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Last year, USC launched a partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department to create the Law Enforcement Advanced Development (LEAD) program.
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Last year, USC launched a partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department to create the Law Enforcement Advanced Development (LEAD) program.
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Breana Wiles walked into the workshop curious.
A part of a USC student-led initiative called Art Rx, the workshop aimed to bridge physical and emotional pain with art. Today’s was focused on scars.
Blue ink was rolled up and down her arms and transferred to paper. For the first time, Wiles saw the deep lines off of her body.
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For nearly 100 days, Patrisse Khan-Cullors could not find her older brother. She and her family called the sheriff’s department every day, and were told he had been arrested, but no one could locate him.
Khan-Cullors explained that her brother had been “disappeared”: a practice in law enforcement, some allege, of taking someone into custody and having them vanish within the system.
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USC is committed to connecting students with programs that will help them succeed and reach their full potential—regardless of their immigration status.
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Celebrating our first cohort of graduates from the new online doctorate of social work (DSW) program.
Melita “Chepa” Rank, DSW ’18, knew that things would not get better for the Native American population she works with in South Dakota unless something changed. So she decided to make the change herself.
On May 11, 2018, Rank and the 15 other students in the first class of the online DSW program will graduate with brand-new degrees that affirm their skills as social work scholar-practitioners.
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MSW student Jose Richard Aviles’ recent TEDxUSC talk offers powerful message about finding strength from vulnerability, trauma and using dance as a tool for social change.
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On May 11, 2018, Jacqueline Ruddy will be awarded her Master of Social Work (MSW). She said every minute of her journey to this point has been worth it: All the barriers, all the sacrifices, all the hardships have made her a better person. Now she is ready and equipped with a graduate degree to give back to her community and be a voice for the people who need her.
Ruddy’s path toward becoming a social worker started when she was a girl. “I was a latchkey kid,” she said. A child of divorce, she was raised by her mother, who worked in a factory. Her father was not in the picture.
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At this year’s Tri-County Collaborative Community Safety Conference, organizers hope to encourage continued dialogue and trust between community members.
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Mentorship is an essential and invaluable part of the student-teacher relationship — just ask this dynamic duo.