Essay On Salvation Army

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Kasie Bowermaster
FSW 362 Volunteer Paper
Due 4/24/14

Salvation Army of Springfield Oh
Volunteering for a poverty program, policy group, or community service organization is an experience that will educate oneself and endure an involvement with those who may be in need of assistance for a period of time. When deciding where I wanted to do my volunteer experience for the class I wanted to make sure that I found experience that I would learn from. There were a variety of places that I could choose from that were in the area. For my experience I chose to volunteer at a salvation army in my hometown Springfield, Oh. This is an organizational group that provides services to those who are poor in a variety of ways. The Salvation Army is an organization that has several different branches in various locations. This branch helps in a variety of ways by having 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 provide several different opportunities around Christmas to help with the different assistant groups that they have available.
For my volunteer experience I chose to help assist in a program called the Sonshine Club that’s provided in one of the local city schools Kenwood Heights Elementary School. The Sonshine club has been a program that has been established for approximately seventeen years now in which at this particular school they met on Tuesdays from 3:15-4:15pm. Their message to bring to the children is that “there is a bright light out of all of this” (Use.salvationarmy.org, 2014). In Clark county, Ohio the data shows that there are 27% of children between the ages of 5-17 years old, are in poverty (Use....

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... child and adult rehabilitation centers, and many others. In each of these there may be situations where I will be presented with a family that may be in poverty and having to work with the finances, and the family situations that they may be dealing with. Especially in a school system, working with a variety of schools as well as the affects that the location may have on the educational resources of a child if the location is in a low-income level area. It may also be that the school, because of the lack of resources and funding that they may be receiving, might not fund resources that I may need, if I was working in an area of low-income level. If I was a Speech pathologist in a medical profession then the issue may arise that a client might not have health insurance at all or that the insurance that they have may not cover the cost of the therapy sessions.

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