March Is National Social Work Month March is National Social Work Month, and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my origins, my story, my why. In marketing and business you learn a lot about the importance of storytelling and I've been tasked with considering my origin story. Why did I choose to become a social worker? And what does being a social worker actually mean to me? Choosing social work never made much sense to the people around me. I would hear: “ Why would you wa

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