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Lots of smiles from the class of '15 outside Heidbrink!

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Celebrating the holidays too early with Jane and Tammy

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Celebrating the holidays too early with Jane and Tammy

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Spring 2020

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Matching all together in research class! We absolutely loved learning from Matt! 

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Matching all together in research class! We absolutely loved learning from Matt! 

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Thankful for wonderful classmates and excellent professors in my undergraduate experience! Here's the class of 2016!

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Thankful for wonderful classmates and excellent professors in my undergraduate experience! Here's the class of 2016!

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When you walked into Heidbrink, you felt that you were home. It was full of kind, nurturing people who helped you discover your potential. Thank you Barb, for taking me under your wing and teaching me how to be not only an advisor, but also a mentor.

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Heidbrink...you were the place where so much learning and relational magic happened. 

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Thankful for all the times we could reflect and connect to our own soul's stirrings.

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Thankful for all the times we could reflect and connect to our own soul's stirrings.

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and all the people we got to know and love

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We worked so hard on those Heidbrink Hall Social Work portfolios and in the end, we came to know just how much we really knew!

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Sophia provides the background to another graduating class! Thanks for all the memories!

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In Heidbrink, we got to discover and celebrate our truest selves. Giving thanks for the beautiful people who I came to know!

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So thankful for all the people I got the chance to meet!

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Heidbrink was the place we gathered and learned how to be difference makers in service to others.

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Heidbrink Hall is where we celebrated gigantic milestones!

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The lounge was one special place to gather, relax, debate, and connect...but always a space to remember!

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Oh, if those walls of the lounge could speak!

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She greeted us upon entry and made the place welcoming, organized, and safe for us all!

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Thankful for Heidbrink's Tammy Hartman...

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Thankful for Heidbrink's Tammy Hartman...

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Our Social Work 240 Conversation Partner exchange...it all started in Heidbrink!

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Talk about learning where you could get comfortable!!! On the floor in Heidbrink 123!

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A place where we could crack ourselves up!!!

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A place where we could crack ourselves up!!!

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How many of us stood in front of Heidbrink Hall for our graduation pictures! Oh, the times we shared!

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Some learning that is fun to remember in that fabulous 123 room!

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Wow to the leaders, teachers, and helpers who served!

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...and Kendre Israel's famous cakes...ALL in Heidbrink! 

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Oh the laughter and fun we shared! So grateful for the beautiful people I met and bonded with!

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Our portfolios and all the memories that went with them!  Woohoo to lifelong friendships made in Heidbrink!

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Yes to the leaders that we had and the friendships we made in Heidbrink!

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It often felt like we were "all for one and one for all." 

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Professor Walton always showed a love for people. She had an uncanny ability to make a place for us all. She had that rare capacity to see potential in everyone and to find strength camouflaged in what appeared to be a person knee-deep with flaws. She was a consummate social worker. She was a beloved teacher and mentor to many. She was a woman with deep insight, who had boundless energy, expansive love of people, and a desire to right societal wrongs. Her spirit was in the air in what we all came to love about Heidbrink Hall.

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Thanks for the many interactions where I felt like I could be my full self!

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In Heidbrink, I found friends where I could take chances!

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In Heidbrink, I found friends where I could take chances!

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Heidbrink Hall is where we did ALL of this above and then some of it with each other! So very grateful!

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In Heidbrink we could take care of ourselves. We knew that we had each others' backs. We knew it was safe to *take a load off."

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People saw possibility in me which allowed me to see potential in myself and then to acknowledge it. Heidbrink Hall is where so much goodness went down and then traveled out those doors in search of others to acknowledge and celebrate!

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In Heidbrink, by trial and error, I learned how to set healthier boundaries. I learned that it was okay, even best, to take care of myself first. Thank you!

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Heidbrink is where we learned to fan the flame of each other's lights...each other's goodness...each other's assets...such that we could go out and do that with those we interacted with in life. I am so grateful.

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In Heidbrink we came to learn that there is strength if finding that common ground. We practiced leaning into hard conversations. We saw and loved people for who they were. We offered candor, and transparency, and authenticity in our efforts to learn more and be stretched by each other. What a full heart I have, for sure!

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My heart is full of gratitude for all the people that came through those Heidbrink doors over the years. So many lives were made whole, loved, enhanced, transformed, tended to, engaged, challenged, shaped, and healed along the way.  THEN those beings of light were sent out to plant goodness in the world...seeing, hearing, and valuing the self and others along life's journey. What a gift! What a treasure! What a rare blessing indeed!

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Graduating seniors in 2012 with our caps that read "Social Work Matters", the NASW theme for the year. We had exactly enough students to spell it and it was readable by the audience gathered for the graduation ceremony since we assigned letters in alphabetical/graduation order. We were all involved in so many campus activities & groups, so it made it extra special that we all committed to being together outside our home away from home.

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I'm sad to see Heidbrink go, but so happy you have found a new home to make more memories in. She was always so cozy & welcoming, and I'll always remember the personal growth I experienced and friendships I built within her walls.

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For someone who was unsure of what they wanted their future to look like, that all changed after my first visit to Heidbrink Hall. I specifically remember my first meeting after changing majors, and for the first time on campus, I knew I was in the right place. A lot of students may say that their best memories at college come from parties or sporting events, but mine came from the genuine friendships created in our small cohort and the rich conversations in every class. Heidbrink easily and quickly became a safe place for me and somewhere I was proud to show my family when they would come to visit campus. Every professor cared so deeply about us, and when I take part in future campus visits, a small piece of me will feel missing knowing that the building will no longer remain. Luckily, when I entered the building for the last time before our leave for Covid, I was able to take an affirmation from the bathroom wall. It now hangs in my office at the high school that I work at, serving as a constant reminder that I am where I am now because of being a student in Heidbrink Hall. I am forever grateful for the memories, and hope that the Social Work department can create a new safe place for years to come.

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I lived in Guild Hall for most of my VU career. Heidbrink was just a parking lot over. I can’t even say how many hours we spent there: laughing, learning, sharing. It was a safe space for all of us to gather. I remember LouJeanne smoking in her office (it was the 90s!), Lynn Shimala at the front desk , and Lorri and Munira with offices in the back. Those four superwomen could have ruled the world. They were amazing together.

I’ll miss seeing Heidbrink when I come through campus. Memories all always remain.

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Heidbrink Hall brought so much joy, laughter and support into my life. Many nights studying on the floor with my cohort friends before finals, hanging out in Jane and Barb’s offices just to check in, and many moments of laughter in the student lounge between classes with so many friends. Heidbrink was where friendships were created and the love of social work and wanting to help others was shared. Forever grateful for the years I got to spend there during my undergrad program and how the social work program has shaped me into the mental health social worker I am today. ❤️

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❤️ So grateful for the time and memories!

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❤️ So grateful for the time and memories!

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Social Workers Show That All People Matter By...

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Social Workers Show That All People Matter By...

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"We don't stop going to school when we graduate!" This quotation was facing the front door, in Barb's impeccable handwriting!

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I found this still on the board in Heidbrink! A genogram of the royal family!