Learn more about the variety and depth of the research and training conducted at the Mandel School.
The school is also proud to be a Sustaining Sponsor of the Grand Challenges for Social Work.
Research
Social work areas of expertise
- Adoption
- Aging and health
- Alcohol & other drug abuse
- Behavioral health
- Child welfare
- Community-based research and practice
- Criminal justice
- Disparities in health care
- Family violence
- Geriatrics
- Global social welfare
- Health care
- Housing inequities
- Implicit bias
- Intimate partner violence
- Juvenile justice
- Neighborhoods
- Nonprofit management
- Opioids
- Poverty
- Prevention
- Racial and social justice
- Sexual and gender minority youth
- Social work education
- Training in, and use of, evidence-based research and practice
- Trauma
- Violence against women
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mandel School researchers have continued to conduct research aimed at understanding the impact of the pandemic on the communities they work with and serve.
External sponsors
FY2024
Research and training awards
FY 2014 - 2024
Characterization of research strengths at the Mandel School
- Applied Social Science research that has a direct impact on lives
- Examined through a racial justice lens
- Diverse portfolio of areas covered
- Interdisciplinary research teams that support and enhance social work
Expertise within the Mandel School
- Anthropology
- Economics
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Public policy
- 'Sociology
Collaborations between Mandel School and other CWRU schools or centers
- Department of Psychology
- School of Engineering
- School of Law
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- Department of Sociology
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Schubert Center for Child Studies
- University Center on Aging and Health
Training
Social work areas of expertise
- Community data applications
- Police officers in the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Department and the Cleveland Division of Police are trained to interact more effectively with citizens
- Mandel Leadership Fellows program for candidates interested in leadership, best practice approaches to human service delivery and community practice, and making a positive influence in the world
- Child Welfare Fellows program for child welfare professionals
- An inter-professional education program with MetroHealth for students who focus on opioid and substance use, child and adult behavioral health, and interdisciplinary trauma-informed practice
- Evidence-based practice; implementation & prevention science
The Center on Trauma and Adversity works with local and national helping professionals to enhance the relational health of trauma-informed helping professionals and to address indirect trauma and job-stress related syndromes like vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue.
Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) training and certification, including Trauma and the Brain Training, trains professionals on the impact of trauma, with a focus on resilience.
CoHealing, offered by Dr. King, is a professional peer support program that provides a social support system and coping tools, techniques, and resources to promote a more resilient, interdisciplinary network of trauma-informed helping professionals.
Center for Evidence Based Practices offers expertise in evidence-based interventions and treatment to clinicians in 30 States and 5 countries, including:
- Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
- Dual Disorder Capability (DDC)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)
- Supported Employment (SE)
Center for Innovative Practice offers training, fidelity reviews, workforce development, with a focus on best practices and policy supports:
- Center of Excellence for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health
- Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice
- System of Care support for SAMHSA grants
- Multisystemic Therapy Network Partner for Ohio
- Trauma-Informed Care and Resilience Promotion
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy Development