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Area of Specific interest in Early Childhood Education

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Area of Specific interest in Early Childhood Education

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I would like to obtain my CDA this year and become HighScope Certified in the near future. My ultimate goal with education is to get my Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education with a concentration in Trauma.

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My daughter’s and I were homeless after leaving an abusive relationship with my ex fiancé and bouncing from house to house and different homeless shelters until an opening finally opened up at a Christian transitional housing center called Hope Ministries, in South Bend, Indiana. We stayed rent free utility free with clothes and three meals provided for 17 months. Until last November my mother died leaving my brother and I her house we were no longer homeless and I found my calling. While there free childcare was provided using the HighScope model of teaching. I saw first hand a three year old boy go from not being able to verbally communicate and having physically aggressive outburststo  to saying please and thank you. Being a child of ever type of abuse there is and having alcoholic parents I realized that I wanted to help children affected by trauma and abuse like me. There is hope, healing, and freedom from the pain. Eventually I would like to be a preschool teacher at Hope or the director over their Children’s ministry. I believe my degree from Pacific Oaks College will help me accomplish this goal.

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I am a 29 year old newlywed and mother of two.I am Catholic but attend two to three different churches on a good Sunday. My husbands non denominational church, my non denominational church, and my Catholic Church. I enjoy listening to Christian music, taking pictures and videos, and occasionally reading a good self help book.

***I am a HUGE fan of Garth Brooks and my husband and I have been to two of his concerts! Our last concert was at the Notre Dame Stadium during a literal blizzard.

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I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Holy Cross College, one of Notre Dames sister schools. My major was Early Childhood Education. I could not pass the state tests so I did not complete student teaching or get my teaching license.

I currently work at a Christian preschool as a one on one teacher for a little boy who is in foster care. God new I needed this job to help support my family and to restore my soul. Previously I was an assistant teacher at a preschool/daycare for 3/4 year olds than later 5 year olds. I stayed there for about eight months.

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I was a single mother for eight years until my husband and I got married June 30th 2018. We went to high school together and he drove me nuts! Everyone called him grandpa than because he dressed and combed his hair like a grandpa. He was such a dork, but I respected him. Never would I have imagined that we would later marry each other. He was very persistent to break out of the friend zone that I put him in. Today he is my best friend and amazing father to my girls who are not biologically his.

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Sierra Leone is eight. My youngest daughter Ameilia Grace just turned three on Christmas. This is a picture of them with my husband Josh.