Social Work

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that many schools don’t have a playbook for addressing student violence or helping pupils engage more positively online, in part because few researchers are studying the issue.

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that criminalizing street camping will simply force homeless people to sleep somewhere else, saddling them with bench warrants and unpayable fines.

According to Stacia West of the School of Social Policy & Practice, research on guaranteed income programs shows that recipients spend the money on essential needs.

Stacia West of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that no one budgets better than a person in poverty.

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that rental-assistance programs are a less expensive solution for homelessness than building new housing, with lessened administrative costs and burdens.

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that Los Angeles should shift its focus from supportive housing construction to helping homeless and at-risk Angelenos pay their rent on the private market.

Lauren Rhodewalt of Penn Medicine shares what spousal caregivers facing a loss need to know about navigating a path forward with therapy.

Kalen Flynn of the School for Social Policy & Practice says that guaranteed income programs give artists creative freedom and allow them to take risks with their art.

Femida Handy of the School of Policy & Practice discovered six reasons people participate in charity: trust, altruism, social benefit, tax benefit, egoism, and constraint.

The New Orleans guaranteed basic income pilot research was led by the Center for Guaranteed Income Research of the School of Social Policy & Practice.