News Archive
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Growing up in East Los Angeles, Master of Social Work student Ronnie Fernandez didn’t see many positive role models, specifically young, educated Latino men and women.
So last year, he started a mentorship program called Sons of Troy with the goal of teaching students what he wishes he could have learned from successful Latinos in his own community.
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Dwight Tate, MSW ’77, has made a five-year pledge to the USC School of Social Work to help train students to become agents of change in their communities.
Tate hopes his gift of $52,000 will help support students interested in the school’s Community Organization, Planning and Administration concentration, which he studied as a student.
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The USC School of Social Work established the first military social work program at a civilian research university and can now claim another first—three of its students will receive the first full-tuition scholarships from the U.S. Air Force to study social work.
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Three new professors joining the USC School of Social Work this fall will strengthen the school’s focus on substance abuse and HIV prevention, serious mental illness and homelessness research.
Hortensia Amaro will serve as Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventive Medicine, in addition to working with the USC Office of the Provost as associate provost for community research initiatives. Jeremy Goldbach and Ben Henwood were brought on board as assistant professors.
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Wendy Smith Meyer, associate dean for faculty development and a member of the Board of Councilors at the USC School of Social Work, and her husband, Barry Meyer, have established two new scholarships for Master of Social Work students who are also alumni of the foster care system.
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The Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work will host the 2012 International Conference on Aging in the Americas (ICAA) from Sept. 11-13 at the USC Davidson Conference Center.
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The USC School of Social Work will co-host the Military Child Education Coalition’s California Public Engagement conference, with approximately 100 influential policymakers, community leaders and military officials invited to collaborate on ways to support the education of military children in California.
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Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s life could have been very different.
Having spent nearly a decade in foster care and enduring physical, mental and emotional abuse – she was lied to, manipulated, beaten, forced to run laps and squat for extended periods of time, and told to bathe in feces-laden bath water and sleep in urine-soaked bed sheets – Rhodes-Courter could have given up. She could have decided to let the system that placed in her these situations swallow her whole. She could have failed in school or fallen in with the wrong crowd.
But she didn’t.
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R. Paul Maiden, vice dean of the USC School of Social Work, has been appointed a reviewer of the Journal of Social Work Education, one of the most well-respected peer-reviewed journals in the profession of social work.
The Journal of Social Work Education is a refereed professional journal focused on education in social work and social welfare. It serves as a forum for creative exchange on trends, innovation and problems relevant to social work education at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels.
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The Military Acceptance Project, a USC School of Social Work student initiative-turned-nonprofit organization that promotes understanding, acceptance and equality for military servicemembers, veterans and their families, has received perhaps the highest recognition a group of its kind could: it has been honored as a Champion of Change by the White House.