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Since her career path started, she has specialized in working with a wide variety of at risk populations; however, her main career focus has been to specifically work with those who are reentering society from the criminaljustice system. At that time, she obtained her Bachelors in Social Work with a focus area in CriminalJustice.
Since her career path started, she has specialized in working with a wide variety of at risk populations; however, her main career focus has been to specifically work with those who are reentering society from the criminaljustice system. At that time, she obtained her Bachelors in Social Work with a focus area in CriminalJustice.
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Contemporary challenges facing social work and the communities it serves, among them: poverty; social exclusion; discrimination and oppression; inequalities, injustice and relationships of power; abuse, trauma, violence and conflict; cultural, political and environmental hazards.
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