News Archive
2017
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BioMed Op-Ed: The Role of Medicaid in Reducing Addiction Treatment Disparities for Mexican AmericansRecent expansion of Medicaid has been a first step in reducing health-care disparities in the United States. This is particularly true for publicly funded substance use disorder treatment, for which Medicaid has become the largest payer. Recently published research in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy looked to explore whether disparities in addiction treatment were associated with treatment programs’ acceptance of Medicaid payments.
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After serving in the military and working for a number of nonprofits, Alonso Fuente brought his passion for bettering communities to USC.
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Social work students had the opportunity to connect with the Lakota people through a new cultural immersion program in South Dakota.
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Moses Chadwick, MSW ’78, founder and executive/clinical director of the Tessie Cleveland Community Services Corp. (TCCSC), which provides mental health and related services to children, adolescents and families in South Los Angeles, died June 24, 2017. He was 75.
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David Kuroda, MSW ’72, shares a few tips about how couples with children can “uncouple” in healthy ways.
1. Tell your children the divorce is not their fault and remind them of it as often as you need to. Reassure them that you will always love them.
2. Even if you’re worried about money and feel uncertain, remember that as parents we have to give our children hope for the future. You might tell them that you may live in a smaller house or not take as many vacations, but that you’ll continue to love each other and be a family no matter what.
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Co-authored by Dr. Diana Taylor, professor emerita, University of California, San Francisco; Dr. Ellen F. Olshansky, women’s health nurse practitioner, and professor and chair, University of Southern California; Dr. Versie Johnson Mallard, women’s health nurse practitioner and Association of Reproductive Health board member; Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, professor and dean emeritus, University of Washington; Dr. Monica R. McLemore, assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco, and research scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health.
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David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has spent his career advocating for children—and healthy divorces.
Over his decades-long career as a social worker, counselor and mediator, David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has helped some 8,000 families navigate the stress of separation and divorce.
He has seen firsthand that dividing a family is never easy, but it doesn’t have to come at the cost of a child’s well-being. “It’s not the divorce that hurts children,” he says. “It’s the way parents get divorced, and the amount of conflict between them, that harms children.”
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Barbara Jury ’50 discovered her calling at an early age. When she was 7 she spent a week in the hospital recovering from an appendectomy, and she believes the experience of observing nursing in action around the clock planted the seed.
During her teen years, her father became a hospital administrator, offering Jury more opportunity to witness not only the nursing profession but the workings of the whole hospital organization from top to bottom. By the time she graduated high school in 1945, she knew that health care would be her career.
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1989. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker strikes a reef in Prince William Sound, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the environment. A storm blows in soon after, spreading the oil over more than 1,000 miles of coastline.
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For National Minority Mental Health Month, a USC professor shares her insights on depression among older Latino adults.
María Aranda, an associate professor holding joint appointments with the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, has spent her career studying mental health issues within older, underserved populations.