Statement Of Purpose: Being Apart Of The Social Work Program At UWRF

My intended major is Sociology. Once I earn my degree I intend to find a career in either social work or teaching. In choosing social work my focus will be low income families and programs that decrease social inequality. As a child I yearned for the ability to help people, to change someone’s life for the better and give them back the strength and hope they have lost through life’s battles. I gained this eagerness to provide assistance when my parents brought me to their homeland of Guatemala. Guatemala is a very poor country and I saw the despair and hopelessness of many while others still strived every day to elevate the lives of their family amidst poverty.

I began my social work studies over twenty-five years ago at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I never questioned my decision to pursue a career in social work; I loved my classes and worked hard to learn as much as possible. But the information I gained in undergraduate school simply opened the doors of my education. Most of my learning has come through constant questioning, personal research, and especially through work and life experience. Through these experiences I have encountered the challenges faced by individuals, families, and society and have been able to further access and develop the innate personality traits and abilities that originally led me to study social work as well as learn and practice the many skills necessary to be a successful mental health counselor.

Growing up I dealt with many forms of abuse, and due to all the trauma I had a lot of built up aggression. Unfortunately, at the time I felt there was no other way to express myself except to act out. As a consequence of my bad behavior, I lost many close friends, and missed many good opportunities. As a result, I was required to go to intensive family therapy for three days a week, with a women named Julie. Fortunately, after therapy I saw a change in myself, and I began to learn new skills to communicate, and cope with my anger. Although, I’ve gone to see many therapists before, Julie was the one counselor that gave me hope, and after meeting her my life has positively changed. This experience of going to family therapy, and meeting Julie has influenced me to want to help other troubled teens who have dealt with abuse.

Throughout my life, I have always loved helping people and enhancing them to be the best person they can be. My purpose for choosing to pursue social work as a degree is through the burning desire I have upheld to support individuals achieve their goals. I consider myself as someone who is keen on acquiring new skills and knowledge of understanding on a daily basis. This is due to my motivation and determination as those two things are essential to sustain as an individual. From previous experience obtained by working in a Care home & Nursery, I have always had a passion to guide individuals who are less able to do so.

As I approach the end of my junior year at Lehman College, I feel that it is time for me apply the skills learned within the Social Work program to the real world. While reviewing the possible opportunities I found that your program will provide with the not only the most challenging but hands on and well-rounded experience.

The vision I have for my career in Social Work is so bright and endless. Within my four years here at Mason, I'm going to graduate with a BSW in Social Work with a minor in Public Health then I hope to go for my Masters as well. With my Master's in hand, I would like to work in the healthcare field may be going into the hospital field. I believe it really takes special people to get the calling to become a Social Worker and it's not a job for the weak. In the future, I hope the field of Social Work, in general, gets more respect and not just seen in the light of separating families. In my time of taking my Social Work class, I learned that Social Workers jobs all look so different.

My interest in social work began while working as a child mentor at Valley Youth House. It was during this time that I fell in love with helping others and thoroughly enjoyed helping the children that I mentored. At the time, I was attending Northampton County Community College and had changed my major numerous times and had left it undecided for a while but almost immediately after starting my job I knew that I finally had identified what I wanted to do, I wanted to help people. I researched what type of careers would allow me to help people and I came across social work and it was exactly what I what I was looking for.

When I was a child, I thought many times about my own future. As regards my university, my major, my friends, my career, and my family. I imagine an able woman who wearing suits and high-heeled shoes to negotiate with others.

I attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville which I study Criminal Justice. I am planning on getting my Master’s Degree in Social Work. I have a passion to help people, especially children/youth. I noticed that I wanted to provide counseling and be looked at as a mentor to youth back in high school. I volunteered at Chicago Youth Center (CYC) in Chicago, IL.

Starting from being a certified nursing assistant, to becoming a unit secretary for a hospital that specialize in wound care, I have always known that I wanted to help individuals in need. However, I noticed that I was not happy with helping individuals in medical need. It wasn’t until I decided to continue my education that I introduced to the world of social work. Going up with a single mother that suffered from drug abuse, my family depended on social services for a lot of assistance, from everything such as food stamps to family counseling. This life experience helped guide my thoughts on pursuing social work as a career. I know that I want to help individuals that are down on their luck, but I want to take it one step farther, by providing individual counseling to adults that may need more one on one time, than what is normally given from a social service agency. Counseling will also give me a chance to do what I love most and that is to talk and get to know the individuals that I am helping make like changing decisions. Working as a clinical social work has my interest because it does not put limits on what I can do or who I can help, and it will set me up for my future goal of becoming a licensed clinical social worker. Being my own boss and changing my community is my dream job, opportunity and goal. I am currently on my way with changing my community and living my dream, because I am currently working for a non-profit

I am seeking a social work training which furnishes me the chance to deepen specialized knowledge of social work and to boost my professional skills as changing my career from personnel work to more specific helping field. Considering mature social welfare systems and complete supporting measures, I think studying in Australia is better than in my own country which established social worker system from the 1980s. Besides, not only learning through primary Sources, also compare with 200-400 hours of supervised field education in Taiwan, Australian training offers 900-1000 hours of supervised field education, which underpins the base in practice. On top of that, Australia has multinational immigrants and Aborigines which is

After going through many options the two majors that I chose are Criminal Justice and Social Work. As I further my education in at Cedar Crest College taking criminal justice classes and social work classes I know I want to work in these fields. I have also liked being around kids and keeping order. From the beginning, I have always wanted a degree in Criminal Justice to help people in need and stop them from breaking the law. Now with taking social worker classes I now want to work with kids in the juvenile system.

In truth, I began my educational journey here at Walden University as a major in Criminal Justice. My wife transferred from another college to Walden around the same time that I started here. Her major is in General Psychology. In our conversations when discussing assignments, I became increasingly interested in the Psychological aspect of things. She and I talked about my career goals and then I messaged my Academic Advisor letting her know my new found interest. My Academic Advisor gave me a list of options and Forensic Psychology seemed to merge my interest in criminal justice with my interest in psychology. I then applied for a degree transfer. Already forensic psychology seems as if it will be more challenging academically and I

What I know about social work Social Work is always a profession I have been interested in, especially working with children and families. Helping people overcome obstacles and difficulties they are facing in their lives and providing them with opportunities that I did not receive when I was younger. My desire for the field of social work started from a wish to make a positive difference in people’s lives. I have always been known as a “people person”, I’m always a person that people come to for advice and problem solving. As well as a non- judgmental person

I am writing to express my interest in the Social Work Administrative position which was posted to the TTU Staff Hiring page. Having recently graduated from Texas Tech University baccalaureate degree in University Studies, concentrating in Psychology Advertising, and Organizational Leadership. I am looking to utilize my education to benefit this lovely city and Texas Tech University.