North Hennepin Community Colle ...

I have been a caregiver to my 92 year old mother, as well as others and currently live in a independent senior living apartment complex, even though I am not old enough to be here. As a college graduate in Special Education, I am a nurturer by nature and am compassionate, very patient and a great listener. I have taken pre-nursing classes and am a certified massage therapist. Being a massage therapist also brings an added touch to my abilities to bring comfort and care to my clients. I love people and brightening up their day. This is a very rewarding opportunity to be of service. I also have a dog, if a client is interested, who is very well behaved and loving. I think my biggest achievement is a tie between raising 3 amazing daughters as a single parent and going off to China to live for a year. It was a wonderful experience!

I worked with few clients in a last 6 years. Have experience with bathing, grooming, incompetence care, errands, medication and all activities of daily living. Run Bank of America Chicago Marathon Volunteered thousands of hours helping seniors: St. Cyprian's Ecumenical Food Pantry September 2013 - present Key Responsibilities: *Imroved pantry online presence and online donations by 90 % as a site admin *Coollected $200 with \\"Giving tuesday videos\\" *Helped converse with 20% Polish and Eastern European language speakers Mission Our Lady of the Angels Chicago October 2014 - October 2014 Key Responsibilities: *Bank of America Marathon runner for charity *Donation solicitor with goal of $1000 St. Peter's United Church of Christ June 2013 - September 2013 Key Responsibilities: *Collaborated church and GCFD employees 100% by knowing GCFD people from other * projects Joined Hands Food Pantry Feb 2013 - August 2015 Key Responsibilities: *Improved vegetables distribution by sorting before pantry open *Helped speed up vegies distribution by 50% with selfserve selection Irving Park Community Food Pantry Jan 2013 - August 2015 Key Responsibilities: *Improved food leftovers preservation by coordinating projects with other pantries *Speeded up coordintation between paperwork and distribution processes by 50% YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago May 2011 - August 2015 Key Responsibilities: *improved customer flow in orderly fashion in a gym setting with assigned numbers *and line

I have 25 plus years of experience working with the elderly in nursing homes, assisted living, and private homes. I am dependable and always on time. I am a people person, nurturing, caring, and giving. I love to help others especially the elderly achieve their daily goals of living a comfortable life by being able to take care of their activities of daily living. I treat my clients as family, and friends and look forward to my visits with them. I have done clerical jobs in the past but, I always come back to caregiver jobs because, it is what I enjoy, and love the most.

1.I always have an inner drive to assist people in need of help, since I don't like to see someone struggling without giving the little help I can to make that person feels better. 2.What I like most about being a caregiver, is to treat others as I would like to be treated, because that person could be your relation, your friend, or even you. I believe in this principle that says: 'You will reap whatever you sow'. 3.My personal achievement is that I have been able to alleviate their sufferings, promote their health, create trust, confidence and smiles in their eyes each passing day. 4.I am a person who can bear a life lived with an unexpressed hope, but not with a defeated pronounced. Full of compassion and conscience. I don't like to do things and at the end of the day to leave negatives impact on my conscience, but to have a clear conscience which I would be proud of: that I made positive impacts on that person's well-being. I hate negative conscience to haunt me.

I became a caregiver after I was working in a nursing home for 3 years while in high school and decided I wanted to help people, so I went to get my certification. I love being able to help people and talk to them and they will know I will always be there for any needs they need. I am proud of being successful with being a caregiver and I feel that I am successful because my goal is to always help as many people out as I can and I usually am very well liked by all residents and it is very easy to be able to have a conversation with anyone. I am 21 year old woman who is wanting to work with residents again because I was not able to continue working at my other job because my school schedule was a conflict with it, but now I am on a break from school until July of 2015 and would like to start a new job with new faces to be able to help as many people as I can and make a difference in their life. I love to make sure people feel good about themselves and always look on the positive side of things and try to always find a solution that works.

Ihave the desire in making a difference in people's lives to make sure their daily needs are met with the best quality care. I am compassionate, dependable and with a good communication skills. I have been working in this position for the past six years and I think it's enough to deal with residents with vulnerability.

I became a care giver because I used to care for my grandmother when she was old, and during that time I became so closed and had compassion for her, seen the way she was deteorating physically as well as mentally. So when I happen to relocate to the United states, I decided to to do the same for people who needed help. What I like about been a caregiver is that it is a fulfilling job, in the sense that it makes me feel happy within to see people that are in need of daily care been assisted and happy again. One personal achievement I am proud of is that am able to go back to school to start a career path that I have passion about. And now am an LPN. I am compassionate, caring, goal driven, hard working, team worker, friendly and a a lot more.

I love helping and interacting with people of all ages. I am very compassionate, friendly and reliable and always put the best interests of those I am working for first. My Grandparents are some of the most valued and important people I have in my life and helping them whenever possible is something I find very rewarding. Volunteering within the senior community is something else I have done. I enjoy many different activities, be it outings in the community, watching movies, baking, walks in the park, I am pretty much open to anything.

Ive been in caregiving my entire life, i was attracted to being a caregiver as a child because i had a father who was disabled in helping care for him it just became a natural thing for me. I thrive and enjoy helping others i want my time away from my family to mean something and want to make a differance where i can. I am proud of so many things in my life its hard to choose one but i would have to say my determination in general is the thing im most proud of, ive loved all my caregiving positons and have learned alot through all of my clients