One of the specific things that I would like to learn about at my internship is how to have the proper communication skills to assist the clients. I want to educate myself well enough so if client comes to ask me any questions I will be able to answer them. A big part of my agency is being able to explain and educate the clients on their rights as tenants …show more content…
It's really important to have the knowledge of these things to be able to help out the client. I want to educate myself and do their research so that I could be better equipped to help the client in whatever they need assistance with when they walk into the agency.
Another specific thing that I would like to learn at my internship is directions to my career path. By the end of my internship I expect to know what type of population I would want to work with and what field. At the start of my internship I really wanted to experience every aspect of social work field with every population , as the weeks go by I'm starting to get an insight into my interest and what I want to do in the future as a social work.
I was a client at my agency I would expect for the Human Service intern to be respectful and professional. Most of the clients walking into the agency I'm interning are Spanish speaking immigrants who are already having a hard time and being harassed by their landlords. When they walk into the agency they expect for someone to treat them with respect because it's not something they get often. They also expect for the intern to have some knowledge on how to help them because if no one at the agency knows how to help them then they might lose their home. I think it's really important for the Human Service intern to treat their clients with respect and the dignity