Social Work Observation Report

I am a transfer student. This is my first year at California State University, Long Beach. My major is human development and my minor is social worker. This major has many categories because each professor has assigned his or her students to cooperate by being a volunteer or an intern to get involved in their future career. For instance, in the course Human Service 273, my professor required me to intern or volunteer a total of 30 hours of community service. The score I received was based on a report from my supervisor and evaluated by my clients. I chose to work at Horizon Cross Cultural Center because I would work as a small group's coworker. I took a small amount of tests, such as discrimination, harassment, employee and volunteer policy

By doing so, I would use my communication and listening skills by listening to people share their struggles and what their isolated life is like. That way, I would know how to help each individual. The Welling Community Center provides many activities to reconnect the isolated senior citizens back into their community. The following day, I would go by myself to make a home visit in order to try to find ways to link them to back to their community. However, I first needed to review all their files before I met them, so I knew how to approach the next step. For example, Mr. and Mrs. H shared their background of how they lived rurally of east Vietnam. They were very poor and had limited knowledge of writing and reading skills. Their job was selling super lottery tickets in order to support their children. The problem was when they came to America, Mr. H had a stroke after a few years. Unfortunately, they did not have support either emotionally nor physically from their children, so they moved to California where they could get help from the community. Neither husband nor wife knew how to take a bus to go the supermarket, doctor's office or anywhere else they needed to go. After hearing what they said, I encouraged them to participate more actively in the community, to go out rather than staying put at home. I referred them to the New Freedom Transportation. This program helps low- income individuals to become more independent, and allows them to go out themselves. It costs $4 for a round trip, so I helped Mr. and Mrs. H fill out their application. I also linked Mr. and Mrs. H to go to the Horizon Cross Cultural Center Mondays through Fridays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. I introduced them to the differences program such as, ESL, US Citizenship, flower arrangement and tai chi class, so they would be involved in