Part-time jobs, which students often take while finishing school, aren’t usually known for their location at the Arizona State Capitol. Hannah Roehr won’t go full time in her position until she graduates from Arizona State University in December, but she’s already the public information officer, known as a PIO, for one of the state’s top elected officials.
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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.
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.
Crime analysts from across the state joined faculty and students at ASU’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) Feb. 26 to learn about partnerships between academic researchers and analysis practitioners, among other topics, at the quarterly meeting of the Arizona Association of Crime Analysts.
Snapchat, Kik, dating apps — whatever the latest technology craze, Christi Decouflé is constantly downloading and learning it. But it has little to do with any personal social media habits. For Decouflé, a detective at the Phoenix Police Department, it’s part of the job.
“Wherever the younger generation is, that’s where the predators go,” she said.
The Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions is in the planning stages of implementing the One Square Mile Initiative, a program that aims to benefit one of the youngest and most populous communities in Phoenix: Maryvale.
The initiative is to help students in Maryvale achieve higher education by setting aside money for scholarships, internships and study abroad opportunities.
Dale Larsen, professor of practice and director of community relations for Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, has been voted as Chairman of the Arizona State Parks Board for a 2nd consecutive year. Larsen was recently nominated by Governor Ducey to fulfill a new 6 year term on the State Parks Board. The nomination was approved and confirmed by the full State Senate during the current legislative session.