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They crowd onto the roofs of trains and buses. They cross miles of open desert in the blistering sun. They face robbery, rape and violence.
It’s a dangerous and traumatic journey for many unaccompanied children and adolescents heading north from Central America toward countries like Mexico and the United States. But it’s a risk they are willing to take to escape one of the world’s deadliest regions.
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Penelope Trickett, the David Lawrence Stein/Violet Goldberg Sachs Professor of Mental Health at the USC School of Social Work, died July 15 in San Pedro, California, of complications from heart failure. She was 73 years old.
“This is indeed a sad moment,” said William Vega, provost professor at USC and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. “We have lost a truly dedicated and talented colleague who gave everything for the important social justice issues she was committed to.”
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A trio of new assistant professors joining the USC School of Social Work this fall is continuing the school’s trend toward diverse and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Daniel Hackman, Mónica Pérez Jolles and B.K. Elizabeth Kim have multifaceted research interests that range from exploring how early life socioenvironmental factors influence later risk of psychopathology and health problems to examining how to improve services and opportunities for vulnerable children and their caregivers.
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The Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families (CIR) has received funding to launch an indepth study assessing the needs of veterans in the Bay Area, particularly the military-to-civilian transition issues facing LGBT veterans.
Thanks to support from the Wells Fargo Foundation and Deloitte LLP, the San Francisco Veterans Study will poll 1,000 veterans on such topics as transition challenges, employment, finances, housing, health and access to services.
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As policymakers and the medical community seek to improve collaborative care to the most vulnerable populations, USC Telehealth at the USC School of Social Work announces the launch of a new and innovative pilot program with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LADMH) to provide online mental health services to at-risk youth ages 16-21.
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Practice and research are two sides of the same coin in the social work realm.
Clinicians rely on researchers to develop new and effective methods to work with clients, whereas researchers rely on practitioners to inform them of what works and doesn’t work in the field. Bridging the gap between the two, however, is not always easy.
That’s where adjunct lecturers and other clinical faculty members at the USC School of Social Work enter the picture.
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Leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors gathered at USC on April 27 for a summit to launch a sustained, collaborative effort to end homelessness in Los Angeles and serve as a model for other communities.
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One of USC’s foremost experts on homelessness and HIV/AIDS will share her knowledge with promising scholars as part of a prestigious national mentoring initiative.
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USC Trustee Daniel M. Tsai and his wife, Irene Chen, MA ’83, were concerned about the growing aging society in Taiwan, a country that has faced challenges with low fertility rates in recent decades. Both have aging parents themselves and wanted to find a way to empower older adults through technology.
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In 2011, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden announced Joining Forces, an initiative to better support members of the U.S. military and their families.