Record and post a TRANSCRIPT in which you reflect on your evolution throughout this course. In your video:
- Discuss your story as a cultural being. How has your story emerged throughout the course? Compare your early ideas to the new ideas that are emerging for you now. In particular, what would you add/adjust/remove from the Who I Am video you recorded in Week 1?
- Describe any emotions that have surfaced for you and the importance of self-care as you reflect on diversity, human rights, and social justice.
- Explain overall how this course will inform you as a future social work practitioner.
Hello. Hello everyone. My name is Suleka, Rosa. I wanted to start off by saying, what do I think about myself and want others to know? I am a mother, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a sister. I am the type of person that if you need anything, I'm here to help anytime, any day, even if it's in the middle of the night. There's friends have called me because various reasons and I've always been there. I have four jobs. I am a case manager and where I live at now, I also do sore applications, which is a disability for clients in another location. I am a assessment intake. I do the bio psycho socials and treatment plans. Then I drive 3.5 hours to Miami for a I'm a supervisor in the Children's Crisis Unit. I've been working there for many years. I've been in this field of mental health for ten plus years. I just have a passion for helping people. I've worked and helped from kids, families to adults, homeless populations, substance abuse. Um, that's, that's my passion. That's why I want to do social work. What do I bring to the social work profession? I what I bring my experience, my passion for helping people. What does this connect to your desire to become culturally competitive social worker? Why do you include the social work matters to you? I think I covered that. I'm also Cuban American. My family is from Cuba. Um, my dad is American, but my maternal family is Cuban. I was born here and all my kids were also born in the United States. I do say that I was raised Catholic, and throughout my adulthood, in my marriage, I became a Christian. My kids are also Christian. I would say that in our culture we're very family oriented. I believe, just like every other culture, we're also hard. I had the impression and the idea, and I also like seen it for myself that Cubans just like to invent. We invent things such as if we can't build something out of metal and screws, we're just going to invent with a string. I have noticed that. Yeah, I think that's about it. What I, what I would like to in, about this class would be, I guess, characteristics of more culture identities. I do have a lot to learn of different cultures. I have learned some different cultures, but I would like to learn a lot more. Maybe it would also improve in my social work in the future to learn the different types of cultures. I just want to say welcome guys. Keep up the hard work. We're almost there. Goodbye.