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सुनिए डॉ. कैप्टेन अनीता राठौड़ की प्रेरक कहानी। ये उदयपुर शहर के बी.एन. पीजी गर्ल्स कॉलेज में एक एनसीसी ऑफिसर है। साथही ये एक समाजसेवी और युवा कौशल विकास में योगदान देने वाली एक रेडियो उद्घोषिका भी है। जी हाँ समाजसेवा में इन्होंने अपनी एक अहम भूमिका निभाई है। आज इन्होंने इस मुकाम तक पहुंचने के लिए सपने देखें थे और फिर उन सपनों को पूरा करने के लिए कड़ी मेहनत भी की। और इनकी मेहनत का ही एक सुखद परिणाम इन्हें मिला है। युवाओं के लिए इनका सुझाव है कि कभी भी सपनें देखना बंद ना करें क्योंकि ये आपका हक़ है। लेकिन उन सपनों को साकार करने का प्रयत्न करना, मेहनत करना बहुत ज़रूरी है। यदि आप मेहनत करते रहेंगे तो आपके सपनें भी साकार अवश्य होंगे। पूरी कहानी पढ़ें: https://stories.workmob.com/dr-anita-rathore-education-academia

वर्कमोब द्वारा #मेरीकहानी कार्यक्रम के माध्यम से एक नयी पहल शुरू की गयी है जिसके ज़रिये  हर कोई  छोटे बड़े बिज़नेस ओनर्स अपनी प्रेरक कहानियों को यहाँ सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते है। क्योंकि हर शख्स की कहानी में है वो बात जो जीवन को बदलकर एक नयी दिशा दिखाएगी,  और ज़िन्दगी में ले आएगी आशा की एक नयी चमकती किरण। #प्रेरककहानियाँ #अनीताराठौड़ #कैप्टेन #बीएनगर्ल्सकॉलेज #एनसीसी #रीसर्चऑफिसर #समाजसेवी  

जानिए वर्कमोब के बारे में:  

जुड़िये वर्कमोब पर - ये है भारत का अपना एक प्रोफेशनल सोशल नेटवर्क। जोश और जुनून से भरी प्रेरणादायक कहानियां देखिये।  मजेदार प्रतियोगिताएं खेलिए, उनका हिस्सा बने, लाइव जुड़िये, और भी बहुत कुछ पाए वर्कमोब पर ।  यह सौ प्रतिशत बिलकुल मुफ्त है। जाइये इस लिंक पर - https://stories.workmob.com और देखें ढेर सारी  प्रेरक कहानियाँ।  

हमारे ऐप्प को डाउनलोड करें:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workmob

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/workmob/id901802570

सुनिए आशा तलेसरा की प्रेरक कहानी।आशा तलेसरा सामाजिक संगठनों के माध्यम से संगठन के सदस्यों के साथ मिलकर गरीब और जरूरतमंद महिलाओं के उत्थान के लिए कई काम कर रही हैं। ये उदयपुर के एक प्रसिद्ध उद्योगपति एंड पाइरोटेक इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स कम्पनी के डायरेक्टर सी.पी. तलेसरा की पत्नी हैं। इनका जन्म और पालन-पोषण उदयपुर में हुआ। इन्होने मीरा गर्ल्स कॉलेज से ग्रेजुएशन और एमबी साइंस कॉलेज से केमिस्ट्री में एम.एससी. की पढाई की है। इनकी पढाई के प्रति हमेशा से एक ख़ास दिलचस्पी रही थी।ये मानती है कि लड़कियों का शिक्षित होना बहुत ज़रूरी है। भले ही वो नौकरी करे या नहीं, ये उसका अपना फैसला होगा लेकिन उन्हें ये समझना होगा कि शिक्षित होने से उनके व्यक्तित्व का विकास होता है और वो जीवन में किसी भी परिस्थिति का सामना करने के लिए तैयार रहती है। आपको बतादें ये रोटरी इनर व्हील क्लब की सक्रिय सदस्य रही हैं। क्लब की सचिव और अध्यक्ष भी रह चुकी हैं। क्लब के जरिए ये हमेशा सामाजिक कार्य करती है। ज़िन्दगी के प्रति इनका एक ही नजरिया है हमेशा सच्चाई का साथ देना, साथ रहना और नकारात्मकता से दूर रहना। इन्हीं सिद्धांतों पर आगे बढ़ते हुए ये अपनी ज़िन्दगी ख़ुशी से जी रही है। पूरी कहानी पढ़ें: https://stories.workmob.com/asha-talesara-social-work

