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First responders and essential workers who apply for graduate degree programs at Arizona State University’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions will have their application fees paid for by the college through June 30, Dean Jonathan Koppell announced.

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• Read more about Professors’ coloring book gives parents tools to help minimize kids’ COVID-19 anxiety

Richard Berg took over managing a foundation that holds an annual summer camp in the pines for disadvantaged youth, expanding its offerings to include year-round youth programs in Phoenix.

Erik Larson works for Berg as the foundation’s intern, learning and applying fundraising and program evaluation skills that he said led him to choose program development as his career.

• Read more about Alumnus, student Social Work Month awardees each honored for work at Camp Colley Foundation

Kelly Huey’s service to the social work profession has taken her from bedsides to boardrooms.

Social workers are often known to serve the economically disadvantaged, and many of them can be found visiting low-income neighborhoods, giving families tools to cope, to survive and even thrive.

Throughout a more than 30-year career, Huey, who received the 2020 Director’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from ASU’s School of Social Work (SSW) in March, has demonstrated the impact social workers also can have in hospitals and hospice care.

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• Read more about ASU wins grant to establish interdisciplinary training program to fight the opioid epidemic

• Read more about 2 ASU projects among top 100 proposals for MacArthur $100 million grant

• Read more about Students mark MLK Day of Service by obtaining nearly 1K books for children at domestic violence shelters

• Read more about ASU’s Watts College launches Master of Social Work degree program in Yuma

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