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HPU’s Spirit of Social Work Award presented to Anna Moulder Cloud of Brownwood

Anna Cloud Spirit of Social WorkBROWNWOOD – November 6, 2017 – Howard Payne University’s Social Work Advisory Board recently presented its Spirit of Social Work Award to Anna Moulder Cloud of Brownwood. The award is presented annually to an individual whose career reflects an outstanding contribution to the social work profession or to the field of human services in general.

Cloud, who worked as a secretary in the communication department at Abilene Christian University for 10 years, decided to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work. She graduated from Abilene Christian University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work; and in 1995, she completed her Master of Science degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. While at UTA, Cloud assisted with research on the evaluation of day care centers.

Cloud began a nearly 14-year career in 1996 as a caseworker with the Texas Youth Commission (now Texas Juvenile Justice Department) at the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex. She had the opportunity to work with the substance abuse and sex-offender-treatment programs, and served as the security unit caseworker.

Cloud has served her communities in many other ways as well. She taught a Bible class for 20 years at Hillcrest Church of Christ in Abilene and volunteered as a van driver for disabled and elderly church members for 10 years. Cloud has also participated in nursing home and homebound outreach ministries at Austin Avenue Church of Christ in Brownwood for 12 years and has been the coordinator of those services for the past six years.

HPU has also been the recipient of Cloud’s generous love of social work as she served as a field instructor for the university’s social work program. Dan Humeniuk, assistant professor of social work and chair of the Department of Social Work and Sociology, offered his congratulations to Cloud.

”I had the pleasure of working with Anna at the Ron Jackson Complex for 10 years,” said Humeniuk. “During that time, I found her to be most compassionate and highly professional in her approach to her assigned duties. She certainly represents the true spirit of social work.”

Cloud and her husband, Aaron, have been married 56 years. The couple has a son who is deceased and a grown daughter.

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Cutline: Dan Humeniuk, right, recently presented the HPU Social Work Advisory Board’s Spirit of Social Work Award to Anna Moulder Cloud.

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