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Staffing shortage has child care centers turning away families
Signal Cleveland: Robert Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, weighed in on how public policy on wages is influencing child care staffing shortages. Read the article...
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Mandel School’s Duncan Mayer and Victor Groza write paper on children’s rights in program evaluation
Duncan Mayer, a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Victor Groza, the Grace F. Brody Professor of Parent-Child Studies, recently co-authored an article published in the American Journal of Evaluation. In their article, titled “Promoting Children...
Segregation has close ties with lead poisoning in Black American kids
U.S. News & World Report: Robert Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed a new study that found young Black children living in racially segregated U.S. neighborh...
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Tsiter-Kontopoulou Prize takes Professor Betsy Bolman to Vienna to educate scholars
Along with PhD student Marina Mandrikova, they break stereotypes to highlight Africa’s role in Byzantine art and culture For Betsy Bolman, art history chair and the Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts, being awarded the 2023 Tsiter-Kontopoulou Prize was a unique honor. “It was quite movi...
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August 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter
In this month's issue: News Upcoming Events CEU Opportunities Student Spotlights Alumni News Faculty News In Memoriam Employment and Career Opportunities Read the August 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter....
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Cleveland-based nonprofit uses hip-hop as mental health tool
Good Morning America: Ivan Conard, research associate in the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the effort to use hip-hop to bridge the gap between mental health struggles in communities of color—with music as a healing t...
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Three faculty members receive inaugural MNObility Award
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences held an event at the home of Visiting Committee member and alumna Susan LaPine (MNO ’97) on Aug. 10 to publicize an innovation in its nonprofit management programming—a new Professional Certificate in Nonprofit Fundraising—and to r...
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Student Spotlight: Sydney Evans
Class Year: August 2023 Degree Program: Master of Social Work During the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ diploma ceremony May 19, graduating student Sydney Evans was called to the Maltz Performing Arts Center stage not once but four times. Chosen by her peers to...
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$1.25 million grant to expand communication sciences program aimed at diversifying field
Serena Wheeler’s first encounter with the communication sciences field was through her brother, who has autism and works with a speech-language pathologist. But despite this early, personal connection to the field, Wheeler didn’t initially consider it as a career. Instead, she came to Case Western R...
Mother of five shares concerns about her children weeks after deadly crash involving teens
WEWS: Bobbi Beale, co-director of the Center for Innovative Practices at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, said children and teens are notoriously influenced by their peers, and when they’re in str...