Social Work Goals Essay
My goals and dreams aren’t gigantic. I simply wish to try and help people on a daily basis who weren’t fortunate in life. If there is anyway that I can possibly shed some light towards all the current difficult problems of todays society then I have met my goals. I want to improve their situation, at least in my city of Baltimore where it is much needed. I simply want to find out why there is so much racial division in our communities and why so many people are unhappy in their daily lives. I already have an uphill battle because when I first started my quest into becoming something more than just a person on the sideline, I had to come to the realization that this career change would have a negative impact on me financially. Hopefully it
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In several parts of this country social workers have reacted emotionally to the grand juries decisions not to indict the officers charged with the deaths of several police involved deaths including the one here in Baltimore of Freddie Grey. Unfortunately living here in Baltimore, which in the past years has shown signs of embedded racism, most of the roles by a social worker have been now upgraded to that of a psychologist and therapist all in one. No matter if it is safeguarding an innocent child from parental neglect and abuse or eradicating racial profiling, social workers routinely make attempts to expose all the injustice they see. My goal is to promote and bring about change. I believe this can only be done from the bottom up. By helping to mold and change the thought process of today’s youth into having a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding their environment and how they can make changes to better themselves as well as those around them. I just want to try and accomplish this as a social worker. My kid’s future matters more to me then the present. What they see around them and how every person they interact with can significantly change their direction and for this reason I have chosen social work as my field of study and with time and patience, one day of my new
In several parts of this country social workers have reacted emotionally to the grand juries decisions not to indict the officers charged with the deaths of several police involved deaths including the one here in Baltimore of Freddie Grey. Unfortunately living here in Baltimore, which in the past years has shown signs of embedded racism, most of the roles by a social worker have been now upgraded to that of a psychologist and therapist all in one. No matter if it is safeguarding an innocent child from parental neglect and abuse or eradicating racial profiling, social workers routinely make attempts to expose all the injustice they see. My goal is to promote and bring about change. I believe this can only be done from the bottom up. By helping to mold and change the thought process of today’s youth into having a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding their environment and how they can make changes to better themselves as well as those around them. I just want to try and accomplish this as a social worker. My kid’s future matters more to me then the present. What they see around them and how every person they interact with can significantly change their direction and for this reason I have chosen social work as my field of study and with time and patience, one day of my new