Who are you interviewing for your Informational Interview that is due with the portfolio at the end of the term? Carol Buehler Parent educator that works with me.
Have you been working on updating your resume and tweaking your cover letter? Yes I just did for Field 2.
How has your professional self developed through your time here at NTC? I would like to think I have grown since I had to relearn how to study & do homework after how many years. I have learned a lot in the past year that I know that will stick more now that I am older than if I was 18 lol.
Anything else I need to know? Need to vent? Share good stuff? Do it here...
Well with the good stuff 1st. I am meeting my little on Friday night & if all goes well we will be going on a hayride at Camp Forest Springs. Now for the venting.
As far as the last couple of weeks goes yes I have been busy with other classes and life. I know my discussion board has been lacking. I knew the consequences but I had a lot on my plate and in my personal life.
Sorry to say but good riddance...Linda Heinkel is no longer employed with Parent (Family) Resource Center as of 5 Pm 2night. Peggy Nordgren board president will be there on Tuesday. Carol Buehler will be in charge of a lot of stuff until we have a new director. As far as her reprimand of me. Everyone that I told what actually happened told me she was an evil woman. She would tell you one thing but had you doing how many projects all at once and she would forget what she told you. She accused me of not going to a presentation that she gave last week when she never told me about it. I have contacted the last two interns & they all had the same stuff to say about her. As far as that employee goes about the confidentiality she was eves dropping on Bonnie the administration assistant & I. She made the cleaner girl get down on her hands & knees & scrub the floor & the girl had cerebral palsy. Bonnie was telling me this because she thought it was wrong of her to make this girl have to do this and the girl ended up quitting. I think because of us talking about her & what she made that girl do. It made her make it known to me that she had all the power and she could make my life hell. Bonnie doesn't work for Parent Resource Center. She works for a Senior program. So she couldn't do anything about what she told me & this was her way of getting back. We had discussed that I disobeyed her by going to a visitation after she told me no. I had a prearranged visitation (which is what program I interested in Human Services not marketing or business)with Carol that I forgot to tell her & she was in a meeting when we left & it did slip my mind that she wanted me to stay & work on more marketing of the facebook page which was supposed to be fun but in the end it sure wasn't. I thought last Thursday when I left we had it resolved though. I apologized to her told her I was in the wrong.
That's why they didn't have a cleaner and we did the cleaning which like I said I had no problem with. I have cleaned many places of employment so no big deal. I now know why she made such a big deal about the cleaning issue. She had me work on something on facebook & then have me change it because it wasn't up to her standards. All the interns told me that she would have you do something but then go do it how she wanted in the end anyway. She was constantly preaching politics to me when I was brought up to not talk about religion or politics it's your own personal belief. I really liked her in the beginning but Bonnie warned me. She said I would get my turn. She had a few different faces she showed. Her fake side was pretty pathetic when she was trying to impress the board of directors. She was constantly cutting my community of Medford down. Always talking about the corporate world when this is little Medford, WI. I praised her a lot because she was that kind of person that loves to hear great things about themselves. It made her feel all important. I met Peggy a couple weeks ago at the baby fair I went to & I do know that she has no intention of the Firehouse Exchange program, it isn't even on her radar. We have enough used clothing places here in town already. I was trying to act professional about this that's why I didn't make it a big deal because I knew she was leaving. There will be many happy people come Tuesday in the office. When I arrived Tuesday at my internship I had to run an errand with her right off the start and she acted as if nothing happened and was nice as can be to me. I then got to see her fake nice as can be profile as we interacted with some well known public business leaders. Like it never happened. After you telling me that 20 min. prior wow the composure that I had to have was WOW. Especially after hearing her put my internship in jeopardy. I told Bonnie what went down she couldn't believe it. So there is my side of it from a more awake not shocked just out of bed me. Sorry I was watching the Monday night Packer game against her damn Chicago Bears (she's from Chicago)that beat us! Oh she was so giddy when I complemented her on the win it was quite sickening. I am not a fake person you get me how I am all the time that's how I will always be true to myself and everyone around me. By the end of the week I had the newsletter she wanted me to start and she seemed to be over joyed at the progress of it. As I was leaving she was in a meeting with Bonnie & Tara so I felt I had had a good week after what had gone down. But when Bonnie called me after my Behavior Assessment class tonight to tell me she just came home from celebrating with four beers her demise. Which says a lot coming from an older person how bad she was. She was so happy she was leaving she even helped her pack.
Looking forward now to the rest of the semester of Field. I can't possibly have that again with the new director!
