Interracial Marriage: The Changing Face Of Seeing Race : NPR:
Today, African-Americans and white Americans both widely accept marriages between blacks and whites. According to a recently released Gallup Poll, 96 percent of African-Americans and 84 percent of whites accept the idea.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Social Justice via PBS.org: Freedom Fighters and Stonewall Uprising, Two Free Civil Rights Videos
The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. That night the street erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations that lasted for the next three days. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
Freedom Riders | American Experience | PBS
The story behind civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the American South.
Visit the Freedom Riders webpage
The story behind civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the American South.
Visit the Freedom Riders webpage
Friday, August 12, 2011
The No FEAR Act AGAINST Discrimination in Federal Agencies Information & Data
Here is a link to the No FEAR Act information at the US Postal Service's website:
The “Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002,” Public Law 107-174, which is now known as the No FEAR Act, became effective October 1, 2003. This law seeks to decrease violations of antidiscrimination laws by increasing the accountability of federal agencies for violations of those laws. Among other things, it requires federal agencies to post EEO statistics on their web sites and to educate their employees about the rights and remedies under the antidiscrimination and whistleblower laws that apply to them.
The USPS is committed to having a workplace environment that is free from discrimination. Please view the USPS EEO statistics required under the No FEAR Act that are contained in the links below. Further information regarding the No FEAR Act, including the No FEAR Act Notice to USPS employees and applicants for employment, is also provided in the links below.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
NPR: Tackling Obesity Amid Poverty In A Mississippi County : NPR
Tackling Obesity Amid Poverty In A Mississippi County : NPR
This woman had a stroke when she was in her twenties and has since lost quite a lot of weight. She talked about how expensive fresh vegetables and fruit are, making the statement that if you have a low income those types of food are out of the range of your budget. She said (paraphrasing) that if you only have $5 and need a meal for you and your two kids for tonight, you can't choose the best food. In other words, the hamburgers on the dollar-menu are going to win out.
This is nothing new to me, having been a student for so many years, having been on a tight budget for all times, and before that living in a family which was poor. It often seems much, much too expensive to buy many tomatoes when they are over $3/pound, lettuce that is over $2, and when the cheapest fruit is $1/pound and only on-sale. I also have the ability to shop for sales and travel by private transportation to get these bargains, which many certainly do not. If you need to buy food close to home, you can count on almost double those prices, especially if you only live close enough to a "convenience" store. Broccoli is certainly very expensive and so is cauliflower. The woman interviewed said that buying a can of processed corn is affordable whereas 4 ears of corn are not.
What got me really thinking was when the older generation talks about how today's children are so out-of-touch with where their food comes from. I hear this a lot, and it sounds accusatory as if children willfully are just lazy and incurious:
"Every generation is getting weaker and wider," McLaurin says. McLaurin, 70, says his generation had to fish, hunt and work in the garden. "But now, children, that don't ring a bell with them."
This is where I think society shoulders the blame, not children. Our culture is so obsessed with making and spending money, and now views food as something to grab-and-go, a necessary but time-wasting activity. Witness how we treat the farmers in our country, forcing them to become mechanized assembly lines that produce food. Our society has cut out any emotion or love for the food and made it another form of commercialism. And, this is what we - as a culture - have passed onto today's children. That everything is a business and we are all cogs in the big machine.
What I think is the most important thing to comment on here is when the 70 year-old man said that children lose out because their lives are not are not like his was: his family had to hunt and fish and grow food. That is a loss -- one that I keenly and frequently experience -- feeling so cut-off from Nature. I recently moved to a new apartment (in a house) and just the fact that I have a 5-foot by 3-foot area of grass that I can walk barefoot in thrills me to no end.
What clicked in my mind was that I would be hard-pressed to tell you where one could hunt in my city or the immediate area. And, the actions one would have to go through to buy/own a gun makes that quite prohibitive.
One can fish -- with a purchased license -- if you can travel 4 miles away. Will the bus go to the ocean? Would anyone carry fishing poles and a bucket on the bus with their catch of the day? Can you bring dead animals on a bus?
In the apartment building I lived in, there was no grass on the property, let alone an area to grow a garden. Fortunately, I was financially able to move to this new place. One of the first things I did was plant a garden, after convincing the landlord to turn on the water faucet outside so I could water the plants. There is only room for 5 plants, but I am happy with that. I certainly could not live on the food from my garden.
