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  • September 15, 2017

    Kristie Holmes and Laura Cardinal recently traveled to Beaumont, Texas, to provide social work services to those affected by the storm. This is their day-by-day account of their week on the ground.

    In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the media’s attention has been focused on the devastation: the physical damage, the lives disrupted and the long road ahead to rebuild the affected areas. And indeed, firefighters, first responders and everyday heroes have played a crucial role in the immediate aftermath of the storm.

  • August 29, 2017

    Starting a private practice is the ultimate goal for many licensed clinical social workers. These three essential steps will help successfully launch your practice.

    The prospect of opening a private practice is alluring to licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) for a number of reasons — the opportunity to set your own hours, carve out your niche within the field and opt to see the patients that you feel best equipped to treat.

  • August 25, 2017

    A significant portion of incarcerated individuals are parents. More than 2.7 million children in the U.S. have an incarcerated parent, and more than 10 million have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives. Those numbers are even higher when including children with parents under active supervision, parole or probation.

  • August 17, 2017

    After serving in the military and working for a number of nonprofits, Alonso Fuente brought his passion for bettering communities to USC.

  • July 26, 2017

    David Kuroda, MSW ’72, shares a few tips about how couples with children can “uncouple” in healthy ways.

  • July 24, 2017

    David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has spent his career advocating for children—and healthy divorces.

    Over his decades-long career as a social worker, counselor and mediator, David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has helped some 8,000 families navigate the stress of separation and divorce.

    He has seen firsthand that dividing a family is never easy, but it doesn’t have to come at the cost of a child’s well-being. “It’s not the divorce that hurts children,” he says. “It’s the way parents get divorced, and the amount of conflict between them, that harms children.”

  • July 18, 2017

    For National Purposeful Parenting Month, we’re discussing a topic that poses a universal challenge to parents: how to talk to your teenagers about drug use.

    We checked in with Dorian Traube, associate professor and senior associate dean of faculty affairs, for advice on one of the trickiest parenting moments of all: how to talk to your children about drugs.

  • July 17, 2017

    During the course of a year, 1.5 million Americans experience homelessness for at least one night. In the Los Angeles area alone, the homeless population has reached 57,000. This is an increase of 23% countywide from last year. 

  • June 28, 2017

    The Department of Social Change and Innovation at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work convened a social change lab experience aimed at finding creative solutions to the problems faced by homeless individuals.

  • June 28, 2017

    For National Childhood Obesity Week, July 3 - 9, we explore how early traumatic experiences can lead to a lifelong struggle with obesity.