Helping The Homeless And Interacting With Offenders At Community Crisis Incorporation Service

By working in a public school setting, I hope to integrate aspects of assessment, counseling, research, and skill training to create individualized intervention plans, and provide an optimum learning environment for all students. After receiving the opportunity to work with children with exceptionalities at Camp MATES and the social skills groups, I was stunned to discover how underserved that population is. I was appalled by the obscene amounts of money parents pay for their children to receive services tailored to them and their exceptionalities and how difficult it can be to get into those programs. As a School Psychologist, I hope to make academic success more attainable for all students despite their socioeconomic background. My goal is to assess students who are struggling academically to find an educational method that suits their individual differences and be able to refer them to community resources if needed. My dream is to bridge the gap between home and school and promote supportive environments in both that migrate seamlessly. I hope to provide students with strategies, such as social skills training, they can use to be successful both in and outside of the classroom. I aim to learn more about Learning and Intellectual Disabilities and interventions that improve the academic success rate of students with those

During the Fall 2016 semester I had the opportunity to intern with Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Inc in Fresno, California. Centro La Familia is one of a few organizations/agencies in Fresno County that not only provides social services, educational programs, but they also have advocacy and intervention services in rural and urban areas in Fresno County. I was allowed to intern within the victim services department of Centro La Familia, which is responsible in assisting victims of all crimes.My primary task as an intern was to learn and to help the victim advocates of Centro La Familia.Over the course of my internship I have participated in community outreach and attended meetings. In addition, I have done numerous filings, copies, translations, interpretations and filling out forms for clients. I worked closely with two very experienced victim advocates that help me transition to working in this environment, but also worked with other victim advocates to gain even more insight about the victim services they provide.

Giffords, E., Alonso, C., & Bell, R. (2007). A Transitional Living Program for Homeless Adolescents: A Case Study. Child & Youth Care Forum, 36(4), 141-151. doi:10.1007/s10566-007-9036-0

I am Jamral Dejohn Rease, From Greensboro, North Carolina, son of Sammuel Johnson and Karen Rease. Currently I attend the University of North Carolina at Pembroke seeking a Master degree in the field of social work. After graduating from Grimsley high school in Greensboro North Carolina, I enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, with a scholarship to play football. After a career ending concussion my junior year, I decided to pursue a profession in human services. To be engaged in my community and its development is very important to me because the people I admire engage in the same responsibility on a professional and humane level. Moreover, they take personal responsibility by staying engaged in community. These are values and beliefs that I have integrated throughout every aspect of my life. Further, surrounding myself around more individuals that strive to continue these goals to aid in my development as a greater leader and mentor

Last May, I traveled with Alternative Breaks to New York for community service. During this service, I worked with Meals on Wheels who dedicate their time to provide food for the elderly of Manhattan. As I delivered the food to the seniors, I got a sense of fulfillment because I made them smile by providing them with food. Thus, I chose MDC’s Single Stop because I wanted to make a difference in my home campus by providing and assuring nourishment to those that do not have it just like I did in New York. As my first two years of college comes to an end, I wanted to leave a mark of my own here at home at Miami Dade College North Campus. During the month of September, I decided to partner up with a few of my peers to serve at MDC’s Single Stop.

From a young age, I have always wanted to understand other people’s thoughts and feelings. As I have grown older, I have grown even more curious about not only understanding people, but learning how to help them. With this guiding me, my future career goal is to become an Occupational Therapist. Occupational Therapists work with a wide variety of people to help them overcome obstacles in their lives in order to achieve a better quality of life. I specifically hope to work with young children, adolescents, and teens who suffer from emotional, mental, or cognitive impairments. This is due to growing up in a family who fostered challenged children, having siblings with their own challenges, and having many young friends who could have benefitted

The Higher Education Access & Success for Homeless and Foster Care youth task force is an organization founded in Buffalo, NY in September 2017. This task force will include several individuals from the community such as local agencies, stakeholders, legislators, and active members. The members of the task force aim to improve the social and economic injustice of a population that has been excluded from access to services needed for higher education. Each individual of the task force will play a vital role in rectifying the injustice of the population by addressing three different levels of social work practice which includes micro, mezzo, and macro practice to create social change. The role and responsibilities of each member are based on

When I began my journey with the Human Services Department at Lindsey Wilson College, I only knew one thing – I knew that I wanted to help people. Since I was a young girl, I have had a passion to help others, but passion alone just wasn’t enough. Passion without the understand of how to use it can actually cause more harm than good. This program taught me how to use my passion and my experiences along with education to help others.

