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Youth Worker Portrait

I was in the tenth grade when I started slacking off in school and putting my homework on the back-burner. My parents started arguing more, no way to concentrate and always worrying about what would happen next. I would attend school just as an escape from my home life. I was now failing two classed and my parents were called in to have a meeting with the school principal on some ways to help me pass. It was because of that meeting that I met my student support teacher, Mrs. Barlow. I remember walking into her small room for the first time and her greeting me with a huge smile and saying, “Whatever happens in this room, stays in this room.” It was warm and welcome, I finally felt a sense of relief. As the school year went on Mrs. Barlow and I formed an inseparable bond. She was my home away from home, my go-to, someone I could finally rely on. I opened up to her about my home life and how it made me feel and the reason behind slacking off. Student support offered me ex...
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Tonight I had the opportunity to attend a NonProfit workshop at Brown University.  I am currently a site leader intern at Inspiring Minds and my mentor, Melissa Emidy, was a guest speaker at this workshop. There were other guest speakers such as: Youth In Action, Times 2 Academy, Mentor RI, PSU, AS220, and College Crusades. This workshop was geared towards nonprofit management and all the work that goes into nonprofits, funding, donors, and mentoring. The workshops were broken down into groups. YDEV was the main focus in this workshop (yay!). It was so amazing to be able to connect with each individual on a youth development level and be able to have been educated on something I'm so passionate about. I chose the workshop, Mission/Value, which was led by Pegah (YIA) and Shay (AS220). Pegah and Shay talked mainly about mission, vision, and values that are incorporated into their nonprofit and how to keep their mission the main focus when supporting young folks. I was interested in h...
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Social Injustice

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A time in my life where I have observed social injustice is really everyday when I am logging into facebook. Majority of my friends, co-workers, former teachers, and family post and comment on political ads, statuses and images. Promoting equal rights, fair trade, fighting climate change, women's rights, etc. All of those things are great to share and promote change, but it also comes with negative comments, and people's harsh opinions. I have learned over time that you can not change someone else's views, or make them believe what you are saying. I have seen fights on facebook about who should win, calling people names, bashing someones status, and so on. We want change in this world but bringing hate to the table will not get us there. We need to educate ourselves and when commenting on something make sure it makes sense and try not to hurt that person's feeling or shove your opinion down their throat. Usually my natural reaction when I see a hate status, or something...
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