More information: Sam D. Gardner et al, Social safety net programs: the relationship with drug treatment among women, American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2025.107948 ...

In short: The City of Cockburn is trialling a social worker program at Success Library, after noticing an increase in people using libraries as a safe space.

Programs that lack visible leadership support, proper funding or real consequences for bad behavior quickly become what the DOJ calls “paper programs” — frameworks that exist in theory but are ignored ...