Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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A lack of political will is one factor preventing youth work from becoming a formal profession.
If you need to access social services, you deserve to know whether the provider is using artificial intelligence in any way.
Parolees over 50 tend to have health issues and strained family ties. They’re less likely to reoffend after prison but need more help getting back on their feet.
Many leaders of these groups are reluctant to take policy positions that may appear political to members of their local communities or donors.
A trained social worker helps people without homes obtain the support they need and addresses other residents’ concerns about street safety.
Some of these agencies told researchers that their organizations couldn’t afford to pay their workers enough money for them to cover basic living expenses.
The US Supreme Court’s high-profile Grants Pass ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments, even if they can’t offer shelter. A scholar explains why a Housing First approach is more effective.
A case study of a mainly Latino neighborhood in Houston shows that when residents value a neighborhood as it is, they can forestall large-scale redevelopment.
Integrating affordable housing with accessible health and social services is a proven, highly cost-effective way to tackle homelessness and vastly improve people’s lives.
By relying heavily on privately run organizations to deliver social services, the government employs fewer people, reducing the size of its bureaucracy. But these partnerships can flounder.
Programs and policies to help domestic abuse survivors find safe housing work only if they’re implemented and supported with resources.
In the 1940s, Britain’s nascent welfare state was designed around male financial responsibility for their families – unmarried mothers were intentionally disregarded.
Social workers encountered challenges in providing their services in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquakes, facing obstacles outside of their control.
The public’s intensifying needs necessitate an expansion of the library’s role in our communities.
The local and international track record of social investment funds and social impact bonds is far from convincing. A better-resourced public sector would be a simpler solution.
Publicly funded primary and home care should be accessible to all older adults, regardless of where they live.
Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
Robodebt affected hundreds of thousands of people and undercut trust in our political and social welfare systems. Unless we act on today’s royal commission report, something like it will happen again.
While technology can be a useful tool, it can also divert funding and attention from the root causes of the social welfare issues it aims to address.
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Professor, Digital Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies, George Mason University
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Head of Research, PUSKAPA
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Serivces and Social Work, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Social Work, University of Sheffield
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PhD candidate, HighWire Centre for Doctoral Training, Lancaster University
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Professor, Head of Department of Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior lecturer, Cardiff University
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Head of School, Social Sciences, UNSW