Now that I am a senior in high school it's time to start thinking about and learning what career I want to be in and how it would be beneficial to me. Seeing family members and friends going in and out of jail and/or prison, strung out on drugs or alcohol made me start thinking of being part of the criminal justice system to keep them out of jail and away from drugs. My future career is to become a probation officer and soon achieve being an Assistant Chief Probation Officer Having this position, your annual salary is about $99,000 to $100,000 yearly. Under general administrative direction, plans, coordinates and directs the administrative and financial operations of the Juvenile Probation Department, including budgeting, staffing, and program development; implements and enforces policy as determined by the Chief Probation Officer; manages administrative and fiscal functions of staff services, supervises Division Directors and managers of department programs; acts as Executive Officer in the absence of the Chief Probation Officer; and performs related duties as required. To become one of these officers you have to hold a baccalaureate from an accredited college or university with major coursework in social science, administration of justice, business or public administration, or related fields.
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Seven years of progressively responsible experience in social work or justice administration in areas of probation, youth services and delinquency prevention, including four years of management and supervision in an organization associated with delivery of services in probation, corrections or justice programs. You also must have possession of valid California class C driver's license. Having this job you would work about 10 hours daily but it varies on how your Chief Officer runs it. The best location to work in this field is Hawaii, Anaheim, and Sacramento because they have a high criminal rate and drug trafficking. Officer Robinson has been in the criminal justice career for roughly 15 to 17 years. He first got his AA at Santa Ana Community college then got a scholarship to Texas A&M and earned is BA and MS in science and criminal justice. During the process of getting his degrees he worked at multiple hard homes, juvenile detention centers, group homes, and a jail. When he first started he worked at Juvenile detention center he would work day and night given his all and trying to work with as many kids as possible and helped them go down the right path. He then worked at a Hard Home which is mostly 16-19 year olds that can not function in society due to the fact they are in the system. Officer robinson then worked at two Group Homes with kids ranging from 11 years old to 17 years old, he was the manager of both homes one was called Glencrest and the other was called Laster. During his time at Glencrest and Laster Mr. Robinson worked at a behavioral school called Canal and was the manager for the office, teachers behavioral training, and transportation. He keep himself motivated to stay in this field to help people and watch them grow up. The group home got shut down to insufficient funds from social services and all the kids go to a housing unit called Orangewood. He got many calls from kids that he worked with and he decided to foster five of the boys from the
Seven years of progressively responsible experience in social work or justice administration in areas of probation, youth services and delinquency prevention, including four years of management and supervision in an organization associated with delivery of services in probation, corrections or justice programs. You also must have possession of valid California class C driver's license. Having this job you would work about 10 hours daily but it varies on how your Chief Officer runs it. The best location to work in this field is Hawaii, Anaheim, and Sacramento because they have a high criminal rate and drug trafficking. Officer Robinson has been in the criminal justice career for roughly 15 to 17 years. He first got his AA at Santa Ana Community college then got a scholarship to Texas A&M and earned is BA and MS in science and criminal justice. During the process of getting his degrees he worked at multiple hard homes, juvenile detention centers, group homes, and a jail. When he first started he worked at Juvenile detention center he would work day and night given his all and trying to work with as many kids as possible and helped them go down the right path. He then worked at a Hard Home which is mostly 16-19 year olds that can not function in society due to the fact they are in the system. Officer robinson then worked at two Group Homes with kids ranging from 11 years old to 17 years old, he was the manager of both homes one was called Glencrest and the other was called Laster. During his time at Glencrest and Laster Mr. Robinson worked at a behavioral school called Canal and was the manager for the office, teachers behavioral training, and transportation. He keep himself motivated to stay in this field to help people and watch them grow up. The group home got shut down to insufficient funds from social services and all the kids go to a housing unit called Orangewood. He got many calls from kids that he worked with and he decided to foster five of the boys from the