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The USC student support group Unchained Scholars helped Genevieve “Genna” Rimer on her path to a doctorate in social work.

Genevieve “Genna” Rimer does not dwell on her past, but that doesn’t mean she runs from it.

Research from more than 40 faculty members and students of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work will be presented at the 26th Annual Society for Social Work Research Conference - Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, January 12 - 16, 2022 in Washington, D.C.

Human trafficking is an egregious crime against humanity that takes many forms and too often is overlooked. In our contemporary society, it is an embarrassment that this commodification of young women and men continues. It dehumanizes us all.

The first generation of people with hemophilia to live past 50 are aging in a world that doesn’t know what to do with them.

“I wasn’t expecting to be alive past 12, then 15, then 35-ish, and now I’m a fluffy 50 and having to deal with a system that’s not ready for me,” said Bobby Wiseman, who has severe hemophilia and is HIV-positive. “We weren’t supposed to get old.” 

A $2 million gift from the Epstein Family Foundation has underwritten the establishment of the new RAND-USC Epstein Family Foundation Center for Veterans Policy Research, which will expand research opportunities to better inform federal, state and local policy on veterans and military families.

One of the most challenging aspects of military life can be the transition back to civilian life and particularly the civilian workforce. It can be even more so for female veterans who suddenly find themselves thrown into an unfamiliar and unwritten professional dress code after years in uniform.

The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work provides more than an education. The networks that students form can be the basis for rewarding, lifelong relationships that nurture academic potential and transform social work training into real-world leadership.

Two faculty members of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work have received the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Program award from the U.S. Department of State to further their research internationally.

Over the last decade, as opioid abuse has become a national epidemic and the number of infants and young children removed from their families because parental substance use has risen, federal child-protection policies have struggled to keep pace. Currently, the foundational child-protection legislation in the United States, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), is up for reauthorization in the U.S. Senate and includes significant changes aimed at better addressing this crisis.

In the United States, a person dies by suicide every ten minutes. This is a public health epidemic that has consistently increased over the past 15 years and incurred more than $70 billion in medical costs and lost productivity. It has become all too common in the wake of an individual’s suicide to hear family, friends, colleagues - even the media - say, “If we had only known how bad things were.”