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Dinner Gives Teens Leaving Foster Care Taste of Family - The Ledger

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:36:21 -0800

Dinner Gives Teens Leaving Foster Care Taste of Family
The Ledger
BARTOW | On Monday about 100 teens gathered at the First Baptist Church of Bartow. Their differences are many and their life stories run ...

Jail 'only practical solution' for mentally ill man - Northern Territory

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:36:03 -0800

Jail 'only practical solution' for mentally ill man
Northern Territory
A MENTALLY ill man who assaulted one of his case workers more than two years ago will stay in prison because it's the only place for him to go. ...

Vancouver's mentally ill homeless taking part in study - News1130

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:19:53 -0800

Vancouver's mentally ill homeless taking part in study
News1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Vancouver is one of five Canadian cities taking part in a new study looking at ways to house people with mental illness and ...

Milliken infant faces lifetime disability after child abuse - INDenverTimes.com

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:37:52 -0800

INDenverTimes.com

Milliken infant faces lifetime disability after child abuse
INDenverTimes.com
Nine-month-old April Martinez, of Milliken, is at Children's Hospital with traumatic brain ...

Center helps Asian Americans combat mental illness - Los Angeles Times

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:27:42 -0800

Los Angeles Times

Center helps Asian Americans combat mental illness
Los Angeles Times
Among challenges: The subject is nearly taboo in many Asian countries, and research in this country tends to lump the diverse group into one ethnic category ...

4500 foster children adopted on National Adoption Day - Seminole Chronicle

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:05:35 -0800

4500 foster children adopted on National Adoption Day
Seminole Chronicle
A few years ago, Rae and her husband, Jeffrey, decided to become foster parents, and Madalyn entered their lives. ...

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Kenyan boy president out to end child abuse - The Citizen Daily

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:01:35 -0800

Kenyan boy president out to end child abuse
The Citizen Daily
By The Citizen Correspondent, Nairobi The eloquence and confidence are hard to match as David Malingi, 16, presents the children's agenda to politicians, ...

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Audits to reveal how dioceses dealt with child-abuse claims - Irish Independent

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:47:12 -0800

CathNews

Audits to reveal how dioceses dealt with child-abuse claims
Irish Independent
MORE details about how Catholic Church dioceses dealt with allegations of child abuse are to emerge within the coming ...
Dublin child abuse report due out this week Ireland Online
Child abuse report leaks slammed Irish Health
Report on clerical child abuse claims in archdiocese to be published this week Irish Times

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OUR VIEW: Train schools to see the signs of child abuse - New Britain Herald

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:17:07 -0800

OUR VIEW: Train schools to see the signs of child abuse
New Britain Herald
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is expanding a probe into whether the Southington school district delayed reporting charges of abuse by a girls' ...
State expands probe of schools' handling of child abuse, neglect New Haven Register (subscription)
State Investigating Whether Schools Properly Report Child Abuse WTIC

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NSW improves services for mentally ill - Sydney Morning Herald

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:49:38 -0800

NSW improves services for mentally ill
Sydney Morning Herald
Helping refugees from countries such as Iraq and Sierra Leone understand Australia's justice system is just one of the benefits of a new project launched in ...

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Local Social Service Agencies See Greater Need This Holiday Season - MyNC.com

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:39:10 -0800

Local Social Service Agencies See Greater Need This Holiday Season
MyNC.com
As we enter into the holiday season, local charities are finding as the unemployment rate increases so does ...

Some Concerned About Future Of Child Welfare In Colorado - KRDO

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:19:09 -0800

Some Concerned About Future Of Child Welfare In Colorado
KRDO
PUEBLO – There's been an on going debate over child welfare in the state of Colorado. Monday, that debate took to the Steel City. ...

Neighbor, landlord point to child abuse suspect's history with kids - KHQ Right Now

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:17:19 -0800

Neighbor, landlord point to child abuse suspect's history with kids
KHQ Right Now
SPOKANE, Wash. - A neighbor and a landlord of the woman charged with assault after being captured on surveillance video kicking her 3-year-old son, ...

