Time Well Spent

It’s been my pleasure to be in this program. I cannot believe it comes to the end. I have enhanced many of my skills I learned to VIEW IN DIFFERENT LENS. I learned to stand on other viewpoint when making decision. I learned to be ACTIVE LISTENER in all communication. I learned to ASK before making any assumption. 

My long term goal is to continue to advocate for inclusive practice- including social-emotional learning! I am working in a high-need community where most of the children live with their single parent, live in the project, homeless families, or some maybe parent in the rehab. These children continue to go through a lot of trauma which may effect their developmental progress, especially their social-emotional competence. As a result, they may have challenging behavior to raise other’s attention and/or affect their self-esteem. Therefore, I am passionate to advocate for social-emotional learning to support them. 

              I am so thankful to my instructor Dr. Johnna Darragh for her feedback on my work, they are very helpful and help me reflect on my practice! I also appreciate the valuable comments from my colleagues, they have been respectful and supportive. I hope to work with you in some point!

Living in this diversity world now, we need to have an open mind to learn from different perspective and find out the best way to support each child.

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

 

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

 World Vision believes “in a full solution to poverty and injustice”. They provide emergency assistance to children and families affected by disasters and conflict, partner with communities for long-term solutions to alleviate poverty, and advocate for justice on behalf of the poor I like this organization because their focus is for all children over the world (nearly 100 countries) supporting all people regardless of their race, age, religion, and ethnicities. One of their vision is to “building a better world for children”.

World Vision also focus on education to improve education in the poverty cities, they  work with communities and local governments to improve the quality of education children receive.

They have a job opening called Senior Regional Advisor, the responsibilities are establish collaborative relationships and networks with fundraising and marketing colleagues within World Vision, WVI partners, and Support Office counterparts. Promote the agency’s perspective in developing strategies that integrate fundraising and programming realities. Build external relationships and networks that broadly support resource acquisition and allocation.

I like this job because one of the role is to help ensure funding priorities align with field needs, regional strategies and Partnership initiatives by proactively engaging with fundraisers and marketing teams while offers are being developed. Therefore, I could decide where the funding should be funded to promote children’s well-being,  depends on where the most needs are.

National Child Support Enforcement Association (NCSEA)

 NCSEA  serves as the voice of the child support community. Their mission is to support child support to support professionals, agencies, and strategic partners worldwide through professional development, communications, public awareness, and advocacy to enhance the financial, medical and emotional support that parents provide for their children.

They believe that both parents are responsible for the emotional and financial support of their children.  We believe that the best interests of the children come first and individual interests should be secondary when parental or professional interests differ.

NCSEA serves child support professionals, agencies, and strategic partners worldwide through professional development, communications, public awareness, and advocacy to enhance the financial, medical and emotional support that parents provide for their children. I like how the organization advocates on behalf of children by promoting sound public policy and allocation of resources to support implementation of those policies.

I am interested in the Child Support Officer position. The duties include plan, direct, manage, supervise and perform a variety of tasks involving case establishment, collections, and distribution of family and child support within the Department of Child Support Services.   Qualification includes One year of clerical experience in the Sacramento County office of child support with duties involving case intervention and/or in the public service unit. one year of billing or collection work, including interviewing debtors with a company or agency not using a collection agency.  Completion of 60 semester units from an accredited college or university.

I like this position because it provides direct intervention support to children and families. I would have the opportunities to get to know the children and their families, then develop a support plan to support their needs. I am not quite qualified to the job as I do not have any clerical experience in the Sacramento County office.

Children International

Children International improves “the lives of poor children and youth by providing basic necessities, critical benefits and services, programs that support long-term development and opportunities that prepare them for success”. Their support programs included: Health, Education, nurtrition, material aid, youth development, youth employability, community support & development, and Disaster Preparedness and Response.

The organization has established more than 75 years, they have been providing assistance to children and families in poverty. Their network is spread out to the world to support impoverished children and youth in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States and Zambia.

They do not have much job opening. One position that is interested to me is the Vice President of Development to help the organization promote and gain their funding to support their services for children. The position responsibilities included:

•  Developing a strategic plan for educating and engaging target donors that is consistent with Children International's brand positioning” “

• Developing a tactical plan that enables Children International to achieve both near-term and long-term financial objectives

• Leading the implementation of a tactical plan that achieves the strategic objectives through crossfunctional collaboration

The qualification include:

• 10 years senior management experience, preferably in development

•Passionate about children and youth and making a difference in the world

• Significant experience in developing and empowering diverse teams

• Ability to role model and inspire phenomenal collaboration across functions

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred

            With my current bachelor’s degree and hopefully a Master’s degree later and my passion to make the different for children and youth. I currently leading my staff who are from diversity background, so I am learning how to empower them to work together. Now, I am not qualified for this job, but I believe in 3-5 years, I would be a qualified candidate.  

Referencecs

Children International (2015 ). Retrived from https://www.children.org/

National Child Support Enforcement Association (2014). Retrieved from http://www.ncsea.org/

World Vision (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.worldvision.org/