{"title":"Exploring the Mental Health Correlates of Welfare Stigmatization, Violent Crime, and Property Crime","authors":"K. Chigbu","doi":"10.3998/sdi.4488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.4488","url":null,"abstract":"Stigmatization of individuals who utilize public welfare in the United States is prevalent and correlates with negative mental health outcomes. Poverty has often been associated with violence and crime, which exacerbates stigmatization of people experiencing poverty. Hence, the study applied the empowerment perspective in examining public nutritional assistance as an empowering intervention. It was hypothesized that public nutritional assistance would be negatively associated with violent crime and property crime. Bivariate and multivariate statistical methods were applied in examining how utilization of public nutritional assistance is associated with the prevalence of violent crime and property crime in a US city. Findings showed inverse relationships between public nutritional assistance and property crime, while violent crime maintained a positive association with property crime. Implications for advocacy, mental health, social work education, and social policy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":85530,"journal":{"name":"Social development issues","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49171725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peer Mentoring: A Case Study in Developing Legislative Advocacy Skills among Social Work Students","authors":"Melinda L. Lewis, Janet D. Albury, M. Kwong","doi":"10.3998/sdi.4489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.4489","url":null,"abstract":"Peer mentoring in social work education can be beneficial in developing and promoting legislative advocacy skills among social work students taking foundational social welfare policy courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. A descriptive case study is presented of a student peer mentoring project within a social work educational program at a regional comprehensive state university. This study describes the incorporation of a peer mentoring program to assist in promoting legislative advocacy skills among social work students. The project encompasses annual state-level high-impact practice (HIP) legislative advocacy action events across 5 years before and during the global pandemic. This article also seeks to inspire social work educators to embrace peer mentoring as a means to enhance and promote the development of advocacy skills as students find their collective voice and speak up to educate lawmakers on contemporary social problems impacting vulnerable populations.","PeriodicalId":85530,"journal":{"name":"Social development issues","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49255915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Global Shifts, Social Welfare, and Development—Unevenness in a Globalized World","authors":"J. Powell","doi":"10.3998/sdi.4486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.4486","url":null,"abstract":"Social and economic inequalities are both significant and important issues in the study of globalization, while global forces have widened their consequences such as unleashing poverty and gender imbalances in terms of equality. The reasons lie in the reformulation of economic power associated with burgeoning free-market economies and accompanying diffusion of instrumental rationality, commoditization, and secularism. In contrast to the economic downturn and global softening of labor markets, which call for greater social protection, the welfare state has been replaced by a “non-sovereign power” wary of its global positioning but less powerful in shaping daily lives of its populace among social forces including the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). However, nation-states still serve important functions in a globe dominated by transnational corporate interests. With few options and having to make controversial choices, welfare provision has seen trends towards the commodification of social welfare whilst globalization is affecting social contracts across nation-states. This paper critically engages in these challenges to governance and development, and assesses how social welfare has been redefined and extended while many populations become embedded in greater forms of poverty creating unevenness across nation-states.","PeriodicalId":85530,"journal":{"name":"Social development issues","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49642004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zachary Pietrantoni, Jonathan Chitiyo, Argnue Chitiyo, Janeth Pena, Karen L. Fernandez
{"title":"Perceived Preparedness of School Practitioners to Identify and Report Child Maltreatment","authors":"Zachary Pietrantoni, Jonathan Chitiyo, Argnue Chitiyo, Janeth Pena, Karen L. Fernandez","doi":"10.3998/sdi.4487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.4487","url":null,"abstract":"Child maltreatment continues to be a significant problem across the globe. Despite the many negative outcomes of child maltreatment documented in the literature, there is limited research on how school practitioners are prepared for identifying and reporting cases of maltreatment. This study examined school practitioners’ preparedness for reporting and identifying child maltreatment. Participants were a random sample of 141 school practitioners from California and Pennsylvania. Data were collected over a 6-week period via an anonymous internet survey. Overall, results indicate that most school practitioners had mixed perceptions about their ability to identify and report maltreatment. Interpretations of the data are provided with recommendations for collaborative preservice training and in-service training approaches. Implications and recommendations for future research are provided.","PeriodicalId":85530,"journal":{"name":"Social development issues","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41327250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"President’s Welcome Address at the ICSD Africa Branch’s Inaugural Colloquium—When Crises Collide: Social Development Responses to Intersecting Crises in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14–15 March 2023","authors":"M. Pawar","doi":"10.3998/sdi.4490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.4490","url":null,"abstract":"Good morning, social development scholars and distinguished participants! Prof. Leila Patel, former founding director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa and South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development; Prof. Kammila Naidoo, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg; Prof. Abye Tasse, Chief of Mission, Expertise France, the Republic of the Congo; Prof. Tanusha Raniga, South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development; and Prof. Lauren Graham, Chair of the ICSD Africa branch and Director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a real honor and privilege to be here in midst of you and extend my warm welcome to you as the president of the International Consortium for Social Development. Before I speak about the International Consortium for Social Development, I would like to share with you why my presence today at this event is very special to me. This inaugural Colloquium of the ICSD Africa is very special to me for two reasons. First, this inaugural ICSD Africa Branch colloquium is a historic event in the life of the International Consortium for Social Development. The ICSD has an European Branch and an ICSD Asia-Pacific Branch, which regularly hold biennial conferences to share and promote knowledge of social development in their respective regions. Both for ideological and practice reasons, ICSD was very keen to establish an Africa Branch to serve the same purpose. In 2021, the 22nd ICSD biennial conference, “poverty, inequality and social development: innovations around the world,” was organized by the Centre for Social Development in Africa, the University of Johannesburg. During this conference, the establishment of ICSD Africa Branch was announced and office bearers of the branch were elected. These are Prof. Lauren Graham as Chair; Dr. Lorraine Botha, a Parliamentarian from South Africa; Dr. Edson Munsaka, Zimbabwe;","PeriodicalId":85530,"journal":{"name":"Social development issues","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Leviathan: The Limits of Reason","authors":"Brij Mohan","doi":"10.3998/sdi.4345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.4345","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan propounded a thesis which reverberates in the hideous houses of power, pillage, and politics. The New Leviathan is an evolutionary outcome of post-modern technological control, manipulation, capitalist populism, and consumerist globalization. This article is a search for a few answers which explain how civility, humanity, and survival are bedeviled by the forces of counter-development.","PeriodicalId":85530,"journal":{"name":"Social development issues","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43302366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}