News Archive
Giving
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The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (NCSCB) at the USC School of Social Work has received a $1 million grant from the New York Life Foundation, a continuation of funding that will allow the NCSCB to expand its services, in particular the Coalition to Support Grieving Students.
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The Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families at the USC School of Social Work has received two gifts totaling $125,000 to support local efforts aimed at making Los Angeles the most veteran-friendly place in the country.
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The USC School of Social Work welcomes five new members to its Board of Councilors, an advisory body composed of professional, academic and community leaders who provide counsel to ensure the success of the school’s mission to improve the well-being of the vulnerable and to advance social justice.
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The ground-breaking research conducted by the USC School of Social Work’s military center on local veteran transition challenges will now be able to help veterans outside of Southern California thanks to a $316,000 grant aimed at replicating the study in Chicago.
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Philanthropists Paul Blavin and Dwight Tate have joined the USC School of Social Work’s Board of Councilors.
Blavin, who has a background in investment banking, is a passionate proponent of social change. His interest in helping foster youth and those who have aged out of the system drew him to the School of Social Work.
“I felt like I needed to reach out and learn more about the school that was training people to help serve underserved youth,” he said.
“We need to help people who need it most.”
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Judith Wolfe, MSW '87, made a gift to the USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families (CIR) because she is passionate about what happens to veterans when they return home.
“I am aware of what they have gone through because I was a social worker,” she said. “So my focus is to make sure that they are not isolated because [in the military] they were in a group with a support system and then they come back and no one really understands.”
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Johnnie-Renée Simon was two years in to her undergraduate studies in pre-med when she took a job at a foster family adoption agency to help with college expenses. The experience led her in a different direction.
“I guess what I had previously gone through during my life just pushed me to go towards social work,” she said.
From the ages of 12 to 18, she was in foster care herself. -
When Barbara Solomon joined the faculty of the USC School of Social Work in 1961, the times…they were a-changing.
The next two decades would find social workers on the front lines of the war on poverty, assisting veterans returning from Vietnam and, of course, fighting for the civil rights of African Americans.
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The George H. Mayr Foundation has been providing scholarships for MSW students at the USC School of Social Work for nearly a quarter of a century.
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The Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families at the USC School of Social Work has received a gift of $200,000 to support local efforts to help transitioning veterans in Los Angeles County.