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My autobiography

   
   When I started at CCRI I wanted to be a nurse, a radiologist, and then I decided Social Work was for me. I then transferred to RIC in 2015 with a social work major. Later in 2015 my mom received a phone call from DCYF that my cousins were being removed from their home for reasons I don’t want to get into and they needed a new home. In the middle of this everything changed for me and my two brothers. I was not living at home anymore but it changed a lot of things for my parents and brothers. They couldn’t do or go anywhere out of state without permission from the boys Mom (which does not make sense to me because she doesn’t have them anymore so why should she have a say in anything). The boys couldn’t even get a haircut without moms permission. 
    I was 7 classes away from graduating with a bachelors degree in social work and this whole situation with my parents and my cousins and how the biological mother treated the social worker for DCYF made me want to change majors and also because I wanted a more face to face connection with children but I knew I did not want to be a teacher. 
   In one of my social work classes that youth development has to also take a learned about YDEV and that sounded like a better fit for me. 

   I want to be able to make a difference in this world and lead with youth. Youth are our future. I want to make a positive impact in my community with youth. 

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