Doris O. Iheagwam serves as a licensed case manager at Homes for the Homeless. She also worked for Platinum Community Care as a social worker providing essential services to asylum seekers. Iheagwam connects individuals and families with the resources they need to navigate their new circumstances and build stable lives.
Prior to her current roles, Iheagwam interned at the Educational Alliance, Jewish Board of Family and Children Services, Brooklyn Kindergarten Society, and Stanley S. Isaacs Beacon Center’s Take Action program. Her first social work job was from working with the American Red Cross as a family activities worker. She has worked as a social worker and school-based liaison with the NYC Board of Education in public schools where she carried a caseload of 141 students in temporary housing and also has experience working in preventive services, foster care, and with those who are disabled.
Iheagwam holds a B.A. in Sociology from CUNY Brooklyn College and an M.S.W from New York University. She has taken courses in social work at Fordham University, University of South Carolina, and Robertson College. She has co-led parenting workshops and has given a presentation on suicide prevention to teaching staff in public schools.
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