Today I was finially able to start my internship . When I got there I was taken on a tour of the facility and its pretty impressive. there are 3 sections of sorts to what goes on at the facility, fostercare, adoption, and counseling.
After the tour my supervisor showed me what a foster care child's folder as well as a foster care "Home" file looks like. I was amazed at the amount of paper work that goes into both "types" of files. When you stop and think about it, its good that there is so much documentation because it makes sure that everything is done to ensure the childs well being while they are in the system.
Everyone that I was introduced to seems really nice, as is my supervisor. I think that i am going to be able to learn alot, as well as get some valuable experience from the time I get to spend at my placement site. I am really looking foward to seeing what else lies ahead for me in this new adventure!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
phase 2 of adventure.... the waiting game
well as of this afternoon I have everything that I needed to get done for my internship done. I went monday and had the injection for the TB test and i went back this afternoon and got it read ( it was negative of course). Then I went to work ( Kroger) and faxed the results along with my syllabus to my supervisor at Depelchin. When I got home from doing that I had an e-mail waiting saying that she got my fax and another one saying that she is still waiting on 2 of my reference forms to be returned to her. So a while ago I sent e-mails out to everyone that I gave a form to because she didnt tell me who's form had arrived (she only gave me 3 to have filled out). So all that is left for me to do now is to wait till she gets the remaining reference forms, then i will be able to start "working" and obtaining my hours.
One of the requirements for the class part of my internship is to read 5 things, 2 of which have to be books. So since I have time now that I had told Kroger I wasnt available tuesday through thursday, because I dont know when they will tell me I can start "working" at Depelchin. I went to Hastings after I got the other stuff done and bought a book that I think I can use for the required reading. ( knowing me I will do more then is required since I LOVE to read) the book I bought today is called "Nurture Shock" written by PO Bronson and Ashley Merryman, it looks as though its going to be a fast / good read..... to be continued!!!
One of the requirements for the class part of my internship is to read 5 things, 2 of which have to be books. So since I have time now that I had told Kroger I wasnt available tuesday through thursday, because I dont know when they will tell me I can start "working" at Depelchin. I went to Hastings after I got the other stuff done and bought a book that I think I can use for the required reading. ( knowing me I will do more then is required since I LOVE to read) the book I bought today is called "Nurture Shock" written by PO Bronson and Ashley Merryman, it looks as though its going to be a fast / good read..... to be continued!!!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Beginnings
Well I thought I would try out this blogging thing, since I am about to embark on some new adventures that are going to take me places I have only dreamed of going. I started back to college yesterday! I am more excited about this semester then i have been about classes / college in a long time. I am only taking 1 class which is my internship class, in which i have to do 272 hours basically volunteering at a social service agency. I am lucky in that I am going to be doing my intership at a wonderful agency called "Depelchin Childrens Center" which is a agency that does adoptions, foster care work, tutoring, counseling among other things. there are several sites around Houston and the surrounding area.
The site that i am going to be "working" at does counseling, foster care work, and adoption work. When I went for my interview on Janruary 6th, I found out that they are going to let me sit in and observe counseling sessions, go on home visits with the people that do the foster care work, do some office work ( which will be informational because i will get a look at what the paper work looks like). They are basically going to give a look into most aspects of the agency, which I am excited about. I am finishing up the last few things that are needed before I can start obtaining my hours, should be able to start next week.
There are also some things I have to do for the class wihich are going to be time consuming but at the same time interesting. I am going to have to interview 3 people that work at the agency about their jobs. another requirement is that I read 5 things ( books, research articles, etc) that are related in some way to my placement or my job interests, I will then have to do a short annotated bibliography over the readings. These are the 2 requirements that I think will be most interesting, even though there are a few more things we have to do. All of which have to be included in a portfolio, which will be nice to look back on in the future!
I will defiantly be posting more as the adventures continue!
The site that i am going to be "working" at does counseling, foster care work, and adoption work. When I went for my interview on Janruary 6th, I found out that they are going to let me sit in and observe counseling sessions, go on home visits with the people that do the foster care work, do some office work ( which will be informational because i will get a look at what the paper work looks like). They are basically going to give a look into most aspects of the agency, which I am excited about. I am finishing up the last few things that are needed before I can start obtaining my hours, should be able to start next week.
There are also some things I have to do for the class wihich are going to be time consuming but at the same time interesting. I am going to have to interview 3 people that work at the agency about their jobs. another requirement is that I read 5 things ( books, research articles, etc) that are related in some way to my placement or my job interests, I will then have to do a short annotated bibliography over the readings. These are the 2 requirements that I think will be most interesting, even though there are a few more things we have to do. All of which have to be included in a portfolio, which will be nice to look back on in the future!
I will defiantly be posting more as the adventures continue!
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