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The Mandel School's Nonprofit Management and Leadership series continues this fall Discover philanthropic strategies for sustainable change through the Mandel School's Nonprofit Management and Leadership series. The next session will be held virtually on Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. in honor of Nonprofit Awar...

Case Western Reserve University researchers examine implications for lead-safe housing in Cleveland through lens of rental properties and their landlords More than 103,000 rental units spread across Cleveland proper are potentially vulnerable to lead contamination because they were built before 197...

Laura Voith, PhD, assistant professor and faculty affiliate of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, and Meghan Salas Atwell, PhD, senior research associate at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, were recently awarded a grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel...

Across the country—and around the world—nearly every aspect of life has been impacted by the pandemic, including how and where we work and volunteer. Case Western Reserve University alumni have been on the front lines in hospitals, clinics, health departments, social-service agencies and more. But t...

Leigh Greene, a graduate student focused on Community Practice for Social Change at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and director of minority health at Youngstown’s City Health District, became an agent for change in a powerful way recently when she convinced city...

Kathleen Farkas, associate professor, and Richard Romaniuk, lecturer, have been selected as visiting scholars in the Visiting Scholars in Social Work Advances 2.0 program for summer 2020. Social Work Advances is an international MA in Social Work program. Students rotate between university departme...

A new study from Case Western Reserve University shows that numerous negative issues associated with lead poisoning follow children well into adulthood—building on evidence linking elevated blood-lead levels with a host of harmful outcomes in education, behavior and health. These so-called “downstr...

On Tuesday, June 16, Case Western Reserve University will go All In Together for our eighth annual Day of Giving—with this year’s efforts focused on the university’s COVID-19 research and to support our students as they face additional transitions because of the coronavirus. The Jack, Joseph and Mo...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University celebrated the graduation of its most recent social work and nonprofit management students virtually on Sunday, May 17, 2020. Alumna Suzanne Elise Walsh, MSSA 1994, JD 1997, gave the Mandel Schoo...

Kathleen J. Farkas, PhD, associate professor, and Richard Romaniuk, PhD, lecturer, have written an article for the journal, Society Register. In it, they describe the challenges social workers are facing and responses to the impact of COVID-19 in their communities, along with insights and expectatio...