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USC Community Programs and Volunteer Opportunities - T |
- Talking Together: Engagements for Creative Dialogue
- Talking Together is a program that enables the USC Emeriti Faculty to interact in a more direct and focused way with business and professional communities. Emeriti Faculty engage with the business community in high level, creative and thought-provoking exchanges to promote effective interaction with internal and external clients, partners and the community. Each program is customized by the business or professional sponsor to determine topic, speaker(s), audience, moderator(s), venue, agenda and schedule. The program can offer an expert on an issue of interest to clients or prospective clients, or can provide speakers on subjects of interest to the broader business community or the general public.
Ages Served: 55 to 64 yrs.; 65+ yrs.
Contact: William Faith, 213-740-8841
Email: jtrimble@usc.edu
- Teacher Education Program
- The Teacher Education Program is a California Commission on Teacher Credentialing approved program for preparing professional educators for service, largely in urban, suburban and ethnic neighborhoods within California. It is the intention of the USC Rossier School of Education to encourage the development of research and instruction with an emphasis on the urban context. USC's credential programs for Multiple and Single Subject Teaching have been developed around this theme. These credential programs can be initiated at the undergraduate or graduate level. Students in the program observe, participate and student teach in the University Park Campus neighborhood schools and surrounding schools and districts.
Contact: Director of Teacher Education , 213-740-3471
Email: bgfranco@usc.edu
- Teaching International Relations Program
- TIRP is the outreach or community education program of the USC School of International Relations and is co-sponsored by the Center for Active Learning in International Studies (CALIS). TIRP's broad goal is to offer programs that explore innovative strategies for enhancing and improving the teaching of international relations. Programs include college-university faculty development seminars; secondary faculty workshops; graduate student teaching skills seminars; curriculum and case study development projects; undergraduate outreach to local high schools; and the Critical Decisions Program and High School Leadership Conference on International Affairs.||TIRP undergraduate outreach to local high schools is a service-learning opportunity for approximately 160 international relations students annually. Undergraduates work in teams to prepare active learning strategies for four sessions over four weeks. Each team coordinates with a teacher who participates with one or more of his/her classes. TIRP partners with 20-25 teachers annually, working in more than 50 classrooms with over 2,000 high school students.
Contact: Teresa Hudock, 213-740-7794
Email: tirp@usc.edu
- Teenage and Young Adult Health Center
- The center sees adolescents between the ages of 12 and 21. A multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, psychologists and other health care professionals offers comprehensive medical and psychosocial health care to adolescents and young adults. Medical services include routine physicals, skin problem examinations, injury treatment, growth and weight problems, family planning, menstrual problems, treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders, HIV clinic, substance abuse, etc.
Ages Served: 13 to 21; 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Marvin Belzer, 323-669-2153
Email: mbelzer@chla.usc.edu
- Television Documentary Production CTPR 474
- This is a four-unit course in which students produce short videos exploring the multi-faceted nature of the neighborhood around USC and the community at large. The programs are broadcast live on Trojan Vision followed by a discussion with student filmmakers, cast and crew.
Contact: Gabor Kalman, 213-740-3317
Email: gkalman@cinema.usc.edu
- Theatre for Youth
- Theatre for Youth started in 1991 as a children's theater outreach program completely organized by USC School of Theatre students. Currently it is a two-semester course involving the theory, training and practice of performing improv-based productions and stories for elementary and secondary school youth. The first semester is devoted to theory, training and development of works that are then performed for students from all over Los Angeles at USC's Bing Theatre over approximately four Friday mornings. During the first part of the second semester, students prepare separate pieces for middle and senior high school audiences, to be performed at the end of the semester in Friday morning sessions at the Bing Theatre.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Brent Blair, 213-740-7175
Email: bblair@usc.edu
- Thornton Guitar Masters/Make an Impression Program
- Thornton Guitar Masters, in partnership with the International House of Blues Foundation's Make an Impression Program, provides weekly guitar instruction in schools within the USC community. The class teaches guitar using a wide repertoire including American popular music, blues and jazz. Guitars are provided to the schools from the International House of Blues Foundation. Students in the program perform at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip at the conclusion of the academic year. The program also receives funding from a USC Neighborhood Outreach grant.
