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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.
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New research shows that highly embellished graphs and charts may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs.
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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
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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.
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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
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In this film publicity image released by Lionsgate films, Gabourey Sidibe is shown in a scene from "Precious."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
J Glossop | The Times)
The father of the Dundee family - who is not allowed to be identified - with a toy belonging to one of his children
The Minister for Social & Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, has welcomed an Oireachtas Committee report, which made a number of recommendations in order to minimise Social Welfare fraud.
An extra management post costing £25,000 to set up and run could be created to try to ease "severe pressure" on a social work budget. Providing services for older people are among the pressure on spending
October 23, 2009
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Olin Yuri Winn-Ritzenberg, 26, was asked to provide documentation when he sought to change his name.
E Keogh | Reuters
Study reveals that fears of sexual and physical abuse of vulnerable adults means more are being referred for assessment by social workers, as demand for other services also rises. Homeless people are among those increasingly seeking help from social services departments.
The long-term impacts of childhood maltreatment include higher rates of unemployment, poverty, and use of social services in adulthood, according to a new study by David Zielinski, Ph.D., of the NIMH Office of Science Policy, Planning, and Communications.
BBC
Winter fuel payments should not be paid to higher-rate taxpayers, a committee of MPs says, and the money saved should be spent on helping the fuel poor.
October 22, 2009
Patients who receive structured, telephone-based support to manage their depression gain significant benefits with only moderate increases in health care costs compared to those who receive usual care, according to an NIMH-funded analysis.
Francisca says therapy helped her cope with depression. In November, she and her boyfriend had a daughter.
UBC Okanagan social work graduate students Anne Stack and Erin Ptolemy have each received major fellowship awards recognizing their research work in health care
A Leeds University project is recording stories and memories of vast swaths of the population for posterity
October 21, 2009
BBC
Police in a south Wales community are trying to tackle the supply of valium after a number of people, including children, have been taken to hospital.
P CHAPLIN | Patriot-News
Rhys Pinder, 11, center, offers memorial service handouts as friends and family arrive for a memorial service for Kristin Bowser at St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral in Harrisburg
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The Cigna 7 protesters, arrested for taking direct action for health care justice, including Helen Redmond, medical social worker
October 20, 2009
Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The Old College of Physicians of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust streets in Center City Philadelphia is where the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society was founded a century ago.
AP
Wanted: social worker for rocky outcrop in Pacific Ocean hit by child-abuse scandal. Those who dislike isolation need not apply.
CANADIAN PRESS | J Woods
Greg Selinger enters the Manitoba NDP leadership convention prior to speaking in Winnipeg
Children from the poorest families in rural Wales are missing out on services available to disadvantaged young people in urban areas, research has found.
October 19, 2009
Van Buren Sheriff Dept
Authorities investigate and a clean up crew goes over a mobile home fire caused by a meth lab in the 83000 block of Rogers Street in Decatur, Mich.
CBC
Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock says the province has been nickel-and-diming the poor.
More than a third of official inquiries into the most serious cases of child abuse in England are inadequate, the official watchdog Ofsted has warned.
Herald Scotland
The companies providing support for elderly people at home say bidding processes are part of the proble,
October 18, 2009
Islington Gazette
Protesters outside the university. Social work lecturer John Barraclough: "The university is proposing 550 redundancies, which is 25 per cent of the work force. This will reduce the effectiveness of the teaching and there will be less IT support."
Suspected abuser Avrohom Mondrowitz in an Israeli court in 2007. He is still fighting extradition back to the US
October 17, 2009
NZ Herald
Education Minister Anne Tolley says there is no money for counsellors and social workers at low decile schools.
TA James | Chicago Tribune
Chris Cruz, left, who has ADHD and an anxiety disorder, at home in Chicago with his mom Lissette Cruz.
M Beaty | The Lumberjack
Freshman biology/zoology major Elyse Miller paints her hand to make a multicolored handprint outside the Union on Monday in celebration of National Coming Out day. NAU's PRIZM club along with members of PFLAG and Planned Parenthood put on the event designed for those who are "out and proud."
T Edwards | NNSL photo
Leanna Cazon stands in Fort Simpson with her one-year-old daughter, Brooklyn Cazon-Martineau. Cazon received her high school diploma last month, which she earned through correspondence while taking care of her two kids at home.
J Hordle | Rex Features
Former head of Haringey social services, Sharon Shoesmith, outside the high court in London.
A lesbian couple in Manitoba is launching a complaint with the province's Human Rights Commission after their foster children were pulled from their home.
Times Online
Two thirds of children killed or seriously injured by their parents were being monitored by social workers at the time — with one in five on the “at-risk” register.
October 16, 2009
Daijiworld
Five colleges including University College, St Aloysius College, St Ann’s College and School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya will come under the Centre for Excellence.
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DAVID FOLEY, a 17-year-old boy from Clondalkin, Dublin, died three years ago from a drug overdose, while he was in the care of the Health Service Executive (HSE). He had been placed in a number of emergency hostels from the age of 14. Last week a number of families marched on Leinster House in protest at the HSE's treatment of the children who have died in its care.
L Luotio | YLE
According to Finnish law and interpretations by the courts, flicking, slapping, and hair-pulling are all forms of mild child abuse.
It can be a long road to recovery for some of the victims of ukuthwalwa.
At the age of 14, Nolizwi Sinama set off from her aunt's home to a neighbouring village. She thought she had been sent on a routine chore. In fact, she was on her way to be married to a 42-year-old man.
October 15, 2009
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Solidarity Minister Nouzha Skalli signed 13 agreements to help Moroccan elderly.
