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| Provost Professor William Vega speaks at All School Day, along with radiation oncologist Rosalyn Morrell and Hortensia Amaro, dean's professor of social work and preventative medicine. This year's event dealt with health disparities in light of recent sweeping health care reform. "It's not the issue of the sheer prevalence or frequency in disease but the unfairness in the way those diseases are distributed and how it affects families, social networks and communities, and ability of those people to be functioning members of society when they get sick," Vega said. Read more
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| Multiple deployments during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are impacting not only the men and women who have served overseas, but are also causing stress on their family members at home. A new study from researchers at the USC School of Social Work finds a connection between increased drug and alcohol use among adolescents and deployments of either a military parent or sibling. Read more
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| MSW@USC student Aileen Hongo spends much of her free time traveling to correctional facilities to hold art therapy classes for aging female inmates. Largely forgotten by society and facing additional challenges as older women aging behind bars, the "Golden Girls" eagerly await visits from Hongo and her therapeutic collective, fondly known as the Healing Squad. Read more
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| | A meeting of the International Association of Schools of Social Work hosted by the USC School of Social Work allowed participants to share their perspectives on cultural and scholarly exchange across geographic boundaries. The seminar featured a variety of topics, from promoting translational research in different cultural contexts to increasing awareness of indigenous social work practices. Read more |
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