Why Is Education Important to Your Future and How Will Your Education Help You Benefit Your Community? 

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Why Is Education Important to Your Future and How Will Your Education Help You Benefit Your Community?

I am finishing up a degree in substance abuse counseling. I am in this to assist addicts with getting back into the community and remember that they still matter.  I do this so that they are reminded that they are valuable. Encouraging and assisting them to see how they can go back into the community and be better parents, better employees, valuable friends, and effective parts of the community.

I will be pursuing a degree in Social Justice to further assist a bigger part of the community. I am a certified Chemical Dependency Counseling Assistant, a Social Worker Assistant, a Medical Health Technician, I am a Certified Peer Supporter. I am a certified Managing Barber in my community in a mobile self- care salon where I focus on the elderly patrons who are not mobile. I go out and take care of them at their homes.

My community picked me to help organize our community and advocate, so I campaigned in the US May 3, 2022, Election for the Precinct Committee Representative of Ward 11-A in Cleveland, Ohio, and won. Later, I was voted onto the Executive Board of committee representatives in our district by the other members and remain active in serving the neighborhood.

Much of my life consists of volunteering, they are not paid positions. I am a full time 49-year-old student that has come to realize that I need to participate and teach my son and in my community. I need to be that voice for those who are afraid to speak, or do not know what to say and who to say it to, that helping hand when things look hopeless on both sides of the fence. I say this because there are many victims who need a voice, but there are people in the community that can make change, but they are not aware of what is going on. When I talk, I hope to open their eyes and hearts so that they are informed about what is needed and can also make change.  I will be a comfort zone for people who feel lost because they know something is wrong, but do not know what to do about it. I will learn what to do, I will do it and I will do it well.

I do not want to just spot problems and talk about what is not fair. I will learn solutions. I will learn the statistics, I will find out how to gain support for the causes, and I will spread what I learn to the community. Studying and going to graduate school will satisfy the desire I have for learning and give me the confidence I need to keep pushing myself.

A degree will show my seriousness and dedication for the causes.