Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences
January 27, 2023
Class Year: 2024 Degree Program: Dual Degree Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health Concentrations: Community Practice for Social Change (MSW) and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (MPH) When Erika Kura started volunteering at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, she was…
January 26, 2023
Some Ohio parents whose children have critical behavioral-health needs faced an agonizing decision in recent years: whether to give up custody of their children to secure care in a live-in treatment center they simply couldn’t afford. It was a heartbreaking reality Ohio officials wanted to remedy…
January 25, 2023
When the city of Cleveland launched ambitious plans to scale up mental health services for residents, it turned to the nonprofit Frontline Services and Case Western Reserve’s Center on Trauma and Adversity for help. Megan Holmes, PhD, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel…
January 24, 2023
Signal Cleveland: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the impact of inflation on food prices, which skyrocketed 11.4%. “We built these support systems, like food stamps [SNAP], that…
January 24, 2023
Case Western Reserve University researchers find impacts of 1930s lending practices persist today Eighty years after the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) carved up the nation’s metropolitan neighborhoods into redlined maps, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of…
January 20, 2023
Last month, Wenxing Wei and Sarah Balser, two doctoral students at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Sciences, were recognized for their systematic review paper, “A Systematic Review: Risk and Protective Factors of Elder Abuse for Community-Dwelling Racial Minorities.”…
January 19, 2023
In this issue: School News Upcoming Events and CEU Opportunities Student Spotlights Alumni News Faculty News Employment and Career Development Opportunities Read the January 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter.
January 19, 2023
Doctoral student Emily Miller was selected to receive the 2022–23 Arol Shack Dissertation Award for her dissertation, An Exploration of the Impact of Potentially Traumatic Event Exposure and Social Support on Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The PhD in Social Welfare doctoral…
January 18, 2023
Earlier this month at the Society for Social Work and Research’s (SSWR) 27th annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, second-year Master of Social Work student Anju Kotwani gave an oral presentation of her research paper, “Mediating effects of social cognition on the relationship between neurocognition…
January 12, 2023
The Mandel School's Field Education Department recently began partnering with the University Circle Police Department’s (UCPD) co-responder program. The program is a collaborative approach to behavioral crisis response, which seeks to reduce harm and facilitate alternatives to arrest. Through this…