Friday, October 1, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Dimensions of Culture/Webquest Assignment
http://www.ntc.edu:2051/login.aspx?direct=true&db=c8h&AN=2009640638&site=ehost-live
The work at home culture will benefit if employees use it to benefit them as it will help the company in the long run. Productive employees means a productive company all around. The major problem is that a lot of employees perceive it that if they use it then that will harm their career. It truly depends on if the company is family oriented or not. I think support is crucial and if there is no support then the work home arrangement features will fail. If the employee worries about their personal issues then it distracts them from being the best productive employee they could be. So having flexible family arrangements brings positive working employees. It's a win win all around both personal and professional as it will reflect back on both.
With cultures these days that have both parents working I think this was a great article on the work home arrangements that support working family's in this day and age. It had a study on the demographic of the work home arrangement and the results from several years back and not too much has changed in the scenario since then as far as the economy. So the data was useful and accurate as far as working families goes. That is is nice if you can find a family oriented company as they support work home arrangements. The article covered all the data I needed to know on the topic.
http://www.crownrelo.com/relo/docs/cultural.dimension.pdf
There are five primary dimensions of culture: the first is the Power Distance, the second is the Individualism, and the third is Masculinity, the fourth is Uncertainty Avoidance and the last one is Long-Term Orientation. Dimensions are to be used as a guide in accepting the diversity in society connecting countries. Power Distance refers to the level of difference that exists–and is acknowledged–mainly by the fewer influential members of a group, business, organization or society. Individualism refers to the power of connection that people have with others within the community. Masculinity refers to an sign of the respect in which the conventional masculine occupation responsibility representation of accomplishment, power and control is held. Uncertainty Avoidance refers to the culture’s acceptance for uncertainty, unstructured situations and spontaneous events. Long-Term Orientation refers to the extent to which the culture upholds conventional ideals. High or low dimensions influence countries to oppose or agree to change.
I actually learned about this in my Tech Reporting class this summer. I think this source is valid and useful in society and it truthful with the information as written. I already was aware of this as I said previously as I read it from my text book. It had all the pertinent information that was in my text at the time I read it earlier this summer.
http://www.dimensionsofculture.com/home
The American culture has six dimensions. Learning about our own cultural model provides us with a baseline for evaluating cultures that are diverse. As we expand self-awareness around cultural understanding, we are able to study without jumping to conclusions. We recognize there’s a variation linking what we actually view and how we mark our interpretation based on our own cultural programming. In the development of becoming more attentive of relations with ethnically diverse patients, providers perfect relations skills that promote all patients. Improved patient approval and health outcomes lead to happier providers and more thriving practices. Definitely within the medical background, that’s seen as a win-win situation of great importance. This a manual that covers all four topics that the groups were assigned to. I think this syllabus covers it all. This would be a great manual to use at any health organization. It has all the data needed for certain situations. How to handle situations that have diverse cultures involved.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/11711_Chapter7.pdf
This article covers the five primary basis again only in depth. It specifically talks about Japan and China's cultural differences toward other cultures. This resource had more information then my second source. It gives more examples to get a better idea. The scope of information is from many reliable sources. It was a review from the summer on the information already learned.I believe it had every possible bit of info there is on the subject.
The work at home culture will benefit if employees use it to benefit them as it will help the company in the long run. Productive employees means a productive company all around. The major problem is that a lot of employees perceive it that if they use it then that will harm their career. It truly depends on if the company is family oriented or not. I think support is crucial and if there is no support then the work home arrangement features will fail. If the employee worries about their personal issues then it distracts them from being the best productive employee they could be. So having flexible family arrangements brings positive working employees. It's a win win all around both personal and professional as it will reflect back on both.
With cultures these days that have both parents working I think this was a great article on the work home arrangements that support working family's in this day and age. It had a study on the demographic of the work home arrangement and the results from several years back and not too much has changed in the scenario since then as far as the economy. So the data was useful and accurate as far as working families goes. That is is nice if you can find a family oriented company as they support work home arrangements. The article covered all the data I needed to know on the topic.
http://www.crownrelo.com/relo/docs/cultural.dimension.pdf
There are five primary dimensions of culture: the first is the Power Distance, the second is the Individualism, and the third is Masculinity, the fourth is Uncertainty Avoidance and the last one is Long-Term Orientation. Dimensions are to be used as a guide in accepting the diversity in society connecting countries. Power Distance refers to the level of difference that exists–and is acknowledged–mainly by the fewer influential members of a group, business, organization or society. Individualism refers to the power of connection that people have with others within the community. Masculinity refers to an sign of the respect in which the conventional masculine occupation responsibility representation of accomplishment, power and control is held. Uncertainty Avoidance refers to the culture’s acceptance for uncertainty, unstructured situations and spontaneous events. Long-Term Orientation refers to the extent to which the culture upholds conventional ideals. High or low dimensions influence countries to oppose or agree to change.