Federal board: Fire Stitt, Nebraska foster care review director - Lincoln Journal Star

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:08:27 -0800

Federal board: Fire Stitt, Nebraska foster care review director
Lincoln Journal Star
A federal agency has filed a complaint asking that Nebraska Foster Care ...
Feds ask for firing of Neb. foster care official Action 3 News

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Talent proves to be enough for many poor families - Saudi Gazette

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:41:11 -0800

Talent proves to be enough for many poor families
Saudi Gazette
Al-Sultan Mall on Thursday saw the inauguration of the “Golden Hands” exhibition by Prince Abdullah Bin Turki Al-Saud, ...

BC continues dismal child poverty rate: report - Vancouver Sun

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:42 -0800

BC continues dismal child poverty rate: report
Vancouver Sun
BC needs to follow the lead of six other provinces and adopt a clear plan for reducing child ...

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St. Louis County Children's Services Fund board wants to encourage agencies to ... - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:13:13 -0800

St. Louis County Children's Services Fund board wants to encourage agencies to ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis County Children's Services Fund Board will try to establish a system of care for the children it is serving, Kate Tansey, ...

Mental health facility to bring jobs to Pender Co. - WECT-TV6

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:09:32 -0800

Mental health facility to bring jobs to Pender Co.
WECT-TV6
PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A new mental health facility will bring a dozen new jobs to Pender County. County commissioners received more than $144000 in ...

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UN chief urges intensified efforts to curb poverty in Africa - Xinhua

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:12:39 -0800

UN chief urges intensified efforts to curb poverty in Africa
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on African leaders and donors to make intensified efforts to fight ...

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Substance Abuse Treatment Centers Suffer From Budget Cuts - KSBI 52

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:50:05 -0800

Substance Abuse Treatment Centers Suffer From Budget Cuts
KSBI 52
A tough economy could force one of the state's drug and alcohol treatment centers to close. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse has ...

Lawyer: Mental-illness defense possible for Fort Hood suspect - USA Today

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:38:23 -0800

Lawyer: Mental-illness defense possible for Fort Hood suspect
USA Today
The attorney representing Fort Hood massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan said today that he is considering a defense based on mental illness. ...

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Fighting poverty, hunger constant task - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:17 -0800

Fighting poverty, hunger constant task
Atlanta Journal Constitution
As families gather for Thanksgiving this week, we should consider that in just a decade Georgia has deteriorated from average (ranking ...

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University employees who earn $100000 or more - Columbia Daily Tribune

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:17:05 -0800

University employees who earn $100000 or more
Columbia Daily Tribune
Sable, Marjorie R., Social Work, professor, $135000; Sadowski, Jatha Bounous, Human Resources Services, director, $104302; Sahota, Pradeep K., Neurology, ...

Military Launching Preemptive Strikes Against Mental Illness - Popular Science

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:56:09 -0800

Military Launching Preemptive Strikes Against Mental Illness
Popular Science
With nearly 1.8 million US soldiers having rotated through Iraq and Afghanistan and another troop ...

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Longer sentence for Kan. nurse who enslaved mentally ill - Kansas City Star

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:30 -0800

Daily Contributor

Longer sentence for Kan. nurse who enslaved mentally ill
Kansas City Star
Remember Linda Kaufman? She's the nurse who ran a group home in Newton with her husband. They were convicted of abusing their mentally ill patients by ...
Judge doubles sentence for woman convicted of abusing mentally ill patients Kansas.com

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Officials seek solutions to Lexington students living in poverty - Lexington Dispatch

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:26:41 -0800

Officials seek solutions to Lexington students living in poverty
Lexington Dispatch
Statistics released by the US Census Bureau show that over 30 percent of students who attend Lexington City Schools live in poverty. ...
A Thanksgiving Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time Huffington Post (blog)
Census: one in five Chico students come from families in poverty Enterprise-Record
Richland County poverty rates go up Mansfield News Journal
Bowling Green Daily News - Yakima Herald-Republic
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Marriage 'cure' for mentally ill & hell - Calcutta Telegraph

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:24:45 -0800

Marriage 'cure' for mentally ill & hell
Calcutta Telegraph
Lucknow, Nov. 23: When BCom student Anjali Srivastava was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, her parents immediately knew how to “cure” her. ...

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Professor Peggy Gabo Ntseane is the Nelson Mandela Chair - University of Botswana

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:18:37 -0800

Professor Peggy Gabo Ntseane is the Nelson Mandela Chair
University of Botswana
... Cyril O. Houle Research Scholarship Award of US$ 40000.00 to do research on Poverty, Gender, Culture Values and the Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. ...

