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April 14, 2008

MSASS Professor Rosenberg "Cold Storage" video offered free for use in training

Mandel School is pleased to offer a DVD produced by Professor Marvin Rosenberg for use in training social work students, medical care providers, hospice volunteers and others serving people in the end stages of life.
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February 06, 2008

MSASS Faculty Member Rob Fischer selected for White House Faith-Based Conference

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Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Research Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Urban Poverty & Community Development Rob Fischer, has been selected to write a commissioned paper for the upcoming White House Conference on Research Related to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative to be held in June 2008.

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January 13, 2008

Foreclosure and Beyond: A report on sheriff's sales, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, 2000-2007

Foreclosure and Beyond: A report on foreclosure sales, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, 2000-2007

A new report from the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University addressing the foreclosure issue calls for refinancing loans or providing assistance to homeowners as an effort to maintain property values and prevent vandalism and deterioration to vacant structures.

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October 16, 2007

Working to Improve Distressed Neighborhoods

Sharon Milligan

When a regional nonprofit organization wanted to invest in distressed neighborhoods and to improve services to minority populations, it turned to Case’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences to help with research methods, data collection, and analysis.

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October 16, 2007

Working With Police to Work with Neighborhoods

Mark Singer

According to Mark I. Singer, Ph.D., professor of social work at Case’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, police officers who get tough with neighborhood youth who are not committing any crimes are increasing, not decreasing, the potential for conflict.

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October 16, 2007

New Hope for Providers and Consumers of Mental Health

Lenore Kola
Mental health and chemical dependency providers, administrators, policy makers, and advocates have become increasingly aware of the complex challenges related to the psychological, medical, social, and employment needs of people with severe mental illness, including those with a co-occurring substance use disorder. Accordingly, the Ohio Department of Mental Health approved the utilization of federal funding to establish a center focused on these issues.

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October 16, 2007

Foster Care and Welfare Reform

Kathleen Wells

Most children who are in foster care because of abuse or neglect come from poor families headed by single mothers who have historically relied upon welfare. While the child welfare system in the United States is dedicated to protecting children from maltreatment and returning foster children to their parents as soon as possible, public policies sometimes make this difficult.

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October 16, 2007

The Needs of Families Caring for Relatives Facing the End of Life

Aloen Townsend
The past decade has produced growing advocacy for improved care for dying individuals, yet little is known about the experiences of family members providing care to those near the end of life.

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October 16, 2007

Deinstitutionalizing the Mentally Ill: The Rise of the Case Manager

Jerry Floersch
The prevailing policy for the care of the mentally ill is deinstitutionalization. Today, patients must live, eat, travel, work, play, and find help in radically decentralized environments. To make this transition, a new practitioner was invented: the case manager.

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October 16, 2007

New Strategies for the Treatment of Autism

Gerald Mahoney
Today, nearly ten times more children are being diagnosed with autism compared to 20 years ago. Associated with this trend has been a proliferation of intervention programs. Recently, a research team at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences led by Gerald Mahoney, Ph.D., the Verna Houck Motto Professor for Families and Communities, examined the impact of a newly developed intervention—Responsive Teaching (RT)—on 20 autistic, two and a half year old children.

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October 16, 2007

Is welfare reform helping mothers achieve economic independence?

Claudia Coulton

Lillian F. Harris Professor Claudia Coulton has been examining outcomes following welfare reform since soon after the reform legislation was signed into law.

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September 01, 2007

Update: Behind the Numbers, Brief No. 6. Properties owned by financial institutions

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It is now 6 months later and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, using its NEO CANDO database, has updated the results of the Behind the Numbers Brief Number 6, Houses in transition: a report on properties owned by financial institutions and real estate organizations in Cuyahoga County, 2007.

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August 07, 2007

Behind the Numbers, Brief No. 6 released. Properties owned by financial institutions

Mike Schramm


Behind the Numbers, BRIEF NO. 6, Titled "Houses in transition: A report on properties owned by financial institutions and real estate organizations in Cuyahoga County, 2007," discusses the rapid rise in foreclosure rates and housing abandonment in Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs.

This topic is garnering national attention and threatening to overwhelm the government agencies and community organizations that address the problem.

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August 07, 2007

Briefly Stated May 2007: Space to Learn and Grow

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The Poverty Center has released its May 2007 Briefly Stated, "Space to learn and grow: Early care and education capacity in Cuyahoga County." This document summarizes recent research which investigates the effects of County programs which promote increased capactiy and quality in the region's childcare.

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July 24, 2007

Poverty Center Mapping Series: Cleveland's Community Gardens

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development creates maps for numerous research projects that may be of interest to a wider audience. With this map of community gardens, prepared by the Center's Kristen Mikelbank, in collaboration with Matthew E. Russell of the Center for Health Promotion Research for his paper Steps to a Healthier Cleveland: 2006 Community Garden Report, the Center debuts its mapping series. View the map of Cleveland's Community Garden Sites by Neighborhood here.

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July 10, 2007

Do as I say not as I do . . .

Lenore Kola

Efforts to Stop Smoking Target Mental Health Agencies

Behavioral health staffs that need to take a smoke break might have some relief from their tobacco habits as they start tobacco cessation programs along with their mental health and substance abuse clients.

The Center for Evidence Based Practices, a joint program of Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Science and the psychiatry department at the School of Medicine, have received a grant to design and implement tobacco cessation programs that target clients and staffs at behavioral health agencies.

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June 19, 2007

Engaging Families and Communities in the Care and Protection of Children

David Crampton


Team Decisionmaking (TDM) is one of the four core strategies of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s foster care reform initiative called Family to Family. The foundation selected David Crampton, assistant professor of social work at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences to join a national research team that is evaluating the implementation of Family to Family.

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May 15, 2007

Center Co-Director Presents Research At Iassist Conference

Claudia Coulton


Claudia Coulton, Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, is presenting the Catalog of Administrative Data Sources for Neighborhood Indicators at the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology) 2007 Conference in Montreal. This monograph discusses using neighborhood indicators to identify problems, plan programs, stimulate community activism, target investments, evaluate initiatives and otherwise inform the community about itself.

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May 02, 2007

Value of Research at Case focuses on Mandel Dean

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Dean Grover Gilmore's research on visual perception and Alzheimer's disease literally brought new focus to the issue: His research found that it is age-related impaired visual perception that greatly affects the ability of older adults to perform well on intelligence tests. Read more about this ground-breaking research in an article from the 2007 issue of Case Western Reserve University's publication The Value of Research.

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April 06, 2007

WCPN Interviewed Poverty Center Staff regarding foreclosure related numbers

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WCPN's Mhari Saito interviewed Mike Schramm, a programmer analyst at the Center on Urban Poverty, regarding an analysis that he did regarding the number of unrecorded sheriff's deeds in Cuyahoga County.

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October 18, 2006

Sharon Milligan presents to the Central Neigborhood Committee

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Presents "Building upon the work of others: The Cleveland Community Building Initiative Experience" to the Central Neighborhood Committee, at The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland October 17, 2006

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July 07, 2006

NEO CANDO Community Data System Gets Bigger, Better

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NEO CANDO expanded in depth and breadth, now including 17 northeast Ohio counties and data down to the parcel level.

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