Contact: Christopher Sampson, 213-821-1096
Email: sampson@usc.edu
- Thornton Music Outreach Program -- Music in Education
- The Thornton Music Outreach Program (TMOP) is committed to providing music education for the University Park neighborhood. Under the guidance of Thornton faculty, teams of USC students bring a wide range of music experiences to local elementary students through group and private lessons and ensembles and music appreciation classes designed to develop musicianship, complement other curriculum, and spark creativity and self-expression. Classes and lessons typically are for 45-60 minutes weekly for a period of at least six weeks.
Contact: Christopher Sampson, 213-821-1096
Email: sampson@usc.edu
- Tingstad Older Adult Counseling Center
- The TOACC provides comprehensive direct services for older adults and their families. The program is designed to assist with problems that may accompany the aging process. Services include testing and assessment; individual, couple and family therapy; counseling of families and caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's Disease and related brain disorders; and ongoing support groups.
Ages Served: 55 to 64 yrs.; 65+ yrs.; Not applicable
Contact: Anne D. Katz, 213-740-3493
Email: akatz@usc.edu
- Tom Bradley Elementary School
- This program brings medical students in contact with inner-city elementary school students. The medical students tutor, mentor and make presentations at the school. The students visit the USC Health Sciences Campus twice a year to get hands-on experience about medical school.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Althea Alexander, 323-442-1050
Email: aalexand@usc.edu
- Tooth Tutoring
- The USC School of Dentistry's Dental Hygiene Division, in cooperation with the USC Joint Educational Project, offers this dental health program in the local schools each year with teams of students preparing and presenting lessons on proper nutrition and dental care.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Dental Hygiene Program , 213-740-1072
Brenda Pesante, 213-740-1837 pesante@usc.edu
- Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center
- One of seven centers funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Currently in its fifth year, the community-based research focuses on the cultural, social, psychological and environmental factors affecting tobacco use and prevention among heterogeneous youth in ethnically diverse, multicultural California and Hawaii, and the predominately homogenous youth of Mainland China. TTURC's five major projects include tobacco use prevention across cultures, the role of cultural values in adolescent smoking, smoking progression among culturally diverse youth, countering tobacco advertising in diverse populations, and NIEHS gene/environmental interactions in smoking-related respiratory symptoms. ||Through its Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC), TTURC forms ties with various ethnic populations in California and disseminates the latest information in tobacco research to schools and community grass-roots service providers. This dialogue informs TTURC about possible future research projects, while at the same time giving TTURC the opportunity to disseminate tobacco control research to the community.
Contact: Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, 626-457-6606
Email: baezcond@usc.edu
- Trauma Outreach Program, Division of Trauma and Critical Care
- The Trauma Outreach program of the Division of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care seeks to deglamorize trauma and put a face to the victims and the tragedy that perennially involves urban arenas of warfare in the United States. It attempts to educate young people at risk through presentations depicting the end results of gunshot, shotgun and stab wounds, which are the final common pathways of interpersonal violence. By educating young people, health care practitioners and the public at large through visits to high schools, juvenile hall detention centers and public forums, the program delivers a message of non-violence and peaceful conflict resolutions. To date, the program has interfaced with over 13,000 students, physicians, executives and community leaders and has been widely recognized by national and international agencies and the media.
Ages Served: 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Demetrios Demetriades, 323-226-7761
Email: demetria@usc.edu
- Trojan Health Volunteers
- USC Trojan Health Volunteers is an organization that targets pre-health students interested in working with local health clinics and hospitals assisting physicians and other health care providers. The program offers a variety of experiences along with verbal and written translations.
Contact: Neil Chawla, 213-740-1837
Email: nchawla@usc.edu
- Trojan KidS Camp
- Trojan KidS Camp is a summer youth program designed to enhance the on-campus experience of youngsters in the Los Angeles community. The program is open to youth ages 10-16. Supervised and structured sports activities are the basis of Trojan KidS Camp. Activities include swimming and other sports.
Contact: Justine Gilman, 213-740-5127
Email: recsports@usc.edu
- Troy Camp
- Troy Camp is USC's largest student-run philanthropy and has been in operation since 1948. USC students plan and fund raise for one week of camp for nearly 200 at-risk youth in grades three through five from elementary schools surrounding the University Park campus. Camp activities include sports, arts and crafts, horseback riding, nighttime campfires, motivational speakers, and educational activities. Due to Troy Camp's "commitment to friendship," USC students continue relationships with campers through year-long programming, including football games, after-school tutoring, holiday parties and other events throughout the following academic year.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Deep Grewal, 213-740-5404
Email: troycamp@usc.edu
Heather Larabee, 213-740-5693 larabee@usc.edu
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