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One year after a call to convene was issued to officials from various universities across the state to discuss the challenges facing the social work education system, meetings resumed in February to talk through issues, goals and proactive measures. Representatives from almost all 25 social work programs across the state were present for the initial meeting and signaled their support for moving forward to address workforce challenges.  An emerging draft charter, the Social Work Coalition on NC Workforce Development, was established during these meetings with the mission to diversify and expand the mental and behavioral health and child welfare workforce, develop more social work education programs and take part in legislative advocacy to bolster the social work system. “By forming the Coalition, social work educators in our state said yes to convening and in one voice, working to develop strategies to garner more support for our students, profession, and the communities that we serve,” #UNCSSW Dean Ramona Denby-Brinson said. “Given the needs of our growing state, our profession must assist in meeting the workforce development challenges we are facing as a state.” Read the full story to learn more about the next steps for the emerging coalition and its goals ➡ go.unc.edu/Rc47P #behavioralhealth #socialwork #workforce #coalition

Our Project Lead Marianne Sandvad Ulriksen is doing a series of throwbacks! 😎Read the first one below👇 🌍 HUMBLE BEGINNINGS: Mutual Learning rather than Best Practice The end of 2024 marks the closing of the JUST SOCIETY project that I have been leading for the past four years. In the coming weeks, I will look back at the project and our achievements in a series of posts. In 2019, I was given a brief proposal and asked if I would lead the proposed project. The idea was to develop a course for students somewhere in the ‘developing world’ to promote knowledge about and solutions to building just institutions. Exact details were few, but Denmark’s leading position in rule of law and welfare provisions was a clear starting point, also supported by strong research knowledge within our university on these matters. As much as I am a proud Dane, I was not keen to pursue a ‘best practice’ approach. Rather, we needed to build the course in close dialogue with our partners to be. COVID-19 slowed things down tremendously but by January 2021 we had a great team in place. Unfortunately, our early collaboration all had to happen online, but we were not deterred and keen to get the ball rolling. Although, how best to do this? Who to partner with? I decided to seek partners in so-called middle-income countries, rather than low-income countries, as some level of institutional development would make a university course at partner institutions more viable. We reached out to scholars in our network at Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, National Law School of India University, Center for Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies. This gave us a good reach across the globe, but one large area on the world map was missing – the post-Soviet region – so we sought contact to Ilia State University. We had no idea then that these initial steps would be the beginning of good friendships and valuable exchanges between scholars and students across all the concerned countries! We held initial meetings with our new partners to start a dialogue about what could be learned from Denmark – or the Nordic countries more broadly - and what issues were seen as relevant in our partner countries. In two webinar series we critically reflected on the Nordic model and shared knowledge. The first series ran from April to June 2021 and was titled Critical Perspectives on the Nordic Model. The second series ran from September to November 2021 with the theme Challenges to equal access to justice and welfare rights in the Global South. See our website: https://lnkd.in/dnUtVaW8 The benefits of these webinars were many: we started a discussion on topics relevant to the course we wanted to create, we learned from each other, and we started to build good relationships. These relationships only got stronger when, finally, the world opened and we could visit our partners in Brazil, Georgia, India and South Africa in 2022. More about this in a later post.

HumanAbility welcomes this morning’s announcement that the care and support industries will be the focus of the new Care and Support TAFE Centre of Excellence at Queensland TAFE’s Cairns campus.   The Centre will bring together stakeholders from industry, Jobs and Skills Councils, universities, unions and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island health councils.   This means that students studying aged care, disability support and mental health care will receive the high-level skills training needed to support these rapidly growing industries.   Importantly, the Centre will also partner with First Nations groups so it can deliver culturally appropriate and safe training pathways for First Nations students – an approach HumanAbility knows from our stakeholders is most urgent.    There are many significant outcomes that this Care and Support TAFE Centre of Excellence will help achieve for our workforces. You can read the joint Ministerial announcement here https://lnkd.in/g9R3payE   A big shout out to the federal Skills and Training Minister, Brendan O'Connor and his Queensland counterpart, Minister Lance McCallum MP and their governments for their commitment to investing in our future care and support students and workers. #HumanAbility #careandsupport #TAFE

