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| The Military Acceptance Project, a School of Social Work student initiative-turned-nonprofit organization that promotes understanding, acceptance and equality for military servicemembers, veterans and their families, has received perhaps the highest recognition a group of its kind could: it has been honored as a Champion of Change by the White House. Professor Jane Allgood, left, Master of Social Work student Jasper Kump, MAP Executive Director Kristen Kavanaugh and Vice Dean R. Paul Maiden were on hand to celebrate the honor at the White House. Read more
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| The USC Alumni Club of London staged a special welcome for USC's athletes and coaches on July 25 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. More than 100 local alumni, current students, Olympians and Trojans, including School of Social Work's Cherry Short, assistant dean of global and community initiatives, gathered in St. James at one of London's most traditional private members clubs. Read more
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| Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nearly a decade in foster care and endured physical, mental and emotional abuse. She could have decided to let the system that placed in her these situations swallow her whole, but she didn't. She became a prominent advocate for foster children and is now taking her advocacy to the next level: running for Florida state senate. Read more
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| Assistant Professor Dorian Traube is the first researcher to receive access to an expansive collection of data on the mental health of foster care children in Los Angeles County after securing a pilot grant from the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute to explore how they are screened and treated. Read more
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