During her 33 years working with Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh, Sandy Budd served many individuals and families. Many of her most poignant memories are of the Holocaust survivors she has helped care for in Pittsburgh. She provided case management and counseling to 150 survivors over the course of her years at the agency. At the peak, her caseload had 60 survivors. Today, there are only four who Sandy will continue to serve in retirement.
Working with the survivor community has been “an honor,” she said. “Many were inherently mistrustful of government, given what they had endured in their countries of origin, and when they first resettled in the U.S. Many shared stories with me that they had never shared with their families and opened about deeply personal stuff.”
Sandy and her husband Ray Engle, PhD ’88, also a School of Social Work alum, met in grad school where both focused their studies on gerontology. Ray recently retired as Professor of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh.
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