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  • The USC School of Social Work and the USC Institute of Creative Technologies held a reception to celebrate the school's new military social work and veteran services program, the first of its kind at a research university, and recognize Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard for helping secure $3.2 million in federal funding for its development.

  • A lack of understanding about what constitutes emotional abuse often causes the problem to go unidentified in children referred to child protective agencies, USC researchers have found. And because of this, children are not getting the help they need for the abuse that is likely endangering their mental health and well-being.

  • Maria Aranda, associate professor in the USC School of Social Work, was awarded a $452,442 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to examine the implementation of structured psychotherapy and supportive depression care management in adult health care (ADHC), the first known study of its kind.

  • Kathy Ell, the Ernest P. Larson Professor of Health, Ethnicity, and Poverty at the USC School of Social Work, is part of a team that has received a $573,514 grant from the American Diabetes Association to help Latinos with diabetes transition safely from hospitals into community settings. Ell, a co-principal investigator, will assist Susan Enguidanos, PhD '04, an assistant professor in the USC Davis School of Gerontology and the study's principal investigator.

  • If you're ever on fire, the rule is to "stop, drop and roll." But doing so in front of an oncoming USC shuttle bus may defeat the purpose, a group of staff members from the School of Social Work demonstrated in a short video made during the school's annual staff retreat on March 18.

    This year's theme was emergency preparedness.

  • The USC School of Social Work honored head USC football coach Pete Carroll for his efforts to reduce violence and social worker J. David Hawkins for his advances in prevention science at its scholarship gala, "A Celebration of the Heart," held March 8 at the university's Town & Gown.

  • The USC School of Social Work has added Puerto Rico to its growing list of global immersion programs in an effort to expand its international outreach and give students another opportunity to explore regional social problems and problem-solving in a different culture.

    Diversity in a Caribbean Context: Implications for Social Work is a global immersion program in Puerto Rico that will examine how diversity characterizes and shapes the human experience and is critical to the formation of identity.

  • Los Angeles civil rights attorney Connie Rice grew up in a bubble. As the daughter of an Air Force colonel, she lived the typical itinerant military life on various bases where she rarely saw men misbehave. But after leaving for college, Rice learned the true meaning of her mother's advice on dealing with men: You can't let them know how smart you are; men can get easily threatened.

    Unfortunately for Rice, she learned the hard way.

  • The USC School of Social Work has acquired three academic journals, expanding its potential impact to shape the field and the research being published in these areas.

    The journals – Social Development Issues, Home Health Care Quarterly and Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health – are now housed at the school's Hamovitch Center for Science in the Human Services.

  • Assistant Professor Dorian Traube has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help develop HIV interventions.