News Archive
2016
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Practice and research are two sides of the same coin in the social work realm.
Clinicians rely on researchers to develop new and effective methods to work with clients, whereas researchers rely on practitioners to inform them of what works and doesn’t work in the field. Bridging the gap between the two, however, is not always easy.
That’s where adjunct lecturers and other clinical faculty members at the USC School of Social Work enter the picture.
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Leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors gathered at USC on April 27 for a summit to launch a sustained, collaborative effort to end homelessness in Los Angeles and serve as a model for other communities.
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Festus Webley, MSW ’71, former director of staff development at the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services and longtime supporter of USC and the School of Social Work, died Feb. 29, a couple of weeks shy of his 90th birthday.
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Ellen Olshansky often tells a story that is a reflection of her personal passion for social work. “My aunt, who was a big force in my life, was a psychiatric social worker, and as children, my cousin and I would play ‘social work’ – in the way that kids sometimes play doctor or teacher,” she recalled. “We would create diagnoses for our patients and put them on file cards that we kept in a shoebox. We didn’t know any of the correct terminology, so we would write things like ‘this person is afraid to go outside, and we need to take her outside gradually.’”
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One of USC’s foremost experts on homelessness and HIV/AIDS will share her knowledge with promising scholars as part of a prestigious national mentoring initiative.
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Alumni, family and friends of the USC School of Social Work focused their efforts on helping the homeless during the 2016 USC Alumni Day of SCervice. The event gave thousands of Trojans the opportunity to participate in local service volunteer projects organized by USC alumni club chapters and other affiliated groups. There were more than 110 projects worldwide this year.
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A mixture of excitement and nervousness fills the air. Young people from all over the world present ideas for everything from mobile phone apps that help farmers wirelessly manage irrigation systems to a concept for a zero-emission freight corridor along a busy highway.
At stake: cash prizes and the opportunity to have their ideas become reality.
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USC Trustee Daniel M. Tsai and his wife, Irene Chen, MA ’83, were concerned about the growing aging society in Taiwan, a country that has faced challenges with low fertility rates in recent decades. Both have aging parents themselves and wanted to find a way to empower older adults through technology.
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In 2011, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden announced Joining Forces, an initiative to better support members of the U.S. military and their families.
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I participated in two recent watershed cultural and transformational moments. Both instances occurred at university-centered conferences, not always the contexts of epiphany and emotional social change — but indeed, that is where they occurred. I’m now filled with hope that universities can collectively join forces with public schools to support military-connected and veteran students.