News Archive
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At 19, Charles Stafford, MSW ’17, was suicidal. Suffering from severe depression, it was a relief for him to think about life being over.
Born and raised in Marblemount, Washington, a small town of 250 people on the Skagit River, his father was a logger and most people in town worked at the local mill. As a child, he was surrounded by drug and alcohol use within his family and in the community. “By the time I was 12 I didn’t want to be in my own skin,” Stafford said. “Drugs and alcohol felt great.”
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The violent crime rate in California increased 6.7% in 2021. While remaining relatively low compared to historic highs in the early 1990s, that still suggests that over 1.8 million people across the state experienced a violent crime in 2021.
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Guaranteed income and its close cousin Universal Basic Income have been proposed as solutions for both social justice and economic stimulus for decades, with leading voices as disparate as Martin Luther King, Jr. and economist Milton Friedman advocating for the establishment of a guaranteed income. While some say it is a form of welfare, advocates argue that it would help to relieve dramatic socioeconomic disparities and even potentially reduce dependence on government programs.
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The honor of Social Work Pioneer® is bestowed by the National Association of Social Workers to those within the social work profession who have explored new territories, improved social and human conditions on many frontiers, and made unique contributions to the evolution of social work. They are the role models and standard bearers for future generations of social workers to aspire.
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September is Healthy Aging Month and the beginning of Latinx Heritage Month, an important time to shine a light on the latest research around Alzheimer’s and dementia prevention for one of the highest affected populations.
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One of the things we have learned from the pandemic is who our essential workforce is – the people who keep us healthy, stock our shelves with food, teach our children, and deliver the goods we cannot live without. But who is considered an essential or frontline worker, and is that definition keeping up with today’s health care models?
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As children and adolescents go back to school across the country this month, they face escalating mental health challenges. Clinical anxiety and depression among youth has doubled during the pandemic. Gun violence in the U.S. has reached an unprecedented level, and according to a June 2022 report by the National Center for Education Statistics, school shootings during the 2020-21 school year reached the highest number in two decades.
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In a melding of nationally recognized health care experts, researchers, community partners and legislators with entertainment industry artists and professionals, City of Hope’s Music, Film and Entertainment Industry group presented the inaugural California Coalition of Cancer Equity (C3E) Symposium in conjunction with Closing the Care Gap on June 21 and 22, 2022 at the GRAMMY museum.
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Counting is the core of scientific research. This is not the case today for LGBTQ+ people at the most fundamental level: the death count. While it is well documented that LGBTQ+ people have higher rates of suicidal ideation, substance abuse and other potentially life-threatening behavioral health risks, there are no standard statistics that record the number of deaths each year for those who identify as LGBTQ+. Their lives — and deaths — are literally not counted.
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Personal freedom is an essential right in the United States for which its residents have fought since the country’s founding. While the execution of this right might not always have been considered a success, most would agree that we have made progress. The recent ruling by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, however, seems a perilous move away from the personal freedom that women have achieved to date.