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Baseball fans not only enjoyed the Padres-Dodgers game Saturday in San Diego, but they also shared in showing appreciation for local military members and the hundreds of school principals, teachers, superintendents, military school liaison officers, universities and social workers serving military children and families.
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A group of carefully selected scholars gathered recently at the USC School of Social Work to participate in a summer institute designed to promote their careers and strengthen their ability to tackle the critical issue of substance abuse among vulnerable Hispanic populations.
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Jessica Goodman and Jennifer Brizuela are now on the short list of Master of Social Work students who took on a research project and became finalists for the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) MSW Student Research Award, a program designed to encourage master’s degree-level social work students to engage in research design and implementation.
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A new report by a task force co-chaired by Ron Avi Astor, the Richard M. and Ann L. Thor Professor of Urban Social Development at the USC School of Social Work, urges schools to stop using the word “bullying” among its series of recommendations for the prevention of bullying.
The blue ribbon task force was commissioned by USC University Professor William Tierney, past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), after several high-profile bullying cases last year.
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An anonymous donor has pledged $1 million to the USC School of Social Work to establish the Cleofas and Victor Ramirez Professor of Practice, Policy, Research and Advocacy for the Latino Population.
The endowment was made in honor of the donor’s parents, a homemaker and field worker who did not have formal educations. However, they strongly believed in the value of education and served as the driving force behind the donor’s success in receiving a Master of Social Work at USC.
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More than 650 social work scholars and practitioners will gather in Los Angeles in June to share theories and strategies to improve health and mental health research and practice during an international conference hosted by the USC School of Social Work and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
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Lawrence Palinkas, the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and director of the Behavioral Health Research Cluster at the USC School of Social Work, has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Ethics, Principles, and Guidelines for Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration Spaceflights.
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A new project led by Erick Guerrero, an assistant professor with the USC School of Social Work, will explore how recent health care legislation affects the ability of substance abuse treatment programs to serve racial and ethnic minority clients.
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For Maril Lloyd Sun, meeting Flynn, dean of the USC School of Social Work, changed the way he now looks at the world.
As chairman of Maxwell College in Arcadia, Calif., Sun understands the value of education. But the businessman had never given social work as a profession and area of research a second thought until Flynn showed him how far-reaching and significant social work’s influence could be, domestically and internationally.
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Retired Gen. David Petraeus, architect and namesake of the counterinsurgency doctrine that stabilized Iraq under U.S. and allied forces and former director of the CIA, will join the USC faculty this fall.
Petraeus, whose appointment becomes effective on July 1, will be a Judge Widney Professor, a title reserved for eminent individuals from the arts, sciences, professions, business and community and national leadership. Judge Robert Maclay Widney was USC’s founder.