{"id":3493,"date":"2021-01-27T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglascounty.everychildoregon.org\/?p=3493\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:26:30","slug":"brought-difficult-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everychildoregon.org\/douglas\/stories\/brought-difficult-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What Brought You to This Difficult Work?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">What Brought You to This Difficult Work?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Working for the Child Welfare agency for over 20 years and being asked the question, \u201cWhat brought you to this difficult work\u201d, took my thinking way back to when I was a child\u2014traumatic childhood experiences. Having children of my own when I began this career, made me more aware of my childhood traumas and triggered my thoughts with my parenting style and approach to situations.\u00a0I realized that my calling, heart, and empathy I have always had for others, would be strengths to the type of work and exposure I would have if I worked for an agency like Child Welfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I was the oldest of five children and not the targeted child for the physical abuse we each suffered and endured. My fight began with an internal drive to help my siblings. I tried to be their voice as I lashed out at the person that was supposed to protect and nurture us, not harm us\u2014we called her our mother. Through years of chaos, I dropped out of high school and left my childhood home at age 16, and vowed to never return. Over the years I began to mature through my own life experiences, but most of all through my higher education (Social &amp; Behavioral Studies) which was personally therapeutic.\u00a0I had to work through a lot to be able to help others.\u00a0My thoughts changed about why my siblings and I went through such sadness and hurt.\u00a0I realized that our mother needed services to help her see different; parenting, therapy, and other important life skills such as empowerment.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Working with children and adults over the years, hearing similar stories of abuse and neglect, and being their voice in a complicated system, is why I choose to do the work I do.\u00a0 In my current social work capacity, I am a Foster Home Certifier and love it! The week before Christmas, my personal goal was to try and get as many children as possible placed into healthy relative homes (or someone known to them) by Christmas.\u00a0As I called each of the newly certified caregivers to let them know their relative child could officially be placed into their home, then hearing their tears of happiness and thankfulness, is one of the reasons I continue to do this work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em>Be a voice for a child who may not be able to voice their trauma experiences.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em>If you see or suspect a child is being abused or neglected, please call the Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (1-855-503-SAFE).\u00a0 You may be just that voice a child needs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">*Stock footage used<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Brought You to This Difficult Work? 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