News Archive
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Growing up in a military family during times of war puts a sizable proportion of children at a greater risk for a wide range of negative outcomes – drug use, being bullied or carrying a weapon to school – compared to their nonmilitary peers, according to a new study which appears this month in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Every year during fall Orientation Week at USC, the USC School of Social Work welcomes its new Master of Social Work students with a unique community outreach experience. Students spend two days in Community Immersion exploring the varied neighborhoods of Southern California and then take time to reflect on those experiences, readying themselves for what’s to come in their social work educational careers by examining the societal factors that shape a community.
Here MSW student Janet Bayramyan shares what she learned last fall while touring downtown Los Angeles.
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Program will be offered by the newly created Department of Nursing
The USC School of Social Work announced today plans to develop an online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) for aspiring family nurse practitioners (FNPs). Program graduates will help meet the increasing nationwide demand for advanced practice nurses in primary care settings.
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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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A new book by a USC professor provides historical and cultural context, along with recommended changes to policy and clinical practice, to help stem the epidemic of sexual trauma in the military.
Believed to be the first social work text to address the topic of military sexual trauma, Kristen Zaleski’s Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma aims to fill a gap in resources she herself noticed when she first started treating veterans.
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Your silent teenager won’t look up from texting. Your not-so-silent one screams in your face, “I wish I was never born!” Either way, you might be wondering if you’re doing this parenting thing right. For USC’s Julie Cederbaum, the answers require taking a look at the bigger picture.
Healthy households grapple with teen angst holistically, says Cederbaum, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work. That could mean counseling—for everyone in the family.
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Twelve years ago, Jillian Barba lost her brother to suicide. It was unexpected, and the news sent her into a tailspin.
“He was a good student, the popular guy on campus … but he had a drug problem. He finally got into a treatment program, but after he left he ended up taking his own life,” she recalled. “My brother’s death taught me that even though you think you have so much under control, your life can really change in an instant.”
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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.