Teen Moms Program

I aspire to integrate service into my everyday life, to connect myself to the surrounding community, world, and universe. The richness of varying cultures, diverse societies, varying lifestyles, and religious choices inspires me to reach out in order to experience the world. Currently I am exploring and learning through a developing project regarding teen pregnancy. I admire Eleanor Roosevelt who was able to motivate, empower, and promote drastic change. Reading about influential women, such as Eleanor Roosevelt was stimulating because I started to envision the changes I desire to commence in the world. However, these feelings have been accompanied by doubt and the fear of not being able to succeed, or the fear of being ridiculed for striving towards the impossible. Nevertheless, I am finally confident that I am working towards a personal mission that could continuously aid the surrounding community and hopefully contribute to the universe as a whole.
Working with pregnant teens has become a personal issue to me because I have experienced the challenges students, teenagers, and young parents are confronted with in their cultural settings, regardless of their physical location in this world. These adolescent parents are not only dealing with financial hardships and difficulty continuing their education, but with criticism from their parents and judgments from their society and peers as well.
In my perspective the Thou will be reached through service to others. One can fend for themselves, but must aid their surrounding community in doing so. Through my work at County and Community it has become apparent to me that the small but intricate steps will take me further in my work than any large blurred advancements. I have learned to keep a flowing consistency with my service, which allows me to continually reflect upon my ending goal of community betterment. I strive to improve the lives of my peers worldwide; through lowering teen pregnancy rates, ending the STDS epidemic, providing essential resources, and calling teens to pose personal protests in order to advance in careers and higher learning opportunities. It is through these goals that I am able to better communicate with the Thou. This is how my dialogue becomes clear, how my love remains strong, and how my faith and hope transcend internationally.