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NDIANAPOLIS — A lawsuit filed against Indiana's social services agency claims it wrongly barred a developmentally disabled woman from Medicaid waiver programs and left her without enough income to survive. The American Civil Liberties Union of ...
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Morgan Carpenter: Our lives are medicalised, and our voices rarely heard. If the sex discrimination amendment bill passes, this will be a huge win for all of usMorgan Carpenter
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Unison national officer Helga Pile said: "This survey highlights the huge problems building up in social services departments up and down the country. In many areas, an underlying crisis is being swept under the carpet that could erupt at any time.
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Clampdown on marketing to British children through TV advertising is not enough to protect them, says WHO reportFood companies are accused on Tuesday by the World Health Organisation, the public health arm of the UN, of finding ways to bypass the rules on advertising unhealthy products to children a[...]
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NORTH COUNTY — Two of North County's largest social service agencies — Interfaith Community Services in Escondido and Community Resource Center in Encinitas — announced Monday they will merge July 1. The combined annual budget of the ...
UTSanDiego.com via Google News 5 hours ago
Healthy baby born to woman who was given naturally occurring hormone kisspeptin to stimulate egg productionThe first baby in the world to be born to a woman who was given a naturally occurring hormone to stimulate egg production instead of the usual fertility drugs could herald a safer era of IVF tr[...]
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Prime minister claims EU-US deal could create 2m jobs but anti-poverty activists warn that it could sow seeds of next crisisDavid Cameron held out the prospect of Europe and the US concluding the "biggest bilateral trade deal in history" after Washington and Brussels agreed on Monday to launch talks[...]
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Culture secretary to insist on action at summit of ISPs as companies are accused of ignoring child abuse image problemInternet providers are to face unrelenting pressure to restrict access to "horrific" and illegal images of child abuse, the culture secretary, Maria Miller, will say on Tuesday at a [...]
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Absolute poverty has shot up for working-age adults, in the front line for redundancy and shrinking payWhether the question is race, region or sex, there is a strand of leftish politics that always insists: "It's not about X; it's about class." Suggestions of an emerging generational divide get brus[...]
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Leaked email depicts system under strain• A tough job doing Iain Duncan Smith's bidding as he strives to scalp the welfare bill. Calls for tough love in spades from the health professionals employed by private contractor Atos, the ones who say yea or nay to those who seek state assistance. So if t[...]
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Last September, the government made it a criminal offence to squat unoccupied in residential buildings. This move came at a time of a major housing crisis: there are around 1 million unoccupied or empty homes in the UK and homelessness is growing. Squatting is one of Britain's oldest forms of tenanc[...]
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Carers like Debra Claridge are not alone in fighting for decent carers' wages (Tagged, harassed, underpaid: the uncared-for carers, 14 June). On International Workers Day, we launched a petition demanding a living wage for mothers and other carers. People spoke of the millions facing neglect as the [...]
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SPRINGFIELD — A surge in tax collections coming into the state in April allowed Illinois to make substantial payments to vendors, including social service agencies, but officials have been warned to not get their hopes up. The state was able to reduce its $8.5 ...
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Social workers have always been critical to our nation's response to HIV. In working to connect newly diagnosed people to HIV care and to help people to stay in care, social workers are now helping to make the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) ...
AIDS.gov blog (blog) via Google News
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INDIANAPOLIS - A lawsuit filed against Indiana's social services agency claims it wrongly barred a developmentally disabled woman from Medicaid waiver programs and left her without enough income to survive. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana ...
WRTV Indianapolis via Google News 7 hours ago
The VDSS review is one of three reviews the Jones Administration requested of the Richmond Department of Social Services (RDSS) following a number of allegations the City received about Child Protective Services (CPS) policies, procedures and ...
WRIC via Google News 8 hours ago
The second of three reports on Richmond's Department of Social Services, released Monday afternoon, underscores what a damning investigation by the city auditor has already revealed. “The child welfare units within the (Richmond Department of Social ...
Richmond Times Dispatch via Google News 9 hours ago
ew York City has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit that accused it of improperly withholding some pension benefits from police officers who were called to active military service after Sept. 11, 2001, newly filed court papers show. The ...
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A lawsuit filed against Indiana's social services agency claims it wrongly barred a disabled woman from Medicaid waiver programs and left her without enough income to survive. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit on behalf of ...
89.3 WFPL via Google News 10 hours ago
ALEIGH — Since the 1940s, public school teachers who earn a master’s degree have earned more ... scale of between 12 and 20 weeks. Numerous programs, laws and initiatives started by Democratic governors and Democratic legislatures are ...
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Brady wants to be allowed to move from psychiatric hospital to prison, where he hopes to starve himself to deathMoors murderer Ian Brady began a legal attempt to prove that he is sane in the hope that he will be discharged from the secure psychiatric hospital where he is incarcerated and sent to a h[...]
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After the death of my disabled son Nihal, I spent nine years writing a poem and stage show that pays tribute to his courage and strengthThe nuclear grey, Christmas Eve morning in 2001, when I found my disabled son, Nihal, heartstoppingly still, a spidery network of fine blue veins beginning to [...]
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Britain has long sheltered a small Syrian diaspora. But now the conflict in the homeland is creating deep tensions, with many finding themselves being drawn into events from afarZaher Shehab clearly remembers how he heard the news. The Bath University student had been meeting his PhD supervisor when[...]
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With the main parts of the gay marriage bill having been passed by whopping majorities, peers were reduced to nit-pickingThe Lords rarely let you down. They may be composed of ex-politicians and TV presenters these days, but there are still a few who would fit straight into a PG Wodehouse novel. On [...]
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A host of US shows portray mental health in fun, helpful and realistic ways. It's a good change from the 'straitjacket' daysMental illness is having quite the year on the small and big screens. The stereotypical images of straitjackets and Frankenstein-inspired psychiatric procedures have been repla[...]
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By Rena Malai, News staff Pressure cooker bombs killed three people and injured about 164 when they exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April. In response to the tragedy, NASW’s Massachusetts Chapter has gathered resources and information online to help those affected by the bo[...]
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be hosting webinars on the health insurance marketplace (formally called the exchange) throughout June and July. Â Health Insurance Marketplaces will be open in every state on January 1, 2014. We encourage you to take advantage of this opport[...]
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By Paul R. Pace, News staff Social workers are doing their part to help shape their states’ health insurance marketplaces, formerly known as health insurance exchanges. A key component of the Affordable Care Act, health insurance marketplaces are being constructed so individuals and small business[...]
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By Paul R. Pace, News staff NASW’s new CEO, Angelo McClain, said he is eager to build on the foundation that social work pioneers have worked hard to achieve. “There are many of us who were around 30 plus years ago when the social work profession did not get the respect it deserved,” said McCl[...]
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[Referencing: Kahraman Kiral, Aynur Ozge, Mehmet Ali Sungur, and Bahar Tasdelen, “Detection of Memory Impairment in a Community-Based System: A Collaborative Study,” Health & Social Work, Volume 38, Number 2 (May 2013), pp. 89-96.] Populations throughout the world are both increasing and aging. [...]
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Join NASW in commemorating World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), an observance of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, this month. Visit the WEAAD resource library for information and ideas about how to plan a program in your community. Schedule a viewing of a WEAAD progra[...]
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