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Students
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For several years, PhD student Abigail Palmer Molina has focused her dissertation study on the experiences of mothers participating in an intervention for maternal depression, implemented as part of the Head Start program in South Los Angeles. The majority of the mothers were Latina immigrants, and Palmer Molina looked at their experiences to provide a richer picture of the intervention's effectiveness. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, she was compelled to find out how these women, and their communities, were being affected.
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On April 1, 2021, CBS premieres United States of Al - a new comedy from producer Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory) about a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life and the interpreter who served with his unit in Afghanistan and has just arrived to start a new life in America. The show explores the relationship between these two men and how they help each other adjust to their new lives.
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Eunhye Ahn has a passion for improving the lives of children and families. Her journey to social work, however, was not a straight line. With an undergraduate degree in business, she began her professional career in the private sector and it was there that she became interested in the potential for data collection and analysis to be used for social good.
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USC social work master’s student MaryAnn Samson helps other students apply for CalFresh benefits with a smile — and no judgment.
Hannah felt stressed every time she went shopping at the market. The USC student had to be so careful with her tiny budget that she often bought cheap food that offered calories but little nutrition.
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Since March 2020, when COVID-19 escalated into a pandemic, at least three Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work contracted COVID-19 while juggling school, clinical placements and work as registered nurses.
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GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate and celebrate generosity.
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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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A few months ago, LaRaine Koen faced a tough decision. Financial worries, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, made it seem like her only option was to postpone the final year of her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree she was earning online through the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work’s Virtual Academic Center (VAC).
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In January 2020, Lourdes Ashley Hunter was contacted by the Library of Congress. An archivist told Hunter they wanted to archive her website, including the entire body of work contained within it, as part of their mission to preserve and provide access to a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge.
When Hunter asked what she needed to do, the archivist replied, “Nothing at all. You’ve already done it.”
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After significant urging from her mother, Annabelle Vives, RN, enrolled in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work to become a family nurse practitioner. Isabel Vives, RN, had been cautioning her daughter since she was a little girl to get all her degrees before she was old, married and had kids, or she would regret it.