Personal Statement: Support Worker Position

I was made aware of for your part- time Support Worker position by my Atlantic Canada Studies colleague, Salina Kemp, and I am confident that you will find me to be the ideal candidate. I am extremely passionate about helping Mi’kmaw by using my past experiences with work, school, volunteer and extracurricular activities. Through these experiences I have developed a wide range of skills which include but are not limited to serving as an access point for the Project Team at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre . For instance, time management is a skill I developed through carefully organizing my priorities and sticking to them to meet urgent deadlines that ultimately resulted in successfully completing my Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Thomas University.
I obtained relevant experience for this position by working with the St. Thomas University on community – based and academic projects. One of the community-based and academic projects was developed by Andrea Bear Nicholas and me, as my honors undergraduate thesis, which was to create a proposal for Mi’kmaq Language Immersion Program in Gesgapegiag: A Language Nest for Preschool. In order to achieve tangible results, I went through ethics to do
While working at LMG, I had the opportunity to create a proposal for a walking, hiking, and snow shoeing trail that would be for Listuguj, and others to promote education on our land and to promote a healthy lifestyle. I started by researching types of trails, how to build and maintain it. I was interested in our Mi’kmaq medicines, place names, and animals, so I interviewed elders about the Mi’kmaq translation and their definitions. These medicines would be on a plague that would state their definitions in 3 languages, Mi’kmaq, French and English. This project is well underway this year, and should be completed this