REUTERS | F O'Reilly
Severely malnourished Sadiki Basilaki, 9, receives a mug of milk at a catholic mission feeding center in Rutshuru, 70kms (50 miles) north of Goma in eastern Congo.
E McGihon | Sun Media
Castille Troy is executive director of the Minwaashin Lodge Aboriginal Women’s Support Centre and chairs the city’s Community Assisting Aboriginal Sex Trade Workers committee.
A McMahon
Paul Michael Garrett of NUI Galway believes media reports of social workers frequently undermine their positions. His new book called Transforming Childrens Services? critically examines a number of key issues connected to the modernisation of social work services for children and their families.
October 14, 2009
WFOR
Michael Brewer, 15, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., was intentionally set on fire and is hospitalized with burns over 65 percent of his body. Three juveniles have been arrested.
Northern Territory News | K Block
Political pioneer Jack Ah Kit has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate.
M Miller
The School commissioned Penn alumna Karen Singer, MFA ’81, to create the Centennial Wall, an art piece that will serve as a recognition vehicle for alumni and donors and also a historical memento to note 100 years of producing agents of social change at Penn.
L Fong | Post-Gazette
Sarah Dunn, a social worker at Paynter Elementary School in Baldwin, helps Bhuwan Dahl, 7, from Nepal, color his weather project earlier this month.
Most girls who engage in compensated dating don't view themselves as prostitutes, a social worker says.
October 13, 2009
Inaugurating the workshop, Dr Jacinta D’Souza, principal, School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya said that the city which has become infamous outside the region after the attacks on minorities, pub incident and moral policing.
K Hare | The Enquirer
Kim Fatato, MSW is a supervisor for intensive in-home counselors at Starr Commonwealth in Battle Creek.
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Prof. Celia Williamson (center). The city of Toledo is currently fourth in the nation for the volume of investigations and rescue of children from underground human trafficking networks; however, Celia Williamson, a professor in the department of social work at UT, said Toledo is “just at the tip of the iceberg.
G Tomsich | Corbis
Many academics fear that new funding proposals will ignore the value of their research
Columbus Dispatch
Denise Bronson, associate dean for academic affairs at Ohio State University's College of Social Work, has been a member of the levy-review committee since its inception a decade ago. She said the committee is impressed with the change since the agency's last review, when members worried about skyrocketing costs and placements. "I think they're doing the right things," Bronson said. "They're redirecting, trying to strengthen families rather than investigate them."
October 12, 2009
CBC
Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock says the province has to stop nickel-and-diming the poor.
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Smart meters will eliminate the need to take readings from traditional electricity and gas meters. Smart meters could become a 'spy in the home' by allowing social workers and health authorities to monitor households, adding to concern at Britain's surveillance society.
T Talbot | AP
Dr. Jennifer Gilwee is seen in her office in South Burlington, Vt. The Blueprint for Health uses so-called Community Care Teams to complement the work of primary-care physicians by offering follow-up services from nurses, nutritionists, dieticians, trainers and social workers.
In conjunction with anti-poverty week this week, the St Vincent de Paul Society wants the Federal Government to address the inequality in pension and benefits.
CBC
Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock is promising to overhaul the province's welfare policy.
October 11, 2009
Daily News
Minister D.M. Jayaratne unveiling the plaque at the opening of the Social Welfare Development Centre of Deniyaya Estate. Ministry Secretary Indrani Sugathadasa , Additional Secretary Wimal Jayawardane and Plantation Project Director Raja Premadasa look on.
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“Social workers, be our allies,” “Judges, understand us,” “Business ability is the right to live” are only some of the banners that “Shine” activists carried while distributing leaflets.
A Spearman
Volunteer instructor Amber Shrader works with (from bottom) Emonika McDowell, 9, Zyitrecia Thomas, 8, and Jessica Garner, 10, on a computer program during an after-school session at the Hope Fellowship center at Bent Tree Apartments on Winchester.
October 10, 2009
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Facilitators Kevin Mosley and Bobby Fisher helped men explore their feeling about meth through art.
Newsday | JC Williams | 5/27/08
Karen Henley and her daughter, Courtney, leave the hospital after visiting husband and father Mike Henley. The Alzheimer's patient was taken there because of seizures.
The High Court heard Ed Balls ordered the removal of Sharon Shoesmith from Haringey Council following "uninformed prejudice" by tabloid newspapers. A judicial review is looking into Ms Shoesmith's claims she was removed as head of children's services unlawfully.
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The death of 13-month-old Christopher L. Thomas Jr. and its catalyst for change in the child welfare bureau
mage courtesy of Plataforma SINC
Of the 23 variables studied, performance, success and average are strongly associated with college dropouts.
October 9, 2009
Praveen Thapar, chairperson of the Sanjivni Centre for Mental Health, said while it's true that women are more prone to depression, it's equally true that women are better at sharing their emotions and problems than men - as a result most men keep their problems to themselves which has serious implications later.
CBC
Justice Minister Kathleen Weil says the proposed changes to adoption rules reflect the new societal reality in Quebec.
"Sarah is a unique scholar in her ability to work across scientific disciplines as well as work effectively with diverse communities to address disparities," said Edward F. Lawlor, Ph.D., dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor. "Her work embodies the spirit of community engagement on which the E. Desmond Lee chair is based." Gehlert's publications focus on social influences on health, especially the health of vulnerable populations. She is working on the influence of neighborhood and community factors, such as community violence and unsafe housing, on psychosocial functioning among African-American women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.