Social media and politics is grapling with old paradox , what specific problems of the collective , the majority or the public accords with their very own individual interests in ensuring fairness by a ruler or government. Socrates and Aristotle both debated for the perspective of fair rules rather than the direct problem of what information is needed to synchronise both individual rights and public rights. Thus cliques form to ensure their perceived common interests as misaligned as they are with the best interests of public welfare. Thus strategic alliances are every often co UK nter productive to the fair distribution resources and consider education in itself a resource. Media companies represent global cliques in the 21st Century who never report about their own newsworthy activities. Social media and politics is grapling with old paradox , what specific problems of the collective , the majority or the public accords with their very own individual interests in ensuring fairness by a ruler or government. Socrates and Aristotle both debated for the perspective of fair rules rather than the direct problem of what information is needed to synchronise both individual rights and public rights. Thus cliques form to ensure their perceived common interests as misaligned as they are with the best interests of public welfare. Thus strategic alliances are every often co UK nter productive to the fair distribution resources and consider education in itself a resource. Media companies represent global cliques in the 21st Century who never report about their own newsworthy activities.

Mexico’s Education Commission is hosting meetings to address critical challenges in the education system, aiming to provide equitable opportunities for all students. It has taken steps to address key issues, including delayed welfare payments 💸, salary policies 💼, and the alignment of upper-secondary and higher education programs 🎓. For more details head over to Mexico Business News! #EducationMatters #MexicoBusinessNews #TalentDevelopment

There are three goals and results of public policy: (1) harm, (2) heal, and/or (3) harmony. All true public servants take a personal and organic oath between themselves and the general public to "do no harm." The most meaningful and wholistic way to choose a public servant at the ballot box is to first determine the candidate's propensity to be either harmless or harmful to the public good interests through public education, public health, public welfare, and public safety policies. The more harmless--past, present, and future--a candidate has been, is, and will be, the more desirable the disterning general public should find the candidate, provided that the general public is a product of a combination of robust and harmless public education, public health, public welfare, and public safety systems. The more harmful--past, present, and future--a candidate has been, is, and will be, the less desirable the disterning general public should find the candidate, provided that the general public is again a product of a combination of robust and harmless public education, public health, public welfare, and public safety systems. In instances where the general public is increasingly the product of a combination of fragile and harmful public education, public health, public welfare, and public safety systems, that general public lacks disternment and is suseptible to being swayed by public office candidates who deceptively subvert public interests for private interests with no regard to the harm caused. In this environment, the ideal candidate should also incorporate a harm reduction campaign. #arpx #arnews #argop #arleg

🌟 New Publication 🌟 I am thrilled to share that our latest research paper, "Sequential School Choice with Public and Private Schools," has been published in the journal "Social Choice and Welfare". In this study, co-authored with Tommy Andersson, Umut Dur, and Onur Kesten, we delve into the intricacies of sequential two-stage admission systems involving both public and private schools. We introduce a novel concept called straightforwardness and explore the trade-offs between the existence of a straightforward equilibrium and non-wastefulness in these systems. Our findings offer valuable insights into the unique set of rules that can guarantee the existence of such an equilibrium while minimizing waste. We also analyze existing admission systems in Türkiye and Sweden within our framework, providing a comprehensive understanding of their dynamics and suggesting improvements. 📜 Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/eSnsd9NV #SchoolChoice #MarketDesign

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[REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED] 🌟 Expand your horizons in Quantitative Social Sciences! 🌟 Join the TSE & IAST Summer School from May 26 to June 20, 2025, and delve into: 1️⃣ The evolution of human sociality 2️⃣ Politics, social identity, and human welfare 📆 Apply by 20 December. Link to the registration form in the comments

🚀Two weeks to go! 🚀 Join OPEN for this session as we unveil OPEN's tools and activities driving the sector's engagement with evidence building, sharing, and communication. Our first session of 2024 celebrates the remarkable progress made over the last five years in the sector, marking a cultural shift towards evidence-driven service delivery. 📈 🔍 Evidence is everywhere, used everyday, by everyone. This session will kickstart a collective dialogue on building, sharing, and communicating evidence practices within the OPEN community. Discover a range of tools in our toolbox designed to foster engagement and mutual sharing of experiences with evidence. Highlights will include:   📌 Introduce a fresh suite of opportunities and tools tailored to aid the sector on its evidence journey. 📌Practical insights on building your own evidence to strategies for effective communication. Featuring presentations from Mandy Charman, Program Manager of OPEN: Outcomes Practice Evidence Network, and Melissa Storey, Senior Editor of the Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare's journal, Children Australia, this session promises something for everyone, regardless of role. 🌟 Join us to share your evidence journey and learn about what works from the sector's journeys. Don't miss out on this interactive session! Register today and be part of the evidence revolution with OPEN. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g94zZCE9 #EvidenceBuilding #CommunityEngagement #ProfessionalDevelopment