News Archive
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William Vega, one of the nation's leading experts on health disparities that affect aging ethnic minority populations, has been named executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, now based at the USC School of Social Work.
Named for the late Rep. Edward R. Roybal, the Roybal Institute is dedicated to translational research, policy advocacy and training that improves the health, mental health and care of older persons, particularly those from low-income and multiethnic backgrounds.
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The USC School of Social Work has established a new center to address the critical need to train social workers and other mental health practitioners to become better providers to veterans and their families.
The mission of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families is to advance the individual, group and community well-being of American veterans and military families through value-driven education, training, research, partnerships and leadership.
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Suzanne Wenzel, a professor from the USC School of Social Work, has received nearly $2 million in federal stimulus money to help understand the sexual risk behavior of homeless men and their attitudes toward women in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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A professor from the USC School of Social Work has been awarded $1.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to study how and why child abuse and neglect increases the risk for substance abuse in adolescents.
The two-year stimulus grant, funded through the National Institute of Drug Abuse, was awarded to Penelope Trickett, the David Lawrence Stein/Violet Goldberg Sachs Professor of Mental Health. She and her team will look at the risk and resilience mechanisms underlying the relationship between child maltreatment and adolescent substance abuse.
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Nearly 650,000 people are released from United States prisons every year, and about 9 million more are released from jails. Two-thirds of those who come out of prison are rearrested within three years of their release.
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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.