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A corpus-based real-time text classification and tagging approach for social data

With the rapid accumulation of large amounts of user-generated content through social media, social data reuse and integration have gained increasing attention recently. This has made it almost obsolete for software applications to collect, store, and work with their own data stored on local servers. While, with the provision of Application Programming Interfaces from the leading social networking sites, data acquisition and integration has become possible, the meaningful usage of such unstructured, non-uniform, and incoherent data collections needs special procedures of data summarization, understanding, and visualization. One particular aspect in this regard that needs special attention is the procedures for data (text snippets in the form of social media posts) categorization and concept tagging to filter out the relevant and most suitable data for the particular audience and for the particular purpose. In this regard, we propose a corpus-based approach for searching and successively categorizing and tagging the social data with relevant concepts in real time. The proposed approach is capable of addressing the semantical and morphological similarities, as well as domain-specific vocabularies of query strings and tagged concepts. We demonstrate the feasibility and application of our proposed approach in a web-based tool that allows searching Facebook posts and provides search results together with a concept map for further navigation, filtering, and refining of search results. The tool has been evaluated by performing multiple search queries, and resultant concept maps and annotated texts are analyzed in terms of their precision. The approach is thereby found effective in achieving its stated goal of classifying text snippets in real time.

Mental health treatment programs for children and young people in secure settings: A systematic review

BackgroundWhile there are mental health treatment programs for children and young people in secure settings (i.e., secure treatment programs) in many countries, there is a lack of transparency and consistency across these that causes confusion for stakeholders and challenges for the design and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based programs. This systematic review addresses two questions: What do mental health treatment programs for children and young people in secure community settings look like across jurisdictions? What is the evidence underlying the various components of these programs?MethodsTwelve databases were searched in November 2021: CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Academic Search Complete, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Google Scholar, OpenDOAR, and GreyLit.org. To be included, publications had to be empirical literature or a report on mental health treatment within a secure setting for people under the age of 25; contain pre-identified keywords; be based on a research or evaluation study conducted since 2000; and be assessed as low risk of bias using an adaptation of the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme qualitative research checklist. The systematic review included 63 publications. Data were collected and analyzed in NVivo qualitative software using a coding framework.ResultsThere are secure treatment programs in Australia, Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, England and Wales, Scotland, and the United States. Although there are inconsistencies across programs in terms of the systems in which they are embedded, client profiles, treatments provided, and lengths of stays, most share commonalities in their governance, definitions, designs, and intended outcomes.ConclusionsThe commonalities across secure treatment programs appear to stem from them being designed around a need for treatment that includes a mental disorder, symptom severity and salience involving significant risk of harm to self and/or others, and a proportionality of the risks and benefits of treatment. Most share a common logic; however, the evidence suggested that this logic may not to lead to sustained outcomes. Policymakers, service providers, and researchers could use the offered recommendations to ensure the provision of high-quality secure treatment programming to children and young people with serious and complex mental health needs.

Commentary on Rosen et al.: Attending to the unique needs of pregnant and parenting women at risk for overdose.

