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Student Spotlight: Delius Norman
Class Year: May 2025 Degree Program: MSW On-Campus Concentration: Mental Health with Adults Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio Summer Field Placement/Internship: Cleveland Leadership Center in Cleveland, Ohio Explain what you're doing at your field placement/internship this summer. I have been assistin...
When the power goes out, does crime go up? Here’s what we know
cleveland.com: Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, explained that whether crime increases during disasters depends on how it’s measured and whether crimes are reported. Read the article...
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Connecting classroom and community: Classroom Without Walls welcomes social work professionals and offers pathway to continued education
Like many school social workers, Cassandra Klein has an office stocked with snacks, clothing, socks, coats, gloves and other essentials students might reach for throughout the day. She even has weekend bags of food and produce to send home with students in need. As a family support specialist at Cl...
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Connecting classroom and community: Classroom Without Walls welcomes social work professionals and offers pathway to continued education
Like many school social workers, Cassandra Klein has an office stocked with snacks, clothing, socks, coats, gloves and other essentials students might reach for throughout the day. She even has weekend bags of food and produce to send home with students in need. As a family support specialist at Cl...
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PhD student Tian Xia, alumna Katie Russell give poster presentation at The Violence Prevention Research Conference
Tian Xia, a PhD student in social welfare, and recent alumna Katie Russell gave a poster presentation at The Violence Prevention Research Conference. Co-sponsored by the University of New Hampshire and the University of Kentucky, the conference took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from July 14–...
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Cleveland residents working in social work can get free courses at ӰƵ
Signal Cleveland: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the Mandel School’s “Classroom Without Walls'' initiative, which offers up to nine free credits for local professionals willing to share their real-world experiences in classes al...
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The Feds sent millions to the CHA for Lathrop homes. After 2 decades, 300 apartments are still empty
Block Club Chicago: Amy T. Khare, research director at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed plans from the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to fix up more vacant buildings at a North Side development. “CHA’s past actions have proven it consistently fails to develop what it o...
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Francisca García-Cobián Richter and team share study highlighting retirement gaps for older Black Ohioans
AARP Magazine: Francisca García-Cobián Richter, research associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed a new study highlighting the startling gaps between the financial well-being of Ohio’s older Black residents and their white counterparts, l...
Student Spotlight: Anam Javed
Hands-on experiences: 6 CWRU students share how they’re spending their summer From clinical rotations in emergency departments to hands-on roles in engineering and nonprofit organizations, students at ӰƵ are gaining invaluable experiences through internships this summer...
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Adrianne M. Fletcher publishes book titled "Helping Hands, Healing Hands"
This past May, Assistant Professor Adrianne M. Fletcher published a book titled Helping Hands, Healing Hands with the Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. “Geared to the four- to eight-year old, Helping Hands, Healing Hands is about family engagement, work ethic and planning for the future,” Fletcher e...