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School to host statewide event on military children’s education

By |August 9th, 2012|

The USC School of Social Work will co-host the Military Child Education Coalition’s California Public Engagement conference, with approximately 100 influential policymakers, community leaders and military officials invited to collaborate on ways to support the education of military children in California.

Professor Ron Astor, who leads the School of Social Work’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, will chair the event slated for Sept. 20 at the Radisson Midtown.

“This initiative is simply good community practice,” Hassan said. “The engagement is a force multiplier for […]

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Student advocates for better mental health care in military

By |July 16th, 2012|

by Teresa Rosales

Mental health disorders in active-duty servicemembers have increased 65 percent since 2000, according to the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. While federal agencies have dedicated more resources to screen and treat combat troops in recent years, incidents such as the U.S. Army sergeant allegedly murdering 16 civilians in Afghanistan raise serious questions if it is enough.

USC School of Social Work student Sarah Duncan doesn’t think so.

The South Carolina resident, who’s earning her master’s degree through the school’s Virtual Academic Center, believes active-duty soldiers need more extensive psychological screening and care for their mental health problems than what they […]

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MSW students study military social work in Germany

By |July 12th, 2012|

by Maya Meinert and Megan Hazle

Memorial Day can be an emotional time, especially for those whose lives have been touched by war. But for Eugene Durrah, a Master of Social Work student visiting an American military cemetery in Europe, the meaning of the day hit home in a whole new way.

“The visit to the American cemetery made me think about the numerous lives that were lost on the battlefield, as well as the lives of our ancestors who fought and died for causes that we sometimes take for granted,” Durrah said of being at Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial. “This […]

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Hassan, Groves honored for military community service

By |June 8th, 2012|

by Teresa Rosales

The USC School of Social Work was well-represented among this year’s USC Community Service Award winners, which included MSW@USC student Carla Groves and Anthony Hassan, director of the school’s Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families, who were recognized for their extensive service in the military community.

The awards, which represent a collaboration between USC Government and Civic Engagement, USC Volunteer Center and the Joint Educational Project, honor those at USC who have devoted an immeasurable amount of their time to community service projects. The awards highlight the importance of community service to USC and reinforce […]

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USC School of Social Work partners with King’s Centre for Military Health Research

By |May 14th, 2012|

The USC School of Social Work’s Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) has announced a partnership with the King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London to bring together scholars in the United States, United Kingdom and around the world to share an open exchange of information and ideas on military-related behavioral health and disseminate knowledge that aims to develop a greater understanding of the issues facing veterans and their families and that lead to effective treatments and solutions.

“These kinds of partnerships are essential to our long-term success in rebuilding the lives of […]

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Virtual Patient – Progress Update

By |April 29th, 2012|

The USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families (CIR), in partnership with the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, is currently developing a human avatar known as the Virtual Patient. This first application of virtual reality in a social work setting is used to help prepare students to interact with real clients. The realistic role-playing with an avatar that responds to open-ended questions will allow students to hone their clinical skills.

 

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Hutto Patterson Foundation endows military social work scholarship

By |April 10th, 2012|

by Maya Meinert

The Hutto Patterson Charitable Foundation has endowed a scholarship at the USC School of Social Work for students pursuing careers to help families cope with the stresses of military life.

The $50,000 gift established the Catherine Hutto Gordon and Eileen Clare Hutto Scholarship for Military Social Work, which will aid students studying this growing field of the social work profession. Many military social work students at the School of Social Work are veterans themselves who are keenly aware of how issues such as deployment and frequent relocations affect military families.

Gordon said that the foundation made the gift out of […]

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VetAdvisor to hire USC military social work grads

By |March 26th, 2012|

The USC School of Social Work and Three Wire Systems’ VetAdvisor, which provides proactive preventative care to veterans, today announced a partnership to recruit and hire military social work graduates for VetAdvisor coaching services.

“I am thrilled to work with Three Wire on an initiative that acknowledges the challenges of reintegration and provides solutions for service members and their families to make successful transitions,” said Anthony Hassan, director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) at the USC School of Social Work. “Our respective missions to address the shortage of behavioral healthcare providers qualified to […]

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New Continuing Education focuses on military behavioral health

By |March 2nd, 2012|

by Susan Shimotsu

The USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families is now offering online continuing education courses aimed at behavioral healthcare professionals.

Partially funded by a $6.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, CIR’s continuing education classes are a part of its A Rapid and Revolutionary Response to the Needs of Wounded Warriors project, through which the center is developing a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum designed to train therapists for working with servicemembers and their families.

“In many parts of the country, community mental health care providers for veterans have insufficient capacity and frequently fall short of […]

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Weiss receives international award for military social work paper

By |January 25th, 2012|

by Maya Meinert

Eugenia Weiss, clinical assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received the International Award for Excellence in the area of health and wellness from the International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society for the paper “The Influence of Military Culture and Veteran Worldviews on Mental Health Treatment: Practice Implications for Combat Veteran Help-Seeking and Wellness.”

Weiss’ article, which was co-authored by Jose Coll of Saint Leo University, was selected for the award from the 10 highest-ranked papers that emerged from the referee process.

“Through the recognition of this article, we were very pleased that U.S. military service […]

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