First and foremost I would like to thank my colleagues that I have been sharing this tremendous journey with for the past year!! It has been a challenging and rewarding experience so far, and I am so thankful to be able to learn from your vast experience and knowledge!!
Going forward it is my hope that I will become a better person everyday. I hope to see individuals not just people. I hope to treat every child and family with respect and appreciation for who they are. I hope to be a caring advocate and resource for all children and families, and I hope to increase other's knowledge so that within my community and organization there is an increase awareness and acceptance for diversity.
My professional goal with respect to diversity, equity, and social justice would be to be on the diversity committee within my professional organization. I would then like to organize events both within my organization and also in the community to increase in awareness, equity, and acceptance of all individuals. I believe in this capacity I can be an advocate and a resource.
Mandy,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post. I agree that we have to work to better ourselves everyday. It is going to be a continual challenge because none of us are perfect. I believe that as we try to make ourselves better, we will make other things better.
Mandy, Organizing events is a great idea for stimulating conversation with a shared vocabulary. Then the follow up to impact daily interactions is a challenge. In our next communications course, perhaps we will learn successful strategies to keeping the conversation going.
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