A mother finds herself in a domestically violent relationship and she has children. Child Protective Services (CPS) becomes involved and discover that the children are either...
Sometimes social workers ask me how they can connect Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or spatial analysis to their work. For macro social work, the connections are...
On November 1, 2014, Brittany Maynard will die. However, her death is being planned on her own terms in response to a recent diagnosis of Glioblastoma...
As I wrote in a article several weeks ago, there are about 25,000 people held in solitary confinement in supermax prison units called SHUs—security housing units—and another...
The number of children living in extreme poverty—on $2.00 or less per person per day in a household—grew significantly from 1996 until 2011. In 2011, 3.55...
Like much of our nation’s civil rights history, the experiences of freedom summer of 1964 can be and have been used to illuminate all of the...
By Irene M. Ota, College of Social Work and Irene H. Yoon, College of Education The unfolding events in Ferguson, Missouri sparked a cross-campus dialogue at...
I watched intently the live streams from Ferguson, Missouri witnessing the injustice that is taking place there. I’ve read countless articles and watched countless commentators explain...
As a Social Worker, I am committed to social justice. However, as I have always been on the frontline doing day-to-day work with individuals and families,...
Frank Van Den Bleeken is currently serving a life sentence in Belgium for sexual assault and murder. Three years ago, he asked to be allowed to...
For certain subsections of society, it happens so often that its occurrence becomes commonplace such as the realities for those of us who live surrounded by...
“Everybody in the Mississippi Delta was a racist, white or black. Racism was built into our bones. It is a thing we will never recover from...
I have often expressed my intellectual, personal and ethical discomfort with the extensive ‘subjectification’, more trendily termed “participation’, of poor people in research. Although with the...
A new school year means that disabled college students are adjusting to their new environments, and are making accommodation requests to their school’s disability services department...
By the time Norma L. McCorvey was 21, she had abused drugs and was on her third child. While carrying that third child, her scheme to...
In the UK, 89,528 social workers are getting ready to re-register with the regulator for the protected title of social worker from 1st September 2014. Meanwhile...
Recently, two unarmed young black men were killed by police officers in a St. Louis suburb and in the city of Los Angeles while the circumstances...
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the latest in a long line of sports “stars” to come out as gay in an interview with celebrity interviewer Sir...
I have postponed writing this piece for several months now. However as more stories emerge on an almost daily basis, it has become clear that there...
A study just released in the United Kingdom, talks about repeat families within the child welfare system. Researchers from Manchester and Brunel Universities discovered, upon reviewing...
A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known...
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Pediatric neurologist Jane Tavyev, MD, has advice for parents looking to help their children learn social skills after pandemic isolation....