffling economy

University closure plan protest



The University of Reading has recommended closing its School of Health and Social Care, with the loss of 35 jobs.

Mental Capacity Act (Deprivation of Liberty: Monitoring and Reporting and Assessments - Amendment) Regulations 2009: Response to the consultation

This document summarises the responses to a consultation on draft regulations that would confer power on the Care Quality Commission for the purpose of monitoring, and reporting on, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

Fighting global poverty is fastest-growing minor

Mortality Risk Greater For Elderly Women Who Nap Daily

Frontline training for all directors

Dalton State College hosts Social Work Institute

Homeless shopping cart tents




City poverty profiles: Albany, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Troy

Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2008

This report provides estimates of the number of unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States as of January 2008 by period of entry, region and country of origin, state of residence, age and gender.

Professional groups back same sex marriage in Vermont

Report Says 1 in 50 US Kids Are Homeless



J Sulivan | Getty

A child looks out the door of her motel room in West Sacramento, California. The girl's family was evicted from the house they were renting after her father lost his job. The couple and their three children are living in a budget motel while they save enough money for deposit on a new rental home.

The Right to Health: A Resource Manual for NGOs

In a clear style and accessible format, the Manual shows health professionals, their associations and other interested non-governmental organizations, some of the practical ways in which they can promote, protect and monitor the right to health in their communities and countries. It considers the obligations of states in relation to individuals within their borders, as well as the human rights responsibilities of states beyond their borders. As befits a human rights Manual, it has a particular preoccupation with the right to health of the vulnerable, marginalized and otherwise disadvantaged groups and those living in poverty.

HU’s social work program accredited

Ecstasy Could Help Patients With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

UK proposes fund to protect poor from credit crunch

Combat Just One Cause of Army Suicide Crisis



Speaking out against violence towards women and girls

Violence Is The Death Of Romance, Period

Being Overweight Worsens Osteoarthritis

CASASARDSM: Intensive Case Management for Substance-Dependent Women Receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

As the rolls declined, states were faced with a growing realization of the multiple and handicapping circumstances many remaining recipients face, including substance use disorders and other mental health issues, poor work skills, low educational attainment, difficulty securing child care and transportation, health problems and engagement with the child welfare system. For those left on the rolls, there is a huge disconnect between the welfare system’s goals of fast turnover and the capacity of recipients to find work quickly and remain employed.

Shelters see new influx


M Sears

Shannon Tate sits at the Salvation Army Emergency Shelter in Milwaukee while her children study. From left are Codyone Maclin, 12, Kartiae Tate, 13, and Tommy Maclin, 10. Area aid workers say the need for shelter among families and children is rising.


Social work course suspended at Royal Holloway

Special review ordered into foster child's injuries

Benefits Outweigh Costs 2 - 1 In Providing Foster Care Support, Services To California Youth To Age 21

12-year compulsory education 'unlikely'

Midwife faces adoption allegations

Failed: Baby P report slams cover-up



FAILED: Baby P

Large Study Reveals Insights on Suicides in Teens

Children's Rights: International and National Laws and Practices

Children’s Rights will enable researchers, legislators, and academics to compare and contrast how children are treated among the different continents and which policies and laws have had the most profound impact on the younger generations.

The REACH Institute: Best Practice Guidelines Address Mental Health Needs of Youth in Care

Make notifications of child deaths law

International kidnap-to-adoption ring uncovered

Older Fathers Linked to Lower I.Q. Scores

Carroll receives top honor for service to L.A. community


A Tapley | Daily Trojan

Honored: President Steven B. Sample and Kathryn Sample recognize Pete Carroll for his work with his nonprofit, A Better LA

Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online

BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 2, 11-15

• In the shadow of the welfare society ill-health and symptoms, psychological exposure and lifestyle habits among social security recipients: a national survey study
• Stress and psychological factors before a migraine attack: A time-based analysis
• Application of ecological momentary assessment in stress-related diseases
• Effects of antidepressant treatment on heart rate variability in major depression: A quantitative review
• Does psychological status influence clinical outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other chronic gastroenterological diseases: An observational cohort prospective study

