Personal Narrative: My Juvenile Law Program

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Growing up, I considered school one of my safe places. However, this all changed in 8th grade when one of my classmates began sexually assaulting and harassing me. The harassment both restricted my freedoms and affected me emotionally. But even more disconcerting was the lack of support and the inadequate concern for my safety and well-being by the school’s administration. I spoke up, and others joined me in condemning the perpetrator of the attacks, but the school failed to take action, so I switched schools. In addition to the sense of peace and security my new school offered, academically it offered a pre-law program which I entered in 9th grade. In this program, I learned about various areas of law. Of particular interest was my juvenile law class. In this class, I reflected on my experience, realizing that I was not alone; discovering there are thousands of children, voices silenced, lacking the strong familial support I received. I resolved to combine my interest in law with my desire to provide a voice for children and become a child advocate. The summer before 12th grade, I became the first high school student to intern at Legal Aid Services of Broward County in the Child Advocacy Unit. This group of lawyers gave children within the dependency and delinquency systems a voice, otherwise ignored by the system. As part of Legal Aid, I …show more content…
For this reason, I spent part of my fall break of my sophomore year volunteering at Helping Hand Home for Children, a placement center in Austin, Texas for young children in the foster care system who are victims of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect or abandonment. It was obvious that this was one of the better placement centers for foster children, however, there were still some of the same problems I saw through my internship with Legal
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