Inmates Interview Research Paper

This week I knew I was one of the volunteers that was going to do a interview for the new inmates at Second Chance House. I was hoping to have the intake for a few days before so I could get familiar with it and so I could know what to expect and not be asking question myself while doing intake. I felt that while I was doing intake that I didn’t do such a good job. I wish I would have more time because going down the form I had questions myself or didn’t agree with certain things. I did like that we got a chance to do this although its not really it helps prepare us for the future. I now know that intake and interviews are not my strong asset. I need to grow and get better at this. I need to show more empathy and not go down the list questions …show more content…
I didn’t see the purpose of certain questions and didn’t feel we need to get that particular information. Or their were sections that things need to be added. For example my client was a widow but the martial status only had single, married, and separated. Also there was a section that talked about food stamps and WIC. I just fell that is something the case manager should ask and not the volunteer. After intake the volunteer group got together and talked about things we agreed and disagreed with the forms. We all seemed to agree that a lot of questions we had to asked seemed to be a case manager type questions. We all mentioned how at the agency we are not volunteers don’t get to do these type of forms. For example we all agreed that the release of information formed should be done with case manager as well. We also discussed in our group how a few of our patients decided they didn’t want to fill out the release of information form. Do they have to? What do we do if they don’t want a release of information? We all agreed that they don’t have to if they don’t want to. We have made a new intake with which we determined with forms should stay and which questions/forms should go. We will be turning that in on Tuesday