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 4

• Possible Selves in Marital Roles: The Impact of the Anticipated Division of Labor on the Mate Preferences of Women and Men
• I Continue to Feel So Good About Us: In-Group Identification and the Use of Social Identity--Enhancing Strategies to Reduce Intragroup Dissonance
• Goal and Personality Trait Development in a Transitional Period: Assessing Change and Stability in Personality Development
• Motivated Cultural Worldview Adherence and Culturally Loaded Test Performance
• Approach--Avoidance Motivation and Information Processing: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
• Priming Media Stereotypes Reduces Support for Social Welfare Policies: The Mediating Role of Empathy
• Beyond Oversights, Lies, and Pies in the Sky: Exaggeration as Goal Projection
• Creative Terror Management: Creativity as a Facilitator of Cultural Exploration After Mortality Salience
• The Influence of Discrimination and Fairness on Collective Self-Esteem
• Effects of Social Belonging on Homesickness: An Application of the Belongingness Hypothesis

More help given to victims of sexual violence

Youth Unemployment and Underemployment in Africa Brings Uncertainty and Opportunity

From the recent riots in Greece to increased unemployment in urban China to anxiety over the prospect of more protests by young people throughout Europe, youth unemployment and underemployment is increasingly recognized as a potential trigger for social instability in other world regions. Africa in particular faces demographic challenges as its population of young people ages 15 to 24 increases and access to secure jobs continues to be problematic.

ICW Services and ICWA Services

Series of videos by the National Urban Indian Family Coalition addressing urban Indian America. This video features Mary Trimble Norris, Executive Director of the American Indian Child Resource Center, discussing the Indian Child Welfare Act.

March 11, 2009

Ending violence against women and girls: Your voice counts

Lack of resources hurts justice, mental health systems, lawyer says

Dignity in Care campaign for older people

Florida's Children At A Glance, 2008

County and statewide indicator summaries of 2006 and 2006/07 data on population, birth indicators, education, child well-being, and youth and the law.

The legacy of Depression-era San Francisco


C Reynolds | LA Times

Victor Arnautoff's mural "City Life" inside Coit Tower

Roadshow is on lookout for social care workers

Alan Johnson pledges faster talking therapy roll-out

Vt. mental health community speaks on same-sex couple issues

Herzog to push for new welfare programs for Beduin sector



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One of the Negev’s Beduin villages.

America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care

From 2001 to 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued six reports, which concluded that being uninsured was hazardous to people's health and recommended that the nation move quickly to implement a strategy to achieve health insurance coverage for all. The goal of this book is to inform the health reform policy debate--in 2009--with an up-to-date assessment of the research evidence.

Japanese Households on Welfare Rise to Record

Transition: The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Your Guide to the Services and Information That Can Make Transition a Success for Young People With Disabilities Who Went Through the Foster Care System

This handbook is designed to give you a basic understanding of the rights of students with disabilities and the obligations of the special education system under the law.

Santa Clara County proposes deep cuts to drug and alcohol programs

Salvation Army is raising money to extend services south of the Broad

The policy that keeps on failing



The race to incarcerate has led to drastically overcrowded prisons


Expert Panel Addresses High Rates of Smoking in People with Psychiatric Disorders

Saginaw County Salvation Army sends social worker to rural doorsteps

The Year in Hate

From white power skinheads decrying "President Obongo" at a racist gathering in rural Missouri, to neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen hurling epithets at Latino immigrants from courthouse steps in Oklahoma, to anti-Semitic black separatists calling for death to Jews on bustling street corners in several East Coast cities, hate group activity in the U.S. was disturbing and widespread throughout 2008.

Welfare diet abuse alleged in Toronto

Crisis mirrors Great Depression


Herald archive photo

Laid-off workers protest at City Hall in June 1934.

Thirty years after being given up for adoption, woman and birth mother are reunited

Adoption policy to get closer look

Suicidal Thinking May Be Predicted Among Certain Teens with Depression

Care children 'failed' by system

Beyond the Checkbook: A Financial Management Guide for Leaders of Small Youth-Serving Organizations

Solid fi nancial systems are needed to meet these challenges. While starting or expanding a youth-serving program, it’s common to focus exclusively on defi ning the mission and building the program. Yet this focus can come at the expense of creating the internal systems that keep your initiatives running. Enthusiasm and commitment are essential elements, but you can work more effectively if you take the time to establish policies and processes that will keep your organization’s fi nancial house in order.

