Personal Statement

What has motivated you to pursue graduate social work education? Discuss an area(s) you hope to focus on in the program and your future career goals as a social worker. Identify a contemporary social issue  and describe your understanding of it. Discuss some of the differing perspectives on this topic. Discuss any personal, educational and/or employment-related experiences that have helped shape your understanding of diversity, marginalization and oppression. Describe your relationship to Indigenous peoples, community and what motivating factors lead you toward attaining your MSW in the Indigenous Field of Study. What issue(s) that affect Indigenous people greatly interest you? Describe a time when your efforts had a positive impact at the individual, community, nation or policy/societal level. What does becoming a wholistic practitioner mean to you?                

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