Stacie E Hebert, LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

News Analysis - With or Without Health Reform, We Pay for Others’

News Analysis - With or Without Health Reform, We Pay for Others’ Bad Habits - NYTimes.com:

"Unhealthy habits are one factor in disease, but so are social status, income, family dynamics, education and genetics. Patient noncompliance with medical recommendations undoubtedly contributes to poor health, but it is as much a function of poor communication, medication costs and side effects, cultural barriers and inadequate resources as it is of willful disregard of a doctor’s advice."

Punitive measures to force healthy behavior do not usually work. In 2006, West Virginia started rewarding Medicaid patients who signed a pledge to enroll in a wellness plan and to follow their doctors’ orders with special benefits, including unlimited prescription-drug coverage, programs to help them quit smoking and nutrition counseling. Those who did not sign up were enrolled in a more restrictive plan that, among other things, limited drug coverage to only four prescriptions a month.

The program, by many accounts, is failing. As of August 2009, only 15 percent of 160,000 eligible patients had signed up. Patients with limited transportation options were having a hard time committing to regular office visits. And experts say there is no evidence that restricting benefits for noncompliant patients has promoted healthy behaviors.

Healthy living should be encouraged, but punishing patients who make poor health choices clearly oversimplifies a very complex issue. We should be focusing on public health campaigns: encouraging exercise, smoking cessation and so on. Of course, this will require a change in how we live, how we plan our communities.

“It’s the context of people’s lives that determines their health,” said a World Health Organization report on health disparities. “So blaming individuals for poor health or crediting them for good health is inappropriate.”

NYT News: At Key West Beach, Wondering Who’s a Vagrant - NYTimes.com

At Key West Beach, Wondering Who’s a Vagrant

By DAMIEN CAVE
Federal stimulus money is paying for quality-of-life policing, but not everyone agrees on who is an offender.

KEY WEST, Fla. — Quality of life for Steve Sanderson means securing a good sleeping spot that a new arrival will never find. For Denise Skinner, it means l-i-v-i-n with a view of the ocean from the mattress in her cherry red Jeep. “It’s heaven out there,” she said last week, squinting out her back window. “It’s heaven.”

NYT News: Obama Signs Overhaul of Student Loan Program

Obama Signs Overhaul of Student Loan Program
By PETER BAKER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

The new law will expand Pell grants, make it easier for students to repay outstanding loans after graduating and invest $2 billion in community colleges over the next four years.

This new law was included in the recent health care bill.

Thank you, President Obama and all the Congress people who supported this legislation!!!!

CESAR E. CHAVEZ : An American Hero

On the anniversary of his birth, we celebrate Cesar Chavez Day, and pay homage to the community organizer, civil rights leader, labor champion and hero of many progressive causes.

CESAR E. CHAVEZ

César Chávez Estrada (March 31, 1927– April 23, 1993) was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded United Farm Workers (UFW).

Sunday, March 28, 2010

NYT Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com: "The apocalyptic predictions then, like those about health care now, were all framed in constitutional pieties, of course. Barry Goldwater, running for president in ’64, drew on the counsel of two young legal allies, William Rehnquist and Robert Bork, to characterize the bill as a “threat to the very essence of our basic system” and a “usurpation” of states’ rights that “would force you to admit drunks, a known murderer or an insane person into your place of business.” Richard Russell, the segregationist Democratic senator from Georgia, said the bill “would destroy the free enterprise system.” David Lawrence, a widely syndicated conservative columnist, bemoaned the establishment of “a federal dictatorship.” Meanwhile, three civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Miss."

News from NASW: Diversity Education

Congressional Hearing about Educating Diverse Students

The House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education held a hearing on March 18, 2010 titled “Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization: Addressing the Needs of Diverse Students” to examine how schools can appropriately educate low-income, minority, English Language Learners, disabled, Native American, and homeless students within the context of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

This goal was expressed by Subcommittee Chairman Representative Dale Kildee (D-MI) in his opening statement: “While the No Child Left Behind Act shed light on the inequalities in our education system, it unfortunately did not do enough to close the achievement gap for diverse students…This must be a top priority for future steps in education reform.”

To this end, the Subcommittee considered recommendations from a panel of educators, advocates, and a researcher working to close the achievement gap for diverse students. They included Dr. Daniel Curry, Superintendent for the Lake Forest School District in Felton, Delaware, Dr. Jack Dale, Superintendent for Fairfax County Public Schools in Falls Church, Virginia, Arelis Diaz, Assistant Superintendent for Godwin Heights Public Schools in Wyoming, Michigan, Dr. David Gipp, President of United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), Jacqui Farmer Kearns, Principal Investigator for the National Alternate Assessment Center, and Michael Wotorson, Executive Director of Campaign for High School Equity.

