School of Social Policy & Practice

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is one of three schools nationwide selected to receive the Presidential Award for General Community Service from the Corporation for National and Community Service. The others are Otterbein College in Ohio and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

WHO: Maureen Rush, Penn vice president for public safetyRichard Gelles, dean of Penn's School of Social Policy and PracticeStudent-run, Medical Emergency Response Team, or MERTPhiladelphia Fire DepartmentPhiladelphia Police Department

WHAT: Reducing Lethal Violence Against Women: Firearms, Policy and Politics, the Ornter-Unity Center on Family Violence LectureWHO: Dr. Susan Sorenson, professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA - Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, residents of Hancock County, Miss., continue to suffer from a mental-health and social-services crisis, and students and alumni from the University of Pennsylvania have stepped in to lend a hand.

Featured below is information on the experts from the Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence as well as audio transcripts of the proceedings.  The Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence is one of a series of programs to which reporters, editors and producers from the news media are invited.  Featured panelists

PHILADELPHIA - The winners have been announced in the University of Pennsylvania's Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research's documentary film contest, a part of National Child Abuse Prevention month.

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice is hosting the Benjamin Franklin Leadership Symposium to address "Effective Philanthropy: Measuring Impact" on Wednesday, April 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Prince Theater in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.

PHILADELPHIA -- In partnership with the Philadelphia Mayor's domestic violence task force, The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work is hosting its second conference on domestic violence, "Finding New Directions for Responding to Intimate Violence," June 25-26, at Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St.

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice is hosting a week-long seminar on “Effective Philanthropy in Challenging Times,” featuring Richard Marker, a leader in the non-profit sector, from June 15 to 19.

PHILADELPHIA -- Transferring responsibility for investigating reports of child maltreatment from child-welfare agencies to sheriffs' offices in Florida led to an improvement in attitudes among law-enforcement officers and caseworkers.