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Social work graduates

Child welfare
Developmental disabilities
Domestic violence
Family services
Gerontology
Graduate school
Mental health
School/juvenile court

Child welfare
Nicole Fisher ’04 works part time as a program coordinator for the Girls Scouts of America, leading an after-school program for at-risk girls in Worthington, Minnesota. She also works with special needs children in Luverne.

Amy Johnson ’04 is a case worker for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Hollister, Missouri.

Jamie Pease ’04 obtained a child welfare license and is serving as a foster care case manager for the Association House of Chicago. She is also a full-time student at Argosy University in Chicago, where she is working on a master’s degree in professional counseling.

Rachel Fernstrum ’02 is a social worker with Early Head Start in Orange City.

Developmental disabilities
Deb Moore ’01 earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a developmental specialist at Behavioral Technologies in Des Moines, Iowa.

Domestic violence
Mandi Roskam ’03 is a social worker for the Family Crisis Center in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Family services
Jackie Haupert ’04 is a group therapist and skills specialist at Mid-Iowa Family Therapy Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa.

Erin Russell ’04 is a birth parent counselor for Lutheran Social Services in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Manny Maldonado ’03 is doing inner-city ministry to youth through Sacramento International Master's Commission in California.

Rebecca Reed ’03 is the program director for Camp Blodgett, a nonprofit camp for at-risk youth located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Gerontology
Emily Van Roekel ’03 is a social worker at Hillcrest Health Plaza in Bellevue, Nebraska.

Beth Baca ’02 earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence and is now working for the university’s Department of Aging and Elderly.

Graduate school
Rachel Ness ’06 is a law student at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dori Wallenburg ’06 is a social work graduate student at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.

Nicole Vos ’05, Susan Wallinga ’05 and Leah Olson ’02 are social work graduate students at the University of Iowa.

Mental health
Jessica Zieg ’03 is a program supervisor assisting mentally ill teenagers through the Hopewell Transitional Supportive Living Program in Kansas City, Missouri.

School/juvenile court
Darcie Van Voorst ’02 is a school liaison officer in the George-Little Rock School District and the Central Lyon School District in Iowa.

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Contact
Professor Mark De Ruyter
Department of Social Work
Northwestern College
101 7th St. SW
Orange City, IA 51041
712-707-7085
mderuyte@nwciowa.edu

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