News Archive
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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.
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Dorian Traube, assistant professor of the USC School of Social Work, became the first researcher to receive access to an expansive collection of data on the mental health of children in foster care in Los Angeles County after securing a pilot grant from the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
The $30,000 award will enable Traube to partner with county mental health and child welfare officials to explore data on how well children in foster care are screened and treated for mental health issues.
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Michael Hurlburt, an assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has been named Public Citizen of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers-California Chapter for his discipline-crossing work that uses social and psychological research to implement treatments for families and children, particularly those involved in the child welfare system.
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Eric Rice, assistant professor of the USC School of Social Work, has been recognized with the John B. Reid Early Career Award from the Society for Prevention Research for his innovative research on HIV and substance abuse prevention among homeless youth.
The award is given annually to honor a promising new investigator in the field of prevention research, which focuses on the prevention of social, behavioral and physical health issues as a path to promoting overall well-being.