Research from Salisbury University provides new data about mental illness - Behavioral Health Central (blog)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:37:20 -0800

Research from Salisbury University provides new data about mental illness
Behavioral Health Central (blog)
According to recent research from the United States, "Implementing teaching methods that address nursing students' stigmatizing beliefs toward people with ...

Psychiatric Solutions Inc. expands mental health services for troops, families - Nashville Business Journal

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:38 -0800

Psychiatric Solutions Inc. expands mental health services for troops, families
Nashville Business Journal
The mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month underscores the need for additional behavioral health services benefiting military members and ...
Psychiatric Solutions Inc. expands mental health services for MSN Money

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Research project gets mentally ill Canadians off the streets - Vancouver Sun

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:49:47 -0800

CBC.ca

Research project gets mentally ill Canadians off the streets
Vancouver Sun
She would quit her job as a video editor in Vancouver, take all her money out of the bank and move to Seattle. There, she would have a revelation. ...
Program to tackle homelessness among mentally ill CTV.ca
Mentally ill get housing in study Toronto Star
Housing first for mentally ill homeless CBC.ca

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Creches' short working hours put parents in a bind - Times of India

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:37:00 -0800

Creches' short working hours put parents in a bind
Times of India
... convenor of Tamil Nadu Forum for creche and childcare centres (TN-FORCES) and professor at the department of social work, Loyola College. ...

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Sister says suspect in BART arrest is mentally ill - San Jose Mercury News

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:30 -0800

CNN

Sister says suspect in BART arrest is mentally ill
San Jose Mercury News
AP OAKLAND, Calif.—The sister of an unruly passenger who was injured after being removed from a San Francisco Bay area train says the police officer used ...
Sister: Man arrested at station is mentally ill The Associated Press
Sister: Man arrested at station is mentally ill NewsOK.com

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Britain's Got Talent cleared over issues of child welfare concerns - Telegraph.co.uk

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:26:37 -0800

Telegraph.co.uk

Britain's Got Talent cleared over issues of child welfare concerns
Telegraph.co.uk
Britain's Got Talent has been cleared of breaching the broadcasting code following complaints about the well-being of young contestants, ...

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Prairie View grant to help mentally ill with housing - Newton Kansan

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:45 -0800

Prairie View grant to help mentally ill with housing
Newton Kansan
Prairie View has been awarded a $100000 Tenant Based Rental Assistance grant from the Kansas Housing Resources Corp. to help people with severe mental ...

Halifax filmmaker turns lens on child poverty - CBC.ca

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:17:38 -0800

CBC.ca

Halifax filmmaker turns lens on child poverty
CBC.ca
Isaiah with one of his pictures in a scene from Four Feet Up, screening Tuesday across the country to mark 20 years since Canadian MPs pledged to end child ...

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As decade's end nears, 20 percent more US children live in poverty - Louisiana Weekly

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:14:18 -0800

As decade's end nears, 20 percent more US children live in poverty
Louisiana Weekly
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation's leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, ...

The Exploitation Of The Mentally Ill By Abuse Shelters - Post Chronicle

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:12:30 -0800

The Exploitation Of The Mentally Ill By Abuse Shelters
Post Chronicle
In the former Soviet Union, dissidents who saw fit to challenge the prevailing socialist ideology were deemed to be certifiable nut cases. ...

NASW Launches “Social Workers Speak” Web Site - HotIndieNews.com

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:47:24 -0800

NASW Launches “Social Workers Speak” Web Site
HotIndieNews.com
The Web site also has sections on social work's image in Hollywood, cutting-edge social work research, expert interviews on social issues in the media, ...

CMAJ editorial calls for more kids to be adopted from child welfare system - The Canadian Press

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:33:32 -0800

CMAJ editorial calls for more kids to be adopted from child welfare system
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Changes are needed to ensure more kids in the care of child welfare agencies find permanent homes and don't "age out" of the system before being ...

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Estrada squares off with Ebdane - Philippine Star

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:17:00 -0800

Estrada squares off with Ebdane
Philippine Star
Anti-insurgency efforts, he added, should involve other agencies such as the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Department of Social Welfare ...

