USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences

January 26 - February 1, 2020

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Tuesday, 01/28
Coco's Latin Cuisine
Thursday, 01/30
Boardwalk Vibes
2019 USF Length of Service Awards

CBCS hosted a luncheon on January 21, 2020 to celebrate significant length of service milestones for faculty and staff. Dean Serovich made the presentations.

USF Child Welfare Training Consortium (MHLP) Trainers Present at Conference

Nicole Williams, Jessica Carter, and Erika Evans were selected and presented at the 2019 Child Protection Summit hosted by the Florida Department of Children and Families in Orlando in December. All three trainers are with the USF Child Welfare Training Consortium. Presentations included topics on Biased-Based Behaviors in Child Welfare, Purposeful Home Visits, and the Importance of Engagement.

Sheryl Zimmerman to Speak as Part of the Distinguished Lecture in Aging

CommuniqueSheryl Zimmerman, PhD, MSW, will present "Improving Mouth Care in Nursing Homes: Pilot Testing to Pragmatic Trials" on Friday, January 31, 2020 at 10:30am in the USF College of Public Health Auditorium, CPH 1023B. Dr. Zimmerman is a Kenan Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor and Director of Aging Research at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Co-Director of UNC's Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research; Co-Director of the Program on Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief, JAMDA. Dr. Zimmerman's research has focused on social gerontology, evaluation of practice, psychosocial aspects of health, dementia, hip fractures, and improving care in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Her work in the field of residential long-term care for older adults has been highly influential for policy and practice. Dr. Zimmerman has received close to 20 million dollars in federal grant funding (NIA, NINR, NIMH, AHRQ) over the past 25 years as PI on topics related to quality of care in residential care and nursing homes, with a particular focus on persons with dementia.

CBCS In the News

Senate Education Committee OK's bill adopting new school safety measures
Florida Politics, WLRN
... within the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida. That group will "review, ...

 

DeLand Police tackle the problem of bias
West Volusia Beacon
... "We all have implicit bias. It's the inappropriate use of that bias to make law-enforcement decisions that is a problem," program instructor and University of South Florida criminology professor Lorie Fridell said ...

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