The Mandel School at SSWR 2025
January 08, 2025The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference is taking place Jan. 15–19 in Seattle, WA. It…
Megan Holmes creates coloring book focused on girl empowerment
January 06, 2025When Megan Holmes, a professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, noticed a lack of diversity in children’s coloring…
Meagan Ray-Novak sheds light on what contributes to homelessness
January 03, 2025WEWS: Meagan Ray-Novak, research associate at the Center on Poverty and Community Development, discussed her new research revealing that family and…
Top social worker Dexter Voisin discusses community violence, guns
January 02, 2025Sheen Magazine: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, said Chicago’s community violence,…
2024 in review: Mandel School in the media
December 20, 2024In what has become a regular occurrence, faculty members at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences are often the first contact for…
Experts cite unlocked and loaded guns as key factors in accidental shooting deaths
December 19, 2024ideastream: Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education,…
Student Spotlight: Ruth Bieber-Stanley
December 18, 2024Ruth Bieber-Stanley's field practicum supervisor, Siobhán Malavé, has shown her the importance of life- and career-long learning and that there are many ways to…
First Year Cleveland: Helping local families
December 17, 2024Since the release of the 2023 Child Fatality Report, First Year Cleveland (FYC) has been in the news discussing the fact that infant mortality, like many…
Dan Flannery comments on the catastrophic results of youths getting their hands on guns
December 12, 2024cleveland.com: Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education,…
Untangling property titles in Cleveland with NIMC's Debbie Wilber
December 09, 2024A new partnership between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC Cleveland) aims to help…
Dana Prince receives R34 grant for groundbreaking youth mental health intervention
December 06, 2024Dana M. Prince, associate professor, has received an R34 grant from the NIH National Institute of Mental Health to launch a new, innovative program aimed…
Begun Center partners with county Medical Examiner’s Office to launch pilot drug-testing program
December 05, 2024In a new collaboration, Case Western Reserve University’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education has partnered with the Cuyahoga County…
Giving Tuesday lends big hand to nonprofits, says Rob Fischer
December 04, 2024Spectrum News: Robert Fischer, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society and director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development,…
Rob Fischer emphasizes poverty’s role in Cleveland’s lead crisis
December 03, 2024The Land: Robert Fischer, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society and director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development, emphasized…
Francisca Richter says Math Corps tutoring program encourages self discovery
November 25, 2024Signal Cleveland: Francisca García-Cobián Richter, research associate professor and associate director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development,…