News Archive
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Across campus, USC researchers from diverse disciplines are coming together to understand the impact of COVID-19 on different communities.
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Every day, men and women from every state choose to serve in the military ― each willing to put everything on the line to protect the freedom of Americans. This selfless act, coupled with the toll that service exacts from those who serve and their families, inspired Shanden Brutsch, Master of Social Work (MSW) student at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, to want to help in any way she could.
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Earlier this year, LeighAnn Schmidt, MSN ’19, felt compelled to write to her former professor about what she experienced in a particular class. “I was so afraid of research and did not think I would ever have a change of heart,” Schmidt wrote. “Your course really changed all of that!”
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Dear USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work Community:
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USC researchers are applying tools from the study of epigenetics and social work to discern whether young adults who were abused or neglected as children have more mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic than those who were not. The result could increase understanding of who is at greater risk in the context of the pandemic and who may benefit most from enhanced and targeted interventions.
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The 18th Annual California Social Work Hall of Distinction Induction Ceremony will be held virtually on Sunday, October 18, 2020, live from Bovard Auditorium at USC. The event is a tribute to the positive impact of social work practice, policy and research addressing health and welfare problems in California's most vulnerable communities.
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For three Master of Social Work (MSW) students - two born in Armenia and one in California - the news from their families in Armenia on Sept. 27, 2020 was terrifying. Hostilities erupted in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, after years of escalating skirmishes. In the midst of midterms held remotely because of the pandemic, they say they were glued to social media reports and constant family communication to learn more.
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Under the twin cloaks of personal and opportunity equality, both enshrined in our Independence Declaration and our Constitution, the President of the United States is seeking to whitewash our history and institutionalize racism and sexism.
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One suicide leaves a heartbreaking trail, notably affecting an estimated 135 surviving people. The thousands of suicide deaths that occur each year among U.S. military veterans are a cause for national mourning.
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On August 14, 2020, the Social Work Leadership Roundtable held a virtual Town Hall on Racial Equity, streamed via Facebook Live and hosted by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), one of the nine social work organizations that comprise the Social Work Leadership Roundtable membership.