Reflection of Intern

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Reflection Paper May 2nd 2013 Youth and Shelter Services is a non-profit organization and main goal is to change people’s lives, giving courage and improving the odds of youth. There are more then 500 youth are impacted throughout the opportunities that they agency offers. YSS is helping to instill values in these young people that they will learn and carry with them for their entire lives. Values like self-reliance, forgiveness, and respect for others and their self. The agency is here to help the youth overcome obstacles that they may reach. My favorite quote that I heard from another case manager at YSS is, Social Work its like putting one fire out while one starts. This is something that has stuck with me. Because I never thought of it that way, I was always under the impression that we were here to help and not put out fires. But I guess in a literal sense we are putting them out, and another one shows up before the other one is handled. I don’t know if I necessary agree with her but I did feel at times that just once one thing was under control something else started up or even at times got bigger. At the beginning I thought about how much I liked this job, and how hard it was going to be to leave it behind when my time was done. There were so many reasons why I felt this way, but I think at this time it was because for once in a long period of time I had a sense of belonging. Then towards the end of my time here, there were times where I was glad that I would soon be done and I didn’t want to look behind me. Even though I might have just thought it because I felt under appreciated and felt that I was getting all the cruddy jobs that no one wanted, but yet needed to be done. As I reflect at the goals that I wanted to do, the first goal that I wanted to do was to get some work experience in the line of social work. I thought by working with
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