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Lock Haven Social Work Club Hosts Easter Party for Salvation Army After School Program
Dr. Steven Granich and Tulare Park, co-advisers of the Social Work Club at Commonwealth University-Lock Haven, along with five student members of the club recently conducted an Easter party for 15 children at the Salvation Army in Lock Haven.
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Social Work Alumni Lecture Series March 22
Brittany Cooley, Lock Haven 2011 social work graduate, will speak on mental health and suicide awareness on Wednesday, March 22 from 7-8 p.m. in Ulmer 211 - planetarium on the Lock Haven campus.
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Commonwealth University Students, Faculty Return from Service Trip to Rural Jamaica
After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Lock Haven faculty once again led a short-term service-learning program to Harmons, Jamaica, and for the first time, were joined by Bloomsburg students.This program has been offered through Lock Haven since 2015, where students learn and serve in the rural mountainous village of Harmons in south central Jamaica.
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Lock Haven Campus Community Participates in STEP Head Start Mitten Tree Project
(ABOVE RIGHT) SHOWN FROM LEFT, ARE CHRISSY WISE, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AT LHU; DENISE BANEY, STEP HEAD START DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS; AND CAROLYN HAWK, STEP HEAD START...
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Lock Haven Campus Community Helps Local Families in Need Through the Annual Adopt A Family Program
The Lock Haven Community Service Office recently hosted its annual Adopt A Family project in partnership with the Salvation Army in Lock Haven. Members of the Lock Haven campus community were asked to...
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A Desire to Help Others Drives Mansfield’s Dai Davis
MANSFIELD, PA – When Dai Davis began her academic journey at Mansfield, a Commonwealth University, her goal was to help others by becoming a nurse. But through course work, she soon found that nursing wasn’t the right career path. Instead, a class in social work led her to change her major and chart a new way to help others. “I learned that my desire to help others was through empowerment and advocacy,” Davis said. “Addiction: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevent was the first social work course that I enrolled in, and it opened my eyes to how I really wanted to help people.”
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Mansfield University Social Work Students Donate Gifts to Local Families
MANSFIELD, Pa. – The Social Work Club and the Phi Alpha Social Work Honor Society of Mansfield, a Commonwealth University, brightened the holiday season for two local families. Members of the club and...
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Lock Haven President’s Commission on the Status of Women Supports Female Students with Donation to Haven Cupboard
The Lock Haven President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) regularly supports various campus initiatives that adhere to its mission – to provide equity for women on campus, including students...
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Lock Haven Campus Community Donates to Haven Cupboard During Annual Hunger Bowl Event
REPRESENTATIVES FROM SMITH HALL ACCEPT THEIR AWARD FOR WINNING THE 2022 HUNGER BOWL. The Community Service Office at Lock Haven, part of Commonwealth University, hosted its annual Hunger Bowl...
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Lock Haven Students Plants Orchard to Combat Food Insecurity
In a hidden patch of space outside the Fairview Suites on Commonwealth University's Lock Haven campus, grows a solution to help combat food insecurity. In September, Lock Haven biology faculty member...