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November 23, 2009
J Whipple | Rapport
Anita Tedaldi with her children, left to right: Luisa (nine), Nina (16 months), Livia (three) Anna (seven) and Eva (six).
November 22, 2009
TC Sothy | AFP
Cambodian children study in a classroom at one of the M’Lop Tapang organisation’s schools in Sihanoukville.
T Boyd | The Oregonian
St. Vincent de Paul's Portland council transformed a school bus into a rolling restaurant. they call it the Mobile Kitchen. Charles Ashcraft (center), who has worked for St. vincent's for 24 years is the driver. volunteer Dell Zimmerman (right) serves up meals to go.
In the 2001 recession—the only previous recession for which food security data are available—food insecurity increased not only during the downturn but also in the first 3 years of renewed economic growth.
November 21, 2009
Reducing poverty benefits the whole community. So says a study released today by the Community Quality Institute (CQI), commissioned by the District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board that looked at the local impact of poverty on the community.
NY1
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Tuesday in Tompkinsville to celebrate the opening of a new home for foster children that bears the name and mission of a fallen FDNY hero.
November 20, 2009
Bangkok Post
Pedestrians cross a busy road in Sydney. Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.
Inside Ireland
Congress General Secretary David Begg said: “Here we have a graphic illustration of our clearly divided society, and strong evidential support for the view that Government cannot continue to impose the burden of this recession on low and middle income earners.
The governor's office says Hoppe has spent her career as a caseworker, manager and counselor on child and family issues such as custody evaluations, child abuse and neglect and family advocacy. Hoppe received a bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University and a master's degree from Butler University.
The government's plan to offer the most vulnerable people free social care in their own homes in England has been met with a cool response.
November 19, 2009
BBC
Two children's homes in Swansea could close under plans to restructure the council's child and family services.
L Hughes
Taking control: Tameside’s Granada Road playing fields have been redesigned in collaboration with the children who use them.
ST | NG SOR LUAN, DOMINIC WONG
Mrs Ann Wee (far left) and Madam Indranee Nadisen (left) were given the inaugural outstanding lifetime volunteers awards by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
iStockphoto | A Rohde
A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.
Parents on low incomes who care for disabled children are struggling more than was previously thought, two charities have claimed.
November 18, 2009
AP | T Hadebe
Kumi Naidoo, a South African who battled apartheid as a teen, then went on to lead global campaigns to end poverty and protect human rights took over Monday Nov. 16, 2009 as the new international head of the environmental group Greenpeace. Naidoo, Greenpeace International's new executive director, said climate change makes his new job a logical addition to his resume.
AP | C Osorio
Michigan state Department of Human Services caseworker Sandy Satchel, foreground, works at the Family Independence Agency in Detroit, Nov. 13, 2009. As Michigan struggles with the highest-in-the-nation jobless rate, state workers who deal with unemployment, welfare and other aid programs say they have never been so overwhelmed _ or so worried about their safety.
The union representing 2,700 social workers and staff for the state’s child-protection agency has voted by a nearly 10-1 ratio to declare no confidence in Commissioner Anthony “Angelo’’ McClain, an unprecedented move for the agency.
AW EDLUND | TIMES-DISPATCH
Lyndsey Benson has had more than her share of challenges going through Virginia’s foster-care system. But, she maintains hope for something better.
Ann Reid's mother, Peggy Belcher, was confused and frightened in hospital. Nurses left sign saying: 'You are not well, you need to stay in hospital. Just sit there, rest, relax and don't bang the table'. Ms Reid's mother did not have reading glasses with her nor could she remember anything for more than two seconds
November 17, 2009
For too long, media coverage of social work has been hostile, inaccurate, misleading - or completely absent. Social work is often treated as a second class profession in news reports and much of the press focuses disproportionately on child protection, leaving other aspects of children's and adults' services invisible.
