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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 ����APP, she realized she wanted…

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…

In honor of Social Work Month, the Mandel School is highlighting all of the ways we provide impact to our school, university, local community and beyond. Read on to see what we've been up to lately.  Seventh Mandel School faculty member named AASWSW fellow Victor Groza, the Grace F. Brody…

Medium: Jennifer A. King, assistant professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, said meaningful breaks between meetings can make all the difference. “The 2023 version of Zoom fatigue, which occurs in the absence of breaks, finds us even more unfocused and stressed,” she…

Our alumni successfully pursue social work and nonprofit management careers in a variety of traditional and non-traditional fields. Learn more from some of our incredible alums below on all that they've accomplished since graduating from the Mandel School! Jeff…

When the city of Cleveland launched ambitious plans to scale up mental health services for residents, it turned to the nonprofit Frontline Services and Case Western Reserve’s Center on Trauma and Adversity for help. Megan Holmes, PhD, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel…

From the ongoing opioid epidemic to social justice and gun violence, the expertise and insight of the faculty at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ����APP were at the forefront of the stories making headlines nationally and…

WEWS: Following the death of Stephen ’tWitch’ Boss, the DJ and dancer from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ivan Conard, research associate at the Center on Trauma and Adversity, encouraged those “suffering in silence” to seek help. He noted that rates of suicide have increased in Ohio—and Black Ohioans…

Class Year: Spring 2024 Degree Program: MSW Hometown: Evanston, IL / Buenos Aires, Argentina Undergrad Alma Mater: University of Chicago Why did you choose Case Western Reserve? I chose the Mandel School specifically because of all of its resources on trauma-informed social work care…

November is Nonprofit Awareness Month, a time that celebrates and promotes the support of nonprofits in the United States. This month is especially relevant to Cleveland, which has a long and thriving history of nonprofit innovation—the city is the birthplace of the first community chest (a…