News Archive
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Gena Truitt is a social worker with unique perspectives.
The Navy veteran and USC School of Social Work alumna works at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System in San Bernardino County, where she interacts directly with veterans as a homeless outreach social worker.
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A new report from the USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families and the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare offers a four-pronged approach to address homelessness among female veterans. The report is a pointed call to action for government organizations, non-governmental agencies and philanthropic entities to collaborate and provide resources to fill the gaps that make these women vulnerable to homelessness.
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I just attended the White House Policy Briefing on Youth Homelessness. At this meeting I got to meet Kristopher Sharp, who recently wrote about his experiences as a homeless youth. What was striking about hearing him speak was his pride, not in getting housing, but in the fact that he was going to be graduating from college in a few weeks. And this got me thinking. College. Right. That is what so many homeless youth need.
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Do people become more religious as they age?
To find the answer, the John Templeton Foundation has funded a new research study by Vern Bengtson, a senior scientist at the University of Southern California’s Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work and AARP/University Chair of Gerontology Emeritus at USC’s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
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The USC School of Social Work recently launched The USC Social Work Initiative, a $75 million fundraising campaign, at a private event on April 11. Already past its half-way mark, the initiative has secured $40 million over the past four years for scholarships, research and program development, among many other areas.
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Home for Oralia Catalan used to be a makeshift house under a bridge in the North Bay. She bathed in the nearby river and did homework by candlelight. Often, she and her siblings would take home extra milk and fruits from their school lunches to eat for dinner. This was her reality for more than 10 years.
“I spent my life in survival mode,” she recalled. “I knew that as a child, if I continued to live this way, I wouldn’t be able to help my family. … I would focus on how I was going to survive and how I was going to change the course of my life.”
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The release of the 2015 USC State of the Neighborhood Report prompted more than 100 community leaders, neighborhood groups, and USC faculty and staff to gather on the University Park and Health Sciences campuses for an in-depth review of its findings.
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A new study by the Children’s Data Network at the University of Southern California School of Social Work has found that 60 percent of infants in California who were reported to the child protection system (CPS) for alleged maltreatment were re-reported to CPS for suspected abuse or neglect within five years. Re-reporting rates were high, regardless of whether the initial allegation was investigated or substantiated by CPS.
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Graduate students at the USC School of Social Work and the USC Price School of Public Policy organized the Students of Color and Allies Policy Forum to engage in collaborative and constructive discussions on race and social justice.
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Growing up under Jim Crow laws in the South, Frances Caple felt she had to find a way to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised individuals in society.
She got that opportunity at the USC School of Social Work, where she helped build one of the largest and most successful training programs for school social workers, ensuring that hundreds of students graduated with the skills necessary to address critical challenges in the public school system.