News Archive
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In early 2022, Valeria Iniesta-Guzman, MSN ’23, was placed with a street medicine mobile unit providing care for the homeless population in Santa Ana, California. It was one of her clinical internship requirements for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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María P. Aranda, the Margaret W. Driscoll/Louise M. Clevenger professor in Social Policy and Administration and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, is named the 2024 recipient of the Research Recognition Award from the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA). The award acknowledges trailblazers who are paving the way in the field of aging, particularly among Hispanic older adults, in the United States.
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Trauma-informed care is moving toward the forefront of mental health treatment today, but often those most at risk for trauma — people of color, those with lower socioeconomic status, immigration status issues and other marginalized groups — experience the most difficulty in accessing this focused care.
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In the 2023-2024 season, the USC Trojan Boxing Club had five athletes on the winner’s podium at the U.S. Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) National Championships, including the award for Best Male Boxer of the Tournament. It also produced USC’s first ever National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) champion, Jordan King, a business administration major at USC Marshall School of Business. King received The John J. Fitzpatrick 2024 Most Outstanding Boxer Male award for his performance at the NCBA championships.
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For college student athletes, realizing your dream of playing at an elite level and all the pressures that come with it can take a toll. Approximately a third of collegiate athletes experience depression or anxiety, while suicide rates among National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes have doubled since 2002.
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When Cat Birkenfeld, BA ’23, was a child, she passed a juvenile detention camp on her way to school every day. She remembers peppering her mother with questions about why those kids were there. The bridge between their experiences seemed to her both insurmountably vast and also merely a matter of chance.
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When five USC health sciences schools were brought together under one umbrella, part of the university’s Transforming Health Sciences moonshot, a principal goal was to create a new, integrated and interprofessional approach to the education and practice of health care.
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When you are a former foster youth, you have spent most of your childhood trying to beat the odds stacked against you. Those who are lucky enough to find the support of caring adults can be inspired to pay that forward to the next generation. Such is the experience of two alumnae of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work classmates and members of the Trojan Guardian Scholars, whose childhood trajectories followed a similar path and led to their career choice working with children.
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Exercise and team sports have been proven to provide clear mental health benefits according to numerous studies. For some athletes who reach an elite level, sports can also be an opportunity to gain an educational scholarship and degree, or help lift their families out of poverty. Yet, despite these benefits, elite collegiate athletes display higher risk for anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation than their peers.
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The Homelessness Policy Research Institute (HPRI) has appointed Ben Henwood as its new director, effective July 1, 2024. HPRI is a collaborative of over one hundred researchers, policymakers, service providers, and experts with lived experience of homelessness dedicated to accelerating equitable and culturally-informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County.