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Diana Pearce, senior lecturer emerita at the School of Social Work and founder of the Center for Women’s Welfare (CWW), is giving $250,000 to the School to support the Center’s work. Pearce hopes the additional funding will complete the Self-Sufficiency Standard’s expansion into all 50 states, and Washington D.C., with updated data by 2026.

Researchers from the Social Development Research Group, a School of Social Work research and innovation center, have found that adolescents living in rural Washington state generally understand what constitutes acceptable firearm carrying behavior. Study participants were typically engaging with firearms in prosocial ways like hunting, recreation and sport.