Professional Hopes and Goals

The goal I would like to see for the children is to have a CASA organization in all counties.  This is an amazing organization and it truly advocates for children.  I would love to work as a case manager for Casa.   I think CPS needs to make sure they are placing the children in foster care homes that have similar backgrounds.  Also there needs to be more culturally diverse families as foster families.  I want all children to feel safe when they are in foster care homes.

Thank you all for your wonderful feedback and knowledge.

welcoming families around the world

My great grandma was from siciliy.  We are Italians and always have pasta on sunday. Every hold day we have Italian dishes. My great grandma could not speak any english.  I am very proud of my Italian catholic culture.
 My culture is very important to me.  We always have pasta on sunday, I am a catholic, family comes first, I put our culture first by embracing it and being very proud of it.  I am also Irish ando always have corn beef and cabbage on St. Patty's day.  I am a strong catholic and family oriented too.  Irish and italian's center the world around family. That is who I am, a mother, daughter, sister andid a finance. Since my sons were young I always let them know where they came from.  Family and love is so important. Our family always makes sure that love ios so important.

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

One day I was talking to about race with my boyfriend Tony.  We were talking about race and what were his views were.  I asked what was his thoughts if my son dated a black girl.  I was so shocked with his comments.  He told me that the girl would never be allowed in his home and that if they had children he would never consider the child family.  I was so sick by the words I just heard.  His family also agreed with him.  I thought they were a family that was ignorant and a complete racist.  I decided that day that this was a relationship that I did not want to be in anymore.  I told them I did not understand why color mattered to him and why he hated black people so much.  He was very rude to me and called me some really bad names.  I do not think I could of changed his views but I am glad I got to see his true colors.