Updated Interview 2 Questions!

1. Why was House of Ruth started?
2. When?
3. What colleges did you go to? Majors?
4. What is your position at House of Ruth?
5. What other organizations are you involved with?
6. What have you done since you began working here to improve House of Ruth?
7. Do you have a greatest accomplishment here? Or something that you are most proud of that you have done or worked on?

Rough Draft of Presentation 1

10 Minute Presentation

Prepared By:

Taryn Cronkite

House:

West

Working EQ: How best can abuse be prevented in an intimate partner relationship?

Objectives:  At the end of the presentation I would like for everyone to have learned what abuse is and also the different types of abuse that there is.

	Guide	Time
Introduction	For my intro I will introduce myself and my senior project topic. I will tell the audience that they will be learning about the different types of abuse in a relationship, who it can happen too and what abuse really is.	30 sec-1 min	Important Source 1: Mentor or book?
Verification (Steps to check for student understanding)	●      Beginning of Presentation: What do you think abuse is? Who can it happen too? ●      End: What is one type or example of abuse?	30 sec-1 min

Body (Give and/or demonstrate necessary information)

Break down what you plan on talking about into manageable sections. ●    Literal: I will explain the three different types of abuse, what their signs are and what abuse can be defined as. ●    Interpretive: I will probably either that about my mentor and how she has given me a lot of info or a book that I have read about abusive relationships. ●    Applied: Explaining what abuse is will help with the foundation of my EQ because by informing people on abuse they will be able to realize if it is happening to them or ways to prevent it from happening.

●    Literal: 4-5 min ●    Interp: 1 min ●    Applied: 1:30 min

Visuals  There will be some sort of visual with my working EQ on it.

Activity (Describe the independent activity to reinforce this lesson)

No Activity for this Presentation

x min

Materials (for activity)

Conclusion

When I am concluding I will give a quick summary of everything that was taught then finally ask one of the audience a question to check for understanding.

1:30 min

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval (See Updated Version)

1.       Write a description of what you plan on doing for you independent study component.

I am going to continue my service learning and do an extra 30 hours for just the independent component. I would really like to see if there is anything else I could possibly do besides this but I still need to meet with my mentor to see if she has any ideas and if I do find something else I will update my blog.

2.       Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

Well since I am just continuing my service learning, I will be doing the same thing I do now. Making copies, filing, being involved in events and fundraisers put together by House of Ruth  and helping my mentor with anything else she needs. I will meet the 30 hours by going to her office more times in a week and staying for longer so I can get the component finished.

3.       How does your independent study component relate to your working eq?

My mentor always gives me plenty of information and answers any questions I have about my senior topic so since I will be working with her a lot for these hours she can help me with answering my eq and giving me a foundation.

Second Interview Questions

1. Why was House of Ruth started?
2. Where did you attend school (college)?
3. What was your major?
4. What is your position at House of Ruth?
5. When did you realize you wanted to be a ______?
6. How did you start working here?
7. How long have you worked here?
8. Do/have you volunteer at other organizations like this one?
9. What is your favorite thing about your job?
10. Do you have personal "ties" to this issue?

Blog 4: Project Reflection and Working EQ

The Pentagon:

1.       Positive Statement: One positive thing that has happened so far while beginning the senior project is that I found something that I could see myself doing in the future. I really like the job my mentor has and she told me that when I turn 18 I will be able to take the volunteer training program and that will be a really good experience for me plus it will help me get started if this working in Domestic Violence if it is something I would  like to continue doing. Also, I feel like I am more knowledgeable about this topic and ways to help prevent it. I have learned about places and events held to help victims or to inform people, which I did not know about before.

2.       EQ Content: My first interview has helped me improve the understanding of my topic because my interviewee was very detailed and specific in her answers. She is so passionate about what she does, she just kept giving me more and more useful information; a lot of facts and statistics about, my topic, it really helped me better understand.

3.       What has worked for you in the senior project? The fact that I was able to get service learning and find a mentor worked out really well, especially because I found mine so early on. A lot of my peers still have not found a mentor and I think that is kind of preventing them from taking full advantage of the project. Without my service learning/mentor, I would not be as informed and passionate about it.

4.       What hasn’t worked so far? I haven’t really experienced anything that has not worked out just yet. I have been able to get my service learning, I have a mentor, and I have been able to get the required amount of research for the past research checks.

5.       Finding Value:

·         What is the best way to teach prevention? How can people become more aware? Where does the abuse start?

·         I really would like to continue working with Domestic Violence in my future, so I hope that by working with my mentor I will be able to get my foot in the door and make a connection in this field. I also hope to help out with many of the events House of Ruth holds so I can gain more knowledge and experience and even learn more about clients and their stories.

·         Next I would like to talk to Alyssa. She is iPoly alumi, who now works at House of Ruth. I would like to speak with her because she has gone through iPoly and this project before so she can relate and give me some advice, also because she works where I do service learning so maybe she can give me some tips on how to help clients there and how to become more involved.

Blog 5a.

Problem Statement

1.  My topic is Domestic Violence 
2. The main issue in my topic is that people are not as aware of how big of an issue this is as they should be and it is almost seen as normal. To solve this problem I would help with the advertising of organizations such as House of Ruth to show victims of abuse that there are other alternatives for them and also to show people that they can help in the process of stopping the violence by volunteering.  Once I solve this problem, and people are more aware, I can start prevention groups to stop the abuse cycle and also support groups for people who have been victimized and now realize that it is wrong and not normal. 
3. Another issue would be that not enough men are involved in volunteering at organizations such as House of Ruth. This is an issue because even though men can be abused too, the main victims are women and if we have more men who volunteer they can give speeches and presentations showing other young men and/or adults that abuse is wrong and there are other way to take out anger and have a healthy relationship. It is hard for women to give these types of speeches to other men because they can't really relate but if there was a non-abusing man up there doing a presentation, it could show other men that it is good not to abuse, they need someone to relate too. What I would do to solve this problem would be to show non-abusing men that organizations like House of Ruth or Project sister are not only for women to work at. To show them, we could maybe advertise organizations like the ones I mentioned above in ways that men would be able to relate to, like show them they can be involved and help out in ways that are "masculine" by like, lets say, teaching children who are in the shelters to play sports. Once this problem is solved and more men are volunteering, we can send them out to do prevention assemblies in places like the Boys Republic or high schools to stop the violence because I think if we can get boys/men to help abusers change their ways, the abuse rates could potentially go way down!

UPDATED PROBLEMS

• Violence is normalized
• Victims are blamed
• House of Ruth lacks staff, resources and funding
• House of Ruth is not able to "get into" every home because victims are isolated
• Abuse is a cycle
• Men are too afraid to speak up if they are being abused because they are embarrassed or feel less masculine
• Victims are too afraid to admit or tell someone that they are being abused  

Blog Three: Interview Preparation

Who do You Plan to Interview?

  My for first interview I will be interviewing Marina Wood, my mentor from House of Ruth. I will be interviewing her because she is the only connection I have right now with my topic and also because she has taught me so much already and she is very knowledgable so I would like to learn more about how she got started working with House of Ruth and what makes her so passionate about it.

Any Additional Questions?

• What made you want to major is Woman's Studies?
• How did you start working at House of Ruth?
• What interests you about working with Domestic Violence?
• What is your view on Women's empowerment?