Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Assistant Professor Odessa Gonzalez Benson has joined the editorial board of Social Service Review. The journal publishes original research on social issues, social welfare policy and social work practice. Established in 1927, it is the oldest continually published social welfare journal in the U.S.
Community Care
MAY 14, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Regional caps on the amount that councils should pay agencies to hire social workers will not come into force until spring 2025, the Department for Education (DfE) has said. This is a year later than the original planned start date for the DfE’s rules to curb local authorities’ use of locum practitioners in children’s services, which are designed to reduce cost and improve
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 14, 2024
Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s a scandal involving horrific abuse at a residential treatment center. No, not the one in Arizona, or the one in Kentucky, or the one in Tennessee, or Indiana, or Utah, or Oklahoma, or Washington state or Arkansas, or Connecticut or — well, you get the idea. This time it’s Rhode Island. But don’t worry.
MQ Mental Health
MAY 14, 2024
This Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, the theme is Movement for Mental Health. In this article, MQ Ambassador, athlete, LGBTQ advocate and author Amazin LeThi shares with our staff writer how movement has been an integral part of her mental health journey. Moving Through Childhood Like a lot of kids, I started moving and doing athletics at a very young age, I must have been about five.
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CAPC
MAY 14, 2024
With Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance expansions, there was improved access to cancer surgeries at National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers (NCI-CCC) and Commission on Cancer-accredited Hospitals (CoC) in Pennsylvania.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Assistant Professor Ashley Cureton has received the 2024 Lester Monts Award from the U-M Center for Educational Outreach. The Lester Monts Award is a distinguished honor for faculty and staff who have collaborated with our team and contributed exceptionally to advancing educational outreach on campus and beyond. Cureton was selected for her inspiring commitment to initiatives including the Michigan Pre-College and Youth Conference, and Raise Scholars; the development of new collaborations with s
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Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Assistant Professor Katie Schultz is a principal investigator on a recently awarded R01 grant, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This longitudinal, mixed methods study will examine changes in the social networks of American Indian youth across adolescence and collect community-level social network data to identify optimal timing and strategies for culturally grounded prevention of substance use, suicide and exposure to violence at the micro (individual) and macro (community) levels
CAPC
MAY 14, 2024
Palliative care clinicians need greater training in gender inclusivity in order to improve care for transgender patients.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Clinical Associate Professor Daicia Price is quoted in a Crain’s Detroit article on the challenges in creating specialized units to respond to mental health emergency calls. The Detroit Police Department, which created a mental health unit at the end of 2022, received over 16,000 calls last year that involved someone in mental distress — or more than 43 calls per day.
CAPC
MAY 14, 2024
CMS approves new Medicaid state plan amendment for community-based palliative care in Hawai’i.
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Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Associate Professor Shanna Kattari’s book “Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals,” has received the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists 2024 Book Award (Sexuality Professional Focus). Chapter editors include Lecturers Jax Kynn, Erin Martinez and Laura Yakas; and PhD students E.B.
CAPC
MAY 14, 2024
Experts identify and prioritize key areas for palliative care research and clinical practice.
The Guardian
MAY 14, 2024
Exclusive: Elderly woman was allowed to run up debts in ‘disturbing’ case, the latest to emerge in Guardian investigation Government ministers have formally apologised and repaid £7,000 to a 93-year-old woman whom they held responsible for running up benefits overpayment debts even though they were told she had dementia and was unable to manage her affairs.
CAPC
MAY 14, 2024
An interview with researcher focused on bone marrow transplant and improving quality of life with palliative care.
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Community Care
MAY 14, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Care Act 2014 remains the right legislation for social care sector and has led to progress, but its aims have not been realised because of a lack of funding. That was the verdict of sector experts who contributed to a Local Government Association report to mark the tenth anniversary of the Care Act becoming law and designed to influence the general election expected this autumn.
CAPC
MAY 14, 2024
CMS approves new Medicaid state plan amendment for community-based palliative care in Hawai’i.
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MAY 14, 2024
How palliative care can help ease the symptom burden of people living with systemic sclerosis.
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