वर्कमोब द्वारा #मेरीकहानी कार्यक्रम के माध्यम से एक नयी पहल शुरू की गयी है जिसके ज़रिये हर कोई छोटे बड़े बिज़नेस ओनर्स अपनी प्रेरक कहानियों को यहाँ सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते है। क्योंकि हर शख्स की कहानी में है वो बात जो जीवन को बदलकर एक नयी दिशा दिखाएगी, और ज़िन्दगी में ले आएगी आशा की एक नयी चमकती किरण। #प्रेरककहानियाँ #आशातलेसरा #सामाजिकसंगठनों #उद्योगपति #पाइरोटेकइलेक्ट्रॉनिक्सकम्पनी #रोटरीइनरव्हीलक्लब

जानिए वर्कमोब के बारे में: जुड़िये वर्कमोब पर - ये है भारत का अपना एक प्रोफेशनल सोशल नेटवर्क। जोश और जुनून से भरी प्रेरणादायक कहानियां देखिये। मजेदार प्रतियोगिताएं खेलिए, उनका हिस्सा बने, लाइव जुड़िये, और भी बहुत कुछ पाए वर्कमोब पर । यह सौ प्रतिशत बिलकुल मुफ्त है। जाइये इस लिंक पर - https://stories.workmob.com और देखें ढेर सारी प्रेरक कहानियाँ। 

हमारे ऐप्प को डाउनलोड करें: 

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workmob 

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/workmob/id901802570

In response to the previous podcast on Fathers of New Mexico, Dr. Epstein shares his thoughts on the importance of such family-supporting organizations. 

Our children need their father's family involvement to provide good role models and a healthy future. 

Due to the mass incarceration of men of color, many fathers have been absent from their children's lives. The trauma associated with a father's absence contributes to generational family trauma.

New social welfare policies that recognize the impact of mass incarceration and the importance of fathers' involvement in families can go a long way to ensuring healthy children and families. 

https://healthcare-untold.simplecast.com/episodes/johnny-wilson-ken-epstein

What is health equity and how does it relate to food systems?  Derek Lin, a policy analyst at New Mexico Voices for Children, joins Sophia to share his perspective on using an equity lens to think about and address food insecurity. 

Show Notes: 

3:20 The "gut microbiome" or gut flora or gut microbiota are the microorganisms including bacteria, archaea and fungi that live in the digestive tracts of humans and other animals including insects. 

3:50 the “Map the Meal Gap 2019” annual report from Feeding America found that 1 in 4 children experience food insecurity in New Mexico, the highest indices of childhood hunger in the nation. https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/new-mexico

15:50 SNAP aka the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, provides nutrition benefits to food insecure families. 

17:35 TANF aka Temporary Assistance for Needy Families operates differently state by state and supports a variety of programs that are aimed at helping income insecure families achieve more self-sufficiency. 

18:35 Under the Trump administration, the "Public Charge" rule has been interpreted broadly and used widely to  reduce the number of people eligible for green cards and other visas in the United States and has consequently made benefits such as SNAP increasingly inaccessible to immigrant populations. https://www.inquirer.com/news/immigration-trump-hunger-food-stamps-public-charge-20200301.html

19:55 Households do not reach food security through access to maximum amount of benefits. The shortfall of these programs is clearly illustrated through numbers: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers

23:44 Research has been done on how the working families tax refund would reduce childhood poverty and hunger significantly https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/working-families-tax-relief-act-would-raise-incomes-of-46-million-households#:~:text=The%20credit%20is%20refundable%2C%20meaning,%2C%20property%2C%20and%20other%20taxes.

Expanding low income comprehensive tax rebates and creating a fairer tax system is another policy solution to systemic poverty and food insecurity that NM Voices advocates for. Check out their factsheet: https://www.nmvoices.org/archives/12292

25:10 https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2020/10/21/addressing-new-mexicos-food-and-water-insecurity-critical/6002366002/

31:00 Food sovereignty, a term coined in 1996 by members of Via Campesina, an international farmers' organization, asserts that the people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution.

Learn more about how the New Mexico Out-of-School Network is fighting hunger through OST at our website NMOST.org. The music for this podcast was made by Rock Violinist, Adam Degraff, you can follow him and check out his music at adamviolin.com. 
 