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Regressive tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regressive tax: "A regressive tax is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases.[1][2][3][4][5] In simpler terms, a regressive tax imposes a greater burden (relative to resources) on the poor than on the rich — there is an inverse relationship between the tax rate and the taxpayer's ability to pay as measured by assets, consumption, or income. 'Regressive' describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate progresses from high to low, where the average tax rate exceeds the marginal tax rate.[6][7] It can be applied to individual taxes or to a tax system as a whole; a year, multi-year, or lifetime. Regressive taxes attempt to reduce the tax incidence of people with higher ability-to-pay, as they shift the incidence disproportionately to those with lower ability-to-pay. The opposite of a regressive tax is a progressive tax, where the tax rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases.[8][9][10][11] In between is a flat or proportional tax, where the tax rate is fixed as the amount subject to taxation increases."

News: Health-care reform bill cuts deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, covers 95%

- CBO: Health-care reform bill cuts deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, covers 95%

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/26066.html

Saturday, March 27, 2010

General Social Work Resources

Relationships Resources

relationships

I Don’t Want a Relationship: Truth or Dare?
Singles Coach blog
"don't want" "a relationship" - Google Search
Am I in a Healthy Relationship?
Relationship Advice
I don’t want a relationship. [relationships.blog-city.com]
Lesbian - Hip Forums
Relationship Discussion - Gay-Bi-Lesbian Forum
Lesbian Sex, Dating and Coming Out
Lesbian Sex and Relationships
"friends with benefits" emotions - Google Search
The proper way to be friends with benefits - CNN.com
Dating » The Lesbian Question
Lesbian Life - Gay/Lesbian Issues - People/Relationships - AllExperts.com
Relationships - Gay-Lesbian Ezine Articles
Dating Tips for Lesbian & Bisexual Women
Sexual Intercourse - Advice and How To's
dating sex emotions - Google Search
Relationships
dating relationship obsessive thinking - Google Search
Must-Haves and Don't-Wants for a New Relationship -- Yahoo! Personals
Falling in love in six acts
Introduction
HEALTH INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP characteristics
EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE Being Involved With An Unavailable Partner Is A Dead End By Neil Rosenthal
Emotionally Distant Partners and How to Spot Them
Why Do I Attract Emotionally Unavailable Men? - Love + Sex on Shine
Coping with Loneliness - Relationships
Conflict - The Toll of Conflict in Relationships
How to Love - wikiHow
How to Recognize a Manipulative or Controlling Relationship - wikiHow
40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis | Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
What is SLAA?
Inner Bonding: Healing Your Aloneness
47 Qualities of a Relationship
Recovery is here. | Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
#SLAA Online Group of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous - Readings/Literature
GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT: A GUIDE ... - Google Books
Lesbian Relationships: Life Before the Uhaul by Kali Munro
Lesbians, Gay Men, Relationships, Body Image - Links
Break-ups: How To Survive Them by psychotherapist Kali Munro
Difficult People - Tips on Dealing With Difficult People
Developing Detachment | LIVESTRONG.COM

Recovery Resources

recovery

Need to Control
College - New York Times
BOUNDARIES
Women for Sobriety
Suggested Readings
CODA - Meeting Resource Center
CODA + SE : Tomorrow Is Already Here
COPING. ORG : Control Issues
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance: Improving the Lives of People Living with Mood Disorders
SEA Program
COPING.ORG: Series Content
MSN Women for Sobriety
COPING.ORG People-Pleasing Personality
COPING.ORG Irrational Beliefs
Alcohol & Addiction Trends
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - Depression
Motivational Interviewing Algorithm
Drug and alcohol abuse, treatment, prevention at SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
Faces and Voices of Recovery
DASIS: Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies
Women for Sobriety
Gratifications-What Gratifications Are and How To Use Them

