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Spring break is a time when many students pack their bags, hop on planes and... continue their studies in faraway destinations. Such opportunities to study abroad are just returning to pre-pandemic levels, and—with visits to countries including Greece, Poland, Spain and beyond—Case Western Reserve U...

WEWS: Dan Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education, weighed in on another school shooting in Denver, part of a recent uptick in violence in classrooms that is putting pressure on school leaders. “It’s a big cha...

Class Year: May 2024 Degree Program: MSW Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO Before beginning at Case Western Reserve University, what were you doing? I was working as a Drug and Alcohol Counselor Assistant. Why did you choose CWRU/the Mandel School? It was almost instinctual for me to apply to the...

MSW student Piper Sereno was selected to receive the 2023 Marie Haug Award. The Marie Haug Award is presented annually to a graduate student who has shown exemplary performance in their gerontological studies. The award was established in 1990 to honor Dr. Haug’s pioneering work in aging at Case We...

In honor of Social Work Month, the Mandel School is highlighting all of the ways we provide impact to our school, university, local community and beyond. Read on to see what we've been up to lately. Seventh Mandel School faculty member named AASWSW fellow Victor Groza, the Grace F. Brody Professo...

At the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Jasmine Myers is pursuing her online Master of Science in Social Administration (MSSA) with a clear goal in mind: to help victims of human trafficking. Unfortunately, the cause is personal for Myers—and it’s one she resolved to...

Class Year: May 2023 Degree Program: MSW Concentration: Aging Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH Field Education Organization: Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, OH Describe your field education practicum experience and any work/projects you have done. ...

Karen Ishler, Tugba Olgac and David Biegel published an article in Autism titled “Barriers to service and unmet need among autistic adolescents and young adults.” This is their second publication from their study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) caregivers that was funded by a Mt. Sinai Catalytic ...

Braveheart Gillani, a PhD student at the Mandel School, and Kristen Kirchgesler, web services librarian at the Lillian and Milford Harris Library, recently penned an article titled “Sites of Possibilities: A Scoping Review to Investigate the Mentorship of Marginalized Social Work Doctoral Students.”...

Geneva B. Johnson (MSSA '57) was the special guest on the first episode of the Mandel School's new podcast, Change Leaders. Johnson led a long and distinguished career in social work and nonprofit management. Starting as program director with the YWCA in Houston, Texas, she became a successful nonp...