Crisis Nursery program helps moms with perinatal woes


RK O'Daniell

April Browder plays with her daughter, Mykayla Thomas, 2, at her mother's house in Homer.

Foster child gives back to youth

Norwalk adoption agency looks closer to home

Training on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youths

Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover New Schizophrenia Gene

Slaying suspect ruled competent for trial

Academic Psychiatry, 31, 6

• Commentary on "Psychiatric Resident Education in Intellectual Disabilities"
• Hide and Seek: The Elusive Rural Psychiatrist
• Putting "Rural" Into Psychiatry Residency Training Programs
• Psychiatric Resident Education in Intellectual Disabilities: One Program’s Ten Years of Experience
• Resident Education and Perceptions of Recovery in Serious Mental Illness: Observations and Commentary
• The Structured Clinically Relevant Interview for Psychiatrists in Training (SCRIPT): A New Standardized Assessment Tool for Recruitment in the UK
• Neurobiological Formulations: Integrating Clinical and Biological Psychiatry

Treatment of Patients With Schizophrenia, Second Edition

Older fathers 'hit brain power'

Report of the ACF Region V 2008 Roundtable on Child Welfare Training Systems

The goal of this 2008 roundtable was to bring together leaders in child welfare training in ACF Region V states and provide opportunities for them to confer about quality training with peers from other states. The roundtable was designed to be an interactive, peer to peer, working event that responded to the needs and interests of the states. Throughout this roundtable, participants shared strategies, tools, practical examples, and approaches that they use to strengthen the training they offer within their state.

Rape as a weapon of war in DR Congo

War has raged through the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than a decade — it has been called the deadliest conflict since World War II. The United Nations estimates that 200,000 women and girls have been raped in that time, some victims as young as three years old. Both the Congolese army and rebel groups have used rape as a weapon of war.

Row on asylum children detention




Tity Nzamba Bolele said her children were "not okay" in the removal centre

Theory & Psychology, 19, 1

• Recent Advances in Positioning Theory
• Emotion, Meaning, and Appraisal Theory
• The Surprising History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
• Critical Psychology and Revolutionary Marxism
• Existential Concerns in Families with Huntington's Disease: Towards an Understanding of the Person in Social Practice
• Middle-Ground Theorizing, Realism, and Objectivity in Psychology: A Commentary on Held (2007)
• Psychological Kinds and `Discourse Dependence': A Reply to Martin and Sugarman

March 10, 2009

Selby families poverty shocker

Data show more than 1500 homeless students in three counties

Japanese welfare rolls hit record high

Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective

The most current and comprehensive analysis of the literature on diet, physical activity and cancer.

Nature’s Social Worker, Ecological Artist Shai Zakai



Shai Zakai

Self portrait 4X2 m. photograph on canvas

Two Labor Unions Withdraw From Coalition Working To Overhaul Health Care System


Malawi receives $15m ADF budget support for poverty reduction

Minister in welfare 'cover-up' row

Developing world may need $700 billion

Canadian Social Policy in the 2000s

This article explores departures in Canadian public policy toward more “place-based” approaches to social development. Focusing on the federal government, it describes a series of recent initiatives designed to enable local actors to participate in policy development processes and take greater control of their own destinies.

Global slowdown hurts Vietnam's poorest



A street vendor hawks video CDs in Ho Chi Minh City

Brain Scanning Gives Clues to How Genes Shape Behavior, Disease Risk

New lists of beneficiaries under social safety net in offing

NS mental health court on hold

Neighborhood Effects on Crime and Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles

This report assesses the differences in the priorities of business improvement districts (BIDs) in Los Angeles (L.A.) and their effects on reported violent crime and youth violence. The report examines whether residing in neighborhoods exposed to BIDs reduces a youth’s risk to neighborhood violence and improves the overall social environment of one’s neighborhood compared to living in similarly situated neighborhoods not exposed to BIDs.