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Moira Gibb, Sue White, Jackie Rafferty comment - Communitycare.co.uk

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:15:44 -0800

Moira Gibb, Sue White, Jackie Rafferty comment
Communitycare.co.uk
A similar proposal was made in April by the Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee, which represents universities providing the social ...

Legislators to fight closure of Shore mental health facility - Annapolis Capital

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:04:25 -0800

Legislators to fight closure of Shore mental health facility
Annapolis Capital
Maryland lawmakers and supporters of Kent County's Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center promised to ...

Canadian aboriginal chief decries child poverty - AFP

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:44:29 -0800

AFP

Canadian aboriginal chief decries child poverty
AFP
OTTAWA — Canadian aboriginal children are being raised in "extreme poverty," the nation's top chief lamented Monday, two decades after parliament voted ...
Two decades on, child poverty persists with no solution in sight Globe and Mail
Rally to end child poverty Examiner.com

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Canyon Acres' Foster Care & Adoptions Programs Near 50-Child Milestone for 2009 - Benzinga

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:34:35 -0800

Canyon Acres' Foster Care & Adoptions Programs Near 50-Child Milestone for 2009
Benzinga
ORANGE, Calif., Nov. 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canyon Acres Children and Family Services, a Southern California charity organization committed to ...
Steve and Julie Hurley: Foster care, adoption an incredible opportunity for ... TCPalm

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Suffer the Children: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable - Dissident Voice

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:17:39 -0800

Suffer the Children: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable
Dissident Voice
Dominic Nutt, spokesperson for Save the Children UK concurs (CNN, 2009) on opposing Madonna's Malawian adoption: “children in poverty should be best looked ...

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DSWD scores again in Pulse Asia 4th Quarter Survey - Philippine Information Agency

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:52:12 -0800

DSWD scores again in Pulse Asia 4th Quarter Survey
Philippine Information Agency
Davao City (24 November) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development obtained high ratings again in the latest awareness and performance survey of ...

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HSE opens two new children's services - Ocean fm

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:47:12 -0800

HSE opens two new children's services
Ocean fm
The Solas Children's Respite Service on the Old Bundoran Road and the Early Intervention Service based in Nazareth House are two new services for children ...

A Thanksgiving Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time - Huffington Post (blog)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:58:22 -0800

A Thanksgiving Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time
Huffington Post (blog)
Each year we keep 14.1 million children in poverty it costs our nation over half a trillion dollars in lost productivity, higher crime, and poorer health. ...

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Poverty Rate Jumps in Rural America - Daily Yonder (blog)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:12:34 -0800

Poverty Rate Jumps in Rural America
Daily Yonder (blog)
The difference in poverty rates between rural and urban counties narrowed in the 1990s and through the first few years of this century. From 2003 to 2008, ...

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Bible focus - poverty, social justice - OneNewsNow

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:43:05 -0800

Bible focus - poverty, social justice
OneNewsNow
The Poverty and Justice Bible has just been released through the American Bible Society (ABS). Throughout its pages, more than 2000 verses are highlighted ...

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Renfrew Hears About Child Poverty At Workshop - myFM Radio News

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:29:20 -0800

Renfrew Hears About Child Poverty At Workshop
myFM Radio News
Speak out for Children's Rights - that was the message to over 50 people at a Child Poverty Action Network workshop in Renfrew this weekend. ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES IN TROUBLE BECAUSE OF FUNDING SHORTFALLS - Sarnia Observer

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:25:57 -0800

CHILDREN'S SERVICES IN TROUBLE BECAUSE OF FUNDING SHORTFALLS
Sarnia Observer
Sir: Since 1993, Canadian citizens have marked Nov. 20 as "National Child Day." The United Nations calls us to action through activities devoted to ...

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Bread for World leader urges Congress to step up on hunger, poverty - Martinsville Bulletin

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:17:48 -0800

Bread for World leader urges Congress to step up on hunger, poverty
Martinsville Bulletin
Ending hunger in this country and around the world will take a commitment on a personal level as well as the federal ...

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• celebrate excellence in social work and social welfare research, education ... - Newswise (press release)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:09:18 -0800

• celebrate excellence in social work and social welfare research, education ...
Newswise (press release)
... University of Washington School of Social Work • Enola Proctor, PhD, MSSW, professor of social work research, associate dean for faculty, George Warren ...

