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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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Marilyn Flynn, dean of the USC School of Social Work, has received the President’s Volunteer Service Award in honor of her commitment to strengthening the United States by making a difference through volunteer service.
The award program, an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service, recognizes outstanding volunteers to set a standard for service, encourage a sustained commitment to civic participation, and inspire others to make service a central part of their lives.
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When USC School of Social Work student Manako Yabe attended last year’s graduation ceremony, she and other deaf members of the audience had no way of understanding the commencement speech. And they weren’t alone: She noticed a large portion of the crowd — international families and the elderly in particular — having a similar difficulty as they watched the ceremony unfold on surrounding Jumbotrons.
For her own graduation walk, though, things will be different.
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Scholars at the USC School of Social Work are taking advantage of innovative technology to engage with faculty and doctoral students at two other leading universities without ever leaving campus.
As part of an interuniversity colloquium with colleagues at UC Berkeley and UCLA, doctoral students and faculty members have been sharing their research and exchanging feedback on topics of aging, organizations and management, and child development using videoconferencing technology offered by the school’s Virtual Academic Center.
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John Gaspari, executive director of the USC Center for Work and Family Life (CWFL), is the 2013 recipient of the USC President’s Award for Staff Achievement, which recognizes a full-time staff member who has made outstanding contributions to university life and enhanced morale, and demonstrated an enthusiastic Trojan spirit.
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As new director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Phillip Browning is acutely aware of the need for strong leadership in social work.
During an inaugural address for the recently resurrected Los Angeles chapter of the Network for Social Work Management (NSWM) hosted by the USC School of Social Work, he emphasized the critical role managers and leaders play in various social work and social services settings.
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Lia Andrews, a Master of Social Work student at the USC School of Social Work’s San Diego Academic Center, has been named Up and Coming Student of the Year by the San Diego and Imperial counties region of the National Association of Social Workers-California Chapter for her outstanding leadership, service, and approach to advocacy and outreach.
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Rick Newmyer, an adjunct lecturer at the USC School of Social Work, has been named Educator of the Year by the San Diego and Imperial counties region of the National Association of Social Workers-California Chapter for his work educating and training future social workers in service areas such as youth development, transition-age youth and homelessness.
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Heather Halperin, clinical associate professor of field education at the USC School of Social Work, has been selected to receive the National Association of Social Workers Lifetime Achievement Award by the California Chapter’s San Fernando Valley Local Unit for her decades-long career dedicated to the welfare of children and families, as well as the training and education of future social workers.
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As Eugene Durrah began to lead a march through the streets of Compton -- bullhorn in hand and a heart full of passion -- he hoped his effort to bring awareness to his hometown’s social and economic issues would be a success, however small.
What he didn’t realize was how many other people felt the same way.
The chants of “I pledge Compton” grew louder behind him, and as he looked back, he saw that his initial group of 20 activists had ballooned into hundreds.