E-Portfolio Presentation

Jamison Parker

AHS-8100
Introduction to Internship

•Treatment Director Intern of Safe Return

•Feelings
•Interest
•Needs
•Strengths/Weaknesses
•Learning Plan
Learning Contract
 VOADV’s Context
o Mission: VOADV provides community-based assistance to
populations in need so that they can lead self-fulfilled,
independent lives
o Safe Return’s population: ex-offenders who have been
released from incarceration within the past three years
o Agency works within many contexts: local, state, and
national contexts
o Local: Safe Return employs services within six NJ counties
o State: VOADV operates out of New Jersey and Pennsylvania
o National: VOA is a nationwide organization that services
people in need
 VOADV’s Ethics
o Organization promotes a high standard of ethical and
professional conduct amongst employees and clients

o Follow guidelines instilled by NOHS, ACA, and NASW

o Maintaining professional boundaries

o My own personal experience
o Understood ethical knowledge, sensitivity, and behavior
Integrative Processing Model
Gather
Information/Data

Develop a Plan Reflecting

Articulating My Identify Relevant

Learning Knowledge

Understanding
Dissonance
 Supervision
o What I want out of supervisory relationship
o Open, honest, constructive criticism, and understands my learning style

o How have I dealt with my responsibilities

o Active and open to all tasks, willing to take on additional roles

o My challenges within supervision

o Times supervisor is out of office, able to communicate through phone/email

o How I want to flourish and use supervision effectively

o Be able to establish plan of action, identify strengths and weaknesses, and work
towards mutual goals

o What I need out of supervision

o Individual I can call upon after internship ends to provide additional guidance
 Communication with the Four
Levels of Intervention
o Work closely with individuals, groups, and communities

o Most experience communicating with individuals

o Create rapport by being empathetic, active listening, reading verbal
and nonverbal cues

o Internship has allowed me to expand communication with groups

and communities
o Use leadership skills and cohesion tactics for groups
o Community communication difficult at first, want to build upon
my skills, eventually want to work with communities to advocate

o Need further experience working with families

 Developing Cultural
Competency
o Exposed to a myriad of cultural differences

o Insight into my own culture and others through internship

o Insight into social locations of clients

o Greatest cultural challenge

o Assessment of level of my own cultural competency

o Goals in working with diversity

 Writing and Reporting within
Internship
o Writing about clients: use DAP format, treatment plans,
incident reports, etc.

o Administrative writing: monthly number reports,

administrative incident reports, flyers, success stories, and
more

o Oral report: CIT training on comorbidity presentation for

first responders

o Effectiveness, strengths, and weaknesses

o Plan for improvement

Writing for Clients
Writing for Administration
Oral Report
 Self Care
o Need to be self-aware to evaluate work, understand self, and
performance

o Internship source of stress

o Internal stressors
o External stressors

o Self care
o How to manage stress
o Boundaries between profession and personal life
o Being safe in the workplace
 Ending the Internship
o Most appreciate about internship
o Experience working within the human service administration field

o Regrets?

o What I need, want, and feel about ending internship

o Gratitude
o Transform internship into career

o How to continue to grow

o Job search
o Defined concept of new path
 Career Planning
o Career goals and plan
o Long-term: get my MSW
o Short-term: use degree to obtain career in human service
administration

o Steps to achieve goals

o Look at schools, find funding
o Start applying internally and externally for new career

o Next steps and how to achieve them

o Create and write down monthly goals and yearly goals
 References
Kiser, P.m. (2016). The Human Services Internship: Getting the
Most from Your Experience (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage.

Volunteers of America Delaware Valley. (2018). About Us.

Retrieved from www.voadv.org