MSW program gets accreditation
The Master’s of Social Work Department at California State University, East Bay, was granted accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education earlier this month. The accreditation is retroactive to the 2003-2004 academic year when the first students enrolled in the program. It is valid until 2010. The University worked with Alameda and Contra Costa counties, as well as community-based agencies to develop the program as means to meet the social work training needs of the region.Pleasanton employee joins LAFCO
Sblend A. Sblendorio was recently appointed to the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) for Alameda County. Sblendorio is a shareholder in Hoge, Fenton, Jones and Appel, Inc.’s Pleasanton office where he works in the Business Litigation and Real Estate Groups assisting clients with real estate and commercial negotiations and litigation, including development projects, contract disputes, licensing, acquisitions and corporate control contests. He is also a past president of the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association and treasurer of the San Francisco Bay Wine Auction, as well as an active member in the Livermore Rotary and past chair of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors Agricultural Advisory Committee. LAFCO is a state-mandated, local agency that oversees boundary changes to cities and special districts and works to ensure the orderly formation of local government agencies to preserve agricultural and open space lands and discourage urban sprawl.