NHS 'must improve staff access to mental health services' - Health Insurance and Protection Magazine

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:46:15 -0800

NHS 'must improve staff access to mental health services'
Health Insurance and Protection Magazine
Early intervention in the musculoskeletal and mental health problems of its own staff should be a priority for the NHS, according to the final report on the ...

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Thanksgiving dinner provided for those who have experienced foster care - Columbus Dispatch

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:09:08 -0800

Thanksgiving dinner provided for those who have experienced foster care
Columbus Dispatch
Riccardo Rushin, 19, of Canton, talks with his Stark County group at a Thanksgiving dinner in Bexley that drew about 100 Ohioans, ...

Fears that strike will impact on social welfare payments - Ocean fm

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:04:34 -0800

Fears that strike will impact on social welfare payments
Ocean fm
The Department of Social Welfare has warned that tens of thousands of recipients will have their payments delayed by one day. Maternity, illness, jobseekers ...

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Fuel poverty is biting hard - Burton Mail

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:39:30 -0800

Burton Mail

Fuel poverty is biting hard
Burton Mail
SCORES of people in Burton and South Derbyshire are “struggling to eat” due to fuel poverty, debt experts say. New figures suggest one in every eight South ...

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Inmates with mental illness bring extra costs to Monroe prison - HeraldNet

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:30:10 -0800

Inmates with mental illness bring extra costs to Monroe prison
HeraldNet
$14.6 million is needed each year to house and care for 144 inmates in the special offender unit. By Andy Rathbun MONROE — Most of the time, the $100000 man ...

Volunteers prepare gift boxes, jog for children in need - Record-Searchlight

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:23:19 -0800

Record-Searchlight

Volunteers prepare gift boxes, jog for children in need
Record-Searchlight
Sunday was packaging day for Operation Christmas Child, an international effort to send small holiday gift boxes to children in poverty-stricken and ...

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Nandita Das's Charity Work, Events and Causes - Look To The Stars

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:35:46 -0800

Nandita Das's Charity Work, Events and Causes
Look To The Stars
Nandita's involvement with charitable work began fairly early in life when she did her Masters in Social Work from the reputed Delhi School of Social Work. ...

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Center for Social Justice at USI to host forum - Henderson Gleaner

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:30:45 -0800

Center for Social Justice at USI to host forum
Henderson Gleaner
... diverse partnerships to promote social and economic justice," said Iris Phillips, an associate professor of social work and the center's director. ...

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Mentally ill criminals get new options - Patriot-News

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:16:50 -0800

Mentally ill criminals get new options
Patriot-News
A $250000 federal grant will help pay for a mental health court that looks at treatment programs before jail time. BY EMILY OPILO eopilo@patriot-news.com ...

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For richer or for poorer - Asianjournal.com

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:12:50 -0800

For richer or for poorer
Asianjournal.com
The loan will support welfare programs designed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to reduce poverty for 376000 households in the ...

Children's Services cuts would be 'painful' - Knoxville News Sentinel

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:34 -0800

Children's Services cuts would be 'painful'
Knoxville News Sentinel
AP NASHVILLE - Tennessee Children's Services Commissioner Viola Miller says proposed additional cuts by Gov. Phil Bredesen would be "very painful. ...

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Erie college student has global perspective on child poverty - GoErie.com

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:03:14 -0800

Erie college student has global perspective on child poverty
GoErie.com
Mercyhurst College senior Marta Baran finds it unacceptable that children are hungry and sick worldwide. She is doing what she can to ...

From a Christmas shoebox to a smile on a child's face - News 8 Austin

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:13:53 -0800

From a Christmas shoebox to a smile on a child's face
News 8 Austin
Operation Christmas Child, one of the largest Christmas projects in the world, sends donations to children in poverty stricken areas in countries, ...

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Disability affairs body created - Visayan Daily Star

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:57:10 -0800

Disability affairs body created
Visayan Daily Star
While the council is preparing for this event, regional director Evelyn Macapobre of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in central Visayas ...

Gov. Charlie Crist: 850 children per day in foster care need homes - TCPalm

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:08:55 -0800

Gov. Charlie Crist: 850 children per day in foster care need homes
TCPalm
A 16-year-old who had been in foster care since before his first birthday called Lanecia Radcliff to ask if she had found a family for ...

