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In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it became abundantly clear to Jennifer King that most people didn’t have the basic knowledge to help them mentally cope with the related stress. “I realized that what I know and understand about trauma, stress and healing was super relevant to all of us...

First Year Cleveland (FYC) has transitioned to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. FYC was previously a part of CWRU’s School of Medicine, and the move to the Mandel School will allow the organization to shift into a more community...

Ann Nguyen, assistant professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was selected to be a Research Education Component (REC) Scholar by the Cleveland Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The REC aims to support the scientific and career development of early caree...

Healthline: Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the 30% increase in unintentional fatal shootings by children compared to 2019. “More young people are carrying guns, guns are more easil...

CP24 TV Toronto: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, shared his perspective on data found in a Toronto Police Service report indicating racial disparities in policing in the city. Voisin's interview appears at 1:37 during the broadcast. Watc...

Spring/Summer Book Roundup What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities (San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank), was edited by Mark Joseph, PhD, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development and founding director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income ...

WEWS: Tara Daniel (MSW '22) recent graduate of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Leila Bushweller, first-year student at the School of Medicine, shared their experiences in creating the "What I Was Wearing" exhibit at the Ashtabula County District Library to p...

Research from Rob Fischer and Meghan Salas Atwell, faculty members at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was cited in a blog post on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website in April 2022. Fischer and Atwell, who serve as co-director and associate director of t...

CBC: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the correlation between gun access and gun homicides. “In societies where there are more gun control laws—such as waiting periods and limited access to military-style weapons—we see lower rate...

Nichole Cobb (CWR ’93; SAS ’95), a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently received the Methodology Workshop Scholarship award from the Center for Research on Families at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Cobb, who has founded the behavioral h...