Case Study: An Unexpected Turn In My Life

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An Unexpected Turn in My Life
Have you ever had a time when a topic you are not interested in might is suddenly interesting to you? Well, that happened to me a while back. It all started with my philanthropy class back in high school. My business teacher informed us of a field trip to a non-profit organization called CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). I wasn’t interested in going, to me, it just sounded like a boring place to be at. The day of the field trip arrived and like any other person, I had the annoyed attitude on already. As, we arrive at the facility a tension feeling was present. As I walked inside some pictures of children on the wall intrigued me, but I didn’t attention to them and ignored them thinking that they might have been pictures of children that had attended an event they sponsored. As the presenter started talking about the mission of the organization, he grabbed my attention after he finished talking about abused and neglected children. …show more content…

My thoughts were that all children should be happy, play, and have easy lives, but after listening to these stories I understood that it is not always like that and these kids need special help. Before this visit to the CASA organization, I was focused primarily on studying in the field of law enforcement, but listening to those cases made me change my mind.
After this dramatic experience in my life, now I have changed my mind and my primary focus is to hopefully become a social worker. Graduating as a social worker will allow me to achieve my new goal of graduation and joining the CPS. I certainly feel that all my hard work will pay off when I can have the legal right to defend and protect these kids and punish their parents for such neglect. It also opened my eyes to learning that many kind-hearted people out there do care for others and like me especially poor innocent

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