Tag: Social Work

Violence against women remains one of the most widespread human rights violations which takes place every day, and intimate partner ...

Kristina Marcelli Sargent is a mental health therapist who works with children in both outpatient and community based settings.  After competing an art ...

From left to right, Michel Sidibe (UNAIDS), Fatima Toure representing Advanced Development Africa (Mother is Coumba Toure & Hammadoun Toure- ...

Of all those actively seeking the presidency, former Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady Hillary Clinton seems to be ...

Social workers from across the world will be turning up at workplaces in the UK for a series of seminars ...

Failing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, erasing the State's earned income tax credits for low wage working, ...

Re-homing, a practice which consists in transferring a child’s custody to non-family members without the oversight of child welfare or ...

A California-based policy shop is asking for a $30 million expansion of the state’s transitional housing program to serve homeless ...

Minister Bathabile Dlamini via Daily Maverick More than 1200 South African social workers packed the auditorium at the Durban International ...

Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across ...

During the past ten years, I traveled to over 100 jails and prisons in the entire east coast of the ...

The people of color that I’ve been talking to are getting kind of sick of the equity, diversity, and inclusion ...

Howard University School of Social Work Students at Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill  (from Left to Right) Latoya Parker, Ne'Presha ...

A social worker to my core, I love this year’s theme for Social Work Month, “Social Work Paves the Way ...

Obama Family leading the 50th Anniversary March- Photo Credit Whitehouse.gov   President Barack Obama, in what may be his most ...

Two stories in recent news about athletes and their potential sports future caught my attention. One highlighted football player Daron Byrden, a ...

Social work students from several schools in the greater Washington, DC area and from as far away as Kentucky and ...

Working with multiple generations in any field can be challenging, and human services is no exception. Most challenging can be ...

As a child, Teresa Butler found herself overwhelmed with fear, anxieties and worries that a 4 year old shouldn't have ...

By Ebenezer Cudjoe and Daniel Gyedu Assisting patients with timely arrangements for their post hospital care continues to be a, if not ...