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Education<\/b><\/div>\n
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    DSW, Social Work, University of St. Thomas (MN)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    BA, Sociology, University of Florida<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      Suicidology<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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      Children’s mental health<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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      Ethics and professional standards<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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      Social work education<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","email":"checkert@ewu.edu","location":"","phone":"","cell":"","text":"","fax":"","facebook":"","twitter":"","linkedin":"","buttons":false}],"component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"disable_component":false,"nickname":"","identifier":"","navigable":false}}],"background_vertical_alignment":"center","background_image_type":"custom","component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"disable_component":false,"nickname":"","identifier":"","navigable":false}},"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false,"text_style":"allcaps","readability_aid":"overlay","intro_title":"","page_override_title":"","page_persona_bar_default_tab":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89340,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/89340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}