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The Los Angeles Unified School District is identifying students whose parents are on active military duty, city and district officials announced at Leland Street Elementary in San Pedro.
LAUSD is the largest school district in the country to ask whether a student has a parent serving on active duty or as a veteran or with the National Guard or Reserves, said USC School of Social Work Professor Ron Avi Astor, who researches the needs of children with ties to the military.
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Nationwide, the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) estimates that there are four million children whose parents have served our country since 9/11. The vast majority of children in veteran and military families are being educated in civilian public schools. These families and students are resilient, proud, and idealistic, but many have also borne the burdens of this long and intense military conflict. The entire family serves when there is a war.
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A new book edited by scholars from the USC School of Social Work offers an innovative and comprehensive overview of how social workers can improve their practice in increasingly complex and global contexts.
In Transformative Social Work Practice, editors Erik Schott and Eugenia Weiss, both clinical associate professors at the USC School of Social Work, sought to redefine the practice of social work to respond to new challenges facing the profession.
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On the surface, he seemed like a major success.
The man wasn’t using drugs or relying on the emergency room for medical care. He had his own apartment and had severed negative ties from his days living on the streets of Los Angeles. But Jack Lahey could tell something wasn’t right.
“He was low risk because he was completely isolated,” Lahey said. “We asked him, how do you like your life? He said, ‘I don’t like it, but it’s OK.’ It was so beautifully sad.”
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Experiencing the loss of a loved one is an inevitable part of life.
By the time they graduate from high school, 90 percent of children will have faced the death of a family member or friend. But surprisingly few people who work closely with children, including teachers and other school personnel, know how to talk about death and loss with their students.
David Schonfeld wants to change that.
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One of first U.S. Department of Defense-funded research projects of LGBT population
Researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles will collaborate on a first-of-its-kind study of the experiences of LGBT service members in the military.
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A new book tracing the development of an innovative approach to addressing homelessness is now available.
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Disasters take a unique toll on children, with potential to cause short- and long-term damage to their health and development. In a new clinical report, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urges pediatricians to look for common adjustment problems in children following a disaster or crisis and to promote effective coping strategies to ease the impact of the event.
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As an adoptee from Taiwan growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Priscilla Hefley struggled to find her identity.
To avoid being seen as an outsider, she embraced the mainstream culture. It wasn’t until college that she began to reconnect with her roots and what it meant to be a Chinese American.
“Adoptees can have a sense of not really being American and not really being Chinese,” she said. “It was a real struggle. Where exactly do I fit?”
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A new report released by the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work found that while Angelenos overall are living longer, there are significant differences in health prospects for older adults of certain racial and ethnic backgrounds, depending on where they live in the county.