Women experience unique determinants of overdose risk, including fears concerning child protective services involvement and child custody loss. When addressing the risk for opioid overdose, harm reduction services must account for the needs of pregnant and parenting people. Decades of research has examined the unique social, structural and policy drivers of drug-related harms among women who use drugs (WWUD). Much of this research has been concerned with the social dynamics of drug use and how women's intimate relationships influence harm through patterns of drug use initiation, control over drug use and sexual and injection-related risk for HIV and HCV acquisition [1-6]. Rosen et al. [7] bring this scholarship into the current era by addressing the nature of and reasons for solitary drug use (a risk factor for overdose death [8]) among WWUD. They identify three motivations for solitary drug use among women in their sample: (i) the need to alleviate opioid withdrawal symptoms, (ii) a desire to avoid anticipated and experienced substance use stigma and (iii) an attempt to reduce vulnerability to violence while intoxicated. An important additional consideration emerging in our research is the fear of child protective services (CPS) involvement among pregnant and parenting WWUD 1 and how that fear influences solitary drug use and other overdose risk factors. Some have argued that families are ground zero for the US drug war [9], and WWUD and their children (especially in communities of color) have been subjected to increased harms. In the United States, 53% of Black children will have CPS involvement by their 18th birthday [10], and parental substance use was a condition of removal for nearly 40% of all children placed in foster care in 2019 [11]. We have found that fear of CPS involvement weighs heavily upon women's decisions about when, where and with whom to use drugs. In our unpublished but forthcoming study on the acceptability of overdose prevention sites (a harm reduction strategy recommended by Rosen et al. to address the concerns in their study), women who had children living at home (or were care-givers to family members) found themselves in need of a safe space to use drugs that was both (i) outside the home and (ii) supervised in case of overdose. In the absence of such a site, some respondents describe using opioids alone, out of sight of children and other family members. Providing a supervised environment for parents while also reducing children's exposure to parental substance use and the trauma of a parent's overdose is a potential benefit of overdose prevention sites. We have also found that fear of CPS influences decisions to seek emergency medical assistance for an overdose by calling 911 [12]. It is well established that people who use drugs fear calling 911 because of the risk of law enforcement involvement [13] In our state, Nevada, where a 911 Good Samaritan Law protects 911 callers from some charges, involvement with CPS is not specifically protected under the law, leading to more risk to parenting women and heightened fear related to summoning help for overdose response. To our knowledge, this protection is not included in any state's 911 Good Samaritan Law. Similar to our findings in the later years of the HIV epidemic [6], in which we identified a host of competing priorities that challenged women's ability to negotiate HIV prevention behavior, Rosen et al.'s research [7] highlights issues that challenge women's ability to reduce their risk for fatal overdose. Harris et al. [14], too, recently found that women worry much more about their personal safety and care-giving responsibilities than the ‘inevitability’ of overdose. They conclude that gender-responsive harm reduction programming is needed to explicitly address women's concerns, including provision of child-care, women-only programs and women-focused mental health programming. We argue that other important additions to these gender-responsive approaches include explicit protections for pregnant and parenting people that keep parents safe from harm and guard against state surveillance that can result in family separation. None. L.L. is a staff member of the Washoe County Human Services Agency, in the CQI unit of Children's Services. Karla D. Wagner: Conceptualization; writing—original draft; writing—review and editing. Lisa Lee: Conceptualization; writing—original draft; writing—review and editing. None.

Tolerable Suboptimization: Racial Consequences of Defunding Public Universities

We argue that the public defunding of public higher education and turn to private revenue streams—for example, non-resident tuition, grants, philanthropy, and corporate sponsorship—generates organizational racial resource disparities. We draw on a year-long qualitative case study of a University of California campus with a majority Latinx and low-income student body, including ethnographic observations and interviews with administrators, staff, and students, to argue that these disparities may impede majority-marginalized universities’ abilities to serve their student body. Our data demonstrate how limited organizational resources impact the provision of academic advising, mental health, and cultural programming for racially marginalized students. We articulate a racial neoliberal cycle of resource allocation: Colorblind constructs of “merit” lead to racial segregation and generate racialized organizational hierarchies that result in unequal organizational access to private resources. University leadership at resourced-starved majoritymarginalized universities may respond to fiscal constraints by accepting and normalizing suboptimal support for students—what we refer to as “tolerable suboptimization.” Tolerable suboptimization may also be unevenly applied within universities, such that supports accessed or needed by marginalized students are the most impacted. As a consequence, institutional racism can take on the appearance of financial necessity.

Analysis of Youth Physical Activity Promotion in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Synagogues.

