Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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Transforming futures: $5M Mandel Foundation grant expands scholarships, boosts enrollment and supports workforce
In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive such a…
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January 28, 2015
All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a talk with Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish Thursday, Jan. 29, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108.
Budish took office Jan. 1. As the highest elected official for Cuyahoga County,...
January 14, 2015
An evaluation by social work researchers at ϳԹ 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...
January 07, 2015
Explore the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ graduate programs in social work and nonprofit management at an open house on Saturday, Jan. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Community Studies (11402 Bellflower Road).
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December 18, 2014
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 ϳԹ.
Megan Holmes
But girls and boys can be affected diffe...
December 11, 2014
A new training program at ϳԹ’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences aims to close the gap in behavioral health care services for high-risk youth and young adults.
The school will launch the Health Integration Training Expansion (HITE) project...
November 24, 2014
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...
November 20, 2014
Economic stress, by driving down property values, has threatened one of the main sources of revenue for Northeast Ohio's local governments. Incomes are recovering only slowly from the effects of the recession. At the same time, the 2014-15 state budget reduced state aid to more than $1 billion below...
November 05, 2014
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...
November 04, 2014
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...
October 28, 2014
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ Master of Nonprofit Organizations program will host guest speaker Shir Mnuchin. She will present "Identity: Refugee, Olah, Israeli" on Thursday, Oct. 30, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Mandel Community Studies Center, room 108.
Based on...