Assignment 1.

First day worked for a Veterans homeless shelter and shadowed a supervisor and took a tour of the place

2nd day- meet with 5 Veterans and had group therapy sessions on their background story of overcoming drug and alcohol abuse

Generalist Field Placement

Weekly recordings should be written the week they occur in order to enhance student learning and reflection.You are to complete recordings for 10 of 12 weeks. Daily recordings should include information related tosome of the followingexperiences:

__ Assigned duties/tasks:e.g., observed in-take, co-facilitated group, wrote progress notes, reviewed case files, shadowed home visit, etc.

__ Client System: Individual, family, group, organization, community (protect anonymity); identify cultural, racial, religious, gender, age, and other diversity characteristics of the client system.

__ Issues/Problem/topic addressed(state briefly, protect anonymity) - chooseone issue or problemfrom your day's work.

__ Your Role (and/or the role of your field instructor if you observed): Analyst, mediator, facilitator, broker, advocate, negotiator, etc.

__ Methods Employed: Assessment, planning, goal setting, empathic, listening, redirecting, community organizing, meeting planning, program development, counseling, resource development, etc.

Ethical Considerations, Personal Reflection, and Problems/Issues for Further Development: Apply an ethical principle (use NASW Code of Ethics, available on-line) by citing the standards (e.g. 1.07, Privacy and Confidentiality), briefly stating the purpose of the standard, and showing how it applies (or failed to apply) to the issue you discussed. Also, discuss the personal views, and describe aspects of your work that you can continue to explore and develop.

2. Assignment I: Organization Overview

Here is the name of the organization

- Shepherd's Heart Fellowship and Veteran's Home (shepheart.org)

each student will prepare an oral presentation providing an overview (see below) of their internship agency. Presentations are to be "professional," that is, formal and concise as if being delivered to agency staff or a governing body. Students are expected to use PowerPoint, Prezi, or some means of visual representation of the materials. Each student will be given "presentation mode" access to present their slides and oral description during the Seminar Teams call on September 12^th. Students may use note cards; however, this will essentially be an oral presentation and will be evaluated as such. The presentation should be 8-10 minutes long and must include the following:

1. A history of the agency and/or program;

2. The mission, goals, and types of services provided by the agency/program;

3. A description of the clientele of the agency/program (demographic and geographic description of populations served: who are the clients andwhere do they live?);

4. The primary problems presented by the clients or community that the agency/program serves;

5. How the agency/program is funded;

6. The organizational, administrative and/or supervisory structures of the

agency/program;

7. The relationship that the agency/program has within the Human Services

system in its area and within the broader Social Welfare System.