Miguel L. Arce
Miguel L. Arce
- Master of Social Work, San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif., 1977
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, 1974
Trained as a social worker, Miguel L. Arce has spent 45 years in communities with few economic resources. Those communities have been set apart by society in either isolated rural areas with Native Americans, Filopino Americans or Mexican Americans; or, in intensely urban areas with Puerto Ricans and African Americans. The focus has been on the debilitating circumstances and suffering faced by large sectors of these populations. Those communities are overwhelmed by stressful life conditions and events. Those communities are severely vulnerable to problems of hunger, homelessness violence, imprisonment, or job loss. Arce has sought to be responsive to those bitter realities. Heroism and resilience are contextualized--those with less get less.
- Program design and technical assistance
- Community and organizational practice
- Daily life of people living in poverty
- Technical assistance in the provision of community development services
- MSSW 601 Human Behavior in a Social Environment 1
- MSSW 602 Human Behavior in a Social Environment 2 ( was course lead position)
- MSSW 610 Social Practice 5
- MSSW 611 Social Policy and Services 1 (course lead position)
- MSSW 612 Social Policy and Services 2
- MSSW 613 Social Welfare Policy and Services 3
- Enlace de Familias, Inc., 2012 – 2014 •
- Friends of Martin Luther King Charter School for Excellence, Inc. Capital fund Campaign, 2012 – 2014
- Emergency Food and Shelter Program Local Boards, 2012
- Community Adolescent Resources and Education (CARE) Center, Inc., 2005-2018 (CARE received a United States Presidential Humanities Award in the fall of 2011) including Selena Vazquez Memorial Scholarship Committee as well as Executive Director valuation review of job description, 2014
- Bridges, Inc. (targeting refugees) helped graduate student incorporate and develop resources, 2011-2013
- Mason Square Health Task Force, 2009 – 2010
- Baystate Academy Charter Public School, Founding Member, 2011
- Holyoke Salvation Army, 2008 – 2011
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Excellence, 2007-2012, Founding member
- Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice, Founding member, 2012-present