Faith-based organizations are entities recommended to promote and provide health-related physical activity to youth. Meanwhile, religious institutions—including synagogues—typically use diverse media, including websites, bulletins/newsletters, and calendars to inform current and potential members about both general (e.g., theological) and specific practical messages (e.g., about the occurrence of services, meetings, and programs). Given the historical role synagogue centers played in the early- to mid-twentieth century in providing members recreational and sport programming, we were interested to know what physical activities synagogues currently advertise through the aforementioned media. From January through May 2019, we completed a line-by-line analysis of the public websites of a large nationally representative sample of synagogues (n = 1383 sites from 337 U.S. cities in 39 states) to assess content (including links to bulletins/newsletters and calendars) related to child and adolescent physical activity. Only 35.4% of the sampled websites used these media to mention that their synagogue provided even a single physical activity program/event. Thus, most synagogues either (a) did not provide physical activity programs for children and adolescents, or (b) neglected to use online platforms to promote engagement in them. We found 938 distinct programs/events and 1667 specific activities across synagogue websites that mentioned at least one physical activity. Programs by type and proportion (i.e., percentage of programs overall) included youth group (39.1%), preschool (26.9%), youth worship (18.0%), and youth education (16.0%). We situate our findings by explicating past and current functions of synagogues related to the provision of youth programming. Future research should examine the beliefs that synagogue rabbis and media gatekeepers hold toward physical activity in general and youth physical activity specifically. Youths should also be queried as to what role synagogue programming can/should play in promoting/providing and accommodating their physical activity needs and preferences.

La tv del centro de la periferia. Casos Córdoba y Rosario

El presente artículo presenta y analiza las características estructurales de la organización del sistema televisivo en tres de las principales ciudades argentinas, en particular en Córdoba y Rosario, a partir de las relaciones de propiedad, asociación y provisión de programación desde los canales cabecera situados en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA). Cuatro de los canales que emiten en Córdoba y Rosario son comerciales y privados, mientras que hay uno de tipo estatal universitario, que pertenece a la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. El análisis comprende la situación de la tv de conglomerados urbanos de gran importancia, como Córdoba y Rosario, tomando en cuenta las tendencias históricas inherentes al sistema de medios de la Argentina, la vinculación societaria de las emisoras de las ciudades mencionadas, los ingresos por publicidad oficial y las capacidades productivas instaladas.

Citizen Engagement in Aquatics Equity: The Case of Winston Waterworks

Historically, swimming pools have been a source of inequity when it comes to the distribution of recreation services in the United States. Many of the problems that correlate with the inequitable allocation of recreation resources including public swimming pools began with ideas about race, geography, poor planning practices and faulty policymaking (Rothstein, 2017). Moreover, one of the primary outcomes of engaged, inclusive planning is equity in the provision of recreation programs and facilities. In this essay, we offer a summary of key legal cases that help address questions related resource allocation related to public swimming pools. Finally, we present a short case study on the Winston Water Works Project in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This case illustrates the power of grassroots level advocacy, engaged community planning, and policymaking that protects the recreation infrastructure in a community and moves the needle of social justice toward equity. Our principle interest in this paper is in the equitable provision and distribution of aquatics programming and facilities.

BBC arts programming: a service for citizens or a product for consumers?

The British Broadcasting Corporation occupies what is often considered to be a unique position within UK culture as both a respected national institution that is a pillar of enlightenment values and, increasingly, an agile, entrepreneurial business that has to deliver ‘value-for-money’. This study will contribute to the existing body of literature examining the impact of a neoliberal marketisation discourse on BBC policy by focusing specifically on the provision of arts programming as a key indicator of how the logic of the marketplace has permeated the BBC’s commissioning culture. In doing so, it argues that the loss of the topical arts magazine and discussion formats from BBC television, in contrast to radio, is symptomatic of the ways in which arts broadcasting has been reimagined both in the corporation’s internal production culture and in its public pronouncements as a product for consumers rather than a service for citizens.

Privatization of community corrections

Research SummaryIn this article, we examine the issue of privatization in the field of community corrections. Privatization can be found in all elements of community corrections, including treatment, education, housing, and supervision services. The private sector is also involved in the development of technology, like electronic monitoring devices, and material like assessments and curricula. Services are provided by both private for‐profit and nonprofit agencies. Although there are potential harms and benefits to privatization in community corrections, untangling the private industry from the provision of supervision and programming in the community would be a true challenge.Policy ImplicationsImplications for use of the private industry in community corrections include the need for oversight and accountability, with the expectation that private agencies provide evidence‐based services and demonstrate a reduction of recidivism through those services. Recognition that the private industry is meeting a need that might not easily be met by public agencies is also important. Privatization in community corrections has mainly dodged the public scrutiny seen against privatization of prisons; this could change depending on how far‐reaching privatization in community corrections becomes.

