Using Arts-Based Interventions for Empowerment and Social Justice

AmeriCares India: Access to Health Care for the Urban Poor Mobile Medical Clinic Program.

Surviving in the city is a daily crisis, for the slum population in Mumbai who are essentially migrants from the villages and small towns seeking to escape rural poverty. Extremely high population density, food insecurity, poor access to drinking water and sanitation coupled with high cost of living and job insecurity adversely affects their quality of life. The disease pattern is typical leading to indicators worse than those in the villages; this fact blanketed by better-than-average morbidity and mortality indicators of the city. The AmeriCares India Mobile Medical Clinic Program is an established & unique model of ‘Access & Continuity of Care’ striving to provide access and continuity of quality primary care for marginalized communities in urban slums, using mobile medical units coupled with information technology.

Social Work with Elderly: a rural study

Social work profession enhances the well-being of people by intervening at the points where people find difficulties. Interventions are intended to assist clients in alleviating problems impeding their well-being. Old age is the last phase of one’s life where the elderly confront many challenges with regard to their physical, mental health and support system. The quality of life of rural elderly in India is deteriorating because of inadequate facilities and weak support system. This paper is based on the impact of social work intervention in improving the mental health condition of a group of elderly people residing in rural India.

Motherhood and Mothering: reflections from researching resilience in Kashmir

Though motherhood has been glorified in the patriarchal societies, this glorification does not necessarily lead to rights and entitlements in lives of every woman. Motherhood (along with a caring and nurturing role) sometimes becomes a vulnerability for women in adversity or in disadvantaged contexts and sometimes motherhood and mothering becomes a human strength (as viewed in the care focused feminism). In both scenarios, motherhood and mothering do seem to become significant in defining identities of women. Based on a qualitative research on resilience among women widowed due to the conflict in Kashmir, this paper focuses on how women view their experiences as single mothers, and how exercising identity of being a ‘mother’ becomes a part of the resilience process.

Review of Food Security as a Social Protection Measure in Kenya

The primary purpose of a government is to protect its citizens. This protection takes various forms, depending on the enemy at hand. Food insecurity is an enemy of man that every sovereign nation ought to protect its citizens from. Food insecurity is a factor in poverty, one of the three enemies of progress, (the other two being ignorance and disease) that Kenya committed itself to getting rid of at the time of political independence in 1963. Bill of Rights of Kenya’s constitution promulgated in 2010, commits itself to preserve the dignity of individuals and communities and to promote social justice and the realisation of the potential of all human beings.

Environmental awareness among rural self help group members

Self Help Groups (SHGs) are formed in large scale in India. SHGs of women have become very common in villages of Karnataka. Large numbers of rural women have been enrolled into SHGs by both government and non government organisations with the aim to empower women. Self help groups are homogeneous groups of the rural poor. The number of members in the group ranges from 10 to 20 members. The objective of SHG formation is not only economic empowerment but also integrated empowerment by focusing on enhancing skills, knowledge, capacities and awareness generation. Self help groups are the platform to discuss various issues like environment, health and hygiene, child development, women empowerment and so on. The degradation of environment can be checked with the intervention of rural women SHGs.

The intertwining of coping, resilience and hope: A review from social work perspectives

Life stress events are primarily due to a human being’s interaction with their social environment. In fact, in social work practice, the concept of “person-in-environment” becomes the main focus of intervention. The successful of mobilising and enhancing an individual’s personal and environmental resources can lead to a person’s motivation to cope with life stress, it elevates resiliency and can help to further establish hope for a better life. The effectiveness of intervention however will greatly rely on the individuals as well as the social workers.

Challenges facing Indigenous people in Canada: possible new directions

First Nations/Indigenous people have been and continue to be subjected to various and evolving forms of colonisation in Canadian society. They have experienced social, economic, and political exclusion and marginalisation from various arenas of decision-making resulting in increasingly poor health, income, educational, employment and social outcomes. Adopted as mechanisms to reclaim autonomy through self-governance, political activism and cultural reclaiming have been instrumental in supporting Indigenous people and their allies to challenge existing oppressive structures and to foster new paradigms for future growth and development.

Responding to the needs of consumers with complex trauma histories a consumer perspective Copy

This presentation, "Responding to the needs of consumers with complex trauma histories a consumer perspective" focuses on the needs of adult survivors of child abuse, highlighting the frequent

Defining the concept of spirituality among Filipino counselors and clients.

Sport and physical activity in the treatment of refugee trauma survivors of torture and trauma

Community acceptance of refugees in a new refugee resettlement location, Armidale, NSW

Theme and Variations: The way the Complex Traumatic past becomes the Complex Traumatic present

Long walk to health: Working with the survivors of refugee trauma with a history of early childhood abuse

Limits in Neurofeedback Rehabilitation: What we need to know