Volunteering At Heartfelt, A Mental Health Agency That Works With Adults, Children And Their Families

I’m doing my internship at Housing Authority of New Orleans. It is located at 4100 Touro Street, New Orleans, La. 70122. I’m working in the HANO Client Services Department, under the supervision of Ms. Angela Harper, who holds an LMSW. Thus, Ms. Harper is the Manager in the Client Services Department. I’m interning at one of HANO’s housing sites, which is known as the Crescent Estates, formerly known as (Fisher). Some of my roles are to assist and work with the HANO Client Services Department, with providing supportive services, programs, and activities to include case management for residents at various sites; assist with keeping case files and assessments maintained on each household in the TAAG (Tracking-At-A-Glance) case management system, for the following sites: Fisher and Scattered Sites and monitor files for the other sites; assist the agency with outreach and other programs, wherever needed, with special events such as health fairs, job/employment training fairs, youth summer camps, and afterschool programs; monitor service referrals and the services received by residents from partner agencies; follow-up with service referrals for tracking purpose; provide ongoing follow-up with residents in case load, follow-up include face-to-face communication (home visits) and/or phone calls on a weekly basis, depending on the stability of the family; meet with field supervisor bi-weekly

The practice setting I am currently interning at is the Community Mental Health for Ingham, Clinton, and Eaton counties (CEICMH), specifically within the Families Forward department. This department within the CEICMH works closely with children who are experiencing serious emotional disturbances and behavioral concerns, as well as offering needed support to their family. The services provided include inpatient and outpatient therapy, emergency services and urgent care, early intervention services, and wraparound services. My role within Families Forward is as an intern in the Wraparound program. Wraparound facilitators provide service to families by creating a plan to help the family navigate through the child’s treatment process to assure

My project relates to the course objectives twelve and seven this is because it talks about inclusion, in which all types of diversity are respected, appreciated, and valued in America. As well as the vital role of the people in creating and maintaining a society through voluntarism and civic engagement, a role that can complement and replace the role of the government ensuring the well-being of society. Civic engagement involves “working to form a distinction at intervals the civic life of one’s community and developing the combination of information, skills, values and motivation to form that distinction. It suggests that promoting the quality of life throughout a community, through every political and non-political process” (Erlich, 2000). Civic engagement includes every paid and unpaid style of political policy, environmentalism, and community and repair. Volunteering is one kind of civic engagement. Many of the nation’s volunteer’s group are youngsters. 59 percent of teenagers in the U.S. are recorded for their participation in youth volunteer. Most youth volunteers do so out of selflessness and by wanting to make a difference throughout other individual’s lives.

My current field placement as a social work intern is at the Family Assessment Program (FAP). FAP is a voluntary program that aims to strengthen families and help them stay together. FAP seeks to reduce youth’s future involvement with the juvenile justice and the child welfare system. The clienteles that FAP deals with, are parents who are having difficulties with their teenage children and want assistance and guidance with changing the children’s behavior and developing a positive relationship. In addition, FAP is the last step before parent files for a Person In Need of Supervision (PINS). FAP would assess the family situation by interviewing parents and children individually and together, they determine the best suitable intervention for the family. If the intervention does not solve the issue or the child refuses to participate, then the alternative is to file a PINS to control the child’s behavior. Engaging with some families, I was able to apply four concepts; empathy, boundaries, social taboo and focused listening. In applying these concepts, I was able to identify my obstacles, weaknesses, strengths and develop my social work skills. The following scenarios will focus on my strategies with applying the concepts, the obstacles I encountered and ways in which I could have improved the concepts. Through self-reflection, I was able to select four cases where I was able to apply the above-mentioned concepts.

I volunteered at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, a nonprofit organization in the dietary department, patient transport and clinics to help the adult and pediatric patients recovering from acute and chronic conditions and require intensive therapy.

