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  • SP2 Nonprofit Leadership Program and Bonner Foundation partner to increase educational access

    A new partnership between the Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership Program at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation provides full or partial tuition scholarships to academically promising students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in exchange of engaging their talents and education in building and supporting vulnerable communities through civic engagement.

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  • SP2’s Yoosun Park awarded 2023 Breul Prize for research on intersection of racism, Americanization, and social work

    In recognition of a pioneering, in-depth analysis of the roles of racism and Americanization in the history of social work, the SP2 associate professor and her and co-author have been awarded the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize by Social Service Review for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize’: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930.”

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  • National conferences highlight SP2 faculty and researchers

    A national curricular guide, award-winning publications, and data-driven policy approaches were among the contributions of faculty and researchers from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) at national professional conferences in November.

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  • SP2 researchers study women’s empowerment in high-risk region through pioneering virtual approach

    Recognized for addressing gender inequities through a technology training program that has graduated an estimated 15,000 marginalized women in Venezuela, the nongovernmental organization Aliadas en Cadena aims to replicate its model in other Latin American countries. Penn alums Victor Simon Gill and Amanda V. Lewis turned to a research team at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) led by Ezekiel Dixon-Román for a formal evaluation of Aliadas en Cadena’s effectiveness.

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  • Study shows impact of report cards on opioid prescribing

    In a recent study, research professor Aileen Rothbard of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice mailed opioid prescribing report cards to Medicaid providers in Philadelphia, and found that there was a larger reduction in opioid prescribing among Philadelphia Medicaid providers than those in surrounding counties after report cards were mailed.

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  • SP2 advances training to prepare social workers for an aging population

    A new research study demonstrates the value of simulation-based learning for social work students, specifically those preparing to work with older adults, by examining the impact of a clinical simulation program completed by Penn MSW students they prepared to work with older Philadelphians.

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  • Ioana Marinescu to join Department of Justice as principal economist

    In addition to serving as an associate professor at SP2, Marinescu is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She will take a one-year leave from SP2 to join the antitrust division of the Department of Justice.

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  • SP2’s new grant-funded partnership with the Office of Gender-Based Violence at Arizona State University

    In the fall, SP2 will be one of 14 universities working to improve the public health response to intimate partner violence by expanding SurvivorLink through the Public Health AmeriCorps program.

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  • Michael and Lisa Nutter to launch economic mobility initiative at SP2

    Former Philadelphia mayor Michael A. Nutter and social entrepreneur Lisa Nutter are introducing initiatives to address economic inequality with a three-pronged approach.

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  • One Book, One SP2: Caste

    The Advisory Committee on Race and Social Justice has announced the selection of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, as the One Book, One SP2 choice for 2021-2022. This book poignantly describes how the caste system originated, has been used in India, Nazi Germany, and the United States and still maintained today.

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