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class="text-s">831 Words</span></li><li><span class="text-s">4 Pages</span></li></ul><div class="margin-top-auto"><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="button button--orange button--squarish text-m button--orange" id="ShowMoreButtonExtra" data-href="/writing/document/90854C6884CCC581" rel="nofollow">Open Document</a></div></div></div></div></div><div id="divPreviewBlock" class="row essay-preview-block "><div class="columns large-8 paper-container paper-container--with-sidebar position-relative border-box-shadow margin-4 padding-2"><div class=""><div class="position-relative margin-4 text-xl"><div id="essay-body-heading-details"></div><script>if (typeof doShowProdHdr === 'function') { document.getElementById("essay-body-heading-details").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("essay-preview-premium-ribbon").style.display="none"; };</script><div class="document__body white-space--break-spaces break-word"><span class="document__preview text-l source-serif "><p>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 <a href='/topics/social-work' style='color:#3174a3'>social work</a> and it was exactly what I what I was looking for.<br /> After completing my associate’s degree in social work at Northampton County Community College I went on to pursue my bachelor’s<a data-href=/writing/document/90854C6884CCC581 class="document__middle white-space--normal source-serif text-l" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer;white-space: normal;"> <i>…show more content…</i> </a></p></span><span class="document__preview text-l source-serif "><p>My internship here made me fall more in love with becoming a social worker. I carried a small caseload and learned a lot about helping families and keeping children and teenagers safe. By carrying a caseload I learned more about case management and had a better understanding of all that it entailed. I learned the importance of community resources for our clients and how to network and collaborate in order to provide the necessary services for our clients. I began to learn about Family Court and how the court system was used in order to keep children safe through court ordered services, placements such as foster care, treatment facilities and then the steps entailed when children were transitioned home from<a data-href=/writing/document/90854C6884CCC581 class="document__middle white-space--normal source-serif text-l" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer;white-space: normal;"> <i>…show more content…</i> </a></p></span><span class="document__preview text-l source-serif "><p class='text-ellipsis-after'>As a Certified Peer Support I provide services to my clients in their home and out in the community. Through this position I have learned how to help my clients in a different way, rather than helping my clients by coordinating care, I work very closely with them on identifying their recovery goals and then helping them to accomplish these goals. I have helped clients to advocate for their own needs, educate themselves on their illness and provide them with a safe place where they can openly discuss their feelings without fear of judgement. One of the things that I learned through this job is that my clients main complaint in their treatment of other providers/services was that they were not being heard and no one was meeting them were they were and that everyone told them what to do however no one ever asked them what it was that they wanted in regards to their treatment and overall wellness. What I loved about being a certified peer support was how much emphasis is placed upon working with the clients and allowing them to choose what their mental health recovery means to them and then validating there ability rather than non-ability for</p></span></div><div class="paper__gradient paper__gradient--bottom"></div><div class="center paper__cta"><a class="button text-m button--orange" id="ShowMoreButton" rel="nofollow" data-href="/writing/document/90854C6884CCC581">Get Access</a></div></div></div></div><div class="columns large-4 hide-for-medium-only hide-for-small-only"><div class="rhino-slot center" id="essay_ad_sidebar"></div><div class="rhino-slot center" id="essay_ad_sidebar_1"></div></div></div><div class="row essay-preview-block essay-related-block "><div class="columns large-12 padding-1 no-padding-large"><div class="columns large-12 paper--related-separator-new"><span class="paper--related-separator-word">Related</span></div><div class="rhino-slot center" id="essay_ad_related"></div><section class=""><ul id="RelatedDocumentCenter" class="unstyled"><li id="related-essay1"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-12 card box-shadow card-grade-essay paper no-padding"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 hide-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 position-relative hide-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col padding-left-1-imp"><a href="/essay/Personal-Statement-On-Social-Work-PKZ4YKWYLCXQ" class="hide-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">Personal Statement On Social Work Essay</h2></a><ul><li>1892 Words</li><li>8 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-8 position-relative"><div class="card-grade-essay-preview-col show-for-large"><a href="/essay/Personal-Statement-On-Social-Work-PKZ4YKWYLCXQ" class="show-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">Personal Statement On Social Work Essay</h2></a></div><p class="text-m break-word word-break text-ellipsis-after text-ellipsis-after">Social work is a career that finds and chooses you, rather than you selecting it. 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