Kristen Carter

A time that I felt injustice was at my job at cvs. About a year ago now my manager told me she wanted to make me a supervisor that means higher pay and more responsibilities. I told her yes I am interested and she told me there were a few things I needed to work on. So I worked on those things and showed her I was ready for the responsibility. She never promoted me and instead gave it to two other people and I had been there longer and knew more than both of them.      This made me feel like I didn’t deserve it and I knew that I did deserve it. I felt like I was not good enough for the position. When someone young, newer and did not have the knowledge for the position was given it I was ready to put my two weeks in but I couldn’t because I needed a job.       If this happened again I would still put my two weeks in because I have been there long enough and deserve more. 

         On October 9th I went to a training for my internship. I learned so much and felt that it was very informative. The first thing that we did was an icebreaker. It was sort of like tag but one person said "step" and when he said it you can take a step in any direction and avoid getting tagged. If you were tagged you became part of a wall and every time the person said step you would step forward making the playing space smaller. Then we learned about passing out snacks and that we have to keep record of each child if they take both components of the snack. I thought that was a no brainier but you can not discriminate against any child when it comes to giving them a snack. Every child has the right to a snack.      The second part of the training the whole group was split into two groups and each went to one station and then we rotated. The first station was about maintaining a safe environment for the children. I learned about the 5 golden...

After reading Mapping Interconnected Care three forms of how teachers can care stuck out to me. The first being when the teacher provided snacks for her students. The teacher went out of her way to buy snacks for the class. The teacher did this thinking it would help her students stay awake during class. (That would work for me, I love snacks). She thought about it more and thought sometimes students just need a snack.  Second is having a clean learning space for the students. This tells the students they deserve a clean area to learn. The third one sort of confused me but the teacher connects her sexual identity to the way she teaches. By the teacher doing this it allows other students to connect with her and to talk about their sexual identity.   I have not started my internship yet but over the summer I worked at a sports camp with youth ages 6 to 13. One way care was expressed was the youth had some say in what activity we were going to play and if they did not want to...

       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 DC...

Youth In Action gives the space for youth to share their stories, practice leadership, and to create change in their communities.       They  serve as an open and safe space where youth can voice their opinions and experiences, and are given the trust and respect to creatively apply their unique talents within their own lives and their communities they do this  by building power, leadership and action amongst youth in frontline communities, they believe a more efficient and safe world is possible. They focus on youth becoming their best possible selves.       They lead with core ,  Immersion, and Collective.    Core  works with youth to tell their story and deeply listen to others stories Immersion  explores facilitation and peer education. Focused on social development, youth discover what strengths they bring to a group. Collective  celebrates legacy and stewardship through a member owned model...

     I do not have much experience as a youth worker. During this past summer I worked at a sports camp. I was a lead camp councilor and I worked along with a few junior councilors. I enjoyed working at this sports camp even though I am not an athlete by any means. The campers were ages 6 to 13. All we did was play games from soccer to dodge ball and even some ice breakers in between. They did not enjoy the ice breakers very much. According to the youth they were boring.      In the “Shall we play?”article some of the 6 p’s were used. Passion definitely because most of the campers had a passion for sports and they used that passion to teach others how to play. Also participation, everyone participated even the councilors. The last week of camp there was one camper that did not play most of the games but he participated in a different way. He watch and told the councilors if someone was cheating.       In the “Dramatic Role Play” ar...

     Youth is “a tribe apart” according to Hersch. Youth has their own customs, language and rituals. All of what I stated above is different with each generation of youth. Some of the things my brothers say and do it very different from when I was a child.        “Youth are in-transition, finding themselves, hormone-driven, emotional, inexperienced, and always in opposition to the adults in their lives.” I believe that being a teenager can be awkward because in essence you are finding who you are going to be but I believe that awkwardness is a rite of passage.       Every youth has a different voice and a different way of using their voice. “Secure the weight of their voice through repetition, reproduction in mainstream text, popular culture and “scientific” studies which naturalize them as a part of the “common sense” of American culture. I agree with this. Youth learn to use their voice because of the media I believe....