While I was doing my internship, I worked in the newly created Vocational Center. The Vocational Center was the brain child of my supervisor Cathy Zuback. The Vocational Center had been running for three months unofficially before I started my internship and I had the privilege of being there for the grand opening on June 7th, 2017. The Vocational Center exists to help residents of the mission create resumes, job search, prepare for interviews, and get the necessary identification that they need to get hired.
The Vocational Center also provides various job readiness and certification classes. We provide Serve Safe, Retail Training, and forklift training, just to name a few. Each person that goes through one of the Vocational Center classes gets a certificate that they can add to their resume. While I was interning, I helped teach The Bridge the Gap and Retail Training class. Both classes introduced me to a wide variety of people who each had their own unique problems and futures. It was an incredible oppurtunity to teach people who had experienced so much in their lives and the hope that they had for the future.
The first theme that I noticed within the City Mission is power of hope. The Washington City Mission’s slogan is “Hope for the Homeless” and it is evidence through many of the Mission’s resident (City Mission 2015). However, no one in the Washington City Mission exemplified hope more than Clinton Jones. Clinton Jones is a resident of the Mission who has had a rough life. He moved from his home in the projects of Philadelphia at age eighteen in order to leave the drug and crime filled future that was set before him. A few years ago, Clinton had two stokes that damaged his memory, emotional, and analytical functions, but luckily didn’t damage his ability to move. He was in my Retail Training class and was determined to make a better life for himself. Clinton often says that he may not be the quickest or the smartest, but he will be doing the best that he can. He has learned so much through this class and I am so proud to see how he has grown. He is currently working at the City Mission’s thrift store and plans to move out of the Mission in September into his own apartment. Another theme that was
What I learned in the documentary called “The First Year” is the aspects of each teacher’s way they deal a classroom with students as first-timers. Especially when coming across to many challenges and the struggle they had during their first time ever as educators. Watching what lengths they will go to for the benefit of the students is admirable. The teachers who are into five separate schools in the Los Angeles area are known to be George Acosta who teaches English as a second language, Joy Kraft-Watts teaches high school history, Genevieve Debose teaches middle school language arts and social studies, Maurice Rabb teaches kindergarten, Nate Monley teaches fifth-grade bilingual education, and Andrew Glass teaches elementary special education.
As a teen, I had the opportunity to volunteer on a summer mission trip that focused on serving the homeless population in San Francisco. Stricken by poverty and drug addictions the Tenderloin District was unlike anything I had ever seen. Instead of passing judgment or feeling intimidated, I chose to serve these people with compassion and respect. What I experienced during this time was transformational and helped to direct me on a pathway towards service.
federal Job Corps centers to complement students ' career training. We expanded to Job Corps centers across the country and built more
On the last Thursday of every month, a few of the Young Adults from Harvest City Church volunteer to go to Carrall Gospel Mission and serve the homeless at downtown Eastside. These people are made up of drug addicts, ex-convicts, prostitutes and people with mental health problems. First, We have a short sharing session by the leaders of the mission, and afterwards we serve the homeless dinner. The purpose of this mission is not only to engage the impoverished, but also to give back to the community. Listening to the homeless talk about their lives, I have learned to be more content with what I have and not to take anything for granted. Moreover, I have learned that reaching out to others can have a lasting impact on their lives and also on
The Career Services Center offers services on resume writing, which gives WVU students the advantage/benefit of utilizing the most up-to-date knowledge on what and how to write a resume. Not only do students do mock interviews with this office, but Career Services Center has career fairs. The career fairs bring in employers with vacant positions or internships. These potential employment opportunities allow students to hand a potential employer a resume and talk about or do an on-the-spot job interview. Sometimes students are hired right on-the-spot for
My internship placement is at Positive Living Niagara, which is non-for profit organization located in Downtown, St Catharines. The focus of this organization is to offer a band of innovative and proactive tactics to harm reduction, prevention and a person- centered focus on support and education for those at risk and affected by HIV, HCV and STBBIs in the region. The organization is comprised of 3 major departments, which are Support and Education, Street works, and Case Management. I work in the office while generally overseeing these departments every Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm. My supervisor is the Executive Director of the organization and his name is Glen Walker. I have been given a main task that is to redesign the organization’s annual report. Along with this task I was given others such as succession planning, analyzing, and revising existing polices.
