Issues for Immigrant Parents and Their Children
Immigrant families to Canada and the United States can face many issues complicating their adjustment to the new host culture. ...
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Foundations for Tomorrow: Helping Huntsville’s Homeless
Foundations for Tomorrow is a community initiative that provides a tiny home community where Huntsville's homeless can reside whilst transitioning ...
The Importance of Mental Health Awareness
Did you know that 1 in 4 American people suffer a mental illness? That is an estimate of 56% of ...
Global Citizen Encourages You to Help Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 2030
With poverty and inequality being extremely prominent in the media recently, the Global Citizen’s Festival is well timed to advocate ...
Virtual Worlds: Are They Good or Bad for Children?
Playing in online worlds is a growing phenomenon and children and young people are being exposed to many online games, ...
Protecting Young People Online: Negative Practices Parents, Carers and Professionals Should Know
Just like there are laws we have to abide and adhere to everyday, it is also a similar set of ...
How Do You Assess Online Risks For Youth Without Being Digitally Competent
Time to get digitally competent In an age where information technology is growing rapidly in our everyday personal and professional ...
Foster Care Youth Trapped in the School to Prison Pipeline
Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across ...
The ABLE Act Explained: Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE)
The Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE) was signed into law by the President on December 19, 2014. Tax-free ...
The Business of Social Work Practice
Over the last decade, certainly in Australia, funding for human services organisations has undergone significant change. The days of filling ...
Connecticut Raises Minimum Wage and Provokes Conversations on Homelessness and Affordable Housing
This week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a law that will bring about the highest minimum wage of any U.S. ...
Careers in the Various Types of Human Service Organizations
The human services field is a broad one, and it encompasses various organizations that meet the needs of individuals and ...
Communities Build Tiny Homes for the Homeless
In the city of Austin Texas a group of people have come together and begun to build small mini pod ...
Big Cities Need Social Workers
New York City-NY According to researchers working on the American Cities Project, a study sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust, ...
Tramadol Addiction: What It Is And How To Overcome It
Therapies for Tramadol Addiction can be both a physical and mental illness that can destroy lives and common type of ...
Welfare: The Business of Misfortune
Corporate Welfare vs Social Welfare I've dreamed of one day moving home again to have my future children surrounded by ...
Language Matters: Reforming Policy in Durham
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.”~ Mahatma Gandhi Durham Police ...
When Processes Become Part of Outcomes: Collaboration, Creativity, Community
As social workers involved in community development, we all know and understand that funding bodies, sponsors and management committees wish ...
Thanksgiving: All Grown Up and Nowhere To Go
Once a young person turns 18 and leaves the foster care system, they should be ready to do what other ...
Cultivating an Effective Nonprofit Board
Just about everyone has had some sort of run-in with a Board that doesn't quite meet the needs of the ...
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