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Student Spotlight: Valeria Stutz
Class Year: May 2024 Degree Program: MSW On-Campus Concentration: Mental Health with Children and Adolescents Hometown: Evanston, Illinois Name of Summer Job/Volunteer Organization: America SCORES Explain what you're doing this summer. I am teaching a poetry...
All Cleveland rec centers now have social workers on staff to address youth trauma, mental health issues
Cleveland Scene: Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, discussed the findings from a five-year study examining trauma-informed care models in Cleveland's neighborhood and rec centers. “These are places where children, youth and adults can get...
Adding mental health support at Cleveland's rec centers helps youth heal from trauma, researchers say
ideastream: Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, discussed the research she’s leading to help transform the City of Cleveland’s 22 recreation centers into places that provide mental health support to youth dealing with trauma. “To have a spa...
Cleveland rec centers partner with CWRU to address youth trauma, mental health
Cleveland 19 News: Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, explained the findings of a five-year study focused on transforming the city’s recreation centers and how they handle youth trauma and mental health. “Today, we consider neurobiology,” H...
Case Western Reserve helps transform Cleveland recreation centers with trauma-informed care approach
University’s Center on Trauma and Adversity helping to build nation’s first system of its kind to promote healing, healthy environments Cleveland’s recreation centers offer opportunities from cooking classes to robotics workshops. But Case Western Reserve University researchers found—through partne...
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Case Western Reserve helps transform Cleveland recreation centers with trauma-informed care approach
University’s Center on Trauma and Adversity helping to build nation’s first system of its kind to promote healing, healthy environments Cleveland’s recreation centers offer opportunities from cooking classes to robotics workshops. But Case Western Reserve University researchers found—through partne...
Student Spotlight: Marina Giannirakis
Class Year: August 2025 Degree Program: MSW Intensive Weekend Concentration: Mental Health with Adults Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Field Education Organization: Case Western Reserve University's Flora Stone Mather Center for Women in Cleveland, Ohio Before beginning at Case Western Reser...
Professors Megan Holmes and Ann Nguyen have been promoted effective July 1
Associate Professor Megan R. Holmes has been promoted to full professor effective July 1, 2023. Dr. Holmes earned her MSW and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the Mandel School faculty as an assistant professor in 2012. She was promoted to associate professor with tenur...
Student Spotlight: Anna Marie Giubileo
Class Year: May 2023 Degree Program: Master of Social Work Concentration: Child and Adolescent Mental Health with a Trauma Focus Anna Marie Giubileo always had the desire to work with people. As an undergraduate psychology major at Case Western Reserve University, she realized she wanted to assis...
Megan Holmes selected as NASW New Jersey Annual Conference's pre-conference plenary keynote speaker
Megan R. Holmes, co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity and associate professor, will be the pre-conference plenary keynote speaker at the NASW New Jersey Annual Conference on Sunday, April 30, from 10 to 12 p.m. The organization invited Holmes to speak in part about the work that the Tr...