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Aging in Recovery: Rethinking Social Work Across the Lifespan

Social work has long been a field defined by its response to visible human need—crises, poverty, institutional neglect, and systemic inequality. Over time, influential figures such as Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, Mary Richmond, and Saul Alinsky shaped frameworks to address urgent social problems. Yet despite this evolution, a critical phase remains underdeveloped in theory: what […]

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East Harlem

East Harlem, USA Born in Mother Cabrini hospital New York, NY. First 2 years of life lived on West 103rd Street. At the age of 2 my family moved into the Thomas Jefferson Houses in East Harlem, part of the NYC Housing Authority and soon thereafter referred to as “the projects.” This was a mixed 

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