News Archive
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Hector Cendejas may wear a size 10, but he spends every day imagining himself in other people’s shoes.
A full-time social worker with the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, Cendejas understands the importance of empathy.
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Robert Winston Roberts, dean emeritus of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, died Nov. 8, 2016, in San Diego. He was 84.
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On July 20, 2012, a single, tragic event changed the peaceful city of Aurora, Colorado, forever. A lone gunman entered a movie theater and opened fire on the audience, leaving 12 people dead and 70 others wounded. The next day David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (NCSCB), received a phone call.
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At first blush, it seems like an odd combination.
The clean, technical, mathematical precision of computer science and the messy, complex, unwieldy world of social work and behavioral sciences don’t appear conducive to crossover. But blending these two ostensibly discordant domains is at the heart of a new initiative, the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS).
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The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work has received a $45,000 gift from the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation to provide scholarships for nursing students to complete an eight-week “bridge” course that helps prepare them for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program with a specialization as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP).
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For USC nursing students learning together online from all over the country, the opportunity to finally meet in person came with a celebration of their joining one of the most demanding—and rewarding—professions.
A sense of accomplishment filled the room as they gathered for a new annual academic tradition of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work Department of Nursing. The school held its inaugural White Coat Ceremony this past December for Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students at its classrooms in Downtown Los Angeles.
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“White people are going to have to give up stuff – a disproportionate access to resources – in order to deracialize society,” said John L. Jackson, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
“How do you convince them?”
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Successfully completing a doctoral program isn’t just about taking classes and writing a dissertation.
It’s about a larger shift in identity, a metamorphosis from student to independent scholar. Facilitating that shift is the goal of a robust professional development series Associate Professor Michael Hurlburt leads, as new director of the PhD program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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Studies show emotional and behavioral problems tend to be higher among Latino children than any other ethnic group, yet they are half as likely to use mental health services as children in white families. The reason why may be that Latino children are disproportionately affected by poverty and other factors that often limit their access to culturally appropriate, affordable health services.
In designing programs to help them, investigators are increasingly turning to the community for solutions.
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A new report outlines the findings of a recent forum on integrating health, mental health, substance use, and housing services in Los Angeles communities convened by the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.