BLOG ENTRY #3: Settling
In
This week I learned I
am going to be working in Family Services with Camille. So that I would know
more about the agency, we took a tour. Gladney is a large facility, the tour
must have taken 30 minutes! But I was able to meet the majority of the staff,
see all of the different departments (Family services, Domestic, International,
New Beginnings, ABC, Post Adoption), and view the vault to learn about the involved
filing systems. Everyone has been so
nice and welcoming here, I am very excited to begin work!
I was notified last
week that there would be a conference on Thursday morning where all of the
interns would have the opportunity to meet the President of Gladney, Frank
Garrott. I may have been a bit nervous at first but after meeting everyone, I
felt like I was really a part of the agency. The President Frank Garrott took a
keen interest in learning who we all were and where we were coming from in our
lives. He even told us a little bit about his own life and how he got to be the
President of Gladney. It was a really good meeting, and to top it off we got
bagels! J
At the end of the
meeting, Mr. Garrott mentioned we may want to attend an orientation coming up.
It was an orientation for domestic adoptions, and at the end of the orientation
there would be a panel of birthmothers who had volunteered to speak about their
situation and perspectives. I jumped at
the opportunity to hear a real-life story from a birthmother who is going through
the adoption process, to hear her side of the whole thing and to get to learn
her feelings.
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