Family System Captone Project: Self Reflection
Self-Reflection
The family system capstone course was an eye-opening experience where I could learn through hands on activities. Personally, I am a kinesthetic learner, so the capstone project allowed me to learn more about my community and myself through various hands-on opportunities outside the classroom. Coming up with a capstone project was challenging because Alaina and I didn’t know what we wanted to do, but at the time, we had an area of interest in homelessness so, we contacted Love Inc to get us started. We ended up job shadowing one of the employees who took phone calls and directed that individual to the area of help in which they needed. Listening to phone calls all morning wasn't very interesting and we didn’t find any holes besides technology based with their system so, we abandoned that project. We contacted numerous of other agencies, none of whom responded besides the CAP agency. Once we found an agency, the capstone project came to us pretty easily.
Our project was adopting a classroom at a head start preschool program in Chaska. The classroom we adopted had 17 children so, my partner Alaina and I went to outside businesses looking for school supply donations. For the capstone project, we were mainly working with our mentor …show more content…
Overall, this experience was very rewarding because we created nothing into something and as a result our project helped families who generally have lower incomes have the necessary school supplies for their children to be successful in school without forcing them to give up something else up. This project has opened my eyes to things happening around me and allowed me to become a more active and engaged community member while I was able to delve deeper into something that I'm interested and passionate
The family system capstone course was an eye-opening experience where I could learn through hands on activities. Personally, I am a kinesthetic learner, so the capstone project allowed me to learn more about my community and myself through various hands-on opportunities outside the classroom. Coming up with a capstone project was challenging because Alaina and I didn’t know what we wanted to do, but at the time, we had an area of interest in homelessness so, we contacted Love Inc to get us started. We ended up job shadowing one of the employees who took phone calls and directed that individual to the area of help in which they needed. Listening to phone calls all morning wasn't very interesting and we didn’t find any holes besides technology based with their system so, we abandoned that project. We contacted numerous of other agencies, none of whom responded besides the CAP agency. Once we found an agency, the capstone project came to us pretty easily.
Our project was adopting a classroom at a head start preschool program in Chaska. The classroom we adopted had 17 children so, my partner Alaina and I went to outside businesses looking for school supply donations. For the capstone project, we were mainly working with our mentor …show more content…
Overall, this experience was very rewarding because we created nothing into something and as a result our project helped families who generally have lower incomes have the necessary school supplies for their children to be successful in school without forcing them to give up something else up. This project has opened my eyes to things happening around me and allowed me to become a more active and engaged community member while I was able to delve deeper into something that I'm interested and passionate