M Magnier | Los Angeles Times
Roshan Bairwa, center, in red, refused to be married off at age 14. The 17-year-old is now in the 10th grade, and hopes to become a teacher. With the encouragement of Shiv Shiksha Samiti, a charity that promotes women's rights and social development, Roshan and 22 other girls meet and perform skits that encourage girls to safeguard their future.
Rhode Island KIDS COUNT is a statewide children’s policy organization that works to improve and ensure the economic well-being, health, safety, education and development of Rhode Island children.
November 16, 2009
Professor Emerita Hilda Hidalgo, 81, is being mourned by the Rutgers University community, scores of former students, and numerous others, including many who never met her.
MC Barry
David Woodsworth, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the McGill University School of Social Work
CBC
Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock promises money will be found in the budget to cover the ambitious changes.
November 15, 2009
M Alexander
Dominican Sister Marie Sullivan has spent 50 years of her life serving individuals and families in crisis in Atlanta and Kansas City, Mo.
AP | LV Burke
New syringes in supply boxes await distribution by the program Prevention Works in Washington.
A Gibson | NZ Herald
Enid Ratahi-Pryor's Whakatane organisation is the subject of a trial in which all Social Development Ministry contracts are bundled into one.
November 14, 2009
AP | T Talbot
Officials say some psychiatric patients have had to wait in emergency rooms for hours or days until hospital beds became available.
OT Eldakar
The Aquarius remigis water strider on the right, identified by the blue-red-white dot sequence, is a highly aggressive male who is trying to break up a mating. The low-aggression water strider with the white-yellow-blue dots is mating with the female beneath him. The female, who has green dots near her head, is almost completely covered by the male on top of her.
The provincial government is promising to get to the bottom of what is being called an "alarming increase" in the number of kids being placed in the custody of the province.
Courtesy photo
Claire Fischer plays with children at the foster home she helped found in Ghana-- the Mawuli Apeme.
J Sassi
The grant awarded to Virginia Strand, D.S.W., will address a major shortage of social workers trained in evidence-based childhood trauma treatment.
November 13, 2009
J Sassi
Manoj Pardasani says senior centers should be designed so that elders can give back to the community in meaningful ways.
guardian.co.uk home
Fundamental change in the treatment of dementia patients has been promised by the government
K Wentz-Graff
The system worked: Darryl Sanders (left) never knew his mother. His father gave him and his brothers up, and they bounced around in foster care, separated from each other at an early age. He was a troublemaker. At 11, he was put on a Greyhound bus to a new life with foster parents near Green Bay. They stuck with him. He thrived. He now advocates for troubled kids.
The system didn't work: Ryan Banks (right) never knew his mother, either. He went from his grandmother to the man everyone thought was his father to a strict uncle. An aunt took him in, but his $100 a month allowance wasn't enough. He began selling drugs for a friend's older brother. When he was 14, he shot and killed a 15-year-old boy. He's now in prison.
November 12, 2009
REUTERS
August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall was erected: A birds eye view of the former Allied Checkpoint Charlie.
Aspect Medical System | Psychiatric News
The Antidepressant Treatment Response biomarker is calculated based on quantitative electroencephalography measurements taken at two sessions: before the start of antidepressant treatment and one week into the treatment.
F Baron
Anna Wood, who has severe ME and is dependent on help from her home carer, was initially deemed ineligible for the new form of incapacity benefit.
November 11, 2009
JoongAng Daily
Six Korean adoptees filed an appeal with the Anti-corruption and Civil Rights Commission last year to request a probe into irregularities in their adoption documents and possible illegal procedures at local adoption agencies.
JoongAng Daily
Six Korean adoptees filed an appeal with the Anti-corruption and Civil Rights Commission last year to request a probe into irregularities in their adoption documents and possible illegal procedures at local adoption agencies.
SI Fatzinger | Fairfax County Times
Our Daily Bread food manager Christina Garris, at the food pantry's Vienna location, which is low on donations for this time of the year.
