News Archive
Practice
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Rosemary Alamo and Rick Ornelas, associate teaching professors of practicum education at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, received appointment to a new advisory board for the Los Angeles Metro Transition Team for the development of a Transit Community Public Safety Department (TCPSD). L.A.
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The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives over 10,000 reports of human trafficking annually, involving over 16,000 victims within the United States. This contradicts a common misconception that human trafficking is primarily a crisis experienced outside of the U.S. or that only immigrant populations are impacted.
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Susan Hess, associate teaching professor of practicum education at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, has been appointed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to the first-ever Women’s Advisory Board.
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Tracie Kirkland, associate teaching professor in the Department of Nursing at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, has received the most prestigious recognition in the nursing profession, selection as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. The 2024 cohort of distinguished inductees were honored at the annual Health Policy Conference: Courageous Transformations Towards an Equitable Future in Washington, D.C.
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Trauma-informed care is moving toward the forefront of mental health treatment today, but often those most at risk for trauma — people of color, those with lower socioeconomic status, immigration status issues and other marginalized groups — experience the most difficulty in accessing this focused care.
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When Cat Birkenfeld, BA ’23, was a child, she passed a juvenile detention camp on her way to school every day. She remembers peppering her mother with questions about why those kids were there. The bridge between their experiences seemed to her both insurmountably vast and also merely a matter of chance.
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When five USC health sciences schools were brought together under one umbrella, part of the university’s Transforming Health Sciences moonshot, a principal goal was to create a new, integrated and interprofessional approach to the education and practice of health care.
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The Homelessness Policy Research Institute (HPRI) has appointed Ben Henwood as its new director, effective July 1, 2024. HPRI is a collaborative of over one hundred researchers, policymakers, service providers, and experts with lived experience of homelessness dedicated to accelerating equitable and culturally-informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County.
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Tracie Kirkland, associate teaching professor in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work has been selected for induction into the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP). Kirkland receives this prestigious honor on June 27 at the 2024 AANP National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Since she was 15 years old, Mayra Zaragoza, MSW ’24, has been helping youth find connection and a sense of belonging. Born and raised in the North San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, where gang life was prevalent within her community and in her own family, she is now a graduate of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.