At the Edge of Discovery: A Year In AIDS

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  • Robert Neubauer Professor, Inland Empire School of Social Work and Human Services, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA

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This narrative chronicles a teacher learning. After twenty-six years of social work teaching, I proposed a "return to practice" for a sabbatical year. Because of an emerging commitment to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and a desire to build a knowledge and skill base for a course on the epidemic upon return to the university, I negotiated a volunteer-staff position with the Northwest AIDS Foundation (Seattle), the largest community-based multi-service HIV/AIDS organization in the Pacific Northwest. During the year, I practiced case management, assisted in education program development, and took on numerous other tasks. My report explores how this experience of immersion in a community tested some fundamental understandings about social work practice concommitant with a liberating growthin personal identity.  Copyright of Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping is theproperty of Cleveland State University and its content may not be copied oremailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyrightholder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, oremail articles for individual use.

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Robert Neubauer, Professor, Inland Empire School of Social Work and Human Services, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA

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Neubauer, R. (2014). At the Edge of Discovery: A Year In AIDS. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 4(2), 34–44. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/553

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