Personal Statement: Passion For Helping

What has attracted you to the helping professions? Who in your life has influenced your decision to consider this role for yourself? I have always had a love for helping others. I first heard about social work through a friend. I began doing lots of research on this helping profession to get a better understanding. I found that Social Workers are responsible for helping individuals, families, and groups of people cope with problems and improve their lives. I also enjoy helping others in a time a need so social work matched some of my qualities perfectly.

I have had numerous opportunities to volunteer and work with children of all abilities. Many of these children had independent or concurrent learning disabilities, emotional problems, and/or behavioural problems. I met these individuals through organizations I volunteered or worked for, programs I organized, and through summer camps where I was a counsellor that all catered children with disabilities. I also have personal relationships with children of family friends.

Being compassionate, dedicated, educated and loyal are all things that I stand for. My life’s purpose is to work hard and to help others. An accomplishment that I am working toward that will help me fulfill my life’s purpose while still being consistent with my values is to become a scientist. As a scientist, I can learn more about the world in order to contribute to it. In order to reach this goal, I have to be determined and have to understand what others need. I have to be dedicated and compassionate. The quote, “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today”, by H. Jackson Brown Jr. inspires me to do this.

In my time at the internship I have gained many experiences that I will always value. I have worked with a variety of patients, although all children. They ranged in a disabilities and syndromes. I have seen children with autism, intellectual disabilities, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, Down syndrome, Torticollis, premature infants, pediatric feeding disorders, and numerous others. Each child has been unique in their self as well as how occupational therapy aided them. Each treatment plan was different and I learned much for their variance.

I would relish the opportunity to help in schools that provide Special Needs Education as this is specifically relevant to my career plan of becoming an Occupational Therapist. I am interested in

Taking part in-group events throughout the campus is a key moment for most if not all-incoming freshman. It is a chance to find and make friends with similar interest or a time to get into something completely new and expand their horizons. Due to the knowledge I’ve earned during my University 101 It is apparent to me that I truly have a place in thee AASS which is why I have begun to look into the BSU and BMIM groups and through a few key presentations such as those by Brandi Wells and Gary Allison I can see my self in countless other programs as well.

I am ready for an internship in public radio because I have the strong writing and communication skills that working in the media requires. My studies in

Like I’ve previously mentioned, my step-mother teaches kids with special needs. I have gone to one of her Saturday school sessions and worked with middle schoolers with and without disabilities. I have to admit, the students without disabilities were much more difficult to help due to their attitudes. I enjoyed helping the students with special needs more than the “regular ed” kids. They were more willing to put in the effort to learn the material. I’ve also worked at a camp for kids with disabilities called Camp Blessing (formerly known as Camp Barnabas Texas). Unfortunately, at the time I was too young to be one on one with the campers, but I got to serve them in the dining hall, worship God with them, and help whenever an issue arrived or a counselor needed an extra set of hands. That summer, that week at camp was my favorite week. I’ve had wonderful experiences working with kids with special needs, but again I don’t have the passion for it to be a career. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with kids with special needs in a non-work context though. It would be a fulfilling yet draining career path. Growing up, I’ve experienced directly what it’s like to be in contact with kids with special needs every

First, let me tell you a little about myself and my family, I am a wife of 19 years, and mother of five children, two adult children who have moved out of our home, and three very active teenagers still living at home. We also are privileged to have a 3 year old grandson. My husband recently left his full time job to pursue his passion for woodworking and focus on his growing home based business. We travel on weekends selling our wares at craft shows. We have had our ups and downs like any family, but we know God will see us through whatever comes our way. Two years a go, I left a job and position that I was unhappy in to start a new career at a health care facility. At first, I was scared as I had never dealt with insurances and HIPAA laws

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” I am Alexis Brown a current freshmen at the University of Southern Mississippi. I am a psychology major, which works incoherence to why I have a passion for serving and supporting others. This quote speaks to my inner being because I personally have a passion and servant’s heart to see people beyond myself, encouraged, supported, and valued. No matter their background, race, culture, values, or morals.

I have also had experience working with some children with mental health diagnosis’. I spent two summers working at Greenland Point Center, a lower-income summer camp in Princeton. One male camper I worked with had autism, and one of my interactions with him was life-changing for me. He was highly distressed due to the changes

Since an early age my passion has always been to help others. In every aspect of my educational career and in my jobs, I have always determined that helping someone is the goal. Helping people is a goal that can be achieved in any work field regardless of what one does. For the last five years, I have volunteered for a non-profit organization named “Hogar de Ninos: Semillas de Fe” (translates to “A Home for Children: Seeds of Faith”). In this organization, a group of young adults have traveled to the Dominican Republic once a year for a period of two weeks each trip. Our goal is to help the impoverished children. These children have been exposed to countless traumatic events including being physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. The organizations mission consists of helping develop these children

From the time I was a young girl, my parents always stressed the importance of volunteering. My mom would go with us to volunteer at church every year when our church invited homeless people to stay for the week; we would help serve food and drinks. My mom and dad would also take my siblings and me out to buy toys so we could donate them to Toys for Tots. Every winter we would go to my dad’s work to volunteer. He worked for the Ferndale, MI fire department and every year they would buy and donate clothes and toys to needy families around the holidays. Volunteering with my family helped me discover my passion for helping others.

When I hear “concern for community”, I think of having sympathy towards the people in the place I call home. I am a teenager, what do I know. Consider this: A future community that has people helping others. This community has a passion for helping its members. Who wants a community like that? I know I do. I pretty sure all cooperatives do too. Why else would one of the seven cooperative principles “Concern for Community".Cooperative members, who are even part of the community, have a vision of the community should look like. I believe one of the ways I can see my vision for the community come true is to help the future generations have the enthusiasm for helping others. I think if we help the kids of today then they will be great people of

A personal mission statement is a philosophy or creed that one plans to follow in daily life. It is usually designed with positivity, purpose, and with personal goals for every aspect of life such as career, finances, etc. It also focuses on personality traits that one would like to possess and the accomplishments that one wants to achieve, both short-term and long term. It also houses the individuality of the person writing it. Every person writing a personal mission statement is will produce a different statement. This is primarily because people value different things, characteristics and have different goals. The purpose of this paper is to explore my mission statement (Covey, 2013, pp.113).