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The reason I ended up at JRC was because of the things I did in the past. The things I used to do in the past were not nice. I used to hangout with my friends instead of going home. Then it led to other things like me not coming home until it was really dark outside. I didn’t care if my mother got mad at me or if she called the cops on me. The teenagers that I hung out with were not good friends. I started to hangout with boys, which led me into more trouble. My family members would come and look for me when I didn’t come home after dark. I started to take medicine that made me tired. I was hospitalized several times and the doctors drugged me with so much medicine. It didn’t help at all, I still did what I was doing before and that is what led me to JRC. My accomplishment at JRC is that I changed the way I acted, I started to focus on my school work and what was important. I moved my way upstairs into a classroom where there were fewer behaviors by students in the classroom. I stopped having behaviors and I earned independence at the house and in school. I was able to go around the house by myself without a staff following me. I moved into a house with less students and I worked my way off a recording sheet. At one point I had two in-school jobs and then I earned the opportunity to have a job in the community, which made me very happy. I learned how to be independent and work on my own without help. I’ve been at JRC for two years and within those two years I’ve learned how to become a woman and to become independent. Currently, I am working on taking classes for nursing. The people I’m working with are helping me to take nursing class. I hope to accomplish more while I am still staying at JRC.
- Angela |