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20 09, 2010

Sen. Boxer visits school in support of military social work program

By |September 20th, 2010|News|0 Comments

by Cortney Fielding

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer delivered high praise for the USC School of Social Work’s military social work program and its students now preparing to serve the nation’s war veterans during a Sept. 17 visit.

Boxer (D-Calif.) was invited to campus for a demonstration of the school’s “virtual patient program.” A joint creation of the school’s Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, the virtual patient is an avatar-based simulation program designed to replicate the experiences of veterans exposed to combat stress and help prepare students to interact with real […]

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12 07, 2010

$7.6 Million grant to help San Diego military children

By |July 12th, 2010|Giving|0 Comments

by Cortney Fielding

In addition to lugging overstuffed backpacks loaded with books and binders to school each morning, students from military families are also carrying with them the invisible weight of a parent at war.

Since deployments to Afghanistan began nine years ago, mental-health professionals have documented a wide range of social, psychological and educational issues unique to children of America’s soldiers. And while many experts believe the country’s public schools are the best vehicles for delivering interventions that ease and prevent depression, despair, alienation and academic failure, few evidence-based programs have reached them.

But researchers from the USC School of Social Work […]

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23 06, 2010

Admiral Mullen discusses challenges facing military families

By |June 23rd, 2010|Events, News|0 Comments

by Cortney Fielding

Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke bluntly about the strains placed on American soldiers and their families while the nation continues its ninth year of war in the Middle East during a recent town hall event hosted by the USC School of Social Work.

On June 11, Mullen addressed a crowd of more than 450 students, faculty and community members—including many active-duty personnel and veterans—assembled at the university’s Town and Gown.

The chief military advisor to the president and secretary of defense—whose distinguished naval career began aboard a destroyer ship during the Vietnam War in […]

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13 05, 2010

Senior military official visits school

By |May 13th, 2010|Events, News|0 Comments

by Cortney Fielding

After returning from a particularly violent tour of duty in Iraq, Col. David Sutherland caught himself scanning the lakes and canals scattered across his Texas town.

The U.S. Army brigade commander wasn’t admiring the scenery. He was on alert for the bodies of murder victims, like the many he’d pulled out of similar looking waterways on the other side of the world.

“What you see impacts you; it stays with you,” said Sutherland, now a special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during an April 22 talk hosted by the USC School of Social Work at […]

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6 05, 2010

Military social work program nears $10 million in grants

By |May 6th, 2010|Giving|0 Comments

The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California has been awarded two new grants totaling $6.5 million for its military social work and veteran services teaching and research activities.

In less than two years, the program has now attracted almost $10 million in funding, with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard playing a key role in facilitating the initiative’s growth and pointing out the need for comprehensive services for military members, veterans and their families.

Among other things, the awards will help fund a new virtual reality module that will expand the ability of educators to train a new generation of military […]

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