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Our school has a mandate in these moments of national upheaval to reaffirm our values and work even more passionately to achieve the aims we serve as a profession.
That is the purpose of this letter. I speak for both our social work and nursing departments.
In social work and nursing, the linchpin of our values is social justice for all.
Our vigilance and concern for equity has been central to this school since its earliest inception and stands as a hallmark today.
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Earth’s increasingly deadly and destructive climate is prompting social work leaders to focus the profession’s attention on one of humanity’s most pressing issues: environmental change.
Typhoons are hitting the South Pacific with greater severity and regularity. Hurricane Katrina prompted the largest forced migration of Americans since the Civil War. Civil conflicts and instability in the Middle East and Africa are being linked to climate change and its socioecological effects.
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On July 20, 2012, a single, tragic event changed the peaceful city of Aurora, Colorado, forever. A lone gunman entered a movie theater and opened fire on the audience, leaving 12 people dead and 70 others wounded. The next day David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (NCSCB), received a phone call.
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At first blush, it seems like an odd combination.
The clean, technical, mathematical precision of computer science and the messy, complex, unwieldy world of social work and behavioral sciences don’t appear conducive to crossover. But blending these two ostensibly discordant domains is at the heart of a new initiative, the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS).
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“White people are going to have to give up stuff – a disproportionate access to resources – in order to deracialize society,” said John L. Jackson, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
“How do you convince them?”
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Successfully completing a doctoral program isn’t just about taking classes and writing a dissertation.
It’s about a larger shift in identity, a metamorphosis from student to independent scholar. Facilitating that shift is the goal of a robust professional development series Associate Professor Michael Hurlburt leads, as new director of the PhD program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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Studies show emotional and behavioral problems tend to be higher among Latino children than any other ethnic group, yet they are half as likely to use mental health services as children in white families. The reason why may be that Latino children are disproportionately affected by poverty and other factors that often limit their access to culturally appropriate, affordable health services.
In designing programs to help them, investigators are increasingly turning to the community for solutions.
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A new report outlines the findings of a recent forum on integrating health, mental health, substance use, and housing services in Los Angeles communities convened by the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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Researchers from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work will have a significant presence as social work scholars from across the nation gather this week for the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research.
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New research shows that people who have schizophrenia can still live independently, pursue higher education or hold down a demanding job. In fact, many do manage their illness and live full and highly productive lives.