Listen.Up.People. features faculty, alumni and community partners of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work who are dedicated to advocacy on the most critical issues of our time. We’re talking about what’s happening and why it’s happening.
The practices of social work and dentistry have common threads rooted in well-being.
Roseann Mulligan, DDS, the Charles M. Goldstein Professor of Community Oral Health and associate dean of dental public health and community outreach at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at USC, and Margarita Artavia, teaching professor at USC Social Work, created an interdisciplinary collaboration and internship program that provides compassionate, comprehensive oral health care to underserved individuals and communities in Los Angeles.
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9 Apr 2026
Why Housing First Works
For four decades, research has proven that Housing First – an evidence-based approach based upon principles of consumer choice, harm reduction and immediate access to permanent independent housing – produces higher rates of persons exiting homelessness than any other approach that’s been studied. Yet, these results are now being challenged by the federal government.
Ben Henwood, professor, and Sam Tsemberis, who developed the Housing First approach and founded the Pathways Housing First Institute, discuss this groundbreaking model that has been at the forefront of efforts to end homelessness.
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2 Apr 2026
Deconstructing Public Child Welfare
Public child welfare is one of the most misunderstood areas of social work practice, and which also tends to generate the most publicity.
Debra Waters-Roman, teaching professor, and Richard Carranza, MSW '15 and supervising children’s social worker for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, collectively bring 40 years of experience working with LA DCFS to dispel some of the myths around the services provided.
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