I actually learned about this in my Tech Reporting class this summer. I think this source is valid and useful in society and it truthful with the information as written. I already was aware of this as I said previously as I read it from my text book. It had all the pertinent information that was in my text at the time I read it earlier this summer.
http://www.dimensionsofculture.com/home
The American culture has six dimensions. Learning about our own cultural model provides us with a baseline for evaluating cultures that are diverse. As we expand self-awareness around cultural understanding, we are able to study without jumping to conclusions. We recognize there’s a variation linking what we actually view and how we mark our interpretation based on our own cultural programming. In the development of becoming more attentive of relations with ethnically diverse patients, providers perfect relations skills that promote all patients. Improved patient approval and health outcomes lead to happier providers and more thriving practices. Definitely within the medical background, that’s seen as a win-win situation of great importance. This a manual that covers all four topics that the groups were assigned to. I think this syllabus covers it all. This would be a great manual to use at any health organization. It has all the data needed for certain situations. How to handle situations that have diverse cultures involved.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/11711_Chapter7.pdf
This article covers the five primary basis again only in depth. It specifically talks about Japan and China's cultural differences toward other cultures. This resource had more information then my second source. It gives more examples to get a better idea. The scope of information is from many reliable sources. It was a review from the summer on the information already learned.I believe it had every possible bit of info there is on the subject.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Wk 4 Blog Prompt
1) Compare your discussion in our classroom versus what you normally would contribute in a face-to-face class. Are you contributing more, less, or about equally?
I think I am contributing as equal as I would in class. I guess it depends what the topic of conversation is about and if it interests me or not.
2) Explain how you facilitate ongoing dialogue in our online classroom. Specifically, what response techniques are you using? You may add a hyperlink, ask a question, expand on a topic, offer a different perspective, or provide a summary of the topic of conversation, or give an opinion of what you think. I have used hyper links, I have asked questions so far. I have expanded on a topic thus far.
I think I am contributing as equal as I would in class. I guess it depends what the topic of conversation is about and if it interests me or not.
2) Explain how you facilitate ongoing dialogue in our online classroom. Specifically, what response techniques are you using? You may add a hyperlink, ask a question, expand on a topic, offer a different perspective, or provide a summary of the topic of conversation, or give an opinion of what you think. I have used hyper links, I have asked questions so far. I have expanded on a topic thus far.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Code of Ethics
My agency works with new parents by helping them become educated in child development with their child from the ages of newborn to age three. We work with also with the court approved visitations. We are trying to make sure we have the children's best interest in anything we try to provide them. The children are what we strive to help so they don’t become abused or neglected. Everything is completely confidential so one knows that we serve the clients we do unless the client themselves makes it known to others. We will ask the client if it is all right to share their case between us colleagues. It is our job to make sure that the children basic needs are met. Clients are to be given respect no matter their fashion, differences, and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers try to help encourage, re-establish, and keep relationships together. There should be a trust between the clients established. No one should practice anymore than their competence allows them to. We will use the informed consent with all clients. If there is a conflict of interest we will address it and refer. Under no circumstances is there to be a sexual relationship. Client’s have access to their records. There should not be any personal touching as it may misconstrue the situation and that could lead to sexual harassment. There will be no vulgar language used here. When services are no longer needed counselors need to terminate the relationship with the clients.
http://www.ntc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url&db=c8h&AN=2010188791&site=ehost-live&scope=site
This article is based on principle and virtue based. The believers and the skeptics as you will. The article describes the idea behind the events of the believers and skeptics and discovers the potential for upcoming practice and research with respect to decision-making about ethical issues in the social work profession. The principle bases abide by the code even when the code is difficult to follow. Whereas the virtue base find the code can be damaging when trying to do what is best for the client. We are trying not to harm the client any further. The difficulty of any difference within the community/institutional construction, need to be significantly understood in the ethical decision-making development in order to report for ethical trespass and the well-being of the consumer. Methodologies were used to perform the conduct of study and examine the facts. They collected data, interviewed people, and analyzed the data. They consulted with colleagues and listened to the feedback. It is clear that if you don’t want o follow the code of ethics they would prefer you find another profession. They want to make sure you are also working within the scope of your ability. If you aren’t you are to refer to someone else. Make sure the written consent form is followed to the letter. Make sure you are practicing self-care so you don’t get burnt out. Make sure everything is documented to cover your but so to speak in case anything is ever brought up in a legal perspective. What I got out of this is that you are on one side or the other. There is no middle ground.
