Rebecca Adams is a professor in the Department of Social Work, and also the Undergraduate Gerontology Program Coordinator. My friendship with Rosemary Blieszner, the subject of one of Beck’s wonderful interviews, illustrates the invisible hand of social structure really well.
“I was scared to open up about my past, but as soon as I did, she said, ‘You’ll be a great asset to our Spartan Recovery Program.’ I felt wanted here at UNCG … If you have a whole community of people believing in you, you can do anything.”
NC Attorney General Josh Stein was at the Guilford County Detention Center to discuss the treatment program at the facility.
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) – Drug overdose deaths are on the rise in Guilford County. Overdose deaths have increased more than 100% in the county in the last five years, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
‘Their lives are worth just as much as anybody else’s’; overdoses soar in Piedmont Triad GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s been called an epidemic within the pandemic. There were more than 1,300 drug overdoses in Guilford County in 2021, according to new data from Guilford County Emergency Services. A… Continue reading…
Dr. Mat Despard published a paper titled “Household spending patterns and hardships during COVID-19: A comparative study of the U.S. and Israel” in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues. In this study, Dr. Despard and his co-authors found that Black households in the US and Arab households in Israel had greater financial hardship… Continue reading…
Dr. Despard also co-authored a paper titled “The impact of state Earned Income Tax Credit expansions on material and medical hardships” in the Journal of Consumer Affairs. The study found that adding or increasing state Earned Income Tax Credits decreases some types of material hardship in lower-income households (Unfortunately, in its… Continue reading…
The Department of Social Work and Gerontology Program acknowledges World AIDS Day, observed each year on December 1st, and the many lives that were lost after a courageous battle with this disease. For more information about this observance as well as ways in which you can become involved, please read more… Continue reading…
Leaders with Guilford County Solution to the Opioid Problem are warning that the drug, 100 times more potent than fentanyl, could be in the community. “Folks in the community had told us they felt like they had seen some Carfentanil, some large quantities of it,” said Melissa Floyd Pickard, the Executive Director… Continue reading…
Victor Isler, the current DSS Director in Forsyth County, has been selected as the new Assistant County Manager for Guilford County. He is a graduate of the UNC Greensboro and NC A&T JMSW Program and will be responsible for the “Successful People” efforts for Guilford. See the announcement here.
