News Archive
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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.
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The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) gave its 2011 Excellence in Research Award to USC School of Social Work professor Ron Astor for his study on school violence in Israel schools.
Astor, the school's Richard M. and Ann L. Thor Professor of Urban Social Development, won the award for the article "School Violence and Theoretically Atypical Schools: The Principal's Centrality in Orchestrating Safe Schools," which was published in the American Educational Research Journal.
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Rep. Karen Bass addressed the potential impact of government budget cuts and health care reform legislation on older adults during the 2011 Roybal Memorial Lecture at USC Town & Gown on Feb. 23.
Sponsored by the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work and co-hosted by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, the annual event commemorates the institute's namesake, honoring Edward Roybal's legacy as a passionate advocate for civil rights and equal opportunity, as well as services for the elderly.
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With recent news that the state of California lost tens of millions of dollars in federal funding to provide health care to uninsured children – because it didn't enroll enough children to qualify for Medicaid and Medi-Cal – the importance of patient advocacy has become clearer than ever before.
Bruce Jansson, professor with the USC School of Social Work, has written a new book, Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy: A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions, to address problems just like this.