Social Justice Resources

social justice

Social Justice Counselors for Social Justice - Join/Renew Membership S336 text - the_American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Plan.pdf (application/pdf Object) SWK Diversity - RCG Companion Site The Peace Alliance - Campaign for a Department of Peace - Nonviolent Communications Call Repower America Race, Class, and Gender Book Companion Site Obama-Biden HealthCareFullPlan.pdf (application/pdf Object) Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Dennis Raphael, PhD - Presentation at the NASW Diversity and Equity NASW Diversity and Equity NASW Advocacy NASW Advocacy NASW Advocacy Advocacy - Population Health Forum, Health Olympics monitor - Home U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) UNNATURAL CAUSES . Hour 3 | PBS LYNN State and Federal Officials grace abbott immigrants social work - Google Search African American World . Profiles . Who Said That? | PBS Presumed Guilty. Research the System | PBS. Social Work Policy Resources EBSCOhost: DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL: DEBATING THE GAY BAN IN THE MILITARY (Book) DONT ASK Internet Archive: Details: OutCast-2008-8-3 Resources - Congress/Legislative - C-SPAN LAWMAKING IN MASSACHUSETTS Legislative Process Overview Maureen Dowd: 'Are Men Necessary?' : NPR State Government - Mass.Gov Gender Virtual Exploration: Web Resources for Studying Gender and Inequality PBS: UNNATURAL CAUSES is inequality ruining our health? HR1 Amer. Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 - 111_hr1_text.pdf (application/pdf Object) Second wind for marriage movement SocialWorkSocialJustice2ndEd.pdf (application/pdf Object) Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » U.N. Independent Expert Recommends Remedies for U.S. Race Relations NASW FY2010 budget advocacy US Census : gay lesbian National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | building LGBT political power from the ground up How Race Is Lived in America Peggy MacIntosh - Google Search NASW Advocacy Homelessness Resource Center Habitat for Humanity - North Shore GLAD - Equal Justice Under Law | Home Page Office of Public Engagement Audre Lorde - Google Search Nat'l Marriage Project Goodridge v. Department of Public Health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gay Rights - Change.org © Serve New England - Locations Change.org - Causes AfterEllen "social work" "social justice" - Google Search AFJ.org | Alliance for Justice

Research Resources

research

Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation "social work" policy research - Google Search (happiness, well-being) data - Google Search APA Citation Style apa reference census - Google Search Basic Guide to Program Evaluation Big Five Inventory - Google Search Boston College LibGuides @ BC - Social Work: Public Policy - Policy Analysis BRFSS- CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Case Studies Census 2000 Census 2000 Earnings Distribution of U.S.Year-Round Full-Time Workers by Occupation: 1999 (PHC-T-33) Census 2000: 01902 - Fact Sheet - American FactFinder Census 2000: Demogaphics Trends Census 2000: Household Income Census 2000: Men and Women's Occupations and Income - censr-15.pdf (application/pdf Object) Census 2000: Occupations Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity CIA - The World Factbook -- United Kingdom CIA - The World Factbook -- United States collection psychological tests online from 1999 to 2005 - Google Search Data Resources Program | National Institute of Justice DSM_ALA DSM_ALD EBSCOhost: Articles Folder emotion contagion - Google Search Evaluation Activities in Organizations FileZilla - Google Search For Researchers (Library of Congress) General Social Survey geography ses income "mental health" - Google Scholar GNU PSPP Google Directory - Science > Math > Statistics > Software > SPSS GSS Data for Sociology happier.com | a personal trainer for your happiness Happiness in Nations Happiness is rising around the world: U-M study How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com How the Letter A Improves Test Performance | Psych Central News http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54 Internet Data Sources for Social Scientists lesbians std - Google Search LibGuides - Salem State College LibGuides: Social Work Library Guides | Cornell University Library Links to Published online resaerch studies Massachusetts daily news roundup Massachusetts Geographic Information System Mendeley - Research software for research papers | Mendeley methods in social research My Marked Citations nasw massachusetts compensation task force - Google Search NASW Social Work Research National Comorbidity Survey Patchwork Nation | Online NewsHour | PBS Personality Polling Data Cornell University Cornell University Library Guides - Focus on Social Sciences Resources - Public Opinion/Polling Data Raynald's SPSS Tools Regression analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia RES Methods : Table of Contents Research Articles - Featured Articles Research Methods Knowledge Base ROE v. WADE selecting-public-assessments.pdf (application/pdf Object) Self-esteem LGBT self-care mental, physical, and spiritual health - Google Search Sleep, pray, love -- survey sheds light on U.S. bedtime routine - CNN.com social policy "social work" research - Google Search SPSS Data Set Lyceum Books Student Resources SPSS For Dummies - Google Books SPSS Free General and Specialized Online SPSS Tutorials SPSS Grad School price - IBM® SPSS® Statistics 18 - Academic Software Discounts | OnTheHub eStore SPSS learning - Resources to help you learn and use SPSS SPSS Lessons SPSS Starter Kit SPSS survival manual: a step by step ... - Google Books SPSS Tutorial SPSS11 SSRIC/TRD: SPSS Tutorial Hyper-Text SSC Databases: Salem State College Library SSC: Other Library Catalogs: Salem State College Library StateAgenciesPubWebinfo.pdf (application/pdf Object) Statustical Data Cornell University Cornell University Library Guides - Focus on Social Sciences Resources - Statistical Resources SWK Research by Grinnell - Student Resources The Objective Standard: Sample Articles The United States of Mind - WSJ.com THOMSON WADSWORTH - MICROCASE FOR SOCIOLOGY US Gov Documents Virtual Explorations World Database of Happiness World of Emotions: Main Page World Values Survey World Values Survey World Values Survey World Values Survey - Findings WVS Cultural World Map - http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54 SPSS YouTube - Intro to SPSS