Alcohol Abuse May Lead To Depression Risk, Rather Than Vice Versa

Social work Prof thinks ICE raids unjust

In pictures: Women and hunger



In Nepal, women from remote hill villages campaign for the right to land and an end to violence against women. Local media followed their journey and politicians pledged support.

Sorry, girls - social services should be a real job for real men

Conservation corps aimed to get U.S. out of Great Depression

'Sinister Intentions' - Hard Core of Nativist Movement Growing

Organizations identified by the Intelligence Report as nativist extremist are groups that go after people, not policy. Rather than limiting themselves to advocating within the mainstream political process for tighter border security, stricter immigration controls or tougher enforcement of immigration laws already on the books, these fringe outfits target and confront immigrants as individuals.

Doctor-patient Conversations At End Of Life Associated With Lower Medical Expenses

Misguided privatization of region’s mental facility


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Emergency entrance of Western Missouri Mental Health Center in Kansas City

Daytime Sleepiness Provides Red Flag For Cardiovascular Disease

Drinking Wine Lowers Risk Of Barrett's Esophagus, Precursor To Nation's Fastest Growing Cancer,

Vietnamese adoptions thrown into doubt

Heroin's children

The Impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children's Health

This policy brief reviews the literature and examines the impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on coverage, access to care and health for the nation's low-income children.

When homeless kids needed TLC, Garfield stepped up

On the trail of a mother accused of neglect



R Gauthier / Los Angeles Times

Veteran social worker Wendy Luke works the phone at her Hawthorne office as she investigates a case.

Child Protective Services bill needs refining

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors

'Model' play centre faces closure

Federal Government Aid For Kelantan Hardcore Poor

Reform social security: Expert




"My understanding is the leadership has achieved a consensus that to greatly improve social welfare is a long-term strategy to help reduce the impact of the global financial crisis," said Bi Jiyao, senior researcher for the National Development and Reform Commission, a cabinet department for designing and implementing economic and social policies.

'Millions' in poverty amid downturn

Conducting research with people not having the capacity to consent to their participation

A Better Understanding of Caseworkers Turnover Within Child Protective Services.

As every parent knows, children need stability and consistency. For children involved in the child welfare system, who often come from and continue to live in chaotic circumstances, a caseworker may be their only continuous and stable relationship. High caseworker turnover, however, disrupts continuity and stability. To address this problem, this policy paper analyzes turnover data on Texas’ child protective services (CPS) caseworkers and makes recommendations about how turnover can be reduced.

Olga's Girls, indentured servitude in Nepal

For over twenty years, Olga Murray of Sausalito, Calif., has dedicated her life to helping the children of Nepal, providing them with educations, meals, and health care they would otherwise never be able to get. She formed her nonprofit, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, to do just that with the help of caring donors. Her love for these children has made this 83-year-old grandmother fight one of the saddest measures of poverty in western Nepal, the selling of young girls to be domestic slaves, or Kamlaris, by parents too poor to feed their children.

Annals of General Psychiatry, 7, 1-10

• Transfers to psychiatry through the consultation-liaison psychiatry service: 11 years of experience
• Mourning and melancholia revisited: correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry
• Correlates of weapon carrying among high school students in the United States
• A comparative study of anxiety and depression in patients with bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and tuberculosis in a general hospital of chest diseases
• Prevalence and correlates of being bullied among in-school adolescents in Beijing: results from the 2003 Beijing Global School-Based Health Survey
• Sleep patterns and habits in high school students in Iran
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS): validation in a Greek general hospital sample
• Preventing suicide: a resource for the family

Community Mental Health Journal, 45, 2

• Examining Racial/Ethnic Minority Treatment Experiences with Specialty Behavioral Health Service Providers
• Diagnostic, Symptom, and Functional Assessments of Hispanic Outpatients in Community Mental Health Practice
• The Relationships Among Perceived Criticism, Family Contact, and Consumer Clinical and Psychosocial Functioning for African-American Consumers with Schizophrenia
• Needs and Preferences for Receiving Mental Health Information in an African American Focus Group Sample
• Psychoeducation to Address Stigma in Black Adults Referred for Mental Health Treatment: A Randomized Pilot Study
• Eligibility, Recruitment, and Retention of African Americans with Severe Mental Illness in Community Research
• Mistrust of Outreach Workers and Lack of Confidence in Available Services Among Individuals who are Chronically Street Homeless
• Outcome Among Community Dwelling Older Adults with Schizophrenia: Results Using Five Conceptual Models

