Over The Past Few Years, My Understanding Of Social Work

Over the years I have developed a passion for counseling. During my childhood and adolescent years, I witnessed my father and brother suffer from substance abuse. There were constant battles they both encountered with substance abuse, and they lacked the knowledge and resources to prevent or reduce their harmful behaviors. After witnessing substance abuse in my own family, eventually it led to my decision to choose repetitive degrees in both psychology and social work, which led to my involvement

acceptance offer to Howard University School of Law is such an honor and a blessing. I have dreamt of this moment many times over the past few years. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a part of Howard's legacy entrenched in perseverance and commitment to social justice. Since I began looking into potential options for my legal education, Howard has been at the top of my list for a multitude of reasons. As someone who attended a PWI for undergrad and as a result encountered some pretty blatant

Over the past few years, I have inconsistently shared the work occurring in my classroom. Years ago, daily posts on my now-abandoned classroom blog, reflections on my professional blog, and posts on my students’ blogs kept invested adults current about the learning taking place in my classroom. For the past few years, I have practically gone into hiding after moving my classroom from the blogs to Edmodo and then Haiku. I have allowed ambiguous student privacy expectations from my district and

class for my degree plan to transfer to a four-year university and that I would be doing a lot of reading about different terms and theories of society. However, this first month of class has helped me improve my understanding of what sociology is about and shown me how my personal society has impacted the way I view society. Not only did I learn about the relationships between society and myself, but I have also learned different concepts that have helped me gain a better understanding of how society

In the article, A National Study Predicting Licensed Social Workers' Levels of Political Participation: The Role of Resources, Psychological Engagement, and Recruitment Networks, the authors conducted a study that evaluated 19 independent variables that explain why some social workers were more politically active than others. After reading the article carefully, evaluate your own propensity to be politically active when you think about the first 9 variables the author used (not the 10 demographic

Field Journal 1 Breyanna Hiebert University of British Columbia Field Journal 1 Looking back on the past few weeks of practicum, there have been many opportunities for personal reflection and connection between my placement and the course work. To describe my role, I am placed in the Outreach and Advocacy program at Chimo Community Services. From what I understand so far, I will have a few clients each day that come in with different issues. We assist them in navigating these issues an advocating

why have you chosen social work as a profession over another profession or major? I have always have had a strong passion for helping people, especially children. I grew up poorer than poor, never dreaming I could do much of anything about the social issues I saw in the world. My top priority was just surviving which, honestly, didn’t allow much energy for planning a successful future. Growing up in and out of the foster care system, I developed a negative perspective on social workers. However, with

school Boy’s Track and Field for over 22 years has been one with great success. Additionally, he is the head teacher in charge of the social studies department over at Burlington Central High School. During his time as a coach he developed one of the most successful track and field programs in the Kane County area from my personal experience. Ever since he began his coaching career with the track and field program, he developed several talented athletes. Every year, there is always an athlete that

including my biological family, my church family, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) alumni, and George Mason University’s (GMU) Master’s in Social Work (MSW) graduate student cohort. My biological family includes my immediate family members, as well as my extended family members. While I do not see my extended family often, I do identify them as close family members, as we share many of the same values and traditions. Similarly, to my biological family, I identify my church family

people in need, share my ideas and work within a community setting. Based on the self-assessment results I was given the field of a human services assistant. As I have never done any research or have any basic knowledge on this field I am very interested in understanding how it works. Social and human service assistant is a field of work in which you need the ability to assist in providing client services in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, or social work including support