I have worked in a human service type field for most of my adult life. I worked with the senior population in a home health care setting. It is sort of a healthcare setting as well as human services. I provided direct one on one care with the elderly. This led me to the knowledge that I enjoyed working with the senior client population. There were a few other events in my life that also led me to the conclusion that I wanted to help advocate for people, especially people who are unable to advocate for themselves. The first instance would be when I grew up my mother worked first in an adult daycare, which was a place that provided respite for caregivers during the day. The nursing home my mother worked for eventually phased out the adult day care and when that happened my mother went on to become an activities assistant at the same nursing home. While my mother worked there they allowed her to bring me into work on school vacations as long as I volunteered. So I started out by volunteering with the senior community at a very young age. At that age I thought my mother got paid to just have fun and I looked forward to have that type of job when I grew up; Of course over the years that my mother worked there I did in fact learn that there was paperwork involved in her daily tasks as well as other work and no exactly playing things that needed to be done in the day. The second event in my life would be that I became a teenage parent, and because of this fact I was introduced to a woman who led the teen parent program at my high school. At the time the program focused on pregnant teenage girls and new teenage mothers. There was a group support meeting every week, there were also parenting classes. They also did things like help you get childcare, get transportation to doctor’s appointments, and etcetera. Now it did not dawn on me when I was involved with the program but later on in reflection, I knew that this could be a passion of mine. To help teenage parents navigate through the parenting process. The third event is that my children both had special needs, they both worked with early intervention specialists from birth to three, and they both went too modified/special education preschools between the ages of three and five. I had to learn to navigate through the education process and learn to advocate for my children to get the best e