News Archive
2017
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A group of volunteers, most wearing cardinal and gold, entered the orientation room at Newton Police Station in South Los Angeles to find yellow vests, maps, flashlights and clipboards waiting for them. These were the tools they would use as they fanned out in the surrounding neighborhood, combing the streets, alleys, parking lots and other areas where a person might find sleep for the night because they have no permanent home.
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President Trump promises to eliminate gun-free school zones. Many think he will likely sign an executive order soon.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) also recently introduced a bill, which would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act. Massie commented about the zones, “They do not and cannot prevent criminals or the mentally ill from committing acts of violence. But they often prevent victims of such violence from protecting themselves.”
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Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans is approaching a public health crisis. Evidence suggests African Americans are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s dementia than any other group in the United States. Research in this community lags, however, and recruiting African Americans for clinical trials remains a struggle. USC researchers hope a new texting campaign will change some minds.
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Our school has a mandate in these moments of national upheaval to reaffirm our values and work even more passionately to achieve the aims we serve as a profession.
That is the purpose of this letter. I speak for both our social work and nursing departments.
In social work and nursing, the linchpin of our values is social justice for all.
Our vigilance and concern for equity has been central to this school since its earliest inception and stands as a hallmark today.
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Earth’s increasingly deadly and destructive climate is prompting social work leaders to focus the profession’s attention on one of humanity’s most pressing issues: environmental change.
Typhoons are hitting the South Pacific with greater severity and regularity. Hurricane Katrina prompted the largest forced migration of Americans since the Civil War. Civil conflicts and instability in the Middle East and Africa are being linked to climate change and its socioecological effects.
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Hector Cendejas may wear a size 10, but he spends every day imagining himself in other people’s shoes.
A full-time social worker with the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, Cendejas understands the importance of empathy.
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Robert Winston Roberts, dean emeritus of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, died Nov. 8, 2016, in San Diego. He was 84.
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On July 20, 2012, a single, tragic event changed the peaceful city of Aurora, Colorado, forever. A lone gunman entered a movie theater and opened fire on the audience, leaving 12 people dead and 70 others wounded. The next day David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (NCSCB), received a phone call.
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At first blush, it seems like an odd combination.
The clean, technical, mathematical precision of computer science and the messy, complex, unwieldy world of social work and behavioral sciences don’t appear conducive to crossover. But blending these two ostensibly discordant domains is at the heart of a new initiative, the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS).
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The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work has received a $45,000 gift from the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation to provide scholarships for nursing students to complete an eight-week “bridge” course that helps prepare them for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program with a specialization as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP).