Personal Statement Of Purpose: A Career As A Foster Care Assistant

As a child I grew up in the foster care system. My formative years consisted of uncertainty and confusion since I was not able to express myself effectively to the state assigned child advocates. During my time in foster care I volunteered to care for the younger children who had special needs. As I began to care for the children especially with neurological brain damage I became intrigued by how little science seemed to know about Special Education or effective treatment. At the age of eleven I started reading peer-reviewed articles such as Neurology journal and Exceptional Children (EC) trying to adsorb everything science related that would provide answers. Several years after I aged out of the system I had a child of my own who was born with severe Autism and sensory integration disorder. My son Andrew was non-verbal for the first four years even after extensive

Everyone loved it, it was my first time playing, but because I’m not in foster care I’m suppose to answer all the questions that apply to my life, if I get one that is specifically about foster care I am to pretend that I’m in foster care and think about how I would feel in those situations. The kids really started to open up about their feelings of frustration, loneliness, abandonment, confusion, and many others, these were just a few that were repeated. At 7:30 p.m. the kids left and we put the room back together. During our meeting we found that the siblings were no longer at the same foster home anymore, one of them had to be moved out. This explained a lot of the behavior that was experienced tonight, one of the girls went off in the Volcano room beating Max, the giant stuffed man, with bats, tying him up with ropes, and making a whip for him. This also can explain the little boy’s attitude toward doing the activity. We came to the conclusion that these kids need Healing Hearts more than they know and we can’t give up on them even when the going gets tough, because it will get tough.

What interested you in this career? I wanted to work with families to improve and better their situations. Child Abuse is a horrible thing with endless survivors. By working in with Child Protective Services, I hoped to have a positive impact to prevent children from being abused.

The only problem, that occurred while on the initial visit to the prospective foster carer, was how long the process takes to become a foster carer. It was explained on the visit, that the next step would be skills to foster course. However, the nearest course was fully booked and so the prospective foster carer would have to wait for the next available course. Overall, the process could take up to 1 year, however the prospective foster carer believed she could foster sooner. This was the only difficulty for the prospective foster carer and the social worker, as they cannot speed up the process even though the foster carer has substantial potential.

To get more knowledge about the social work field, I took classes such as Youth and Society, Child Maltreatment, Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Problems, Community Service, Learning & Behavior, Developmental Psychopathology, Sociology of the Family, and Child and Adolescent Development. I have also become a tutor and mentor in a mentoring program (PALS) at Lowell High School where I have had the opportunity to interact more with youth and get a different perspective on youth major social problems,

Given the question of who I aspire to be professionally in ten years, I start to think about my possible career options. Right now I am learning about computer networking, but I am leaning more towards the security side of the computer world with this I realize that I can have a career in both networking and security. Three years ago I was thinking about my future and realized that I needed to change my major from the Medical Administrative Assistant program I had started in because I quickly realized that this career was not going to be for me and allow me to live up to my potential so, I decided to switch my major to networking to get an education about computers, which I enjoy a lot and feel more comfortable with as well as eager to be

Consider the range of positions included on the Early Childcare and Education Career Guide Web site. Looking only at the position titles and career areas (and not at the information provided on the links), explain two insights or conclusions that you can draw from this site about career possibilities within the early childhood field.

I am writing to inform you of my interest in the Fall of 2015, Bachelor of Social Work program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Attached you will find my application with applicable documentation.

When I get my degree in Social Work I hope to be working with developmentally disabled children and adults. I hope to be working with developmentally disabled people because my mom works with them so I grew up around them, and my little sister is autistic. Growing up around developmentally disabled people as well as having an autistic sister has made me feel compassion towards them and want to help them in their everyday lives do things that they are not fully capable of doing on their own. In my chosen degree there are many ways that the four subfields of anthropological training could be helpful. One of the four subfields, Archaeology could be helpful to me in my degree in social work by helping me better understand why some developmentally

In a privileged setting, all of the levels of privilege come together to better someone’s experience in a certain setting. I have had the privilege of getting my kindergarten through twelfth-grade education in a district that is very fortunate. I was given all of the tools I needed to be successful. Besides the factor of my anxiety, I was always told I could do anything I set my mind to. This gave me the desire to strive for the best. With the fortunate school district, I was able to strive all throughout my career allowing me to choose my top choice in colleges and in careers. The college I chose has allowed me to follow my passion and hopefully will lead me to fulfill my dreams of becoming a social worker in the pediatric unit of a hospital.

I am highly interested in the Registered Nurse opening in Medical Surgical Unit now available at Reading Health System. I will be graduating in July 2016, and taking the NCLEX August 2nd, 2016. The values of compassion and innovation in your mission statement and dedication to educating health care professionals resonate with me.

I have always been interested in clinical social work in fact that is the reason why I got into the social work graduate program. Lately, I have been feeling unsure about becoming a clinical social worker. What I hope to gained from this class is to increase my knowledge about the field and discover if clinical social work is for me.

Cancer. We’ve all heard about it, right? It’s affected each and every person’s life in this room, one way, or another. Cancer is a deadly disease, that comes in many different forms. It can affect you at any age, at any time. Each year, 12.7 million people discover they have cancer, and 7.6 million end up dying from it. 81,570 people were diagnosed with some form of cancer in 2015 in Pennsylvania alone. We are ranked 5th in the US for the most cancer diagnoses. That, is not something to be proud of. Yet, here is where the medical, social workers come in. Medical Social Workers work in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, etc. Anywhere you’d find sick people, Medical Social Workers are there, helping. Medical Social Workers are people who lead support group discussions, provide individual counseling, help patients determine appropriate health care and other services, and provide support to patients with serious or chronic illnesses. They help patients configure finance plans and ways to pay their medical bills. I feel

Having a bachelor’s degree in biology is not the typical social work background; however, it is very beneficial for me. In biology and most other traditional sciences you have to be very objective and systematic in your approach to dealing with the situation. Keen attention to detail is also a necessity. I think these traits have contributed to my success as a social worker. I think it gave me an upper hand in the social work field because it allowed me to think outside the human services

There was a girl, she was about 12 years old. She lived with her mother and her four year old sister. Every day her mother would do drugs and not care for her children. She would beat the oldest one about every day. And turn her baby sister against her. Until one day a lady came into her home and took them from their mother. It was sad at first but as the years passes, the little girl got happier and happier. But finally they got split up because of some racist foster parents.