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Alumni
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The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work has many alumni working on the front lines in hospitals across the country. Allison Trapp (name has been changed to protect anonymity) MSW alumna, has been a social worker for almost 20 years. She works in a hospital ICU in the southern United States.
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As an emergency room social worker, Veronica Annette Acosta, MSW ’17, provides emotional support for families of patients who have passed away. Under normal circumstances, these conversations happen about five times a month. Under COVID-19, she is having them four times a day.
“It is extremely overwhelming,” said Acosta. “It is starting to take an emotional toll.”
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Dave Leon, MSW ’03, was working at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services as a therapist and case manager for young adults aged 18-30, after graduating from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. It was during this time that he first began to think about the concept that would become Painted Brain.
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Spend any time talking to Chelsea Bowers, MSW ’17, and her passion for helping others is crystal clear.
The graduate of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work is the director of public affairs for City Net, a nonprofit in Orange County focused on ending street-level homelessness.
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As the disaster management program manager at LAC+USC Medical Center, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work nursing alumna Kellyn Pak is ensuring health care workers receive the resources they need.
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For Katie Davis, alumna of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, hospice care does not stop for the COVID-19 pandemic, it readjusts to the present circumstances.
In the little town of Snohomish, Washington, the antiques capital of the pacific northwest just an hour northeast of Seattle, Katie Davis, MSW ’15, is part of an interdisciplinary team working for a hospice organization.
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According to the latest data available, in 2017 the United States received an estimated 139,801 affirmative asylum applications from individuals such as these:
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There are moments in many people’s lives when a medical matter changes everything. A debilitating injury. A mental health crisis. A move into hospice or palliative care. An organ transplant.
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Not all social workers have heard of the Jewish concept of tikkun olam or “repairing the world,” but most strive to live by its ideal.
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In 2005, during his first year of graduate school at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Bryan Gaines, BA ’03, MSW ’06, DSW ’18, received a phone call from his aunt. She told him his father, with whom he had no relationship, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, required 24/7 care and needed to be picked up—she was going to Las Vegas.