week 4

The 2008 NASW Delegate Assembly approved the following revisions to the NASW Code of Ethics:

1.05 Cultural Competence and Social Diversity

(c) Social workers should obtain education about and seek to understand the nature of social diversity and oppression with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, and mental or physical disability.

2.01 Respect

(a) Social workers should treat colleagues with respect and should represent accurately and fairly the qualifications, views, and obligations of colleagues.
(b) Social workers should avoid unwarranted negative criticism of colleagues in communications with clients or with other professionals. Unwarranted negative criticism may include demeaning comments that refer to colleagues’ level of competence or to individuals’ attributes such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, and mental or physical disability.

4.02 Discrimination

Social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national
origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability.

6.04 Social and Political Action

(d) Social workers should act to prevent and eliminate domination of, exploitation of, and discrimination against any person, group, or class on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability.

It seems as if it is easy to follow these rules but I have heard many professionals bad talking about others and I am curious as to how employers make sure their employees are following these rules.  

On another note I am very curious about occupational therapy. How does social work and OT tie into together. What point do you decided which you want to do?

Family Values

How does one choose their family values? What do you think makes somone talk the way they do or discipline their children the way they do?
I ask for advice on certain parenting topics all the time but I wonder what makes one advice "better" than the other? How do you compromise with your significant other on parenting aspects that differ from theirs? As a social worker would we deal with these kinds of issues? I think we would.

week 3

Living in a community where its common for many of our peers to live at home with their parents and have no responsibilities beyond getting to their part time J.O.B. (just over broke). I wonder what does it take and what should push some one to better themselves into having a career, going to school, or both? Does being "young and stupid" sound fun? sure Does having a steady income with my own home/apartment sound more appealing? You betcha!
I guess I just wonder at what point do parents step back and make rules for their children and their future?

family pictures

LOL Our typical pictures.

week 1 spring 2013

Sleep. So important yet we take it for granted. Just a little thought.=]
School started Tuesday and with the new moodle it was off to a rough start, I'm still missing 2 classes but hopefully they'll be up soon.
Ethan, my 3 year old, also started his first day of preschool Tuesday. HOW EXCITING!!!! It's been a rough week but were hanging in.=]

New adventrures in 2013

Fabian Ray was born December 25th. Ethan is AMAZING with his brother and we are getting the hang of baby life.=]

Ethan after his new haircut=]

Few hours after Fabian was born.

1 1/2 weeks old.

Ethan Jacobo holding his baby brother Fabian Ray.

week 13

We moved this week...BLAH!!!!!! While I am SO thankful to my in-laws for letting us stay with them along with take over their garage with our things I am missing MY home. Its difficult to go from doing our "own" thing to having others in the house...or better yet us in their home. I have a BIG problem with change. I hope it gets better once we get into our routine.

SO week 13...we are ALMOST DONE!!!!!=]
"Write a brief blog reflecting your own thought process and strategies and exploring how that might be different from others (or the same). How will it benefit you in reaching your readers? Or challenge you? If you are trying to reach readers from a specific culture, how might you alter the way you share your message?"

I am a little scatter brained when it comes to my thought process. I have a little saying I usually say when I've made a comment and get that "WHAT???" look from people: "It sounded good in my head."
I have TONS of thoughts that are in there and sometimes ok most of the time its hard for me to put them in order and S.L.O.W. down. We think I have ADHD. I have  a very very very difficult time staying on task and often trail off and have to come back. I think I need to learn to slow down and take one thing on at a time so I can relate to my readers a more. I am pretty open to hearing new strategies and ways of doing things so people from different cultures are encouraged to give me insight into how I could do things differently.