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Child poverty bill in Queen's Speech - Regen.net

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:16:10 -0800

Child poverty bill in Queen's Speech
Regen.net
A legal duty to eradicate child poverty and new laws to crack down on parents of children who flout antisocial behaviour orders (Asbos) are two measures to ...

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Patients with mental illness face difficulties gaining access to state hospitals - Dayton Daily News

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:00:28 -0800

Patients with mental illness face difficulties gaining access to state hospitals
Dayton Daily News
Jim Witmer/Staff photographer David and Ramona Acord fought to save Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare. At 72, David Acord took over his 39-year-old son's ...

Child abuse rife in Afghanistan: UN - ABC Online

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:09:07 -0800

Child abuse rife in Afghanistan: UN
ABC Online
Eight years after the US-led overthrow of the Taliban, children in Afghanistan are suffering disastrous levels of abuse, deprivation and mortality, ...

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North Logan man arrested for suspected child abuse - Deseret News

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:14:54 -0800

North Logan man arrested for suspected child abuse
Deseret News
NORTH LOGAN — A man has been arrested after his 4-month-old son ended up in critical condition from suspected child abuse. North Park police responded ...
Man arrested for child abuse ABC 4
Cache County man arrested for severe child abuse KSL-TV

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A second chance: Mother of girl who died in foster care cleans up her life - Colorado Springs Gazette

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:19:15 -0800

A second chance: Mother of girl who died in foster care cleans up her life
Colorado Springs Gazette
On Oct. 10, 2007, Prisoner No. 136645 was taken by wheelchair to a room at Memorial Hospital, not because she was a patient, but because the steel shackles ...

Angel Food offers full-meal deals to low-income families - Burlington Hawk Eye

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:55 -0800

Angel Food offers full-meal deals to low-income families
Burlington Hawk Eye
Food drives and assistance programs designed to help feed the hungry aren't all that unusual in Burlington. But the national Angel Food ...

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65 Alameda County foster children find permanent homes - Inside Bay Area

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:18:11 -0800

65 Alameda County foster children find permanent homes
Inside Bay Area
Judge Willie Lott Jr. (center) starts the final paper work as (l to r) Emkay Bosque holds Ally, 3, who was adopted two-years ago, ...

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All's very well with Hawaii's healthy rank - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:37:39 -0800

All's very well with Hawaii's healthy rank
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Nationally, the percentage of children in poverty went from 18 percent to 19 percent, but that comparison is distorted by the evaluation of poverty by ...

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Sleep Country seeking gifts for foster children - Statesman Journal

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:17:03 -0800

Sleep Country seeking gifts for foster children
Statesman Journal
Sleep Country USA is seeking gifts for its annual Secret Santa Toy Drive for foster children. Donations will be accepted through Dec. ...

Catholic conservatives, liberals battle over anti-poverty funding - Chicago Tribune

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:20 -0800

Catholic conservatives, liberals battle over anti-poverty funding
Chicago Tribune
In the wake of criticism that the national Catholic Campaign for Human Development has financed organizations that ...

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Business people - Nov. 22, 2009 - Bismarck Tribune

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:54:14 -0800

Business people - Nov. 22, 2009
Bismarck Tribune
Neigum completed a review on stroke best practices, developed a new neurological flow sheet/NIH stroke scale assessment form and gave a presentation to the ...

A message to Manual: People care - Indianapolis Star

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:02 -0800

A message to Manual: People care
Indianapolis Star
She also formerly worked in Ball State University's Department of Social Work. In September, when she read about two students who hope to major in social ...

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Older problem drinkers use more booze than younger counterparts - Daily News & Analysis

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:19:27 -0800

Older problem drinkers use more booze than younger counterparts
Daily News & Analysis
Virginia Richardson, professor of social work at Ohio State, who was also a part of the study added, "More often than not, we think of binge drinking as ...

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Adoption event puts emphasis on kids in foster care who need permanency - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:02:14 -0800

Adoption event puts emphasis on kids in foster care who need permanency
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Starting in 2005, Brad and Jen Thompson adopted five children -- and added a sixth Saturday afternoon. "We saw him and just fell in ...

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Navy veteran helps teens in foster care learn to fend for themselves - Knoxville News Sentinel

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:17 -0800

Navy veteran helps teens in foster care learn to fend for themselves
Knoxville News Sentinel
Taking turns with a puzzle, LaKeisha's son, T'Zion Perez, 6, left, and LaKeisha cheer as her grandson, Tymere Perez, 2, right, finds where the next puzzle ...

