Direct Support Professional Position Letter

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I would like to express my interest in the Direct Support Professional position at North Suffolk Mental Health Association. I am committed to your mission of helping the individuals you serve achieve independence by providing a wide variety of treatments, intervention as early as possible and promoting prevention and education. This position would give me the opportunity to contribute the knowledge I have gained working with adolescents from the most vulnerable populations as well previous experience working to destigmatize mental illness and maximize the quality of life of individuals with mental illness, to enrich of the lives of the most marginalized and often underserved individuals. As a marginalized individual who had the privilege

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