News Archive
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Approximately 15 percent of foster care youth attend college and only 2 percent graduate.
The USC School of Social Work partnered with United Friends of the Children (UFC) in hopes of increasing that percentage by hosting the 10th annual "College Within Reach" event in October for Los Angeles foster children in grades 9-12.
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Twenty years ago, it was an impossibility. But on Oct. 22-23, about 50 federally funded, professionally trained social work investigators from around the country gathered at USC's Davidson Center for the Los Angeles Conference on Intervention Research in Social Work.
Decades ago it was rare for social workers to get funding from the National Institutes of Health because they were considered poorly trained in research methods and analysis, said John Brekke, the Frances G. Larson Professor of Social Work Research at the USC School of Social Work.
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Karen Lincoln, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work, has received an $823,908 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Fifteen students from the USC School of Social Work traveled to China this summer to learn how a nation that reveres its elders is taking care of its graying population. They learned it's no small feat for a country that claims about 20 percent of the world's population aged 60 or older. The cultural contrasts, however, provided inspiration on how the United States could refine its own programs that serve older adults.
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USC School of Social Work graduate students Cassandra Rush and Jason Imhoof took their first steps toward becoming among the first students nationwide to earn a master's degree in social work with a specialization in military and veteran services.
On that day, they also were sworn in as members of the university's Reserved Officers' Training Corp. program. When they graduate in two years, they will be fully commissioned officers of the U.S. Army. Officials believe the two also may be the first military social work/ROTC students in the country.
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Lawrence Palinkas, the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health in the USC School of Social Work, was awarded a $180,179 grant by the William T. Grant Foundation to look at how policymakers and practitioners acquire, use and interpret research evidence.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters introduced legislation that USC School of Social Work students developed that mandates federal agencies re-prioritize their funding to help keep homeless children housed with their parents whenever possible.
The resolution affirms that children should not be denied the right to be housed together with their families based on what neighborhood they live in or how much money they make,
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The Los Angeles Partnership for Evidence-Based Solutions in Elder Health, chaired by Maria P. Aranda of the USC School of Social Work and the USC Davis School of Gerontology, has released a Call to Action report that provides a snapshot of health priorities facing Los Angeles' Latino elders and a generation of baby boomers who will reach age 65 in the next 20 years.
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Janet Schneiderman, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work, has received a five-year $621,563 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to prevent medical neglect of children in the child welfare system.
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"I have been accused unjustly," 8-year-old Laura Newman said firmly.
The year was 1951, and Laura was at Beverly Vista Elementary School, where students participated in an exercise that allowed them to put notes in a "citizenship box" if they felt somebody did something wrong. Once a week, the notes were read aloud and if anyone felt they were wrongly blamed, the student would stand up and exclaim, "I have been accused unjustly."