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Preventing Burnout Among Veterans Affairs Social Workers and Mental Health Providers: A Case Study of Northern California Veterans Affairs Facilities
Get PDFBurnout leads to lower quality and quantity of healthcare and mental health services within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system overall. The research examined the correlation between 17 quality of life factors and burnout in the social work and mental health profession within the VA healthcare system. Specifically, it examined the correlation between burnout and the following factors: workload, supervisor involvement, professional development, case load size, administrative tasks, satisfaction with coworkers, flexible work schedules, amount of commute time, amount of time spent of self-care, exercise, teambuilding activities, time spent in staff meetings, amount of groups facilitated, and whether or not strategies to prevent burnout have been implemented. The research is intended to inform strategies that can possibly be implemented to lower rates of burnout among mental health providers and social workers within the VA. Provider burnout leads to lower quality and quantity of healthcare in general (Delgadillo, Saxon, & Barkham, 2018). A review of literature explores recent findings about provider burnout and provides an overview of current interventions being used to mitigate this problem. This research study includes primary data collected from surveys completed by social workers and mental health care providers from nine different VA sites within the Northern California system to assess their current levels of burnout and the possible contributing factors
Radical Reconstruction: (Re) Embracing Affirmative Action in Private Employment
Get PDFThe history of employment in this country is the history of racism. Using public and private mechanisms as well as violence to devise and enforce segregation and preferential treatment, the white male institutionalized an unprecedented advantage in the labor market. Yet this is rarely acknowledged as a factor in the current widening economic disparity between whites and blacks. Today, many white Americans, cloaked in the myth of colorblindness and meritocracy, refuse to see the persistence of racial prejudice, disadvantage and discrimination in the labor market.
This article is a call for a radical reconstruction of the private labor market through re-embracing affirmative action as an effective tool to achieve equality. Part II traces the growing income and wealth disparity between blacks and whites and links the history of segregation and implicit bias in the labor market as a factor contributing to economic disparity. Part III is a historical account of the movement for racial equality, tracing the alliance between nondiscrimination and affirmative action and the triumph of equal opportunity (formal equality) over equality of outcomes (substantive equality). Part IV examines the legal justification and viability of affirmative action programs under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII. Part V is a roadmap for how we can re-embrace affirmative action in the private employment sector, from reframing the dialogue to grassroots pressure on large employers and unions to adopt affirmative action plans that include race-conscious decisionmaking
California Wine Industry Feels the Effect of Trump
Get PDF“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” This was much of the tone about immigrants during Donald Trump’s speeches on his campaign trail. Since President Trump took office, it seems that immigration has propelled to the forefront of political debates and water cooler talk. Most of the headlines regarding immigration that have dominated our screens have been about children being separated at the border, Trump’s disapproval of sanctuary cities, or Trump’s incessant demand to build a wall along the southern border. Trump’s anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric have also affected an area less discussed by the media, an industry gravely threatened by Trump’s harsh dialogue: the California wine industry
Perennial Beauty #3
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Ledezma-Cosino v. Sessions: The Ninth Circuit Maintains Archaic View That Alcoholism is a Moral Character Flaw
Get PDFThis Note focuses on one historically uncommon way in which courts decide to deport an undocumented immigrant seeking cancellation of removal. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in Ledezma-Cosino v. Sessions found an undocumented immigrant seeking cancellation of removal ineligible because he was considered a “habitual drunkard.” Ultimately, his case was reheard en banc where the Ninth Circuit vacated the original three-judge panel opinion and upheld the Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision finding Ledezma-Cosino ineligible for cancellation of removal because he was a habitual drunkard.
The first part of this Note discusses the factual and procedural history and the Ninth Circuit’s analysis of Ledezma-Cosino v. Sessions. Second, this Note discusses the controlling statutes at issue: cancellation of removal and good moral character. The third part discusses the background of the habitual drunkard provision, the tests used to determine a person’s status as a habitual drunkard, and how the habitual drunkard provision relates to good moral character. Fourth, it argues that the Ninth Circuit’s analysis regarding a person’s status as a habitual drunkard or alcoholic should not automatically determine his or her moral character and that the court erred by finding that it does. Finally, this Note provides solutions to the problems arising from the Ninth Circuit’s analysis. The solutions proposed include: accurately defining and distinguishing between the terms habitual drunkard and alcoholic; amending the habitual drunkard provision of the good moral character statute; and creating a new standard to deal with immigrants found to be habitual drunkards
California regulators aren’t taking action against care homes that cheated workers
No full textProfessor Hina Shah is interviewed in this article on unpaid wages for care home workers