In an attempt to promote reconciliation, a truth commission established by Nunavut’s Qikiqtani Inuit Association in 2007 has heard testimony from more than 500 witnesses — people like Peter Irniq, one of the now ten-year-old territory’s first commissioners and Walter Rudnicki, a social worker with the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources in the ’60s.
Independent.ie
Looking for answers: Eleven-year-old Amy Flinn was diagnosed with AS 18 months ago - "Then everything made sense," says her mum Jo.
November 10, 2009
R DOWNING | SUN NEWS
The furniture sold at Bloomin might be in need of some repair or refinishing, or might be good "as is." But, in either case, the price is right.
N de la Torre | Chronicle
Marie Gonzalez, center, gets support from another inmate after a recent drug therapy session at the Harris County Jail.
D Wilson | Jersey Journal
The Bayonne Jewish Community Center, at 1050 Kennedy Blvd., is one of the locations for the homeless prevention appointments.
Sofia Photo Agency
Stanishev, speaking at a press conference in Sofia Monday, stated that the 2010 budget will lead to rising unemployment, bankrupt municipalities and a high level of poverty.
C Bailey | FLORIDA TODAY
Catherine Jones, 24, was 13 years old when she and her then-12-year-old brother, Curtis, left, fatally shot their father's girlfriend.
November 9, 2009
Bharatiya Janata Party
“Allegations and insinuations are not new to me,” Karandlaje, who holds a Masters in Social Work, had been maintaining in response to the dissidents’ charge. “I have come up the hard way. Let these people prove that I have been interfering in their work,” she had challenged.
Prof. Hillel Schmid addresses a recent conference held by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel
“Every one of us has been affected by the child welfare system in Ontario,” says Adrienne Pelletier, Social Services Director with the Union Ontario Indians, about the native population in Ontario.
G Robins | AFP Getty Images
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a Crown prosecutor was not acting maliciously when he prosecuted 12 members of a Saskatchewan family in the early 1990s after three foster children accused them of sexual abuse and bizarre satanic ritual abuse.
November 8, 2009
Times of Malta
Members of anti-poverty group Oxfam, wearing masks of world leaders, taking part in a demonstration outside the venue of the Barcelona Climate Change Talks.
Hai Qin, a 12-year-old girl of Hui ethnic group, feeds a cattle in Kaicheng Town of Guyuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Farmer Geda Shenu, who lives in a drought-hit rural area near the town of Meki, Ethiopia, is struggling to feed his children and has petitioned for government assistance. The Ethiopian government has restricted coverage of the drought and is hampering the work of international aid groups.
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), its components, and federations of labour have selected Nov. 6 to recognize the contributions made by Canadian Community Social Service (CSS) Workers.
BBC
A social worker wrongly dismissed from her job following the murder of a baby in Swansea has accepted a pay-out from her former employers.
November 7, 2009
Director of Social Work Andrew Lowe has warned that 27% more social workers are needed across Scotland by 2017 if the department is to keep up with population increases.
BBC
A social work director has said meeting new guidance on free personal and nursing care is placing fresh demands on an "over stretched" budget.
M Sears
After formally notifying Russell Seager’s family in Mount Pleasant that Seager had been killed in the shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, a military officer returns to the home to assist the family.
iStockphoto | J Metzger
New research shows that highly embellished graphs and charts may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs.
iStockphoto
New research suggests that three-year-old children who are exposed to more TV appear to be at an increased risk for exhibiting aggressive behavior.
November 6, 2009
REUTERS | R Ranoco
Residents wade through knee-deep floodwaters brought by Typhoon Ketsana in Taytay Rizal, east of Manila.
T Karumba | AFP, Getty Images
Irene Khan is retiring after eight years as the secretary-general of Amnesty International.
The Globe and Mail
Sam Mellace with a few of his pot plants inside his medical marijuana growing operation at his home in Miracle Valley, B.C.
