Panhandle Internship Essay

After seeing the smiles that seemed almost permanent that week, I realized how important it is to work with and help younger children. I also learned what it’s like knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life. I’ve been a counselor at that same camp for two more years since that first summer, and it gets better every time. Even though it can be difficult and frustrating to work with children sometimes, the reward that you, as well as the children, receive is well worth the effort.

While residing in Macon for school, I have noticed that many of the children here in Macon are in need of the some form of mentorship, and I understand that, through Zeta, we have the youth auxiliary groups, and that is a great benefit to the community. However, I believe that the youth need a more personal, a more individual relationship with someone. There is a greater chance of change, progress, and betterment in the youth if they have a chance at a more individualized relationship with someone they can view as a mentor and role

Since volunteering I have meet some admirable, nurturing, and complexed group of people who have devoted their careers to helping families in crucial situations. These group of inspiring people have influenced me in so many ways- especially everyone at the Juvenile Detention Center. When I look around in a room at a meeting for a case, I am absolutely amazed by the number of people that really want to actually help these children get back home or find a safe place to live and improve every aspect of that child’s family life. And we did even know these people but we are all here for the same coming good no one is against

This camp was the push I needed to realize that I love working with children. Human interactions have become so interesting to me and I feel like I still have so much to learn about. This is why I chose Sociology as a major. It will be an interesting and beneficial major for me to study.

Over the past few months, I have been interning at the Berkshire County Kid’s Place in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Berkshire County Kid’s Place is a Child Advocacy Center that addresses the needs of children who have witnessed violence or have been victims of violence. The Kid’s Place coordinates law enforcement, social service, medical, prosecutorial, and mental health agencies to ensure an effective response to childhood trauma. Interning at the Kids’ Place has been a great opportunity as I have joined a group mentoring group, attend the monthly Systems of Care Meetings of Berkshire County, privately work with individual clients in which I see every other week along with many other learning groups and opportunities. As of now I have a

However, the hardest thing to deal with at camp is the kids that are from broken homes. It is difficult to be so blatantly aware that a young child is suffering and is not loved at home. Camp is very draining both physically and emotionally. I have worked many weeks but I could not look forward to a paycheck. I had to find something to keeps me going and that thing is that at the core of my values and beliefs is concern for others and knowing through service and love I can make their week the best it can be. Just as the staff at Dallas Valley impacted my life, I hope to have meaningfully helped and inspired my campers. This experience has taught me that not all hard work or good deeds are seen but they are worth more than the recognition. I learned there is so many more important things in life than making money. I am very grateful to have worked at camp. I can now take the people skills, the patience, and the responsibility I learned at camp and use it at school, at home, and in the work force. Moreover, I have solidified my values of integrity, service and

In addition to internships and supervised practice in the field, it is essential to acquire the ability to work with both troubled children as well as disabled children. I believe that volunteering at daycare centers as well as organizations that provide opportunities to assist disabled children, such as Children’s hospitals and charities. Volunteering and assisting children in these circumstances would be rewarding for both my qualifications for a job as a middle school counselor as well as quite rewarding for me, a change to help others in need and have an impact on their

Working at The Children's Aid Society was the most rewarding experience a person can have at the same time it helped me to heal my own personal wounds, cause by being undocumented. As social workers, we will have the opportunity to connect these individuals with the services and help them progress available in their

Therefore, being able to help those children succeed and be proud of the work they do is one of the best ways I can feel I can impact my society. In turn, when those children are motivated to do better and are shown that they are as great as they believe they are the community becomes stronger. Since I started working with children I decided to go into psychology, I have always been a people person and decided young children were one of my favorite kinds of people. I decided to go into counseling psychology to work with young children who may be struggling with any issues, whether that be in school or in their families. Working with children who grow fond of you and learn to confide in you also comes with the job, and being there to give them the emotional support they need or the confidence in themselves is a beautiful thing. It is also a feeling I would like to feel for the rest of my professional career, I enjoy being there for the people who need it most, for the people who are going to shape our

I’ve met all different kinds of families who made me realize working with children is something I am passionate about. I hope to work as a psychologist or social worker with children in the refugee community who have experienced

These experiences enhanced my desire to work with people and build long lasting community connections. Before PCAP and Telling It, I wanted to start connections where I can research low income minority adolescents and present the research to the community to figure out how to solve issues they may be facing. This can be in the form of starting interventions, after school programming, altering policy, and other forms. This goal still holds true, but PCAP and Telling It has expanded my view and made me pivot to wanting to also work with younger children, juvenile youth and adults that went to jail with they were youth. Being a research will also be helpful if I decide to start or be the director of programs that participate in social change as well.

This is a mentoring program that allows mentors to motivate and encourage youth in their education. As a mentor, I received special training that enabled me to provide support to my mentees. Seven Oaks is where I mentored, It is an elementary school that teaches Kindergarten – 5th grade. At Seven Oaks, I was able to reach out to young students having difficulties in their schoolwork and coach them on how to be successful in their

Goal: To provide a program that gives the children an opportunity to build lasting relationships through group work, buddy systems, journaling and exchanging contact information.

Currently, the count of homeless students that are attending schools in the United States are over 1.3 million. The number, according to reports, has doubled since ten years ago.

The internship will end on the 13th of March 2015 which will earn me 3 credit hours with a minimum of 120 hours. I was required to complete a set of task given by the organization in order to complete my internship, on the first day of internship, because it was still during the Chinese New Year week, and that my co-supervisor Ms.Siew who was the counsellor I supposed to be working with, was on leave. I was given a simpler task of updating the organization database of all the people who had work or volunteered with AWAM. On the following day my supervisor Ms. Emily, briefed me about a task she wanted me to help her with which includes creating an excel document for the staff member’s year 2014 leave report and to check if the number’s adds up with the hard copy that was provided. On the third day of my internship is when I was introduced to the task I was eventually supposed to be doing throughout my internship. I was transferred to the counselling service room also known as the TELENITA room, where I was supposed to work with counsellors and legal aid