News Archive
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Omar López, a clinical assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has been elected by Mexican community leaders to a three-year term as an advisor for Consejo Consultivo del Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (CCIME), a consultative body within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico that analyzes problems, challenges and opportunities facing Mexican communities abroad.
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Faculty and students from the USC School of Pharmacy and the USC School of Social Work held the first Conference on Medication Use & Society.
The conference aimed to provide students from the two schools with an opportunity to better understand the role of each of their professions on the health care team, as well as ways and points in care where they may improve the lives of patients.
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Marilyn Flynn, dean of the USC School of Social Work, has received the International Rhoda G. Sarnat Award for her efforts to advance the public image of professional social work.
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A new book authored by USC School of Social Work professors Lawrence Palinkas and Haluk Soydan seeks to outline the creation and evaluation of high-quality evidence on social work interventions.
Published by Oxford University Press, Translation and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice is designed as a tutorial for social work researchers and scholars to understand the science of translating evidence into practice.
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The Hutto Patterson Charitable Foundation has endowed a scholarship at the USC School of Social Work for students pursuing careers to help families cope with the stresses of military life.
The $50,000 gift established the Catherine Hutto Gordon and Eileen Clare Hutto Scholarship for Military Social Work, which will aid students studying this growing field of the social work profession. Many military social work students at the School of Social Work are veterans themselves who are keenly aware of how issues such as deployment and frequent relocations affect military families.
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Spring break: a time of year for college students to blow off some steam and kick back before the stress of finals arrives at the end of the school year.
But some USC School of Social Work students, faculty and even alumni have made so much more of this traditionally carefree week.
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Megan Finno, a doctoral student at the USC School of Social Work, has been awarded a Doris Duke Fellowship for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect to support her dissertation research on the use of formal support services and informal supports among Latino immigrant families investigated by the child welfare system.
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A new study by Sonya Negriff, a research assistant professor with the USC School of Social Work, will explore how online social technology such as Facebook influences the development of risk behaviors among maltreated youth.
Funded by a five-year, $667,852 career development grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Negriff will examine potential links between online social networks and risky activities by adolescents who have been maltreated.
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The USC School of Social Work and Three Wire Systems’ VetAdvisor, which provides proactive preventative care to veterans, today announced a partnership to recruit and hire military social work graduates for VetAdvisor coaching services.
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The Network of Korean-American Leaders (NetKAL) Fellowship Program, which promotes community leadership among successful second-generation Korean-Americans, heads north this year. The program, now in its sixth year, will host weekend leadership retreats in San Francisco for its new class of 26 distinguished fellows selected for their professional success and desire to connect with other motivated individuals from different backgrounds.