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Every year during fall Orientation Week at USC, the USC School of Social Work welcomes its new Master of Social Work students with a unique community outreach experience. Students spend two days in Community Immersion exploring the varied neighborhoods of Southern California and then take time to reflect on those experiences, readying themselves for what’s to come in their social work educational careers by examining the societal factors that shape a community.
Here MSW student Janet Bayramyan shares what she learned last fall while touring downtown Los Angeles.
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The USC School of Social Work and United Friends of the Children hosted more than 500 Los Angeles foster youth in October for an event designed to encourage them to go to college.
The 13th annual College Within Reach day offered middle and high school-aged students living in foster care information about higher education, with the goal of showing them college is an option and providing them the necessary tools to begin college planning.