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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 School...

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 don’...

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.” Originall...

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 program's A...

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 a...

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 ...

The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) 2023 Annual Conference is taking place this year from Jan. 11–15 in Phoenix, AZ. It will feature social work education presentations, an exhibit hall and networking opportunities. The conference offers a scientific program that reflects a broad range o...

Now in her second year as a Master of Social Work student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Anju Kotwani is making her name known in her field. Most recently, she was chosen for a selective first author oral presentation slot at the Society for Social Work and ...

Angela Newman-White unanimously selected to lead collaborative, aimed at preventing infant mortality, following national search The steering committee of First Year Cleveland announced it has voted unanimously to appoint Angela Newman-White as executive director, effective Jan. 9. First Year Clevel...

To many, the Magnolia Clubhouse is a high-end resale shop replete with upscale furniture, artwork and collectibles in a stately historic mansion amid institutions of higher education and arts and culture in University Circle. But for others—those struggling with mental illness in Northeast Ohio—the...