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Schubert Center for Child Studies sees success in Ohio’s juvenile justice reforms
Getting It Right: Realigning Juvenile Corrections in Ohio to Reinvest in What Works, a new publication by the Schubert Center for Child Studies at ӰƵ, takes an extensive look at how Ohio has engaged in a fundamental shift in the way the state addresses the needs of youth...
CWRU researchers find Ohio’s diversion program effective in helping juvenile offenders
An evaluation by social work researchers at ӰƵ of Ohio’s Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) initiative in 11 counties found the program benefits most young offenders diverted from detention centers to community-based agencies to treat mental health issues, drug pr...
Study finds girls, boys affected differently by witnessing parental violence
Witnessing violence by parents or a parent’s intimate partner can trigger for some children a chain of negative behaviors that follows them from preschool to kindergarten and beyond, according to researchers at ӰƵ. Megan Holmes But girls and boys can be affected diffe...
Researchers to study why some children endure abuse, violence in the home better than others
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ӰƵ received a two-year, $200,000 grant to study why some children thrive, achieve and develop despite being abused and witnessing violence in the home. Megan R. Holmes, assistant professor of social...
Begun Center researcher studies inmate-officer relationships in maintaining safety, security
ӰƵ mental health researcher Joseph Galanek spent a cumulative nine months in an Oregon maximum-security prison to learn first-hand how the prison manages inmates with mental illness. What he found, through 430 hours of prison observations and interviews, is that inmates...
Mandel School researches how women in recovery managed personal networks with family, friend users
Substance abuse counselors and social workers often recommend recovering addicts establish new networks of non-using friends and supporters. But researchers at ӰƵ’s social work school found, for many women in poverty, it’s not so easy to drop the users in their lives. M...
Researchers study what makes psychotic teens more at risk for suicide than others
Suicide is a general risk for people with psychosis. According to The Journal of Psychiatry, 20 percent to 40 percent of those diagnosed with psychosis attempt suicide, and up to 10 percent succeed. And teens with psychotic symptoms are nearly 70 times more likely to attempt suicide than adolescent...
CWRU study finds family “taxi” might be ideal place to develop child’s interest in music
ӰƵ music educator Lisa Huisman Koops realized during the daily 20-minute commute to her daughter’s preschool that the family vehicle might be an ideal—and overlooked—place to develop a child’s awareness and interest in music. The family car, she thought, could provide a...
Study: Released inmates need reentry programs to meet basic, mental health needs
When inmates with severe mental illness are released from jail, their priority is finding shelter, food, money and clothes. Even needs as basic as soap and a place to bathe can be hard to come by for people leaving jail, according to a new study from ӰƵ’s social work sch...
Mandel School launches national initiative for research about mixed-income communities
A central resource for research and information about creating and sustaining mixed-income communities has launched online at nimc.case.edu with resources at ӰƵ. The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC) is based in the Center on Urban Poverty and Commu...