News Archive
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After returning from a particularly violent tour of duty in Iraq, Col. David Sutherland caught himself scanning the lakes and canals scattered across his Texas town.
The U.S. Army brigade commander wasn't admiring the scenery. He was on alert for the bodies of murder victims, like the many he'd pulled out of similar looking waterways on the other side of the world.
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Leading scholars from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States convened May 6-7 on the USC campus to discuss the changing role of filial relationships in elder care as a result of the one-child policy's effects on family structure in China.
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The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California has been awarded two new grants totaling $6.5 million for its military social work and veteran services teaching and research activities.
In less than two years, the program has now attracted almost $10 million in funding, with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard playing a key role in facilitating the initiative's growth and pointing out the need for comprehensive services for military members, veterans and their families.
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For Master of Social Work student Argelis Ortiz, graduation marks the culmination of hard work not only in the classroom but in the field as well. As part of his internship with the California Youth Connection, Ortiz helped organize the group's first art exhibit and fundraiser.
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The USC School of Social Work will expand its international footprint this summer with the addition of new global immersion programs in Western Europe and India.
Professors Devon Brooks and Kim Goodman will lead 27 students through three of Europe's most socially progressive cities – Strasbourg, France; Brussels, Belgium; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Global Perspectives on Sexual Orientation, Gender and Ethnicity in Europe" will explore the steps these countries are taking to tackle bigotry and oppression from both political and social points of view.
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Staffers were flipping through a fat stack of applications for the USC School of Social Work's growing Network of Korean American Leaders (NetKAL) fellowship program when they noticed all the out-of-town postmarks.
Born as an initiative of the school's Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership in 2006, NetKAL was intended to connect leaders of Korean heritage (second generation) for leadership training, networking and community-empowerment projects in Los Angeles as a fresh approach to addressing the leadership gap in the largest ethnic Korean community outside of Korea.
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The University of Southern California School of Social Work, a top-ranked, accredited graduate program, announces the launch of a new Virtual Academic Center in partnership with 2tor, Inc., making it the first to offer a full Master of Social Work degree on a national scale at an elite research university. Applications will be accepted in June 2010 for the inaugural class, which will begin in October 2010.
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The USC Center for Work & Family Life is celebrating 30 years of service as the university's employee assistance program (EAP) and one-stop destination for faculty, staff and their dependents to obtain free, confidential counseling and resources on a wide range of personal and work-related concerns. With the launch of this first-of-its-kind center, USC pioneered the concept of an EAP in a university setting.
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For children in military families, a parent's wartime deployment can be a frightening and traumatic experience. But one USC School of Social Work professor will use a $1.8 million federal grant to help prevent long-term mental-health disturbances, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), from developing in this vulnerable population.
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The USC School of Social Work convened its first military social work conference for more than 25 multidisciplinary scholars at the USC San Diego Academic Center on Mar. 4 to explore collaborative military family-themed research opportunities.