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Mental health services scramble - HollandSentinel.com

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:41:19 -0800

Mental health services scramble
HollandSentinel.com
Ottawa County Community Mental Health is hardly recognizable compared to when Dr. Michael Brashears took over as director nearly two years ...

Legendary community organizer, Frank Hutchins dies at 75 - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:43:36 -0800

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Legendary community organizer, Frank Hutchins dies at 75
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Behind Frank Hutchins' soft spoken demeanor lay what friends and proteges call a "warrior" for tenant rights in Newark. ...

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Colorado Law and Mental Illness - YourHub.com

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:36:10 -0800

Colorado Law and Mental Illness
YourHub.com
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Jeffco proudly presents Deborah Amesbury, LCSW, who will conduct a power point presentation Colorado Law and ...

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P7 million released for disaster victims - Philippine Star

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:44:03 -0800

P7 million released for disaster victims
Philippine Star
CEBU, Philippines - With the various calamities and disasters that Cebu has endured, and with more looming in the province, the Department of Social Welfare ...

Journalists of color train to track stimulus money - Twin Cities Planet

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:28:57 -0800

Journalists of color train to track stimulus money
Twin Cities Planet
University of Louisville Social Work Professor Dr. Toni Miles noted that stimulus money should be used to make sure that long-term health care for adults is ...

Children in foster care get 'forever homes' - WHDH-TV

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:16 -0800

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Children in foster care get 'forever homes'
WHDH-TV
Brockton -- Dozens of families have opened their homes to children on the seventh annual National Adoption Day. National Adoption Day seeks to raise ...
Trumpeting value of foster care adoption GazetteNET
No child should be left behind: Teens in foster care need to be adopted Patriot-News
Adoption Through Foster Care WKRG-TV

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Ground breaking held for future substance abuse treatment facility - Valencia County News Bulletin

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:11:34 -0800

Ground breaking held for future substance abuse treatment facility
Valencia County News Bulletin
The tent was set up in a sunny spot next to the cottonwood. Spirits were high as lawmakers, local officials, judges and members of the public gathered to ...

Fuel poverty hits a third of rural homes - Shropshire Star

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:16:52 -0800

Fuel poverty hits a third of rural homes
Shropshire Star
A third of households in villages, hamlets and isolated rural parts of the West Midlands, including Shropshire, are in fuel poverty as they struggle to heat ...

Foster children finding permanent families - Waterbury Republican American

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:03:25 -0800

Foster children finding permanent families
Waterbury Republican American
Light blue rim glasses sitting on the tip of her little nose, Leslie was unaware of the goings on at Probate Court. ...

Members of North Yorkshire and York Community and Mental Health Services reach ... - The Press, York

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:53:29 -0800

Members of North Yorkshire and York Community and Mental Health Services reach ...
The Press, York
UNSUNG heroes of the health world who devote their working lives to helping those battling mental illness have been lauded for their efforts. ...

Dwindling of social service dollars threatens well-being of those most in need - Plain Dealer

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:12:16 -0800

Dwindling of social service dollars threatens well-being of those most in need
Plain Dealer
By Other Voices In reading over the many facts and opinions concerning the terrible deaths of at least 11 women at the hands of a serial killer, ...

Police arrest parents of Liberian rape victim for child abuse - AZFamily

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:51:38 -0800

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Police training assists cases of mental illness - Cherry Hill Courier Post

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:20:06 -0800

Police training assists cases of mental illness
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Officers Jared Bradley and Kristen Cassario-Smith took the call Thursday for a frantic woman ...

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£15m centre for mental health patients - Lincolnshire Echo

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:34:15 -0800

£15m centre for mental health patients
Lincolnshire Echo
The facility will replace two existing in-patient wards at St Georges Hospital in Long Leys Road, Lincoln, as well as creating a third female-only ward. ...

Faculty has 'no confidence' in CSU Stanislaus president - The Turlock Journal

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42:31 -0800

Faculty has 'no confidence' in CSU Stanislaus president
The Turlock Journal
... work and to sacrifice on behalf of the university, we've demonstrated that consistently here for 50 years,” said John Garcia, professor of Social Work. ...

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