Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Megan Holmes, professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, recently received an NICHD R01 to develop the first-of-its-kind, rigorously validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ). The SPRQ ...

Lori Stokes, distinguished visiting community scholar and acclaimed broadcast journalist, was recently honored with the 2025 Voice of Vision Award from Selfhelp. After a distinguished 40-year career on the air—including anchoring for New York's WNYW-FOX 5 News and WABC’s Eyewitness News This Mornin...

More than 100 students at Case Western Reserve University—most of them social workers in training—have been learning how to help meet a growing need in communities starved for behavioral health workers, thanks to a $1.9 million federal grant to the university’s interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Wo...

Summer is an opportunity to shift into a different mode, even as I mark six months as part of the Mandel School community and set goals for the coming school year. There are movements happening around the university and within the school itself. Sometimes it feels like the plate tectonics of the glo...

From leading national and state-wide initiatives to guiding foundation boards and influencing national publications, our faculty members exemplify leadership and are shaping the fields of social work and non-profit organizations. NASW Social Work Pioneers Mandel School faculty and alumni are Natio...

A Case Western Reserve University researcher is analyzing a successful mental-health program. Could the findings have broader implications?

Please note: Items that appear in the Community Postings section are submitted by visitors. Posts are reviewed to ensure they are appropriate for our audience, but typically are not edited by University Marketing and Communications. In this month's edition: Congratulations to our new Alumni Stu...

Megan Holmes, professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, was recently awarded a five-year, $3 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 grant to develop a first-of-its-kind, rigorously-validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ)—an E...

Assistant Professor Marjorie N. Edguer has been promoted by the President, Provost and Board of Trustees to associate professor, non-tenure track, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Edguer has been a valued member of the Mandel School since 1992. Following the completion of her dissertation in 2017, she w...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences celebrated the graduation of its Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO), and PhD in Social Welfare students on Friday, May 16, 2025. The Mandel School's diploma ceremony took place at the Maltz Perfor...