Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Professor Terri Friedline’s research on how financial institution locations are influenced by a neighborhood’s racial composition is featured in DBusiness. Friedline’s study analyzed the placement of banks, credit unions and alternative financial services — such as payday lenders — in six Detroit area counties. Her research shows that banks and credit unions tend to withdraw from areas as Black populations grow, whereas alternative financial services target these areas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

● Tearing children from their parents because the parents are receiving medication-assisted treatment to control drug addiction doesn’t just impose enormous needless trauma on the children. As The Imprint points out in this two-part series, it also happens to be illegal. But when has the law ever applied to the family police or the family courts? And by the way, I wonder how many of the sanctimonious judges who insist that taking a drug every day to remain healthy is just another form of addicti

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Labour pledged ‘deep reform’ of this flawed and complex system. A royal commission could shape a consensus The sooner the government brings forward social care proposals the better. The lack of further detail about a manifesto commitment to “deep reform” has been a disappointment of Labour’s first months in office. Assisted dying and palliative care are a largely separate issue, relating to the last six months of life rather than the long-term (and sometimes lifelong) needs that social care addr

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Now that we are truly in December, some are starting to really feel the pain from the loss of a loved one. That loss may be over the past year where this is the first holiday season without them. The loss may be less recent, yet still profound. Particularly when in the same calendar year, each special occasion can really hit home. The first year of grief tends to be the hardest.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Reviews of serious cases are “silent” about the role of racial bias in child protection decision making, safeguarding experts have found. Case inquiries relating to black, Asian or mixed heritage children inconsistently featured the voice of the child and their recommendations failed to provide high-quality learning for practitioners on working with these groups of children.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Common among folks who identify as empaths, is difficulty setting boundaries. For many, the issue is also that people pleasing. Both are often the result of growing up in a home where one always had to be aware of the mood of others. That can be the result of a parent given to drinking and/or anger issues. Learning to read their mood and please them was a matter of safety, self-preservation.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Did you know that you can predict the likelihood of child behavior and mental health problems by the number of meals a family has together each week on average. True. The greater the time kids have with parents, typically, the better they do. Many people talk of “quality time.” Quantity is an indicator of quality. You can’t replace simply being there with things.

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