State Slashing Substance Abuse Programs
from The Daily Herald
 Prison saved Melissa Walker. While there in 2006, she sought help from drug counselors, through the Breaking Free treatment program in Aurora, Ill., and found a path to sobriety and a normal life. But Breaking Free is now shutting its doors to hundreds of people in situations like Walker's thanks to state budget cuts that have slashed 60 percent from the agency's subsidy. More
A Different Type of Meeting, Illinois General Assembly Special Session
from NASW IL
 How many social workers does it take to have a virtual meeting? Well, after this past weekend of participating in the 2008 Delegate Assembly virtually, you could probably list several punch lines. More
High-Powered Treatment
from MSNBC via Newsweek
When Bill Russell tells people that his severe depression was relieved by shock therapy, the most common response he gets is: "They're still doing that?" The number of patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy, as it's formally called, has tripled to 100,000 a year, according to the National Mental Health Association. More
Justice Department Donating $2 million to Fight Gangs
from The Chicago Tribune
The Justice Department plans to donate $2 million to private anti-gang programs and police in the Chicago area and a like amount in Detroit. The two cities became the 11th and 12th funded under the department's Comprehensive Gang Initiative. More
More Men Than Women Adopt Children
from The Los Angeles Times
American men are more than twice as likely to adopt a child compared with women, according to statistics released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The reason, however, may have a lot to do with the nature of family living arrangements. More
Quick Relief of PTSD Anxiety
from The Chicago Tribune
Jason Brown's return home from a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq should have been happier. But there were nightmares, tension, the constant feeling of being on edge. "I'd see things out of the corner of my eye, I'd see shadows," says the 29-year-old Army reservist, an engineering technician, who came home to Peoria in July 2007. "I'd be suspicious of things; they were out of place. I didn't sleep well." More
Social Workers Aim to Help Abuse Victims Finish School
from Chicago Daily Herald
A suburban elementary school student told her bus driver she had been physically abused.
The student's school called the wrong student down to the office and interrogated her, trying to get her to admit the abuse.When the student persisted in denying the abuse, school administrators forced her to lift up her shirt and prove she didn't have bruises. More
Cash-Strapped Social Services Struggle to Help San Jose, Calif. Residents
from San Jose Mercury News
A slow squeeze on state funding for county-provided social services over recent years has left California's children, families and seniors with a badly tattered safety net, the California Budget Project concludes in a new report. The survey of 13 counties - representing two-thirds of the state's population - gauged the effect of funding cuts on adoption programs, Adult Protective Services, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, Child Welfare Services, the food stamp program, foster care, In-Home Supportive Services and Medi-Cal. More
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