The agency I am doing my practicum hours at is a nonprofit mental health agency that serves over 800 adults with mental illness across 28 locations in the Portland Metro Area. Their comprehensive support system includes outpatient clinics, group homes, semi-independent housing, homeless outreach, and peer-delivered programs. I focus on the care of adults, age 18 and over, with serious mental illness, such as Psychotic disorders & Mood disorders in one of the residential settings. Within the home, we are currently serving 17 individuals, who are receiving independent case-management dependent upon individual needs, interrelated with the challenges prevalent in those with mental illness including co-occurring substance abuse and

The practice setting I am currently interning at is the Community Mental Health for Ingham, Clinton, and Eaton counties (CEICMH), specifically within the Families Forward department. This department within the CEICMH works closely with children who are experiencing serious emotional disturbances and behavioral concerns, as well as offering needed support to their family. The services provided include inpatient and outpatient therapy, emergency services and urgent care, early intervention services, and wraparound services. My role within Families Forward is as an intern in the Wraparound program. Wraparound facilitators provide service to families by creating a plan to help the family navigate through the child’s treatment process to assure

As a group, we selected the homeless population in Jefferson County, Texas as our advocacy project for Residency II. Our goal was to create a residential organization that would help homeless men to transition back into society. We would offer food, clothing, and an array of services to the clients. Crisis counseling, substance abuse counseling, career counseling, and life skills such as financial literacy to help the homeless clients whose participation would be voluntary. The name of our organization is Homeless Outreach Mentoring & Empowerment (H.O.M.E), we felt that empowering these men with the resources and counseling would reduce the number of homeless men living on the streets.

However, having an unquenchable desire to shape the lives of children in the foster care system is driven by my character. Charity does not work. Signing a check for a local cause will surely be beneficial but it has far less of an impact than being a part of the cause. As a participant in my Alternative Breaks trip to visit a foster care in Greenville, South Carolina I realized that anyone has the power to make a difference in this world. In the months prior to the trip, I thought that maybe I would be able to brighten these girls day by giving them a nice Christmas gift but little did I know that I just needed to be their friend. Every day these teenage girls wake up to a schedule that plans out what and when they are going to eat without any objections. Some call it structure but I call it torture. What if you want to sleep in one day or have a snack at 8:30 instead of 8 or even go to a high school basketball game with the rest of your friends? The foster care system does provide a safe harbor for the girls but it does not let them live a normal life. One girl in particular stood out to me because she had a strong demeanor that served as her facade to cope with all the injustices that she has reluctantly dealt with. After getting to know her she confessed to me that although college was imminent, she wasn’t sure if she would attend. The more I asked, the more I realized

Another meaningful experience that sticks out to me is when I regularly volunteered at a children’s homeless shelter in Roxbury, Mass. for two years, and was reminded of the fact that the statistics we hear every day about homelessness are real people – not just numbers. Every child I played alongside,

The Center for Evidence-Based Policing defines successful interventions as place-focused, mostly proactive, and strategy-focused. A majority of their effective studies share all of at least some of the characteristics previously mentioned.

I am interested in becoming a master-level social worker to gain the skills necessary to become a well-rounded advocate for change. Likewise, I am interested in having the opportunity to work with faculty who are conducting research and making an impact in the Charlotte community. As a social worker, I plan on working towards eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline, which directs youth into the juvenile and criminal justice system without taking into consideration how social problems, such a poverty, abuse, and drugs, directly affects their behavior. In addition, I would like to tackle the issues surrounding adolescent sexuality, including teenage pregnancy, STI transmission, and sex education in schools. My target population are vulnerable youth within urban cities. Since The University of North Carolina Charlotte is located in one of the largest and most diverse cities in the nation, I have decided to seek admission into the MSW program. Having the opportunity to utilize the skills I will be learning in the classroom while working hands on with my target population is of utmost importance to me. Upon graduating with my MSW, I plan on continuing my work in the Charlotte community and working as a full-time school social worker. UNC Charlotte’s MSW programs puts emphasis on serving vulnerable populations, which is congruent with the type of people I would like to work with.