Social Justice Reflective Report

This year, I was exposed to things I have never heard in my life. The concept of intersectionality was completely new to me, and the social justice issues had more depth and volume than it appeared from the surface. I do not want this information to go waist. With everything I have learned and with every experience I have undergone, I want to be able to apply this knowledge in my future activities or service. With my next service experience, I am coming in with prior, detailed knowledge about social justice and the impact it has on the people I am serving. During this semester, the topic of ableism connected the most with my service at the Down Syndrome of Louisville, and it gave me a different perspective. For example, the discussion we had about the proper language to use to describe someone who is able were things I never thought of and I realized that in the past I have used offensive language unintentionally. The words “crazy,” “abnormal,” and other things may sound harmless but is damaging to someone who is able. Thus, for my next service experience, I am much more careful …show more content…
They provide programs and services such as rehabilitation services and tutoring at a much less and affordable expense to meet the needs of these families. They even supply families with money to help defray the cost of surgical procedures. However, what allows them to do this comes from the money they raise. These are things that are being done right now as we speak. The money raised impacts everything they do, and this impacts their services with their members, thus to expand on this, it would be great to have more participation in their fundraisers. For instance, one of their biggest fundraisers involves their 5k Run/Walk and I would like to get a huge group of people next year to come out and run. From working behind the scenes, I am able to track where the money raised goes and it has never gone to