I currently work as a full-time children’s behavior development specialist in the BRS homes for Klamath Basin Behavior Health. I work with foster and juvenile children ages 10-16. It is a heartbreaking job as you have to see firsthand what these babies have gone through, but it is very rewarding getting to see the progress they slowly make towards a hopeful future. While I work full-time, I also go to school full-time. I am currently finishing a certificate in Business Management Marketing and Sales. I started with Business to learn all the leadership skills I need to be able to work up in my career. It also has all the fundamental classes I need for my next degree, and I now have all the financial skills I need to either start or run a business. I will be graduating in June 2025. From there I want to transfer over to either the Oregon Institute of Technology University or Western Oregon University in hopes of starting and completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in criminal justice. Why do I want this degree and minor? Because my career goal is to work on a crisis team with suicidal teens. But I need a bachelor’s degree to do so, and the minor in criminal justice will help further expand my range of working with those in the juvenile system too. Okay, that is a little bit about where I am education and care wise currently. I shall be back soon to talk some more!
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Valerie O'Neill is the current Miss City of Sunshine (OR). You can find her on her title's Instagram.
This is her first blog for Section 36 Forevers.
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