Programming in Restrictive Housing: Considerations for Improving Outcome Evaluations

A number of studies have identified “what works” in regard to the successful implementation of correctional programming over the past several decades. Few studies, however, have examined the complexities associated with programming in restrictive housing. Using data from a Midwestern department of corrections, we examined whether the provision of programming in restrictive housing achieved desired outcomes (e.g., reductions in inmate misconduct). The findings revealed the amount of time served in restrictive housing and confinement in different types of restrictive housing may influence estimations of a treatment effect. As a growing number of states seek to reform the use of restrictive housing, the proper implementation of cognitive-behavioral programming may increase institutional security and safety.

Free Library of Health: Consumer Health Information, Health Literacy, and Library Programming in Philadelphia

ABSTRACTIn 2016, the Free Library of Philadelphia reopened the newly renovated South Philadelphia Library. This full-service neighborhood library is co-located with pediatric primary care services, a city-run health center, and a recreation center in a first-of-its-kind facility called the Community Health and Literacy Center. The South Philadelphia Library aims to improve health literacy in the community through the provision of consumer health information and health programming, and the co-location with health care and recreation services provides unique opportunities to partner and offer health-based library services. A community health librarian certified in consumer health information assists customers with accessing reliable health information, and health programming covers many areas of interest. Partnerships with nearby health organizations also allow the library to connect customers with vetted neighborhood services. By combining health services with traditional library programming, customers are able to increase their health literacy when they visit the library.

Prevalence and Predictors of Mental Health Programming Among U.S. Religious Congregations.

This study assessed the prevalence of and factors associated with congregation-based programming in support of people with mental illness. To estimate the proportion of congregations that provide mental health programming, this study reports analyses of survey responses from the 2012 National Congregations Study, a nationally representative survey of religious congregations in the United States (N=1,327). The analysis used multivariate logistic regression to identify congregational characteristics associated with the provision of mental health programming. Nearly one in four U.S. congregations (23%) provided some type of programming to support people with mental illness. Approximately 31% of all attendees belonged to a congregation that provided mental health programming. Congregational characteristics associated with providing mental health programming included having more members and having members with higher incomes, employing staff for social service programs, and providing health-focused programs. Other significant predictors included engaging with the surrounding community (that is, conducting community needs assessments and hosting speakers from social service organizations) and being located in a predominantly African-American community. Greater coordination between mental health providers and congregations with programs that support people with mental illness could foster more integrated and holistic care, which in turn may lead to improved recovery outcomes.

Beyond custodial care: Mediating choice and participation for adults with intellectual disabilities

ABSTRACTOccupational scientists posit that choosing and participating in occupation contributes to overall health and well-being. Yet institutionalized adults with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability community with a long history of enduring grave injustices, continue to face barriers to self-determined participation. This paper draws on data from an institutional ethnographic study aimed to make visible the inter-relational ways national, state, and local policies mediate the possibilities to choose and participate in occupations for adults with ID. To explore the impact of state-mandated policies, data were collected in an intermediate care facility. Participants included seven adults diagnosed with profound ID and eight staff members. Participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and organizational texts (e.g., national and state mandates, and policies and procedures) were the main sources of data. Conceptual mapping was employed as an analytic process to connect participants’ narratives back to the policies that coordinated their work in the facility. Analyses revealed that the policies guiding the provision of habilitative programming created a systematic regulation of participation in occupations of residents’ and staff’s choosing. More specifically, analyses demonstrated how policies placed greater value on routinization and efficiency over self-determined participation. These findings highlight the lack of opportunities for residents and staff to incorporate occupations of their choosing into the fabric of daily living in an institutional setting. Additionally, they call attention to the ways institutional routinization is a perpetuation of the historical notions of what adults with ID should do.