Nesmith-Barker was recently re-assignment to the Otis Bantam Correctional Center (OBCC) which has a daily census of 449 class members. In addition, she will facilitate the training and re-training of four direct reports. She is knowledgeable and proficient in all aspects of the department functions and has made it her duty to work each area to gain the necessary skills required to be successful. As part of her responsibility, she will continue to ensure the timeliness and appropriateness of discharge plans, supportive housing applications, SPOA applications, CRAN referrals, 30 / 90 day follow ups, and all other entitlements eligible to the patient population. She will participate in all necessary in-house meetings in an effort to effectively coordinate day-to-day responsibilities to staff members while ensuring necessary information is communicated to middle and upper management. Ms. Barker will oversee all reports to ensure timeliness while reviewing charts to ensure that appropriateness is in alliance with good patient care. In addition, she will continue to monitor and work with DOC to maintain production in an effort to ensure patients are presented for services and in accordance with the Brad H stipulation. She is well-informed of departmental policies and procedures in the Social Work Department and ensures they are appropriately operationalized. Ms. Nesmith-Barker’s professionalism and experience provide the department with the key skills necessary to maintain its

Volunteering at sharp hospital , is what is a good idea after hearing the things my friends including my cousin did at this program and i sounds really and something that really suits me because i have a passion for helping other.Since my future career plan is to become a RN, this program would very great way of starting.

My initial clinical volunteering experience was when I volunteered in adolescent health education at People’s Community Clinic (PCC) in my hometown of Austin, Texas during the summer after my sophomore year of college. I worked a couple days a week with staff physicians and other undergraduate volunteers to craft effective ways to disperse health information. The clinic served a majority low-income population. During my time volunteering at the clinic, I witnessed the necessity of providing quality health information, not just in its raw form, but also in connection to the individual. I created health communications that efficiently informed adolescents and how health institutions can better effect positive change in their patients. Through the experience, I became interested in how people develop personal perceptions of health, and how information regarding health is dispersed through various platforms including pamphlets, visual demonstrations, and online resources.

My overall learning experience, thus far, as a social work intern at the Family Assessment Program (FAP) has been productive. I feel that I have gained a variety of skills as a social work intern that has allowed me to develop in areas that I needed to work on. I am now able to develop appropriate boundaries with clients and engage in taboo subjects I was once uncomfortable with. From ongoing interactions with clients, I learned how to show empathy and most of all improve on my focus listening skills. Before this internship, I lacked the skills to understand the concepts that were being taught in class. However, through field placement, I am able to understand and develop these concepts. I feel that I am more knowledgeable about the concepts

In order to understand the intern’s role, one must understand the hospital where the intern is located. Catawba Valley Medical Center (CVMC) is a non-profit community hospital that works to improve Catawba County and other surrounding counties. CVMC, and its affiliates’, main purpose is to provide quality health care as well as promote the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being of the public (“Mission Statement”, 2014, p. 1). In addition, CVMC works to

i used to be a volunteer at Saint Mary's Hospital, as I'm preparing for graduate school they required the numbers of hours volunteer at the hospital or a transcript of the hours volunteered. Thank you for your time and Understanding. I also would like to say thank you for the opportunity you have giving me to volunteered at Saint Mary's Hospital. Thank

My first four weeks at Ben Taub Neuropsychiatric Unit had been such an amazing experience. Honestly speaking, I did not expect that I would eventually enjoy a Mental Health setting. My clinical instructor, Michelle Philipps is such an amazing supervisor and I am so happy that she’s also from the Philippines in that way I could talk to her in our own language, and I could ask her everything! I really admire her compassion and dedication to work, I am so proud of her, she’s been doing a great job. All the occupational therapists including doctors and psychotherapists were very supportive to the students. I have been seeing adults and adolescent patients under my CI supervision in the Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatry (IOP) units. I am also

When I was thirteen and in middle school in the year 2006 I had a good friend and she name was Ally who was also thirteen. Ally was never one to deserve the way others acted toward her. People at school bullied her, her family she has left only make it worse. To help her with the pain of her family and classmates she started to volunteer. Ally gave everything to the world, even her own life.

Hoy (2011, p. 29) believed that internships and volunteering allow students to have a taste of the environment that they hope to be employed after they finished schooling. In fact, it is through internships that students are provided with the sufficient skills that would help them in the transition stage- from study to work (The Centre for Volunteering, 2015). In line of this assertion, this paper will identify the workplace opportunity I have chosen, and provide for four soft skills that I can use in the said internship opportunity.

When it comes to a perfect day, it always reminds me of the day I spent in the rehabilitation center where I volunteered last semester. It was really an unforgettable memory and even today I can still fell the movement at that time.