So, it seems to be that this is the culture that our mechanized society has created for us to exist in. Is it any wonder we are divorced from our food?
Monday, April 19, 2010
ABC News: Obama Orders Hospitals to Allow Gay Partners Visitation, Health Care Rights - ABC News
Obama Orders Hospitals to Allow Gay Partners Visitation, Health Care Rights - ABC News
In a nod to the rights of lesbian and gay couples, President Obama has ordered the nation's hospitals to allow patients to determine for themselves who has visitation rights and who can make medical decisions.
Janice Langbehn, 41, with three of her children: David 14, Danielle, 16, and Katie, 13. Langbehn,...
(Photo by DJ Bradley)
In a memo, Obama instructed the health and human services secretary to draft new rules for hospitals that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid payments.
The order gives LGBT partners the same visitation and health proxy rights that are enjoyed by immediate family members.
Most hospitals will now be banned from denying those privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
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.”
"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.”
Sunday, March 28, 2010
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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Saturday, March 27, 2010
General Social Work Resources
social work - general
- One Economy Corporation | One Economy
- Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
- Internet Social Worker | Welcome | Why do this tutorial?
- The New Social Worker Online Blog
- JOBS4social work
- About.com Statistics help
- Periodicals and E-Books Directory
- Critical Social Work - Volume 1, No. 1
- Feminist Theories & Social Work - EBSCOhost: Publications: 2514
- Global Perspectives of Occupational Social Work - EBSCOhost: Publications: 251N
- Homosexuality & Social Work. EBSCOhost: Publications: 252M
- Human Sexuality, Ethnoculture & Social Work. EBSCOhost: Publications: 252P
- Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. EBSCOhost: Publications: 1GW8
- Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. EBSCOhost: Publications: 86M
- Journal of Social Work Practice. EBSCOhost: Publications: 56H
- Journal of Social Work Research & Evaluation. EBSCOhost: Publications: RIJ
- IUC Journal of Social Work Theory and Practice
- Principles of Social Work Practice. EBSCOhost: Publications: 253K
- Research on Social Work Practice. EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
- Can “Precious” be a Teaching Tool? | Social Workers Speak
- Dogs Help Clients Express Themselves in Therapy | Social Workers Speak
- NASW Practice Standards
- NASW Lunchtime Series
- NASW Practice section
- NASW Code of Ethics (English and Spanish)
- NASW Assurance Services - School Social Work Liability Insurance
- NASW Social Work Career Center
- NASW Student Center
- NASW Studt Center for Press
- NASW WebEd
- NASW yearend2008report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- NASW Help Starts Here
- NASW: Social Work Portal
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts
- National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts
- National Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report
- Online Psychology Career Center
- Personality test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology
- Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
- Portal:Psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Nonviolent Communication
- social experiment - Google Search
- Social Psychology Network
- SOcial work theories - Google Book Search
- Social Work--THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER Online--Magazine for Social Work Students and Recent
- Society for the Study of Social Problems | Awards & Scholarships
- Thomp College Success Links
- The Social Welfare Spot
- WE LEARN, Resource List, Subject List
- The handbook of social psychology - Google Books
- The Association for Transpersonal Psychology
- Inquiring Minds
- Andrew Hacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Judith Katz - Google Search
- Compassion: conceptualisations ... - Google Books
- SW Licensing Exam prep - National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts
- The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | Graduate Education at the Frontier of Psychology and Spirituality since 1975
- Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.com
- SSC Style Guides and Writing Tools: Salem State College Library
- SocialWorkBlog.org
- Relationships and Compatablilty between Enneagram Types
- Brian Bride — School of Social Work
- Social Workers Speak
- Women in the Literary Arts - Equality for Women
- NASW WebEd
- Community Tool Box - Solve a Problem
- data drinking
- Achieving Goals - Simple Tips for Achieving Goals
- Transactional analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Amazon.com: Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis. (9780345410030): Eric Berne: Books
- Out.com Exclusives | 80 American Classics
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Nation: The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow
The War on Drugs has created a permanent caste system.
"Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its forty-fourth president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation's "triumph over race." Obama's election has been touted as the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow, the bookend placed on the history of racial caste in America."
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