Developing Inquiring Minds: Public Library Programming for Babies in Aotearoa New Zealand

ABSTRACTThis article presents selected results of research exploring public library programming for very young children in Aotearoa New Zealand. We suggest that programming incorporating “active movement” principles and activities is expanding due to a growing understanding of the benefits that positive, interactive movement opportunities bring for babies’ development and future learning. A survey of public library services in Aotearoa New Zealand found that that there is widespread provision of active movement programming for the 0–2 age group, and that respondents were aware of neuroscience research and how the public library service can support young children’s development through appropriate community-based programming.

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Mental Health Services in Juvenile Correctional Facilities: A National Survey of Clinical Staff

This study determined the use of best practices in providing mental health services to youth within juvenile correctional facilities. A national sample of 94 (49.7 %) lead clinical staff from all available and qualifying facilities responded to a mail and on-line survey. There were no statistically significant differences across respondents versus nonrespondents for security level, gender served, or census region of facilities. Specifically, we examined the provision of facility-wide mental health programming, individual, group, and family counseling, and case management services. Examination of these services included the use of evidence-based interventions provided through an established curriculum and methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions. We also examined staff involvement, and the perceived quality of services and barriers to providing interventions. Participants reported using a variety of evidence-based interventions; however, participants also acknowledged using other approaches that may not have empirical support. Additionally, although at least half of the participants reported mandatory individual and group counseling, less than a third of the participants reported that their facilities required family counseling. Clinical staff also reported a variety of methods used for evaluating the effectiveness of mental health services. Additional findings, as well as implications for research and practice, are discussed.

Social support network characteristics and sexual risk taking among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of young, urban men who have sex with men.

Associations between social support network characteristics and sexual risk among racially/ethnically diverse young men who have sex with men (YMSM) were examined using egocentric network data from a prospective cohort study of YMSM (n = 501) recruited in New York City. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses examined associations between social support network characteristics and sexual risk taking behaviors in Black, Hispanic/Latino, and White YMSM. Bivariate analyses indicated key differences in network size, composition, communication frequency and average relationship duration by race/ethnicity. In multivariable analyses, controlling for individual level sociodemographic, psychosocial and relationship factors, having a sexual partner in one's social support network was associated with unprotected sexual behavior for both Hispanic/Latino (AOR = 3.90) and White YMSM (AOR = 4.93). Further examination of key network characteristics across racial/ethnic groups are warranted in order to better understand the extant mechanisms for provision of HIV prevention programming to racially/ethnically diverse YMSM at risk for HIV.

Local media ownership and media quality

The Federal Communications Commission regulates local media ownership to promote competition, diversity and the provision of local programming. This study investigates how local media cross-ownership, co-ownership and ownership diversity are associated with media market outcomes. Cross-sectional regressions indicate that television station ownership consolidation is associated with increased local TV news production but lower news ratings. However, panel estimation finds that changes in local media ownership are uncorrelated with local media usage or programming, producing confidence intervals that are tightly centered around zero.

Local Media Ownership and Media Quality

The United States Federal Communications Commission regulates local media ownership to promote competition, diversity and the provision of local programming. This study investigates how local media cross-ownership, co-ownership and ownership diversity are associated with media market outcomes. It does so by regressing local-market media quality variables on local-market media ownership variables, controlling for unobserved market characteristics. Scant evidence is found to indicate that local media ownership affects local media usage or programming.

Reconciling indigenous need with the urban welfare state? Evidence of culturally-appropriate services and spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada

Despite the increasing urbanization of the Aboriginal population in Canada over the past 50 years, most municipalities have not developed services and programs designed to meet their unique social and cultural needs. Faced with numerous health and social problems, the Aboriginal population is mainly forced to rely on the non-Aboriginal social services sector. However, little is known about the extent to which such sectors seek to accommodate Aboriginal populations in their programming. We examine the extent to which the recovery system makes space for Aboriginal healing through the provision of culturally-appropriate services and programming. Through the use of 24 in-depth interviews with staff members at seven treatment facilities in Winnipeg (Canada), we find an entrenched reluctance, indifference and lack of desire to create Aboriginal spaces of healing in treatment, save for one facility where Aboriginal healing spaces serve as a focal point of treatment. We discuss the implications in terms of the effectiveness of the non-Aboriginal recovery system (along with other social services) in meeting the needs of Canada’s urban Aboriginal population.