My internship is through Services of the Underserved (SUS). I intern at a family shelter located in East New York part of Brooklyn NY. Family Residence provides Resource Center and continuing Education Services. to its clients. Services of the Underserved mission statement, we drive scalable solutions to transform the lives of people with disabilities, people in poverty and people facing homelessness: solutions that contribute to righting societal imbalances. SUS mission is based on the if one of us is better we are all better. They work alongside those who seek their services based on who they are. Their vison is to envision a city where everyone has a roof over their head is healthy, productive and can enjoy the social connections that
The intent of this type of program would be to provide enough experience for a worker to have a basic understanding of a skilled job to begin work and receive more training from their employer. The programs would cover a variety of skills required for different industries. The courses in the job training program would be similar to career and technical education courses offered in many high schools. Examples of this would be a course related to fixing machines, giving a basic introduction to industries dealing with mechanical repair. This course would be similar to a high school’s automotive technology classes. Another would be to provide training of basic skills required to work in an office space, such as organization and the different forms of communication such as email etiquette, phone manner, and interpersonal communication. An additional benefit to having taken these courses is after they have finished the people can expand their job to include the fields related to the training they have finished. Furthermore, applicants having some type of experience on their resume would give employers some peace of mind when hiring
This fall semester, I carried out an internship in the legal department of El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Center. I assisted the legal program coordinator in filling out paperwork for clients and sat in on consultations with El Sol’s laborers about immigration and visa status, wage disputes, traffic tickets, and other legal troubles. On my first day, I quickly learned how difficult it is, as a part of a non-profit organization, to give people all the help that they need. Part of El Sol’s mission is to “give services to those in need” and they succeed at that in many ways. For example, El Sol’s School for Parents program taught parents positive reinforcement techniques for disciplining their children, such as praising good behavior and listening to their kids. The program as very well-liked by the participants, who felt that they learned useful lessons through the classes. However, in the legal department, it was more difficult to help people to the full extent of their needs.
My internship is on a consistent routine working Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30am – 3:30pm each day. I am at 15.5 hours of internship work. I completed an online training unit for bullying prevention called Second Step. This program teaches children how to recognize, respond, and report bullying. This training also provided me with a certificate of completion, which I can add to my personal resume. I have also begun working on an attendance incentive program and the entire school will participate in this program. I have worked with the school administration to learn about State and Federal school attendance policies. I have also researched several attendance incentive programs that other schools use. I will be putting together an article on attendance for the school newsletter and further working with my supervisor to make the finals steps in implementing this program.
I have an interest in interning at the Strong-Garner-and Bauer law firm, but when I went onto their website they didn't have any internship information available. I was just wondering how I could find out if they're offering an internship this summer? Should I just call and ask or should I send someone an email? Can you tell me what I should do
First day at my field internship, I was opportune to be invited for the staff meeting, where discussions on the different client referral and case issues where discussed and addressed. Process of identifying cases of referrals is done through “FACT” which is (Family automated client tracking system, the official data management system for CYFD) this helps in bringing out the data records of the client’s history, names and other relevant information’s. The assessment form is also use to indicate some of the identify issues of the clients, such as medical records, accommodation issue, substance abuse information, neglect, abandonment, child molestation, family problems and if they have responded to the agency call to accept or corporate with the helping system.
As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this
It has been a while since I started at the internship and I am really glad I decided to work here. I think the experience in this area is a good preview of my career and future. I am learning some important skills and finding out some things about myself and the tough skin I will need in order to stay in the area of juvenile support.
After this internship made me realised how diverse engineering fields and there is so much new knowledge to learn, considering myself with electrical power engineering background working in construction site which may related on civil engineering field. When I studied the project plan documentations, there is some new term and I need to find extra information on the Internet myself to understand more about the ongoing project. Having said that, knowledge that I have obtained throughout my study in ECU proved to be useful such as basic CAD, mechanic and material courses during my first and second year which make me easier to understand the structure drafting of the floor plans.