March 9, 2009

Domestic Violence Linked to Poor Health in Older Black Women

Portland poverty seminar builds new pathway to hope

Public parks could soon become smoke-free

History Through an Unblinking Lens


IFC

Michael Fassbender as the Irish nationalist Bobby Sands in “Hunger,” directed by the British artist Steve McQueen.

Cash-for-work program assured

Experimentation and Social Welfare Policymaking in the United States

Aussies urged to stop domestic violence

Today’s Seniors Eschew Sun City For Life At Home

Morris prosecutor tells Latina victims of domestic violence: We're here to help you

The State Department’s 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

These congressionally mandated reports describe the performance in 2008 of governments across the globe in putting into practice their international commitments on human rights. We hope that they will help focus attention on human rights abuses and bring action to end them.

Psychotherapist To Speak At Ithaca College On Suicide Assessment And Prevention

Domestic violence increases in China

Facts about Michigan's human services director

Poor, unemployed buying hope in lottery tickets



G Pender & R Marjan | StarPhoenix

In studying lottery sales in 39 states over 10 years, Just and his colleagues found a strong positive correlation between ticket sales and poverty rates. The researchers reported that "desperation motivates lottery consumption by the poor," with lower-income individuals contributing to a disproportionately large portion of ticket sales.

Another seismic shift emanates from California -- this time on gay marriage

Social workers contribute to communities, but a shortage of their service is on its way

Understanding the different roles of deprived neighbourhoods: a typology - research summary

This research summary outlines the development of a way of classifying neighbourhoods as one approach to explore the functional roles of deprived neighbourhoods based on the movement of people into and out of neighbourhoods.

Hernando-Pasco Hospice worker helps with children's program she once used



K AMARIA | Times

Ashley Simpson, now 25, right, was in Hernando-Pasco Hospice Children’s Assistance Program when she was 14 and grieving for her grandfather. Now she’s a hospice social worker and volunteer at the camp she attended. She’s joined by her former counselor, Bert Brahm, left.

Iraqi mental health study shows need for more care

13 recent lesbian suicide cases in city

Dentists helping the poor in Haiti

IASWR Listserv, 2/26/09

Regional and State Unemployment, 2008 Annual Averages Summary

Annual average unemployment rates rose in 2008 in all 4 regions and in 46 states and the District of Columbia, declined in 1 state, and were unchanged in 3 states.

Many Middle-aged And Older Americans Not Getting Adequate Nutrition

Art exhibit explores mental illness from the inside out


Contributed Photo

Michael Nye's Beth is a large gelatin print and one of many stories local residents can experience during his multimedia exhibit Fine Line: Mental Health/ Mental Illness

Savings Accounts for All: Simple, but Not Easy

Swimming Lessons Do Not Increase Drowning Risk In Young Children

Teenage girls at risk of domestic violence prompt new education campaign

Child benefit faces cut in €5bn crisis Budget

Approaches to Psychotherapy - Frederick Perls (1/3)

Frederick Perls demonstrates his Gestalt Therapy on the client named Gloria.

Computer calls the shots for L.A. County children in peril


R Gauthier | LA Times

Social worker Ladore Winzer, left, looks in for a crack-addicted mother who reportedly failed a mandatory drug test, leaving her vulnerable to having her child removed.

Records in Herrman case to stay closed

Sure Start Children's Centres: Survey of parents

This research assesses the success of children's centres in terms of the awareness, usage and satisfaction amongst expectant parents and carers with children under five years old.

Kids' safety on trial

Training on lesbian and gay youths in foster care

Injured foster kid to be taken off life support

Family Council gets role in suit

Children found with boy who starved now in foster care

The Future of Children, 18, 2

• Introducing the Issue
• Adolescent Development and the Regulation of Youth Crime
• Improving Professional Judgments of Risk and Amenability in Juvenile Justice
• Disproportionate Minority Contact
• Juvenile Crime and Criminal Justice: Resolving Border Disputes
• Understanding the Female Offender
• Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders
• Juvenile Justice and Substance Use
• Prevention and Intervention Programs for Juvenile Offenders

Foster child investigation continues



The biological mother of an injured foster child prays for his recovery outside the Alberta Children's Hospital.

