Social workers, family needs, and foster care are among the essential services that have not been put on pause amid the novel-coronavirus pandemic. In Iowa, while some non-urgent matters can be done ...

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint has released its latest study, “Digital delivery holds the key for enabling better welfare services,” which examines the ...

The full text of this essay is available here in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Since the 1960s, government social welfare programs have taken on increasingly important roles in advanced industrial nations ...

The term “social determinants of health” is trending in health policy circles. The general theory is that addressing external factors can improve an individual's overall health. This seems logical.

To try to close the gap, the agency launched a food giveaway program a year ago, but now they aren’t just feeding people.

Many of the people going to MSS are primarily getting help for food, MSS said. As a result, MSS said they have activated its “Food Crisis Rapid Response Plan.” The Food Crisis Rapid Response Plan ...

Celine Gomez, a UC Davis graduate now at California State University, Northridge, is among the hundreds of individuals receiving stipends for undergraduate or graduate studies in social work through a ...

Ever wonder why government is broken? Here’s a good example. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal apparatus that oversees medical coverage for 160 million Americans, has been ...