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  • The University of Southern California's School of Social Work has joined the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to launch an advanced practice in military social work education initiative to bridge the gap between the number of available prepared practitioners and the demand for social services with military personnel and their families. The initiative began Feb. 4 with a meeting of 35 experts from various social work higher education, professional association and military backgrounds.

  • William Vega, one of the nation's leading experts on health disparities that affect aging ethnic minority populations, has been named executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, now based at the USC School of Social Work.

    Named for the late Rep. Edward R. Roybal, the Roybal Institute is dedicated to translational research, policy advocacy and training that improves the health, mental health and care of older persons, particularly those from low-income and multiethnic backgrounds.

  • The USC School of Social Work has established a new center to address the critical need to train social workers and other mental health practitioners to become better providers to veterans and their families.

    The mission of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families is to advance the individual, group and community well-being of American veterans and military families through value-driven education, training, research, partnerships and leadership.

  • Suzanne Wenzel, a professor from the USC School of Social Work, has received nearly $2 million in federal stimulus money to help understand the sexual risk behavior of homeless men and their attitudes toward women in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.

  • A professor from the USC School of Social Work has been awarded $1.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to study how and why child abuse and neglect increases the risk for substance abuse in adolescents.

    The two-year stimulus grant, funded through the National Institute of Drug Abuse, was awarded to Penelope Trickett, the David Lawrence Stein/Violet Goldberg Sachs Professor of Mental Health. She and her team will look at the risk and resilience mechanisms underlying the relationship between child maltreatment and adolescent substance abuse.

  • Twenty years ago, it was an impossibility. But on Oct. 22-23, about 50 federally funded, professionally trained social work investigators from around the country gathered at USC's Davidson Center for the Los Angeles Conference on Intervention Research in Social Work.

    Decades ago it was rare for social workers to get funding from the National Institutes of Health because they were considered poorly trained in research methods and analysis, said John Brekke, the Frances G. Larson Professor of Social Work Research at the USC School of Social Work.

  • Karen Lincoln, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work, has received an $823,908 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

  • Lawrence Palinkas, the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health in the USC School of Social Work, was awarded a $180,179 grant by the William T. Grant Foundation to look at how policymakers and practitioners acquire, use and interpret research evidence.

  • The Los Angeles Partnership for Evidence-Based Solutions in Elder Health, chaired by Maria P. Aranda of the USC School of Social Work and the USC Davis School of Gerontology, has released a Call to Action report that provides a snapshot of health priorities facing Los Angeles' Latino elders and a generation of baby boomers who will reach age 65 in the next 20 years.

  • Janet Schneiderman, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work, has received a five-year $621,563 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to prevent medical neglect of children in the child welfare system.