Policy Resources


policy "policy analysis" - Google Search Facts.pdf (application/pdf Object) artsunion_2006.pdf (application/pdf Object) Research, Statistics, & Policy Analysis: Public-Use Microdata Files finalHCOPshaffer040102.pdf (application/pdf Object) ajphfinaljan03.pdf (application/pdf Object) nejshafferarticle1993.pdf (application/pdf Object) School of Education, Public Policy and Civic Engagement - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Cornell Projects Cases in public policy analysis - Google Books SIEPR Policy Brief | SIEPR social policy discrimination - Google Search "policy analysis" public social - Google Search health policy: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Policy, Media Resources, Public Health Education & South Africa - Kaiser Family Foundation U.S. - Brookings Institution Relevant Publications - Executive Office of Public Safety EOPS PROG EVAL _grantee_tools.pdf (application/pdf Object) EOPS Prog Eval_grantee_profiles.pdf (application/pdf Object) SocioSite: SOCIAL POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY and SOCIAL WORK policy analysis Research and Policy Analysis The Annie E. Casey Foundation - Annie E. Casey Foundation - Home Policy Basics — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PEW Policy Topics and Issues - The Pew Center on the States Hudson Policy Centers Southern Poverty Law Center Mental Health America: Policy Issues A-Z NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness Drug Policy Alliance Network: Alternatives to Marijuana Prohibition and the Drug War Death penalty: Lethal injection on trial CLASP.org SOCIAL POLICY class online

Family Violence Resources

FAMILY VIOLENCE

Amnews.com - Around Town: Kubale recognized for domestic violence efforts
Baby Brianna Bill Introduced to Toughen Abuse...
CUAV Same Sex Domestic Violence
Census 2000 Gateway
Crystal Fuels Violence in Homes
Dallas Stars
Father faces charges of child abuse
Getting the facts straight on family violence
Invisible Scars: Verbal Abuse
KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon
Let%u2019s Be Rational
Local News - The Leaf Chronicle - www.theleafchronicle.com
News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | LOCAL NEWS | Victims Crime Fund money may dry up
NewsNet5.com - News - Police: Akron Man Attacks, Bites Girlfriend
ONN. Ohio News Now: Ohio gay marriage ban at center of domestic violence challenge
Power Struggle in Relationships
RockyMountainNews.com
The New York Times New York Region Report Faults New Jersey on Response to Child Abuse
The Obsessive Love Wheel : Confusing Love with ...
The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 31-Jan-05 - Open child abuse hearings go well
Violence Against Women Online Resources
Woman horrified by latest child abuse claims. 0...

GLAAD News: Secretary of Defense, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Announce Changes to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell : GLAADBlog.org

Secretary of Defense, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Announce Changes to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell : GLAADBlog.org

“The most significant change to the policy,” write Metro Weekly reporter Chris Geidner, “will raise the level of the officer who is authorized to initiate an inquiry or separation proceeding regarding the DADT policy to a general or flag officer in the servicemember’s chain of command.”

According to The Associated Press the new guidelines take effect immediately.

Other changes to the policy include:

Third-party testimony about a service member’s sexual orientation must now be given under oath.

Restrictions on confidentiality will now be stricter. For instance, statements between a person and his/her lawyer, clergy, psychotherapist or medical professional may be inadmissible evidence.

In a statement released today by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis expressed support for today’s announcements:

“The regulatory changes announced today are another major step forward in making the 1993 ban less draconian. These changes underscore what Sec. Gates said on February 2 and again today: the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is inevitable-it’s a matter of how to repeal the law, not whether to do so.”

According to SLDN, more than 13,500 service members have been fired under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell since 1994.

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