In 2003, PhRMA and other special interests in Washington overcame conservative opposition in Congress — including then-Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and others —  to pass the largest social welfare program in a generation, Medicare Part D (the prescription drug program). But what nobody knew at the time was one member of Congress in particular was cashing in and preparing to walk through the revolving door to work for the pharmaceutical industry.

Guests:

• Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) & former Heritage Foundation President
• Former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) & Issue One ReFormers Caucus Co-chair
• Issue One Executive Director Meredith McGehee

More show notes at www.swampstories.org. Follow Issue One on Twitter. Follow Weston Wamp on Twitter.

Emily Connor is an MSW student at UAlbany. Currently, she is interning at a mental health clinic. Her internship during her undergraduate career, at United Tenants of Albany, sparked a passion for systemic reform that has carried on throughout her graduate career. She has been coordinating with Citizen Action with the goal of establishing a student volunteer group. She hopes this group will bridge the gap between micro and macro students, showing the importance of unity and a drive for social change.

Samantha Rini, LMSW is the Political Education Program Manager at Citizen Action of New York. She is also a licensed social worker and an alumni of the UAlbany School of Social Welfare (graduated in '18). Samantha has been working at Citizen Action for 6 months in this new program where the major goal is to shift the narrative about income inequality in our society and that racial justice is economic justice. She knows we must move forward through collective activism that calls out racial capitalism and its' societal impacts in communities and relationships.

Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots, membership organization that spans New York State- from New York City to Buffalo. They fight for social, racial, economic and environmental justice, and battle against the forces of racial capitalism. Citizen Action approaches their issue work on a trajectory of structural reforms. They take on issues that make people’s lives better today while creating the political and ideological environment for transformational change and a world full of opportunity, love, respect and dignity.

As more countries in Central Asia transition to market economies, women are being left behind in the workforce despite high levels of education and employment. Jildyz Urbaeva, an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare, has conducted a study on how opportunity structures and social mobility influence women's views on gender roles in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The study, involving 4,000 participants, used a national representative survey in each of the four countries that was administered and funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The UAlbany News Podcast is hosted and produced by Sarah O'Carroll, a Communications Specialist at the University at Albany, State University of New York, with production assistance by Patrick Dodson and Scott Freedman.

Have a comment or question about one of our episodes? You can email us at mediarelations@albany.edu, and you can find us on Twitter @UAlbanyNews.

Mary Moller, MSW, CAS, comes to us from The Center of Excellence for Alzheimer ’s Disease at Albany Med, and has worked in the community for over 16 years assisting families and caregivers as they try to balance many of the demands placed upon them. Mary is also an author of her new book, Alzheimer's Through the Stages, A Caregivers Guide. As a graduate from UAlbany School of Social Welfare earning an MSW, Mary has returned to the program as an adjunct professor and is pursuing her Ph.D. Mary has also earned a graduate Certificate of Advanced Study in Health and Wellness. In addition to her vast experience in aging and community based social work, Mary has presented at many conferences addressing caregiver health and wellness, compassion fatigue, caregiver burnout and speaks to the importance of prioritizing care for the caregiver.

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Dr. Jonathan Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University where he also directs the Center for Medicine, Health and Society. He is research director of the Safe Tennessee Project, a nonpartisan volunteer-based organization that's concerned with gun-related injuries and fatalities in America and in Tennessee. 

In his new Basic Books, title “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland” my guest reveals how the backlash policies against a multicultural liberal America have mortal consequences even for the people they promise to help. 

“Dying of Whiteness” says one of my favorite open mind guests Thomas Frank “is a diagnosis for America. It's not reassuring. Failing health, failing graduation rates, guns everywhere, our fantasies are driving us to an early grave and Metzl is lucid and careful and mercifully clinical in telling us exactly how this public health disaster came to be. Read it today. There is still time before the autopsy.” 

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Dr. Jonathan Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University where he also directs the Center for Medicine, Health and Society. He is research director of the Safe Tennessee Project, a nonpartisan volunteer-based organization that's concerned with gun-related injuries and fatalities in America and in Tennessee. 

In his new Basic Books, title “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland” my guest reveals how the backlash policies against a multicultural liberal America have mortal consequences even for the people they promise to help. 

