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The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Alfred State will host its Human Services Awareness Day Thursday, April 16, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Allegany Room of the Central Dining Hall on the Alfred campus.
The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Alfred State will host its Human Services Awareness Day Thursday, April 16, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Allegany Room of the Central Dining Hall on the Alfred campus.
This event affords human services students at the college, as well as human services alumni and community services graduates, an opportunity to meet with representatives from local and regional human services agencies to gain information about the field and about opportunities therein.
Each agency will have a display table. Agency representatives scheduled to attend this year’s event include: Accord Corporation, AIM Independent Living Center, Alfred Montessori, Allegany Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Allegany County ARC, Allegany Department of Health, Allegany County Office of the Aging, Allegany County Probation Department, Allegany County Youth Bureau, ARC of Steuben, Cattaraugus Community Action, Chances and Changes, Faith in Action Steuben County, Fidelis Care, Finger Lakes DDSO, Hornell Concern for Youth, Hornell Partners for Growth, Institute for Human Services, Kinship Family and Youth Services, Literacy West, Pralid, and ProAction of Steuben and Yates.
The format for this event will be similar to a job fair, but the organizations are recruiting interns and community service volunteers as well as employees. The organizations are looking for people currently in human service/social service programs or holding degrees in those fields.