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The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ���ϳԹ��� 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...

���ϳԹ��� 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...

Substance abuse counselors and social workers often recommend recovering addicts establish new networks of non-using friends and supporters. But researchers at ���ϳԹ���’s social work school found, for many women in poverty, it’s not so easy to drop the users in their lives. M...

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...

���ϳԹ��� 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...

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 ���ϳԹ���’s social work sch...

A central resource for research and information about creating and sustaining mixed-income communities has launched online at nimc.case.edu with resources at ���ϳԹ���. The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC) is based in the Center on Urban Poverty and Commu...

Seven years ago a coalition of concerned Clevelanders came together to try an unusual idea: Rather than have fugitives turn themselves in at police stations or courthouses, how about asking them to come to church? This month, researchers at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Weste...

More than 250,000 children go into foster care each year to leave unsafe home situations. But, asks researcher David Crampton, is removing children from their homes always the best solution? Crampton, associate professor of social work at Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, contributed to a r...

Art, like bones of ancient hominids, provides clues to the past—particularly cultural life. From this artwork, certain roles for women—wives, mothers, mourners, midwives and even sex goddesses—emerge from the images sculpted from stone, engraved on wood or molded out of various earthen and metal mat...