News Archive
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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.
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Associate Professor Kristin Ferguson of the USC School of Social Work has received a $742,033 federal stimulus grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to engage homeless youth in a vocational training program integrated with clinical services designed to improve their employment opportunities and mental health.
Homeless youth with mental illness face employment barriers and challenges inherent in living on the streets, including limited education and job skills. Moving these youth off the streets requires more than finding them low-wage jobs.
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Susan Burton knows what it is like to feel hopeless. After one of her children was shot and killed, she was in and out of prison six times on drug charges.
"When you leave prison," she said, "you get off a bus in downtown L.A. with $200, no I.D., no social security card."
With few resources available to her, Burton found it difficult to break out of the cycle.
"I got angry, and I told myself I was going to do something," she said.
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The University of Southern California's School of Social Work has joined the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to launch an advanced practice in military social work education initiative to bridge the gap between the number of available prepared practitioners and the demand for social services with military personnel and their families. The initiative began Feb. 4 with a meeting of 35 experts from various social work higher education, professional association and military backgrounds.
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Professor Emeritus John Milner, who was a professor of social work at USC for 31 years, died at his home on Jan. 29. He was 97.
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Seth Kurzban, an assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has been appointed to the Gabe W. Miller Memorial Foundation advisory committee.
The foundation, inspired by its namesake who died in 2005 while an MSW student at the University of Denver, collects and distributes funds to individuals who can deliver, as Gabe did, service to those who need it most – physically and mentally disabled adults and children, rehabilitated former prisoners reintegrating into society, and children in need of support and role models.