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Faculty & Research
09/27
Directory from SP2’s Field Center aims to help foster youth pursue higher education
For youth who have experienced foster care, the process of pursuing a post-secondary degree may pose particular challenges. The 2024 Campus Programming Directory produced by The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at SP2 aims to address this issue.
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Alumni
09/23
Alumni Q&A | Jessica Aldrich Strassman, DSW’24
Having explored how a World War II population’s trauma narratives are experienced by subsequent generations for her dissertation, Jessica (Jesse) Aldrich Strassman, MSW, LCSW, DSW, is committed to studying expulsion, flight, and migration. As a new graduate of SP2’s DSW Program, she continued pursuing her research interests this summer in Greece.
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Faculty & Research
09/05
Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) among partner schools for Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy
The University of Pennsylvania today announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center will be housed in the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) and will operate in partnership with five other schools at Penn, including SP2.