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when I became a social worker because I

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wanted to make a difference in a

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specific population , the population I

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wanted to work with the military and

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whenever people ask me what I did , I

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go , I'm a social worker and the first

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response I hear is , oh , you you're

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the one that takes people's kids . You

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know , a true social worker is not

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trying to take your Children , but

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trying to help you have better coping

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strategies and provide you with

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resources so that you can take care of

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your Children and have a better quality

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of life . A lot of people , they don't

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really know what we do . So if you're

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already a little apprehensive about it

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and you don't know , we know what fear

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does to people . Okay , Fear and

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fatigue makes cowards of us all . Well ,

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if you don't know what to do or you

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don't know what I do , but you're sure

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as heck , not gonna seek me out . The

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primary job of social workers today is

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psychotherapy . It's a great field ,

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but it's under understood . I had the

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opportunity to represents social work

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and various assets , whether it's

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through court , whether it's through

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working in the hospitals , whether it's

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working through the group homes ,

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whether it's working with family

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members . So sometimes when you're

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interacting with different

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professionals in different disciplines

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and different people in the community ,

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if you find yourself really having to

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educate and break down what do we

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actually do human rights issues policy ,

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where you're working at a macro level ,

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a higher level and in the Statehouse ,

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trying to affect change for policy . So

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when I realized the breath of what we

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could do with social work , it's like

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that's what I want to do . I want to

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work with people . I want to help

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people with this profession is

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something that you have internal ,

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certain skills that you have that you

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can't study for . And it's an innate

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ability to reach people and catch

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people's attention and build

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relationships that not every profession

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has the ability to do . You know , they

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stress in school that social work ,

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whether your clinical or standing on a

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soapbox for saving humanity , that we

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all have this goal to help people .

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Because the social work field is so

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broad , it's important to highlight the

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different aspects of social worker .

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You can be clinical , you can do this

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at a hospital , you can be helping

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patients work through a clinical

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diagnosis with their mental health , or

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you can go save the world , you could

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literally do anything in this field .

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As long as you have a passion to help

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someone , there is no the way that you

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can be stopped in helping people in

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this field . So , I think that's why

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it's important to highlight this this

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job just for the whole month and making

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sure that people understand the

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importance of it .

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Mhm