File photo by The Republican
Picketers march in protest in front of a Springfield welfare office where arrests were made during a sit-in planned by Wade Rathke.
YLE
The number of children placed in foster care is growing in Finland. Meanwhile, basic services for kids have undergone drastic cuts in recent years.
November 5, 2009
Shobha Karandlaje, the lone woman minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) and a post-graduate in social work, is not a push over.
D Fitzmaurice | NY Times
PARENTING Bryan Leahy and Melissa Calapini with their children in Olivehurst, Calif.
November 4, 2009
AP | Lionsgate, AM Fox)
In this film publicity image released by Lionsgate films, Gabourey Sidibe is shown in a scene from "Precious."
A Richardson
Senior project worker Linda Wood in the garden of the Dundee flats where the project has been bringing positive results.
K Dundar | Student Life
A Washington University police officer turns on to Forsyth Boulevard in his patrol car Sunday afternoon. Following an alleged incident of racial profiling by a Washington University police officer, a fact-finding commission has been formed to investigate the accusation.
November 3, 2009
C Thomond
A gallery of old photographs of residents brightens up a corridor at Peppermill Court in North Yorkshire.
E Freund (NFS)
Erika Freund, left, and Mama Hanz, one of the Mama Machumba women, collect banana leaves in the Tanzanian village of Meru this past summer.
In the aftermath of the death and subsequent public outrage over the case of Baby P - now identified as Peter Connolly - Panorama gained access to child protection workers in Coventry in a bid to understand the challenges of social work in Britain today.
CL JIN
There might not be much physical difference between the old days and now but there is a huge change in attitude in the treatment of mental patients.
November 2, 2009
B Beawiharta | Reuter/Reuters
A mental patient named Totok reacts as he is given a shower at the Galuh foundation house in East Bekasi, outskirt of Jakarta.
F Lum | The Globe and Mail
Don Blair, 85, used to go four times a week on the bus but now has it down to two, due to ill health. He goes to Quebec but also Gananoque, where he can get the bus for free from his Brockville home.
92% of the older people surveyed said they knew little or nothing about the government's new scheme to introduce personal budgets for social care
November 1, 2009
B Chamberlin | LA Times
An abandoned truck in Hayfork, Calif. Pot farmers are filling an economic void left by the logging industry. The unemployment rate in the county was 15.9% in September.
The Guardian
Mira Hamermesh with one of the cattle trucks used to transport Jews to the death camps, preserved as a memorial
Intersections in South Allison Hill, such as this one at 13th and Derry, have more retail potential, argues William Bellinger.
HA Barrios
The Californian Amber Sikola Rodrigues holds her father, fallen B.P.D. officer William Sikola's badge. Amber was a 1-year-old when he died.
Happy family, Robynne and Ian Feavearyear with their three adopted children and their own child, Noah, 2, at their home at Buxton.
October 31, 2009
J Bear | News-Bulletin
Arturo Saiz has been involved with the community all his life. His parents fed migrant workers during the Great Depression, giving him his start in community service.
J MAHONEY/DMN
A day after the sweep targeting the La Familia cartel, authorities seized 300 pounds of meth in a Mesquite home.
Herald Scotland
Caroline Burgess, Sarah Hinks, Angela Gullone and Gillian Richards of Babies on Buses
B ELY | OREGONIAN
Jeany Stangl, holds a young girl who is in foster care in the Stangl home. Behind her in the family’s backyard swing set are Stangl’s children (left to right): Shelby-Jo Stangl, 12; Dylan Stangl, 10; Sadie Stangl, 11. On the far right, Megan Stangl, 15, holds a young boy is also in foster care
AP | H Cabluck
Prospective jurors, including women from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, arrive for the first day of jury selection in the trial of Raymond Jessop Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, in Eldorado, Texas. Prospective jurors lined up in a cold rain Monday outside a municipal building that will serve as a makeshift courthouse for the first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of underage girls.
