News Archive
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Ninety-one-year-old Filomena Flores is welcoming a very special group of USC students into her home. Although her visitors come from seven different professional programs spanning the university— dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant practice and social work—they arrive as a team. Under the guidance of an accompanying faculty mentor, this meeting is the first of a series aimed at teaching students to work collaboratively as they examine the health issues facing Flores and identify ways to improve her care.
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Under a sunny Southern California sky, hundreds of leading social work researchers, clinicians, and policy makers convened to discuss the latest breakthroughs in health and mental health during a recent international conference led by the USC School of Social Work and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
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When Tammy Kaitz’s son, Dylan Crane, was diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, the two started going to meetings of the support group Teen Impact at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Tammy had the opportunity to talk with other parents who were experiencing similar circumstances, and Crane, then 13, met a girl who had just completed treatment for the same illness.
“I used to say Teen Impact was my emotional life vest because it was really hard to stay afloat,” Kaitz said.
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas has announced the appointment of Marilyn Flynn, dean of the USC School of Social Work, to the newly created Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection, along with David Sanders, former head of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services who is now executive vice president of systems improvement for Casey Family Programs.
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For La Shonda Coleman, new director of the Center for Women and Men (CWM), coming to USC was fate.
Coleman had just completed her bachelor’s degree in sociology at California State University, Northridge, and was researching master’s programs in social work. Thinking that USC was beyond her reach, she decided to explore options at California State University, Los Angeles (CSLA). However, en route to CSLA, she realized she had unconsciously driven to USC.
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To mark Men’s Health Month, the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work hosted Men’s Health Awareness Day on June 22.
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SHIELDS for Families, an organization providing a range of social services for families in South Los Angeles, has been named Field Agency of the Year by the USC School of Social Work for its outstanding contributions to the quality of the school and helping to shape the professional careers of students who have interned there.
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Baseball fans not only enjoyed the Padres-Dodgers game Saturday in San Diego, but they also shared in showing appreciation for local military members and the hundreds of school principals, teachers, superintendents, military school liaison officers, universities and social workers serving military children and families.
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A group of carefully selected scholars gathered recently at the USC School of Social Work to participate in a summer institute designed to promote their careers and strengthen their ability to tackle the critical issue of substance abuse among vulnerable Hispanic populations.
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Jessica Goodman and Jennifer Brizuela are now on the short list of Master of Social Work students who took on a research project and became finalists for the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) MSW Student Research Award, a program designed to encourage master’s degree-level social work students to engage in research design and implementation.