LATEST PROJECTS
Provided here is a list of relevant experiences in my HDFS education. These range from certifications, my professional values, all the way to experience with children and volunteering experience. Through these entries, you will see that I am a dedicated and hard worker who is able to contextualize personal life experiences so that I can help others. I think that it's very important to be able to learn from and build upon past experiences in this field so I can better help our society as a whole. I have also included links to these artifacts, if you would please click on the labels of the artifacts that are bolded & underlined it should redirect you to that artifact so that you may look at it further in-depth.
Protective Factors
Alabama Children’s Trust Fund-Protective Factors (13 hours-certificate)
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Bringing Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work
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Concrete Support
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Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
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Parent Resilience
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Social Connections
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Social and Emotional Competence of Children
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Strengthening Families Wrap Up: Moving from Knowledge to Action (No CEU)
Photo: Annabella Huang
Permission for use was granted by Huajun Huang.
ELC
Early Learning Center Portfolio
During the Spring 2020 Semester students who worked at the Early Learning Center were given the opportunity to observe a child. During these observations, students took anecdotal records of what the child they choose to observe did during their time there. Along with these records, there were also photos of what the child worked on. At the end of the semester, these records and photos are compiled into a portfolio to show the child’s progress throughout the semester.
Greater Peace
Volunteering at the Greater Peace Church
During the 2019 Fall Semester students were to volunteer at a place of their choosing to work with young adolescents to gain experience. During my time at the Greater Peace Church, I worked with students k-6th, assisting them with homework, fixing afternoon snacks, and playing activities together. The activities that were chosen were made by me, I planned and created a lesson plan for the games that the students would play. The lesson plan allowed me to explain why the activity would help the students build relationships with one another.
Preliminary Statement
What is a child or adolescent?
To me, a child is someone between infancy and eighteen years of age. Although children do not have to be fixed on a set age range. Most children tend to live in the moment, which is what I think is a really unique thing about children. They typically trust those that are older than them, as well as trusting their friends, and believe that people have good intentions. I also believe that most children tend to be happy because they live in the moment, and that to them is their life what they have experienced. By living in the moment, children are able to gain experience. This allows them further to mature and develop further throughout life. Children mature and develop over time, as they learn skills and develop the capacity to deal with the hardships of life.
My Pitch
Support
Pamphlet
Front of pamphlet
Back of pamphlet
Support Pamphlet
For this project, students were assigned to make a tri-fold support pamphlet that expresses concerns about dealing with children's mental health, their children's coping, and explains the ability of counselours to do their jobs during this time of intense stress.
BGCGLC
Internship
Facilitated the daily check in of kids following procedure, created child learning schedules and optimized the storage of administrative documents. Led informational lessons and promoted learning regarding the use of internet, career planning, photography, money management, mental wellness and theater for 22 students. Above you can find several useful schedules and forms I created while working with the BGCGLC.