Challenging Biases in Human Services Career

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When I started the Human Services career I always believed that I was going to be able to help anyone that needs help and it did not matter what type of crimes they had committed. Little did I know that this career was going to challenge me as a person and was going to make me think about my own biases and make me think how can I over come my own biases to be an effective helper. Being a single mother of two children, I am overprotected with my children and even like that its sad too know that sometimes child molesters are someone you know. At one point, I believed that a child molester should not even be allowed to live in this country and they should be in jail for life. Learning and developing into the helper I will become in

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