Essay on the Salvation Army - 1484 | | who may need help for a while. When deciding where I wanted to do my volunteer experience for the class, I wanted to make sure I found an experience that I would learn from. There were a variety of places I could choose from in the area. For my experience, I chose to volunteer with a Salvation Army in my hometown of Springfield, Oh. It is an organizational group that provides services to poor people in various ways. The Salvation Army is an organization with several different branches located in various locations. This branch helps in a variety of ways by hosting summer camps for children, social service programs that offer assistance with topics such as bills, food, clothing, furniture, and a variety of other resources. They also offer several different opportunities around Christmas to help the different groups of helpers they have. For my volunteer experience, I chose to contribute to a program called Sonshine Club which is offered at one of the local town schools, Kenwood Heights Elementary School. The Sonshine club is a program that has been around for about seventeen years now, where at this particular school they met on Tuesdays from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Their message to children is that “there is a bright light in all of this” (Use.salvationarmy.org, 2014). In Clark County, Ohio, data shows that there are 27% of children ages 5 to 17 living in poverty (Use....... middle of paper ...... rehabilitation children's and adult centers, and many others In each of these cases, there may be situations where I will be faced with a family who may be in poverty and having to manage their finances, and the family situations they face. can be faced, especially in a school system, when working with a variety of schools as well as the effects that location can have on a child's educational resources if the location is in a low-income area. .It may also be that the school, due to the lack of educational resources and funding they may receive, might not fund the resources I might need if I worked in a low-income area. I was a speech therapist in a medical profession, the problem may arise that a client could do this. not have health insurance at all or that the insurance they have may not cover the cost of therapy sessions.

Essay / Essay on the Salvation Army - 1484 | | who may need help for a while. When deciding where I wanted to do my volunteer experience for the class, I wanted to make sure I found an experience that I would learn from. There were a variety of places I could choose from in the area. For my experience, I chose to volunteer with a Salvation Army in my hometown of Springfield, Oh. It is an organizational group that provides services to poor people in various ways. The Salvation Army is an organization with several different branches located in various locations. This branch helps in a variety of ways by hosting summer camps for children, social service programs that offer assistance with topics such as bills, food, clothing, furniture, and a variety of other resources. They also offer several different opportunities around Christmas to help the different groups of helpers they have. For my volunteer experience, I chose to contribute to a program called Sonshine Club which is offered at one of the local town schools, Kenwood Heights Elementary School. The Sonshine club is a program that has been around for about seventeen years now, where at this particular school they met on Tuesdays from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Their message to children is that “there is a bright light in all of this” (Use.salvationarmy.org, 2014). In Clark County, Ohio, data shows that there are 27% of children ages 5 to 17 living in poverty (Use....... middle of paper ...... rehabilitation children's and adult centers, and many others In each of these cases, there may be situations where I will be faced with a family who may be in poverty and having to manage their finances, and the family situations they face. can be faced, especially in a school system, when working with a variety of schools as well as the effects that location can have on a child's educational resources if the location is in a low-income area. .It may also be that the school, due to the lack of educational resources and funding they may receive, might not fund the resources I might need if I worked in a low-income area. I was a speech therapist in a medical profession, the problem may arise that a client could do this. not have health insurance at all or that the insurance they have may not cover the cost of therapy sessions.

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