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, theJack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundationawarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising masters degree students, known as Mandel Scholars. It is rare to receive such a
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March 21, 2014
In celebration of Social Work Month, Womens History Month and World Social Work Day on March 18, the Council on Social Work Education published a paper celebrating three former CSWE presidents, including M.C. Terry Hokenstad, Distinguished University Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mande...
March 16, 2014
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is teaming with The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Hospice of the Western Reserve and Lifebanc to present Transformation and Purpose from Grief and Loss, a facilitated discussion with individuals who have adjusted and transfo...
February 21, 2014
Joseph Pyles (SAS '52), a longtime faculty member of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, passed away at the age of 94. Well-known in Northeast Ohio as a social worker at the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Families, the Catholic Counseling Center of Cleve...
February 14, 2014
M.C. Terry Hokenstad, the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, is the co-editor of Teaching Human Rights, a new curriculum resource for social work faculty.
The book reflects the Council of Social Work Educations init...
February 14, 2014
First-year graduate student Catherine R. Smith will present "Prospects to Work for Low-Income Women and How Place Matters" on Tuesday, Feb. 18, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Room 138.
The presentation will fulfill a requirement for the Col...
January 30, 2014
A newly released study in Law Enforcement Executive Review reports that citizens and police officers from the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority in Cleveland praise the role of police as first social responders.
The study was based on a random mail survey of 60 residents who received social-se...
January 09, 2014
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 窪蹋勛圖厙s social work sch...
December 23, 2013
A nudge from the nose of a free-roaming zebra or towering, 2,500-pound Clydesdale draft horse might send others running.
But Lauren Burke, a graduate student at 窪蹋勛圖厙s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, instead extends a curved hand to retur...
December 19, 2013
A central resource for research and information about creating and sustaining mixed-income communities has launched online at nimc.case.edu with resources at 窪蹋勛圖厙.
The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC) is based in the Center on Urban Poverty and Commu...
December 12, 2013
David E. Biegel, a faculty member at 窪蹋勛圖厙s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has spent several decades researching the impact of chronic illnesses on families. His research, coupled with his community involvement, has earned him recognition...