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NASW-NYS 2010 Social Worker of the Year
Nicole S. MacFarland

Nicole S. MacFarland, LCSW-R, CASAC, ACSW, is the Clinical Director of Senior Hope Counseling Inc., the only free-standing OASAS licensed Outpatient Clinic in Upstate NY catering to individuals 50 and older who struggle with addictions. Ms. MacFarland has authored a chapter in the book Days in the Lives of Gerontological Social Workers: 44 Professionals Tell Stories from "Real-Life" Social Work Practice with Older Adults. Her chapter is entitled A Social Work Perspective on Geriatric Addictions. Ms. MacFarland has developed an online continuing education course "Recovery in the Golden Years: A Social Work Perspective" which is available on the NASW-NYS website.  She has lectured locally and nationally over the past several years. The Institute for Professional Development in the Addictions recently honored MacFarland as an Individual of Distinction in Addictions Education and Training.

Nicole has a Bachelors of Arts from Skidmore College and Masters of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University at Albany’s School of Social Welfare, and is a Pre-Dissertation award recipient of a John A. Hartford Doctoral Fellowship.