HEY TOOL: Clarifying the Child Welfare Worker's Role - HEY's Recommendations to Dispel Confusion

The Child Welfare Worker is supposed to be the central professional managing a youth's case. However, as a youth prepares for independence, their needs will increase as they consider their current placement and their plans for the future. With the many plans to be made, many misconceptions develop about roles and responsibilities. This document can help the youth and their supporters more clearly understand the limitations and roles of others, and provides simple recommendations to all parties on how to best serve youth. It may also be relevant to upper management as they make decisions on how to structure the emancipation processes

Chronic muscular Pain treatment with Muscular Acoustic Modulator Device in elderly

Background Muscles Contractures are an important part of multifactorial etiology of chronic pain. MAM® is an acoustic waves device modulated in power and frequency (0-50 Hz, 0-5 Bar) for treatment of muscular contractures. If the treatment of the chronic muscular contractures with MAM® can improve quality life in elderly. Materials and methods We have analyzed the results of a comprehensive examination of 5 over 60 age patients (Group 1: aged 76+/-5,2 years) and 5 control over 60 age patients (Group 2; aged 74+/-2,2 years). Every group was studied with a manual objective examination of the skeletal muscle apparatus to find perceived and evoked contractures reported on a paper map support. This map allows to transfer with accuracy to the physiotherapist which are the points on which he must make MAM® treatment.(Group 1: contractures 22,8 +/-1,47 ; Group 2: contractures 23,4 +/-2,03). To each group was given a BPI-sf (Brief Pain Inventory) to have a review of quality life the first day of examination and at the last day of treatment. Group 1 was treated with an acoustic wave modulator device (MAM®) , once a week, for four weeks. Each point was treated three times every sitting (16 sec for point). Group 2 was not treated Results We have observed in Group 1 a reduction of contracture points after IV treatment with MAM® and an improvement of quality life value with BPI test taking average of all the averages of VAS respect Group two, as shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. Conclusions Treatment of chronic muscular pain with acoustic MAM® device reduces VAS value in BPI from 5,8+/-3,46 to 0,5+/-0,93, reduces of 70% muscular contractures and improve quality life in elderly

Pre-Inflationary Relics in the CMB?

String Theory and Supergravity allow, in principle, to follow the transition of the inflaton from pre-inflationary fast roll to slow roll. This introduces an infrared depression in the primordial power spectrum that might have left an imprint in the CMB anisotropy, if it occurred at accessible wavelengths. We model the effect extending $\Lambda$CDM with a scale $\Delta$ related to the infrared depression and explore the constraints allowed by {\sc Planck} data, employing also more conservative, wider Galactic masks in the low resolution CMB likelihood. In an extended mask with $f_{sky}=39\%$, we thus find \Delta = (0.351 \pm 0.114) \times 10^{-3} \, \mbox{Mpc}^{-1}, at $99.4\%$ confidence level, to be compared with a nearby value at $88.5\%$ with the standard $f_{sky}=94\%$ mask. With about 64 $e$--folds of inflation, these values for $\Delta$ would translate into primordial energy scales ${\cal O}(10^{14})$ GeV.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Final version to appear in Physics of the Dark Universe. Contains: more detailed discussion of galactic masking, improved estimat