News Archive
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The University of Southern California School of Social Work, a top-ranked, accredited graduate program, announces the launch of a new Virtual Academic Center in partnership with 2tor, Inc., making it the first to offer a full Master of Social Work degree on a national scale at an elite research university. Applications will be accepted in June 2010 for the inaugural class, which will begin in October 2010.
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The USC Center for Work & Family Life is celebrating 30 years of service as the university's employee assistance program (EAP) and one-stop destination for faculty, staff and their dependents to obtain free, confidential counseling and resources on a wide range of personal and work-related concerns. With the launch of this first-of-its-kind center, USC pioneered the concept of an EAP in a university setting.
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For children in military families, a parent's wartime deployment can be a frightening and traumatic experience. But one USC School of Social Work professor will use a $1.8 million federal grant to help prevent long-term mental-health disturbances, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), from developing in this vulnerable population.
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The USC School of Social Work convened its first military social work conference for more than 25 multidisciplinary scholars at the USC San Diego Academic Center on Mar. 4 to explore collaborative military family-themed research opportunities.
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USC School of Social Work Dean Emeritus Rino Patti and Professor Kathleen Ell have been named inaugural fellows of the newly formed American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare — the first national society honoring excellence in the research and practice of social work.
The two are among 30 professionals from universities, institutions and practices nationwide selected to join the academy, which will hold an induction ceremony this spring at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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The life stories of Elyn Saks, Barbara Kaplan and John Milner are as distinct and varied as they are fascinating.
Saks, associate dean at the USC Gould School of Law, has spoken and written about her experiences with schizophrenia and her commitment to mental health care policy. Kaplan was a union organizer who returned to school at 40 and devoted the second half of her life to revolutionizing elder care in Los Angeles. Milner, who passed away in January, was a professor at the USC School of Social Work for 31 years and devotee to children's welfare.
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The USC School of Social Work has partnered with the American Case Management Association (ACMA) and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to offer the first ACMA Social Work Fellowship, a post-graduate program that provides a deeper understanding of hospital social work and hands-on training in case management practice.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, a competitive, national funding program focused on addressing challenging health policy issues, has selected Professor John Brekke from the USC School of Social Work to receive a grant to study mental health system transformation in America.
The Frances G. Larson Professor of Social Work Research was awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant jointly with Joel Braslow, associate professor of psychiatry, biobehavioral sciences and history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Media coverage of mass school shootings in recent years has led the public to believe school violence is on the rise, when it is in fact at its lowest levels in decades.
More pervasive forms of aggression, such as name calling and racial or gender slurs, affect thousands of students, but tend to remain out of the public consciousness.
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USC Provost C.L. Max Nikias presented the inaugural Pearmain Prize in Research on Aging to Kyriakos S. Markides—a leading scholar on aging and health issues—at USC Town and Gown on Feb. 16 as part of a celebration of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging.