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Unit 4 and 5 Discussion

Unit 4 and 5 Discussion

Q Instructions For this discussion, you will post a brief report on the social work pioneer you selected in the last Unit. Your short briefs should briefly describe: • the pioneer’s background; • education or training; • advocacy efforts; • contribution to the profession; • what you find inspiring about this leader; • how the leader’s work can be applied to the work/organizing/community that you are involved or interested in. ________________________________________ Requirements To successfully complete this assignment, you should: • Write a 250-500 word summary that addresses the criteria listed above • Post your response by the assignment due date • Respond to posts from two of your peers by the end of the week.

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Frances Perkins’ origins rest in New England, between a childhood spent in Boston and an early adulthood around Newcastle, Maine. The Frances Perkins Center details the staunch, self-reliant work ethic instilled in her by her grandmother, Cynthia Otis Perkins. Upon graduating, she would convert to an Episcopal Church, change her name to Frances (from Fanny), and seek to fulfill the church’s mission to build God’s Kingdom on Earth, to make life as good as possible for as many people as possible. For college she studied at Mt Holyoke, the nation’s oldest college for women, where she majored in physics, but took a class her senior year on the history of American economics.