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Questions to Ask When Choosing a Pediatrician

When you are expecting your first child, there are numerous decisions to be made. The list seems endless. Choosing which pediatrician will care for your sweet newborn should be near the top of the list.

Why that hotel safe isn’t as secure as you think it is

With the right tools and know how, most hotel safes are pretty easy to crack.

'Changing lives, one life at a time': How fishing is helping to save a community

Glenn Cooper noticed a massive gap in mental health services in the Frankston area. The way he filled it may not be conventional, but it's "changing lives, one life at a time".

Weak Local Schools for Many Families with Housing Assistance

A good education is a cornerstone to a more secure life, yet many low-income parents cannot offer their children this opportunity. Even with housing assistance, many low-income families cannot afford to live in strong school districts. The study “Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High-Performing Public Schools?” shows that children in families with federal housing subsidies often …

Bring Solar to Your State's Government Buildings

To avoid catastrophic climate change we must keep fossil fuels in the ground and rapidly transition to renewable energy. A concrete step we can take toward a sustainable energy system would be installing solar panels on government buildings.

Social Services for the Elderly: How Can I Get Help?

Have you considered how you can get help should you need it? There are a range of social services available to you as a senior.

Pondering A Social Services Career?

So you’re thinking of getting into the field of Social Services? Why? I’ll bet it’s because you want to help people; make a difference. Noble of you really, and we can never have enough good people with good intentions who care and are willing to serve others. ...

Energy Audits of Small Government Buildings

Which government building is piloting facial recognition technology?

Dynamic SageGlass helps government buildings meet energy-efficiency and worker comfort requirements

Electronically-tintable SageGlass®, a product of Saint-Gobain, is being incorporated into a growing number of government buildings to help public workplaces save energy and provide an improved work environment for employees.A wide variety of federal, state and local government projects ranging from homeland defense facilities to research labs have recently installed SageGlass dynamic glass to solve challenging sun glare and heat-gain problems, resulting in considerable cost and energy savings.

Government building design: Automation and controls 

When your client is the government, engineering design can be tricky, thanks to stepped-up regulations, budgetary concerns, and other considerations. Respondents discuss building automation and controls in government, state, municipal, federal, and military facilities.

Elderly housing with supportive social services can reduce hospital use, study finds

Investing in affordable housing that offers supportive social services to senior citizens on Medicare has the potential to reduce hospital admissions and the amount of time needing inpatient hospital care by better managing chronic health conditions, according to a Rutgers study.

Affordable housing with supportive social services may trim hospital costs, study finds

At a time when policymakers are trying to reduce hospital-related costs, a relatively simple adjustment could help dramatically. The proposed solution? Invest more in affordable seniors’ housing that offers supportive social services, according to a Rutgers University study.

Parents who won't let their son wear a skirt may have to be referred to social services, schools...

Parents who refuse to let their son wear a skirt to school may need to be referred to social services, a council’s guidance has advised schools.

Fire tears through apartment building where people were getting housing assistance

The people inside were forced to run for their lives as the fast moving fire burned the building.

When Social Services Undermine Well-being

The intertwined challenges that many people face might be addressed more effectively together than separately.

Is Your Medical Practice A Social Service Or A Business?

These are two entirely different goals and if a definitive answer doesn’t immediately pop out of your mouth you’re in trouble.

Millions being wasted on vacant government buildings

Spinners and Winners How much does it cost to maintain a vacant building? After rent and utility bills? Quite a lot. That's why most people who own real estate usually work hard to sell or fill up any vacant building with lease-paying tenants. But a recent study found that the government doesn'

Social services experts say opioids have increased the need for foster care

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, opioids have been the main reason for an increased need of foster parents within the last few years.

Social Services: Listen to People Who Have Experienced Poverty

We need the people who administer social services at the state and local levels to do a better job of providing programs and policies that work in people’s lives.