Helping and teaching people are my passion. I believe everyone deserves a chance to improve their life. Working to help the needy in my community would be very rewarding. Any of us might need help from a social worker in our life time. My past work experience taught me to have compassion for people with special needs and substance abuse problems. Having addiction issues in my family showed me the negative results it has on the addicted person, friends, family members, and society. All these experiences happily lead me to want a degree in Social Work.
My work experience as a Teacher’s Assistant in a middle school led me to better recognize oppression. Students took the school busses for transportation from Detroit to attend the middle school in Warren. Many of their parents had no transportation to get them to school. They desired smaller classroom sizes to better educate their children. All the students receive free …show more content…
It was deep-rooted from their birth father that has an Antisocial Personality Disorder, alcoholic, and narcissistic. My brothers living with him gave them a very toxic environment. They were verbally, emotionally, and physically abused causing them to feel unloved and insecure. Jerry started drinking alcohol at nine years old. His first overdose was from alcohol as a teenager. During his life, he almost died too many times to count. He overdosed ten times that I know, but it could be more. His addiction became brutal with only sleeping two or three hours a night. He had been through many rehab programs with the last one being a thirteen month Christian program at a place called Teen Challenge. At some point, he stopped working the program. He came out of rehab and start using substances right away. The next ten years was a downward spiral. Jerry’s life ended with alcohol, cocaine, and heroin in his
My work experience as a Teacher’s Assistant in a middle school led me to better recognize oppression. Students took the school busses for transportation from Detroit to attend the middle school in Warren. Many of their parents had no transportation to get them to school. They desired smaller classroom sizes to better educate their children. All the students receive free …show more content…
It was deep-rooted from their birth father that has an Antisocial Personality Disorder, alcoholic, and narcissistic. My brothers living with him gave them a very toxic environment. They were verbally, emotionally, and physically abused causing them to feel unloved and insecure. Jerry started drinking alcohol at nine years old. His first overdose was from alcohol as a teenager. During his life, he almost died too many times to count. He overdosed ten times that I know, but it could be more. His addiction became brutal with only sleeping two or three hours a night. He had been through many rehab programs with the last one being a thirteen month Christian program at a place called Teen Challenge. At some point, he stopped working the program. He came out of rehab and start using substances right away. The next ten years was a downward spiral. Jerry’s life ended with alcohol, cocaine, and heroin in his