October 30, 2009
T Castelazo
Bosniak woman who lives in Rome sold the bodies of her underaged daughters for €15. Girls never attended school or learned their own age.
M Randolph | Bay City Times
Susannah Roy sorts bread into piles for the food giveaway during Project Connect at the Bay County Community Center in Bay City, Michigan.
What would you give to see inside the mind of one of the last century's great psychological thinkers?
October 29, 2009
CNN
If you have ever complained that your apartment is the size of a shoebox, consider the living space of Hong Kong resident Chung For Lau.
According to Macmillan Cancer Support, 73 per cent of people in cancer treatment need to use central heating more often, yet only those over the age of 60 are eligible for support.
AP | Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility
In this photo released by the Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility girls are seen working in the laundry early in the history of the facility. The girl's reformatory closed recently after 121 years.
Social work vacancies are running at record levels — 12 per cent nationally and almost 33 per cent in some London boroughs; and Cafcass — the service charged with looking after the interests of children in family proceedings — is in meltdown.
Greenwich UNISON suggests a safe caseload is five complex or 12 non-complex cases, but their branch secretary claims workers at Greenwich council have been left with up to 20 regardless of their complexity.
October 28, 2009
Actor Nandita Das opens up on life after “Firaaq”, her work as chairperson of Children’s Film Society of India and future plans
Post-Gazette
From left to right: Dr. Sidney Heller, Eugene Key, crew chief, and EMT Harold Brown of Freedom House
One in 30 students in Nampa is now considered homeless, and the school district is doing their best to help out.
50 federally funded, professionally trained social work investigators from around the country gathered at the Davidson Conference Center for the Los Angeles Conference on Intervention Research in Social Work.
October 27, 2009
ST PHOTO | D LIM
Mohd Ali Mahmood (left), Seah Kheng Yeow (center) and Chua Wei Bin (furthest left) received the highest honour in their profession from the President
JB Forbes | P-D
Private investigator Carlos Lopez, left, and social worker Sheila Suderwalla talk recently with a man about his family tree as they try to locate other relatives who may be willing to adopt a foster child and get her out of the foster care system.
Contributed photo
Nancy Pierson, director of field placement for the ECU School of Social Work, from left, congratulates David W. Hardee Scholarship winners and ECU students Emily Sinning and Ajlana Music along with John Tote, executive director of the Mental Health Association of North Carolina.
October 26, 2009
MA Pushpa | IPS courtesy - Newsnet
Women textile workers pay a third of their salaries as rent for impossibly cramped boarding. They need support.
S McCay
Current research by social work professor George Leibowitz is leading to new findings about juvenile sexual offenders. "I think we've helped fill a gap in the research by showing that the way sexual abuse happens with adults isn't how it happens with kids," he explains.
October 25, 2009
VNA/VNS | D Ngoc
Health workers discuss reproductive issues with teenagers at Ha Noi Maternity Hospital. Viet Nam topped the list of countries with the largest number of abortions, many of which are by unmarried teens.
J BURBANK | ORLANDO SENTINEL
A plaque honoring namesake Dave Jeffreys at the Dave's House residential facility in Orlando. Lakeside Behavioral Healthcare owns and operates DaveÂs House, a supportive housing program for mental illness recovery.
Baltimore Sun | P Hermann
In temporary quarters, files of domestic violence reports pile up because the filing cabinets are full. Annually, city police investigate about 25,000 domestic violence cases. Some are taken over by a unit thatÂs been operating for nearly a year.
October 24, 2009
Mangalore University's department of social work coordinator, Leena Ashok, participated as the chief guest. Mahila Samaj president Jayanti Shivaji Shetty, Dr Giridhar Rao, Dr Duggappa Kajekar and Anil Palan were the guests of honour. College principal G Yogananda presided. Sahana Supriya welcomed. Shagufta Bibi compered the programme.