>> My name is Andrea Heberlein and I am the Director of Education at United Way.
I think to start by talking a little bit about what I do, I should talk a little bit
about what United Way of Lancaster County does.
So our mission at United Way is to build a stronger community
by mobilized the caring power of our community.
So what that means is that we identify community needs, we identify those strategies
to help meet those needs, and then we raise and invest resources into those strategies,
and really importantly, we evaluate those outcomes to ensure
that those strategies are actually improving the lives of people in our community.
And United Way has identified three priorities -- education, financial stability, and health.
And so I'm the Director of Education, so my primary responsibility is kind of large,
but it is really to oversee those investments in education in our community.
So I do that by supporting and leading initiatives that serve
to increase the educational attainment of folks really across the lifespan in our community.
A busy day would involve very diverse tasks.
I spend my days reading and writing grants, researching community needs at the local, state,
even at the national level, looking at those best practices,
evaluating the data, program evaluation.
I go to a lot of meetings, whether I am facilitating the meeting
or participating in a meeting.
It could be in house at United Way.
It could be out in the community.
We do joke at, in human services that we wear many hats.
So I don't have a secretary, so I am, you know, making my own copies,
I am scheduling appointments, coordinating calendars, you know,
taking out the trash, doing the shredding.
So, you know, it's definitely those little tasks that need to be done, but one of the things
that I do enjoy doing as well is also supervising Bachelor's of Social Work students
and Master's of Social Work students from Millersville University.
That's a really fun part of my job as well.