Social Work Personal Statement

Personal Statement
Social work wasn’t the most obvious choice for me when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do. For the longest time I thought I wanted to be a marine biologist but then I got to thinking about it and realized I don’t really like the ocean and I didn’t want to move that far away from my family. So then I was set on becoming a vet. I looked all into it, what schools I could go to, how much I would make, everything. Then I job shadowed a vet in town and got to watch her perform surgeries and it dawned on me that it wasn’t what I really wanted to do either. Then I went through a phase of panic because I was a Junior in high school and everyone was telling me I needed to start getting my future all planned out and that
I was involved in HOBY which encourages you to volunteer and really make a difference around you and it shares a lot of core values that social work does. And while involved with HOBY I would go help at this place called the Jackson House in Hot Springs and would serve food to those in need. And I was in EAST and I always did projects that helped my community or my school. I raised toys and stuffed animals for the children at Safe Haven which is a shelter for women and children. My EAST class needed funding for new equipment so I designed and sold t-shirts and got us the money. I noticed a few families at our school were always hungry and needed help so I reached out to a teacher and we partnered clubs together and made food baskets to send home with the families. I made posters and put them up around school about things like To Write Love on Her Arms and tried to spread knowledge about issues like that to my fellow school mates. I was even named student of the month for compassion. So it was no great shock to anyone when I decided social work was what I wanted to do. I think it was just hard for me to see it because I had been through so much and had a very negative view about social workers. When I was in
You don’t ever really stop and think about why people need to be helped. Why you help them is a little easier, you help because it’s the right thing to do, well to me anyways. I help because I have a passion to, I have a want to help others. Some people don’t want help though. But I don’t think they actually don’t want help, I think they are just embarrassed or ashamed, or they don’t want anyone to know, or it’s a dignity thing, they don’t want to seem weak. I think everyone needs help in a way, just some more than others and in different forms. I think people also need help in times when they can’t help themselves. My mother was a drug addict and still struggles with her addiction and she wanted to stop but she couldn’t do it on her own. Some people need help because life is just too hard and they can’t do it on their own and they need a helping hand. I think people need help so they can get to a better place in their life. So they can achieve their goals. I also think help is just a natural part of being human. We aren’t born with the ability to fend for ourselves. We require help from others. There’s no way you can make it through life all on your own, never having help from anybody. You needed help to walk, you needed help to tie your shoes and so on. As you get older and you go through different life experiences, and you’ll need different forms of help. And I think