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Serving Those Who Have Served

By |March 21st, 2013|

On March 20, 2013, USC hosted “Serving Those Who Have Served” a U.S. Veterans Hiring Event at USC Davidson Conference Center. Over 300 Veterans and representatives of 26 companies and businesses attended the one-day hiring event.

After an invocation and color guard salute, opening remarks were given by Dean Marilyn Flynn of the USC School of Social Work, one of several sponsors of the event, and attendees were welcomed by USC President C. L. Max Nikias via a video message. In the morning, the Veterans and Employers attended educational sessions where they were encouraged to network and also learned how military […]

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CIR hosts luncheon for CA National Guard unit

By |March 16th, 2013|

Last month the CIR team celebrated the end of the Reintegration Partnership Project with the 1-140th Aviation Battalion of the California National Guard. With the assistance of the LA Jewish Federation, CIR provided lunch to 300 service members that we have been working with since July of 2011. The event was the culmination of the 20-month project consisting of a training and research study designed to support soldiers and their family members after a 1 year deployment to Iraq. The luncheon included a short program featuring Captain Matthew Jackson and Colonel David Hall who shared their appreciation for the services […]

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Family members’ wartime deployments increase teens’ drug and alcohol use

By |January 18th, 2013|

LOS ANGELES—Multiple deployments during the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are impacting not only the men and women who have served overseas, but are also causing strain on their adolescent family members at home.

A new study from researchers at the University of Southern California School of Social Work finds a connection between increased drug and alcohol use among middle and high school students and deployments of either a military parent or sibling. The patterns of increased substance use were consistent for lifetime use, as well as in the most recent 30-day period.

“The potential for strain and the trauma associated […]

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School debuts first academic journal on military behavioral health

By |January 18th, 2013|

by Maya Meinert

The USC School of Social Work has released the inaugural issue of Military Behavioral Health: An International Journal of Research and Community Study, the first academic journal dedicated to the biopsychosocial health and well-being of servicemembers, veterans and families impacted by military service.

The bi-annual journal, which is housed at the school’s USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) and published by Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group, addresses resiliency and transition challenges among military personnel and their families through peer-reviewed behavioral health research.

“We recognize that this was something that’s lacking in the […]

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USC military research center receives Newman’s Own Foundation grant

By |January 8th, 2013|

by Maya Meinert

The USC School of Social Work’s Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) has received a grant from the Newman’s Own Foundation to gather critical data that will help identify where resources are needed most for veterans and their families and how best to serve them.

The $125,000 award will allow CIR to work with the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative, a CIR-administered group of community stakeholders from organizations serving veterans and military families, to produce a “report card” on the services available to veterans and their families in the Los Angeles area. The gift will […]

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Book advises social workers on treating military clients

By |January 7th, 2013|

by Eric Lindberg

A new textbook co-edited by USC School of Social Work Clinical Assistant Professor Eugenia Weiss and several of her colleagues is among the first to outline how social workers can understand and address the unique challenges faced by military service members, veterans and their families.

The Handbook of Military Social Work is designed to enhance the education and training of social workers and mental health practitioners who work with military and veteran clients and their families. Increasing the ranks of qualified professionals who can provide competent assistance to this unique population is critical, Weiss said, particularly as service members […]

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School hosts statewide event on military children’s education

By |October 29th, 2012|

The USC School of Social Work co-hosted the Military Child Education Coalition’s California Public Engagement conference, where more than 100 influential policymakers, community leaders, educators, religious leaders and military officials gathered to create the first statewide plan to support the education of military children in California.

Professor Ron Astor, who leads the school’s Building Capacity in Military-Connected Schools project, and Anthony Hassan, director of the USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families, chaired the event, which took place Sept. 20 at the Radisson Midtown. The goal was to bring together decision makers to identify future directions in […]

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Op-Ed: Making universities and colleges more military friendly

By |October 23rd, 2012|

Op-Ed by Ron Avi Astor 

Relations between academia and the military services are not known for their cordiality. The flash point was the Vietnam War. Campuses across the country were incubators of the anti-war movement and arenas for major protests. Many units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps were shut down, especially at the Ivies. More recently, the government’s “Don’t-Ask-Don’t Tell” policy for gays was a source of friction at some universities.

The repeal of that policy and the fading of history have helped clear the way for better relations, most pointedly symbolized by the return of the ROTC to Harvard after […]

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Op-Ed: Will candidates let returning troops fall off the fiscal cliff?

By |October 3rd, 2012|

Op-Ed by Ron Avi Astor

With the presidential race heading into its final stretch, both candidates vow to protect the sacred promises made to military families. But neither is offering any details on how they might support military families if we hit a fiscal cliff with budget cuts that could wipe out services for military and veterans’ families.

Month after month, in the midst of a heated presidential and congressional pre-election cycle, we see no organized blueprint to integrate millions of military family members into civilian society.

Since 2001, more than 2 million troops have returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. […]

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New books guide schools in supporting military families

By |September 10th, 2012|

by Maya Meinert

The Building Capacity in Military-Connected Schools project, a partnership between the USC School of Social Work and eight public school districts working to create sustainable models of supportive schools, will release four guidebooks Oct. 1 with the goal of bridging the military and civilian divide in K-12 schools.

The books, which will be published by Teachers College Press at Columbia University and the Military Child Education Coalition, are each written for different audiences: parents, teachers, principals and pupil personnel. The purpose of the books is to empower staff, students and parents to use evidence-based practices to improve school climate […]

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