The War on Musturbation - Albert Ellis

Completed in December 2005, just after Albert Ellis' last public appearance, this documentary is about the life and opinions of psychotherapy's most important and influential voice.

Strengthening University/Agency Partnerships to Enhance Child Welfare Outcomes: A Toolkit for Building Research Partnerships

Social care managers need to spend less time in the office, says Balls

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 18, 2

• Mental health nurses establishing psychosocial interventions within acute inpatient settings
• The feeling of being trapped in and ashamed of one's own body: A qualitative study of women who suffer from eating difficulties
• Learning from experience: Using action research to discover consumer needs in post-seclusion debriefing
• Vulnerable populations and multicentred research
• Psychiatry, mental health nurses, and invisible power: Exploring a perturbed relationship within contemporary mental health care
• Long-term homelessness in men with a psychosis: Limitation of services
• Testing and using Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire: Mental health in relation to home nursing, home help, and family care among older, care-dependent individuals
• Systematic screening for metabolic syndrome in consumers with severe mental illness

Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training: Statistics quarterly brief

This note sets out the definitive available statistics on young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and young people Not in Education and Training (NET).

March 8, 2009

Alcohol On TV Makes People Drink More

3-month delay for dole pay-outs

BGSU social work students aid food bank

Heart Hazards Of Woeful Wives

Govt to crack down on cross-border welfare fraud

Supporting Disabled Parents: A family or a fragmented approach?

This report examines the experiences of disabled parents and their families and considers how far council policies, services and practice are providing appropriate support.

Some public service workers also qualify for social welfare



Public service workers across Cork took part in strike action last Thursday against the planned government pension levy.

Ex-social worker barred from practice

Stand Up Now for Social Work

Calls to state's child mental health hot line on the rise

World Demographic Trends

Today, the world population is 6.8 billion; it is projected to stand at 9 billion in 2045 if fertility continues to decline in developing countries. Expected population growth varies considerably among countries. High population growth is expected in several developing countries, while the population of developed countries will grow little, if at all.

Two Or More Drinks A Day May Increase Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Reading urges neighbours to battle social work course closure

Why a National Mental Health Strategy Is Critical to Preventing Future Tragedies

B.C. lacks clear homelessness strategy: A.G.'s report


CBC

Homelessness means many people in Vancouver set up temporary shelters on sidewalks and in alleys.


Musicians Have Biological Advantage In Identifying Emotion In Sound

Women 'still lack power' in Wales

People Are Consistently Overly Optimistic When Asked To Predict Their Own Future Behavior

Why the Poor Stay Poor



T Hicks | NY Times

The poverty, violence and hopelessness in America’s inner cities have become increasingly dire in the four decades since the height of the civil rights movement.

Thelma Clark: 1918-2009

As Obesity Epidemic Spreads, More Patients Feel It In Their Bones And Joints

Students eye social work careers


D WAGNER | The Jackson Sun

Shanita Ruffin, 17, right, looks at information about Youth Village during Social Work Awareness Day on Wednesday at Jackson Central-Merry High School.

RCMP investigating child injured in foster care

Characteristics of Juvenile Suicide in Confinement

This Bulletin examines 110 juvenile suicides that occurred in confinement between 1995 and 1999. It describes the demographic characteristics and social history of victims and examines the characteristics of the facilities in which the suicides took place. Draw-ing on this data, the researchers offer recommendations to prevent suicides in juvenile facilities.

Alberta baby seriously injured in gov't care; NDP says foster home overcrowded

UCR social-work researcher wins grant to study youth emancipated from foster system

'Anti-Gay' Adoption Bill Advances

Some foster families feel unfairly tarred by report

National Gang Threat Assessment 2009

This intelligence assessment discusses the proliferation of gangs from urban areas to suburban and rural locations, estimates of the number of gangs and gang members in the United States, gang types, gang-related criminal activities, locations where specific gangs operate, and the relationships between gangs and other criminal organizations.

