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Margarita Artavia Clinical Associate Professor, Field Education M.S.W. University of Southern California, 1985 B.S. California State University, Long Beach, 1983 artavia@usc.edu |
| MARGARITA ARTAVIA, LCSW, has been a member of the field education faculty at the USC School of Social Work since 1996 and serves on the Work & Life concentration committee. She has helped develop the curriculum for this growing area of social work intervention that helps society's workforce, especially women, immigrants and workers of diverse backgrounds, meet the challenges of balancing the demands of work, family and life.
Artavia has served as lead faculty of the concentration immersion program and coordinator of the foundation year immersion program, which are specialized learning experiences offered during orientation to engage students in the culture and feel of a specific Southern California neighborhood different from their own. She also has worked with Community Organization, Planning, and Administration (COPA) field faculty to create student workshops on macro practice. Prior to her field education post, Artavia was a coordinator of the Inter-Professional Initiative in South Central Los Angeles, an interdisciplinary project composed of graduate and doctoral students from multiple USC schools volunteering to serve at-risk families in urban centers. She also was a medical social worker for the Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center, where she chaired the Domestic Violence Project, and director of mental health services for the Venice Family Clinic, in addition to working as a psychiatric social worker for Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic and a youth and family social worker for the Neighborhood Youth Association in Mar Vista, Calif. Among Artavia's honors are Outstanding Community Service to Children and Their Families awarded by the Beverly Hills Bar Association and the USC School of Social Work Master Field Instructor Excellence Award in recognition of her dedication, outstanding leadership and special contributions. In 2006, she earned an Excellence in Teaching Award from her students that acknowledged her superior efforts with the school's Integrative Learning for Social Work Practice course. |
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