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Case Western Reserve researchers monitoring Cleveland’s effort to address lead-poisoning issue
Interactive online dashboard goes live, highlighting progress of public-private Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition partnership When Cleveland City Council passed the Lead Safe Cleveland ordinance in 2019—landmark legislation resulting from data showing the toxic heavy metal was poisoning the city’s yout...
2021 In Review: Mandel School in the Media
From the raging opioid epidemic to social justice and gun violence and to the trauma caused by the global pandemic, the expertise and insight of the faculty at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University were at the forefront of the stories...
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Mandel School faculty members are working to Harness Technology for Social Good
Launched by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2016, the Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) are groundbreaking initiatives meant to champion social progress that is powered by science. They are a call-to-action for those within and outside the profession of socia...
New study measures impact of COVID-19 on child care in Cuyahoga County
Because of COVID-19, the number of children age 5 and younger enrolled in child care in Cuyahoga County decreased 43%, while provider capacity fell 29% between September 2019 and September 2020, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study. Researchers at the university’s Center on Urba...
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Preventing lead poisoning at the source
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...
Voith and Salas Atwell awarded grant to identify causal mechanisms of a hospital-based violence intervention program
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...
Study of ‘downstream’ effects of childhood lead poisoning reveals racial, economic disparities in adulthood
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...
Day of Giving 2020
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...
Homelessness just ‘one of the concerns’ when someone is evicted
A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University analyzed five years’ worth of eviction data from the Cleveland Housing Court and spent several weeks in court interviewing those who were evicted. They found that the threat of homelessness is just one of the worries for those losing their ...
Mandel School in the Media: April 2019
Faculty and researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School make headlines every day for work that advances social justice and creates a more just world. Check out some of the top stories from the past month: Pay for Success: Robert Fischer March 26 Ohio Treasurer Aims to Help Tackle Dr...