“Dying of Whiteness” says one of my favorite open mind guests Thomas Frank “is a diagnosis for America. It's not reassuring. Failing health, failing graduation rates, guns everywhere, our fantasies are driving us to an early grave and Metzl is lucid and careful and mercifully clinical in telling us exactly how this public health disaster came to be. Read it today. There is still time before the autopsy.” 

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee reads the “Decree on Social Welfare” from January 31, 1918, written by Alexandra Kollontai when she was the Commissar for Social Welfare in the first Bolshevik government. There are quite a few external sources mentioned in this episode and they are detailed below.

Biographies of Kollontai in English (please note the alternative spellings of her name, which are an artifact of different traditions of the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin letters.)

• Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai, Indiana University Press, 1979
• Isabel de Palencia, Alexandra Kollontaj: Ambassadress of Russia, 1947
• Beatrice Farnsworth, Alexandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Stanford University Press, 1980
• Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography (Updated Edition) Haymarket Books, (1980) 2014

 Other books about early Soviet policies about women and the family: 

• Wendy Goldman: Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936, Cambridge University Press, 1993
• Elizabeth Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia, Indiana University Press, 1997
• Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. Bold Type Books, 2018

 Drafts of the Communist Manifesto: 

• Friedrich Engels: Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (first draft)
• Friedrich Engels: The Principles of Communism (second draft)
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto (final version)

The intro music is a Russian version of The Internationale.
More info about the host can be found at: www.kristenghodsee.com

Also see: AlexandraKollontai.com – A Website for All Things Kollontai 

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When an infection goes unchecked, sepsis – a life-threatening systemic infection – can result. And the majority of sepsis cases begin at home, where diagnosis can take longer.This is not widely known, and until recently, efforts to combat this deadly disease focused on hospitals, not on identifying sepsis at home.

Al Cardillo, a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare, is leading the efforts to stop sepsis in at-risk patients being cared for at home, and was recently honored for his work. He is a 1981 LMSW alum of the School.

Read more: https://www.albany.edu/news/87449.php

Jennifer Harvey is the Education Specialist at Eddy Alzheimer's Services. She has been with EAS since 2016, and helped to develop their current programing under the Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Initiative from the NYS Department of Health. Jennifer has a Master of Social Work with a concentration in Gerontology from University at Albany (SUNY) and a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from The College of Saint Rose. She has experience in education, long-term care, adult day services, management, program development, and caregiver support services. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and dementia trainer for professional and family caregivers.

Sarah Mountz is an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare at UAlbany. Her research focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and among homeless youth populations.

This episode includes sound bites from the 2017 mini-documentary, "From Our Perspectives: Untold Stories of LGBTQ Youth in the Los Angeles Foster Care System," which features community-based, qualitative research by Mountz and Moshoula Capous-Desyllas of California State University Northridge. Watch the documentary: https://vimeo.com/220431684.

Related paper: Mountz, S., Capous-Desyllas, M. and Pourciau, E. (2018). “Because we’re fighting to be ourselves:” voices from transgender and gender expansive former foster youth. Child Welfare, 96, 1, 103.

The UAlbany News Podcast is hosted and produced by Sarah O'Carroll, a Communications Specialist at the University at Albany, State University of New York, with production assistance by Patrick Dodson and Scott Freedman.

Have a comment or question about one of our episodes? You can email us at mediarelations@albany.edu, and you can find us on Twitter @UAlbanyNews.

Mark Lane, LCSW-R has over 29 years of experience in the mental health field including positions as a school, private practice and outpatient mental health social worker. His work focuses on collaborating with clients and helping them use strengths to obtain their goals. Mark also specializes in group therapy for children, adolescents and young adults. He provides solution focused training to therapists and teaches a graduate level class on solution focused therapy at the State University of New York at Albany.

This episode featured Sandy Camper who is a licensed acupuncturist. She recently gave a presentation at UAlbany on restoring vitality for older adults with the principles of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. As a holistic form of care, Chinese medicine addresses the psycho-emotional, as well as, the physical aspects of health. In the interview today, Ms. Camper will discuss how the principles of Chinese medicine can be used to identify imbalances in older people. She will also discuss how Chinese Medicine is uniquely able to identify and treat trauma, even when the trauma is in the distant past.

Dr. John Forsyth is a highly sought after teacher and trainer in the personal and practical use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness practices to alleviate human suffering, awaken the heart and spirit, and to cultivate living well. He is also a professor of psychology and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany.