Healthy Families

From shoveling driveways or helping rake lawns for the senior citizens in my neighborhood I’m always there to lend a helping hand. However, some actions I take in my community are not done for other families but for my own. The responsibilities I have overtaken through the years in my household have definitely helped improve my maturity, and my character. I do these actions not to gain recognition, but instead to service my community and to aid those in need. Each day I aim to improve myself and to improve the community around me. Through doing that I exemplify these ideals, and will teach others of doing the same to keep our community

Purpose/Mission – The mission is to actively represent the community to focus support for every child’s success.

I enjoy spending my spare time with my children, this always helps me relax and unwind after a very stressful day as they always put a smile on my face. Over the year, I have watched children grow physically, mentally and academically. Despite problems they may face at home, these children want to play and fun with a smile on their face. This gives me motivation to become a social worker that I can help improve their lives.

“It’s more about providing a safe place for these kids and the community, volunteers provide meals and show love which many lack,” Terry Clark said.

I will educate younger African American children, becoming a mouth piece and passing on what I learned from the conference. This will in turn influence and inspire my peers to strive for greatness. In conclusion, my mission is to provide a message of fortitude to young African American children. I will to create an environment that exposes African American youth to the problems that we face today. I have the hopes of inspiring and motivating youth you reach their greatest potential and take part in things that may seem unfathomable and beyond their greatest imagination if they work hard for

At the Family Crisis Center, I worked with my colleagues to create a safe and supportive environment, which helped families to transition into a new environment. I have worked as a team member and a team leader at the Family Crisis Center. As a team member, I have designed and taught lesson plans for children; which were academically based on child development research. The lesson plans I designed and/or taught centered around three themes: healthy self-esteem, healthy expression of feelings, and healthy life management (including stress management, diet, and exercise). As a team leader, I trained and supervised other college students on how to properly interact with mothers and children; by primarily using helping skills techniques and modeling positive and nurturing behavior. My work at the Family Crisis Center has changed both my personal understanding and social view of intimate partner violence. And I would love

Also enjoy working in a partnership with my families. I provide children a diverse and developmentally appropriate environment that allows them to meet their individual needs. In my program I help families achieve their goals. For instance, if a parent tells me that they want to take English classes but don’t know how to enroll. I find resources for them in the community and help them to accomplish their goals by providing the information. In the past I had a parent who wanted to further her education but did not know what to do. I provided her with information regarding enrollment, fafsa, and made her an appointment for an assessment. I informed her that the library has computers she can use in order to complete her application.

For my assignment I decided to interview my mom about her job. My mother works as the director of Truman Highschool Education Center. The first question I asked her is why she choose the job, and what about the job made her want to apply. She responded with telling me that she wanted to help make a difference in the lives of others, and wanted to help people set goals and reach them.

“Our main goal is to create a space that brings together all kinds of students to help them raise awareness and celebrate differences in our inclusive school climate.”

I am a Family Advocate for Head Start program for 16 years. I work directly with families conducting needs assessments and making referrals to resources in the community. I provide support and link them to community resources so they would be able to be self-sufficient. I gain cultural knowledge when working with families from culturally diverse backgrounds and help me be more confident and work effectively when engaging with the families. I always want to give the best at my job and always strive to improve myself all the time.

The Junior Civitans Club is a community service organization that I have been a member of throughout my high school career. I participated in three Relay for Life walks for life, and helped to raise hundreds of dollars for the Relay for Life cancer research campaign. In my Sophomore and Junior years, I was elected to be on the Leadership committee as a Representative and later a Secretary. This year, I was elected President of the club and preside over all meetings and service projects. The Greenwood High School chapter of Junior Civitans “adopted” a girl’s cottage at the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home this school year. The Connie Maxwell Children’s home provides residential children’s ministry to abused, abandoned, and neglected children.

Ms. Brooks started off helping special needs children and then went on to work at a Daycare. Seeing each child face every day motivates her to continue on even when she don’t want to. Ms. Brooks plays a major part in her community. During back-to school week she provides kids with school supplies for the

I have the privilege of being involved with such an impactful organization. While helping, youth developed lifestyle skills, I’m also developing skills. Each year I form some amazing relationships that create lifelong friendships. Excitedly each encounter with the youth helps build my belief on why it’s important to help others along my journey. Therefore, being involved with this organization has transform and impacted

At the beginning of Missy’s Teen Parent Connection journey Missy provided meals for TPC and then stepped in as a child-care volunteer. In total Missy has been involved with TPC for 17 years. Missy is now the Business Manager and deals with the HR and fiscal management aspect of the agency. On a normal day Missy prepares reporting for all grant proposals and reports. Missy also works internally with managers and deals with related HR problems that may come up. Missy finds that Teen Parent Connection provides a safe haven for parents without having social restrictions. The most rewarding part of the job for Missy is looking back at past participants and seeing how they have become successful. When Missy has a break from work she is busy being

I grew up loving children of all ages and wanting to be a caregiver. I was the baby sitter and nanny to the neighborhood and my church ward. When I was in High School’s it was no surprise to anyone that I chose to work in the school’s child care center. I continued working with children at several child care centers until I went to school.