Each year, the Cuyahoga County chapter of the National Association of Social Workers awards the MSW Student of the Year Award to an outstanding student. The selection is based on a student’s academic performance and his or her nominations.
This year, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences student Aviva Levi was selected for the award.
Levi was nominated for the award by Samantha Mishne, her field placement supervisor at the Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders.
“I nominated Aviva for the National Association of Social Workers MSW Student of the Year because of her initiative and willingness,” Mishne said. “With little prompting, she submitted an academic poster to the NASW Ohio Chapter Conference and presented it on her own. She also helped secure a $5,000 scholarship for a client, which helped them continue with treatment. She took the initiative to coordinate diversity training for staff and is surveying clients to increase their ability to develop a recovery community.”