Did you know that 71.5% reported missing school because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable because of their sexual orientation? The topic of the diversity even I attent was people who are students for LGBTQ people. I didn't catch the name of the person who presented this information to me and my fellow classmates who are taking a UNIV class semester but she has been doing this event for over 7 years. I attended this event November 28th, Tuesday at 6:00 to 7:15pm. We all had to meet at Pray Harrold
I have never experienced diversity because the schools I went to were predominately caucasian. In elementary school, my grade had two hispanic students including myself, two Japanese students, and eighty students who were either Irish, Italian, Canadian, or German. In middle school, I changed schools and there was a little more diversity. When I say a little more diversity I mean four hispanics, two African Americans, and two Japanese. I believed, at the time, that this was as diverse as schools
In this paper, I will be speaking about my participants diversity characteristics and how those characteristics helped shape her life experiences. Apart from her diversity characteristics, I will talk about the challenges she had throughout her lifetime and the strengths that helped her overcome her challenges. I will also talk about possible goals and interventions that could of improved Santa’s life, if she would had applied them. Participant Life Story My participant Santa is a Hispanic
I attended the event Diversity Matters sponsored by the Access and Diversity Center. The speaker was Dr. Brenda Allen. I enjoyed both the delivery and content of her presentation. Dr. Allen’s purpose was to explain the reasons diversity matters in higher education. In addition to the specific purpose of her speech, she shared resources and personal experiences as examples of the principles being applied in the real world. She established her credibility by citing her experience and positions. This
1. Diversity is defined as “the condition of having or being composed of differencing elements” (Webster Dictionary). Through my clinical experiences I have seen a lot of diversity whether it be different ethnicity, the family culture/make-up or students living with disabilities in the classrooms. Specifically, in my urban clinicals I saw more ethnicity and culture diversity differences between student to student and student to teacher relationships. However, in my suburban school clinical experiences
creativity, better competition and reduce the chance of group think. When I took the Personal Diversity Maturity Index one of the questions was “What is the most important reason to respond to diversity effectively?” The answer with the highest score was “It will make my company more competitive” which was the answer I chose because of what I learned during the research for this class. The success in making diversity an asset for an organization is understanding and learning from our differences. Studies
I completed my diversity experience at Cheshire High School, which is located in the wealthy suburban town of Cheshire. There are about 1,500 students in the school and administrative duties are split amongst one principal and three assistant principals. My day began with the weekly CORE meeting, which included the administration, social workers, special education teachers, the SRO officer, school nurse, the athletic director, and the school psychologist. During this meeting, the academic and
Understanding of diversity and the differences in clients is the only way to truly help your clients. It is always critical that you understand where they are coming from as far as their culture belief system. People from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds will have different reactions than people from others. As a social worker we need to understand those differences in order to best help our clients. This is one of the areas I feel the most comfortable in my skill set. As an older student
My understanding of diversity has most definitely followed me into my personal and professional life. I now have a voice and speak up anytime I ever hear discrimination. I try to expose myself to different types of people if I get to chance so I can further my knowledge on their culture. The term diversity shouldn’t have a negative stigma attached to it. Diversity is what should make us a powerful community because each one of us has something special to offer. Being placed at a very diverse internship
I have changed tremendously over the past few months in terms of my self-awareness and understanding of issues concerning diversity. My experiences in the past few months have been crucial in my development as a counselor, and I am very grateful for this time in my life. Thanks to this class, I now have multiple tools to work with in terms of counseling diverse individuals, as listening to the discussions in class from my peers have given me new perspectives in terms of how worldviews differ person-to-person