MCC grad working to improve the community through substance abuse prevention
MOHAVE COUNTY – Ricarda DeAnda is now a Mohave Community College alumna and is on the road to better her community by utilizing her degree. DeAnda completed her Associates of Arts in Substance Abuse and Counseling. She decided to go into this program because she knew there was a need for it in the workforce and from personal experience. “Nowadays substance abuse really affects almost everybody in some way or another so I really wanted to find a pathway that could help others in the most affecting way,” DeAnda said. DeAnda chose MCC because it was close to home and…