http://www.ntc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url&db=c8h&AN=2010188791&site=ehost-live&scope=site
This article is based on principle and virtue based. The believers and the skeptics as you will. The article describes the idea behind the events of the believers and skeptics and discovers the potential for upcoming practice and research with respect to decision-making about ethical issues in the social work profession. The principle bases abide by the code even when the code is difficult to follow. Whereas the virtue base find the code can be damaging when trying to do what is best for the client. We are trying not to harm the client any further. The difficulty of any difference within the community/institutional construction, need to be significantly understood in the ethical decision-making development in order to report for ethical trespass and the well-being of the consumer. Methodologies were used to perform the conduct of study and examine the facts. They collected data, interviewed people, and analyzed the data. They consulted with colleagues and listened to the feedback. It is clear that if you don’t want o follow the code of ethics they would prefer you find another profession. They want to make sure you are also working within the scope of your ability. If you aren’t you are to refer to someone else. Make sure the written consent form is followed to the letter. Make sure you are practicing self-care so you don’t get burnt out. Make sure everything is documented to cover your but so to speak in case anything is ever brought up in a legal perspective. What I got out of this is that you are on one side or the other. There is no middle ground.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
LP 2 Blog Prompt
My 4 goals I hope to achieve are that I complete my internship successfully without any mishaps. I want to learn all the aspects of what it takes to become a caseworker or social worker both personally and professionally. I want to learn what areas in my own community pertaining to Human Services lack the much needed resource's to be a healthy community. I would like to know what careers are needed the most in this field and how much education is needed to achieve this. I rank them with my 1st one I listed in the order of importance to me. My director shared a comment of praise for my work so far.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
LP1 Blog
Well so far this is going to be a wonderful experience for me. There is a lot to learn here for me. I am like a sponge ready to absorb. I will be able to go on home visitations and that will be life learning. They have me working on the computer helping them get the word out that they exist in the community and surrounding area.
I learned that babies see in black and white the first few months as I did not remember learning that.
I was able to help someone learn a different way to access their files and e-mail that is easier for them on the computer now. I taught someone how to set up a blog that is computer challenged. Its nice to help people understand things and make it easier for them. I like the new teachers I have. My field placement likes what I have done so far with their Face-book page.
I think the the classes I have together will help bounce off of each other this semester. I already have a project to use for two classes bonus. I am glad everyone is so friendly and nice at my field placement. That will make for a great semester field placement.
I learned that babies see in black and white the first few months as I did not remember learning that.
I was able to help someone learn a different way to access their files and e-mail that is easier for them on the computer now. I taught someone how to set up a blog that is computer challenged. Its nice to help people understand things and make it easier for them. I like the new teachers I have. My field placement likes what I have done so far with their Face-book page.
I think the the classes I have together will help bounce off of each other this semester. I already have a project to use for two classes bonus. I am glad everyone is so friendly and nice at my field placement. That will make for a great semester field placement.
Monday, August 23, 2010
"Designing Three Levels of Intervention" #2
Mr. Groff is 93 and living alone in his home. He only stopped driving last year. He would like to get out more, perhaps go to the senior citizen's center. In addition, he would like to go to the Lions Club and to participate in a foreign policy club he belonged to for years. He tells you sadly that the members of the foreign policy club always seemed amazed at the reading he had done and the sound opinions he expressed, "as though I should be senile!" Since he stopped driving, he has lost contact with them. Right now he sees no reason to go to a nursing home and feels that if he had transportation he could continue to buy his groceries, prepare his meals, and care for himself generally. He tells you, however, that he would like to find a way to be less lonely.
Intervention on the micro level: Mr. Groff is very motivated in wanting to keep his mind active with others discussing subjects that interest him socially. I think he would bring a lot of history to younger generations. I would look into volunteers that would be willing to drive him to places.I would contact the Lions Club to find out if someone would be willing to pick him up for the meetings.
Intervention on the mezzo level:Introduce him to the senior center for possible other activities and other people to socialize with. He may find other groups to join that he would feel part of. His loneliness would go away possibly then too.
Intervention on the macro level: He may have stories to tell to children in schools. They may gain some valuable knowledge from listening to him. Introduce him to history teachers in the surrounding schools if he is interested in sharing.
Intervention on the micro level: Mr. Groff is very motivated in wanting to keep his mind active with others discussing subjects that interest him socially. I think he would bring a lot of history to younger generations. I would look into volunteers that would be willing to drive him to places.I would contact the Lions Club to find out if someone would be willing to pick him up for the meetings.
Intervention on the mezzo level:Introduce him to the senior center for possible other activities and other people to socialize with. He may find other groups to join that he would feel part of. His loneliness would go away possibly then too.
Intervention on the macro level: He may have stories to tell to children in schools. They may gain some valuable knowledge from listening to him. Introduce him to history teachers in the surrounding schools if he is interested in sharing.
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