Learned Helplessness

I  am a psychology major. I initially started out my high school career with the intentions of being an education major. But that surely changed through my experience at my first real job. I worked at LEAP. It was a program in which under privileged children could receive an enriched academic program that was sited in the empowerment zones of new haven. After working with these children and their parents so closely I decided that education was not the field for me. Because I have seen that these children have such struggles in their lives due to their environment. Like in Push, the main theme was overcoming a sense of learned helplessness.

Precious had been sexually, emotionally, and physically abused. I have worked with kids who have been through similar circumstances. But what had Precious stronger was her ability to understand that the life from which she came from did not have to paint the same portrait of her future. I learned that working with these in the manner in which I could that I would never be able to get my message across if I do not get to the source and it is their  parents.

My goal is open up parenting facilities, drug rehabilitation program for men and women.  I intend on being able to reach the source in order for them to instill a stronger foundation for children like Precious and others that I have worked with in the past. To break the curse of the learned helplessness that has been all they know.