News Archive
2014
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This summer's global immersion trip to India included stops in Mumbai, Jawhar, Pune and rural Maharashtra, where Master of Social Work students and faculty observed daily life and participated in community development projects. They witnessed everything from the effects of abject poverty to the resilience of the country's people, including how a local social worker started a micro-finance nonprofit organization to empower women.
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The new California State Senate Select Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care held its first hearing at Glendale Central Library, which brought together experts on aging who offered their recommendations for creating a more effective support and services system for older Californians.
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More than 8,000 veterans commit suicide each year, or nearly 22 a day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. This rate, which has increased significantly in the past 10 years, has eluded explanation, though many point to a correlation between combat experience and mental health issues.
Researchers at the University of Southern California believe they can now identify when veterans may be more prone to suicide, a first step in more effective prevention efforts.
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When Sussanne Martin was four years old, her father, a well-known lawyer who fought for human rights and social justice in El Salvador, was kidnapped and killed during the country’s civil war.
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A study from USC researchers provides new understanding of the relationship between “sexting” and sexual behavior in early adolescence, contributing to an ongoing national conversation about whether sexually explicit text messaging is a risk behavior or just a technologically-enabled extension of normal teenage flirtation. The latest research, published today in the July 2014 issue of the journal Pediatrics, found that among middle school students, those who reported receiving a sext were 6 times more likely to also report being sexually active.
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The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging, has elected Karen Lincoln, an associate professor at the USC School of Social Work, as a fellow in its behavioral and social sciences section.
Fellowship — the highest class of membership — was awarded to Lincoln for her outstanding research contributions in the field.
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About 120 Los Angeles leaders received an initial look on June 6 at findings from the county’s first and most comprehensive study of the military population, which will be used to inform veteran policy and programs moving forward.
The Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families at the USC School of Social Work conducted more than 1,850 surveys of veterans to help identify the areas of greatest need in Los Angeles County, home to the largest population in the country.
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A mutually beneficial relationship between the disciplines of social work and engineering is not necessarily an obvious combination.
However, leaders from the USC School of Social Work and USC Viterbi School of Engineering believe collaboration between the two fields is a completely appropriate development.
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Karen Lincoln, an associate professor at the USC School of Social Work, ranks among the most influential African-American social work scholars in the United States, according to a list published in Research on Social Work Practice.
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The United States incarcerates too many people, a new National Research Council report concludes. The study’s authors argue the U.S. needs to revise its current criminal justice policies — including sentencing laws and drug enforcement — to significantly cut prison rates and scale back what has become the world's most punitive culture.