News Archive
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Judith Feder, one of the nation's foremost experts on the U.S. health insurance system, discussed the Affordable Care Act and Medicare on April 14 at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center as part of the 2011 USC Schaeffer Center seminar series.
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Judy Muro didn't think that helping some kids at the YMCA would lead to something as big as a trip to the White House for them – but it did.
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A new study finds homeless women are more likely to seek treatment for substance abuse if they have positive links in their social network.
Results published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment reveal that having primarily street-based relationships has a deleterious effect on accessing substance abuse treatment, while having an intimate partner who offers support and information about treatment has a strong positive influence.
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The Military Acceptance Project (MAP), a new organization created by a team of graduate students at the USC School of Social Work, has launched a website designed to provide information, resources and support to service members about the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
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The California Social Welfare Archives hosted its annual awards luncheon on April 6 at the Galen Center to honor founding president and CEO of the Skirball Cultural Center Uri D. Herscher, social work leader Suzanne Dworak-Peck and longtime educator June Brown for their commitment to the advancement of social welfare.
USC School of Social Work dean Marilyn Flynn presented Herscher with the George D. Nickel Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Welfare.
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Each year more than 25,000 youth age out of the American foster care system to face uncertain futures as young adults. A quarter of them will experience homelessness, and as many as 50 percent will not finish high school. Four years after leaving care, less than half will be employed, and their earnings will remain well below the poverty line. And, they will face higher rates of mental health disorders, early pregnancy and parenthood, and incarceration.
But these young people have an advocate in Wendy Smith, who is determined to improve their lives.
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The USC School of Social Work honored actor Gary Sinise for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the U.S. military, scholar Fred H. Wulczyn for his commitment to the profession of social work and Stephen Peck MSW '97 for his dedication to veterans' causes at the school's scholarship gala, "A Celebration of the Heart," on April 2 at Town & Gown.
Sinise received the Crystal Heart, the school's highest honor for community service, in recognition of his philanthropy and for being an ardent supporter of U.S. troops.
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Taking advantage of increasingly ubiquitous mobile technologies, the USC School of Social Work's MSW@USC program has released a new, iOS platform-based iPad and iPhone application that allows students to access its online learning platform anytime, anywhere.
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William A. Vega, the executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work, delivered the opening plenary lecture at the Many Faces of Dementia conference at the USC Davidson Conference Center on March 18.
The event was sponsored by the USC Memory and Aging Center, the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the USC Keck School of Medicine - Office of Continuing Medical Education, the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center, and the Alzheimer's Association - California Southland Chapter. -
USC School of Social Work Assistant Professor Eric Rice has received a three-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study social networking among homeless youth with the goal of creating innovative interventions to combat risky sexual and drug-use behaviors.