Exit Interview

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1. What is your essential question and why? What is your best answer and why?
       
     My essential question is, " What is the best way a domestic violence organization can help a person
     escape an abusive relationship." Well it was a long process to finding a EQ that I could work with.
     I wanted my essential question to include all victims meaning men and women and about
     helping the victims and the public community in general. The problem with that is it was too broad and
     I needed to narrow it down. So I focused on helping victims escaping a abusive relationship. My best
     answer is, work with educators to teach  7-12 grade curriculum  designed to educate students about
     domestic violence. Why? Because teaching teens early can prevent them from being in an abusive
     relationship in the future. With knowledge comes power.

2.  What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

     Well i knew i wanted to work with educating people in general about domestic violence until i did my
      presentation for freshman about domestic violence. A lot of students only knew the basics of DV, for
      example some students didn't know how to define a healthy relationship or some people didn't know
      what there are more situations that fall into domestic violence. Then my mentor Marina Wood told me
      that educating people is the best thing a domestic violence organization can do for everybody because
      Just getting to word out in public may help a victim come forward or prevent an abusive situation. Also
      going and attending some events with her made me realized that teaching teens about DV before it could       happen is every essential. I wanted to work with teens because their are at the most risk for dating
      violence and at risk or domestic violence in their future.

3. What problem did you face? How did you resolve them?

    Finding time to mentor is one of my major problem because i had to find a day where i could fit my father     and mine schedule so it could work. I ended up only volunteering on Thursday because it when my father
     has a day off and its the only day I could volunteer on. Another problem is finding the right topic for my
     senior topic because all summer i was stressing out, nobody was take me in to do mentor ship with them.
      I wanted to go into the medical field but unfortunately nobody wanted to accept me as their volunteer. I
     I went through physical therapy, dentistry and medical assistance. Then i wanted to do something with
     homelessness but the only place that would accept me was in Ontario and Los Angeles, transportation
     was my only problem with that. So i was at a standstill but i figure out from my past failures that i wanted
     help people. Purther suggested domestic violence and then it just sort of clicked for me because i
     consider myself a feminist, i knew people dealing with this situation and there is an organization in my city.      From there everything fell into place.

4.What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

     Coming into my topic I only knew the basics and the general idea of domestic violence. It was until the
      first day at House of Ruth that Marina Wood ( current mentor) gave me this book called, " A Teens
      Guide to Breaking Free of an abusive relationship" by Barrie Levy. It was honestly the best book about
      my topic because it put it in a perspective where everyone could understand it and also after reading this
       book i felt uneducated about domestic violence because there were so many thing that i didn't know
      before. It also started to give me idea o what i want for foe EQ and it helped me come u with my best
      answer. Another great source was, " Domestic Violence Survival Guide" by Clif Mariani. It gave some
       insight for how domestic violence victim should react in and out of an abusive situation. It helped me
       come up with my 1st answer which was assisting victim with safe escape during the legal process.    

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

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(a.) " I, Marilyn Sambo, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work

(b) Marina Wood, House of Ruth event coordinator, bachelor's degree in women studies, masters in cultural studies and 5 yeahs experience with non profit organizations
 
"It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship Or Domestic Violence" by Meg Kennedy Dugan, and Roger R. Hock

"Is It My Fault?: Hope and Healing or Those Suffering Domestic Violence" by Justin S. Holcomb and Lindsey A. Holcomb

(c) Digital spreadsheet

(d) For my independent component 2 and wanted to complete more hours at House of Ruth with my mentor Marina Wood. I did the everything basic work that I usually do when I volunteer there like make copies of packets about domestic violence,  healthy relationships, make and fold flyer, etc... I didn't do any major projects at House of Ruth because in the beginning of each year she Marina is always busy with training new volunteers and going to different events all over Inland valley, Los Angeles and San Berdarino. But i did receive an award for my time volunteering there. I also worked with Project Sister Services which does along with my topic because that organization focuses on victims of all gender and ages who had been sexually assaulted or abused. Which falls in line with Domestic violence its just that House of Ruth has been working with sexual, emotionally, verbally and  abused victims. I was part of their Denim Day committee  2014 where me and a group of teen work together to help plan an event on 4/24/2014. Where any person can go can receive information on different organization and also have fun with the different activities we can up with.

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 This component help me come up with my best answer which was create a curriculum for students in 7-12 grades. Working with different teens and also talking to some made me realize that a lot of them don't really know about domestic violence and how can you tell if they are in a abusive situation. Also working with my mentors in general helped me come up with my answers and make them better. For example my first answer was help victim with safe escape during the legal process and my mentor gave me a a lot of techniques that they used on the victims at house of Ruth to help them have a safe escape. Also Marina gave me a safety plan template than they help the victim  create. My experience at Project sister help me with answering my EQ by helping me realize that getting the word out in the community is the best way for victims to step forward and receive the help they need for safe escape. The whole denim day event is too inform the community that their is help out their for victims of domestic violence.