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In Boston, her work in racial and ethnic health inequities, HIV prevention and substance abuse treatment led to a building being named in her honor.
In San Diego, one of the researchers she mentored as a postdoctoral student is now director of the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego.
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The USC School of Social Work once again tackled a tough issue head-on at its annual All School Day event: gun violence as a public health matter.
Building on last year’s popular topic of race relations, this year’s theme, “Gun Violence: New Challenges in Public Health,” brought government officials, public health practitioners and USC researchers together to discuss this difficult and often contentious issue while looking for ways for social workers to make a difference.
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Growing up in poverty in New York City prepared Richard Carmona for an unexpected role later in his life.
“I never planned to be surgeon general of the United States, but the best training I had was to grow up as a poor kid,” said Carmona, the 17th surgeon general of the United States, who delivered this year’s Edward R. Roybal Memorial Lecture. “I know what it’s like to go to sleep with a toothache and a hungry stomach and not know what the next day will bring.”
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When confronted with terrifying and inexplicable events we experience extremely uncomfortable and seemingly unbearable individual and collective chaos. We are thrown into crisis. Nothing makes sense. Everything seems out of control. Life becomes terrifying. Our very survival appears to demand an immediate return to the perceived safety and certainty of life before the chaos of crisis.
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Nationwide, the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) estimates that there are four million children whose parents have served our country since 9/11. The vast majority of children in veteran and military families are being educated in civilian public schools. These families and students are resilient, proud, and idealistic, but many have also borne the burdens of this long and intense military conflict. The entire family serves when there is a war.
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James Lopez is living every baseball fan’s dream. Through his second-year Master of Social Work internship with the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, he walks the field, meets players, and a few times a week, stops by the stadium for work.
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The University of Southern California School of Social Work is dedicated to eliminating racial injustice and promoting an ongoing healing and reconciliation process to dismantle racism. This commitment is rooted in the belief that all members of our community are valued and needed to further the human rights and social justice mission of the school and our profession.
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A fast pitch competition isn’t usually associated with a school of social work. While business schools regularly employ the technique as an exercise in how to raise money for entrepreneurial pursuits, a fast pitch event at schools dealing in the social sciences is virtually unheard of.
Educators at the USC School of Social Work are changing that – one pitch at a time.
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Montgomery Ostrander has an MBA. He spent eight years at Microsoft in software development. And he now owns and operates a therapeutic elder care home.
Ostrander is not your typical social work student.
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The road to Pelican Bay State Prison led through majestic redwoods a stone’s throw from the stirring beauty of Pacific Ocean coastal waters. The concrete blocks of the prison rose up before us, concertina wire curled above electrified fences that surround the general population buildings with their tiny windows. The gathered windowless mass of the SHU (Security Housing Unit), where we would be meeting with prisoners in solitary confinement, seemed a different, even more ominous world. As we approached the sprawling fortress, I could feel my heart sinking.