Enumclaw's Ashley House is home to fragile children



DJ KOEPFLER | AP

Ashley House Executive Director Bruce Brandler plays recently with 9-year-old resident Gilbert John in his room.

Fixing Foster Care In Alaska

Child Welfare System, "Cycle of Failure" -- Wexler

Foster Teens Get Primped For Prom

National Foundation Helps Florida Foster care Program

NDP call for probe into Alberta's foster-care system

The Oklahoma Marriage Initiative: The Promise and Challenge of Using Volunteers to Provide Community-Based Marriage Education

The goal of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) is to make information about the skills needed to build and sustain healthy marriages broadly available throughout the state.

Childcare a “postcode lottery” claim



Ian Borthwick

International Journal of Health Geographics, 7, 50-60

• An effective and efficient approach for manually improving geocoded data
• Development of a wearable global positioning system for place and health research
• Geovisual analytics to enhance spatial scan statistic interpretation: an analysis of U.S. cervical cancer mortality
• Geographic disparities in the risk of perforated appendicitis among children in Ohio: 2001–2003
• Open source GIS for HIV/AIDS management
• Comparison of Poisson and Bernoulli spatial cluster analyses of pediatric injuries in a fire district

Delirium and acute problematic behavior in the long-term care setting

Journal of Aging and Health, 21, 2

• Three-Year Measured Weight Change in the African American Health Study
• Contribution of Residential Relocation and Lifestyle to the Structure of Health Trajectories
• Trends in Disability-Free Life Expectancy Among Chinese Older Adults
• Sharing the Good, Sharing the Bad: The Benefits of Emotional Self-Disclosure Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
• The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Care Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
• Health-Related Quality of Life in Community-Dwelling Older Whites and African Americans
• Protecting Personhood and Achieving Quality of Life for Older Adults With Dementia in the U.S. Health Care System
• Making Meaningful Connections: A Profile of Social Isolation and Health Among Older Adults in Small Town and Small City, British Columbia
• Increased Mortality Risk in Older Adults With Persistently Low or Declining Feelings of Usefulness to Others

Disaster Mental Health: Just in Time Training

This continuing medical education program introduces the philosophy of disaster mental health. Topics covered include characteristics of disasters, anxiety reactions, coping styles, PTSD, mass casualties and resources available for health professionals.

Gay men criticize new adoption, foster care policy

March 7, 2009

Child protection services are getting worse, finds damning report

Young British Armed Forces Ex-servicemen At Increased Risk Of Suicide

SGA approves support for campus LGBT community

Improving Opportunity, Strengthening Society: A third progress report

This report outlines progress that is being made towards achieving race equality in key public services and in building community cohesion. It contains in-depth statistical information about performance with a focus on race inequality using data from published surveys and official statistics provided by government departments.

L.A. County spends nearly $13,000 to chase $1,004




Pawlenty appoints 6 to social work board

Problems at work? Our agony uncle has the answers

BU social work group looks to help New Orleans residents

Salmond: Don't blame social workers for Brandon's death

Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - standard forms

The forms can be adapted but, if used in unedited form, they help all those involved in the safeguards processes to fully meet the requirements of the deprivation of liberty safeguards legislation. Anybody in possession of or using the draft forms published last year is strongly advised to dispose of those forms, as there have been a number of amendments made to them since October 2008, and replace them with and use the current versions

Some Diets May Be Better Than Others For Keeping Weight Off And Staying Healthy

Kenyan group spreads its message 'step by step'



Courtesy Photo

In a Kenyan community, members of Haba na Haba perform a skit about violence at a sporting event. Haba na Haba will have an improvisational performance like this one March 19 on the South 40 during their residency on the WUSTL campus.

Union's Social Work program moves toward accreditation

Woman wins social work award for her dedication to the elderly

Arline Weinberg, 81

An advocate in times of need



T Hankins

Retired social worker Mary Ann Swanson, left, and Sylvia Ross get ready for a reception at Petaluma City Hall Monday night in honor of the City Council’s proclamation of March as Social Work Month.

Social Welfare branches out