True Colors Case Study

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Introduction to Agency: The agency in which I am placed this year is True Colors; the agency is a non-profit organization that works with the sexual minority and gender minority youth and their families; they are located in Hartford Connecticut. The agency works with social service agencies, schools and other organizations within the community. On top of that True Colors has a yearly conference that has over 2,000 attendees, in which workshops are done to provide information and educate those in attendance on the LGBTQ+ community. I have personally attended the conference and it was a wonderful experience and this coming conference I will be running my own workshop. True Color often works with organizations and trains them to work with…show more content…
This school was able to keep Tenaja was able to stay off the streets and finish her education. This to me shows strength perspective. Strengths perspective is when you focus on the client’s strengths rather than the problems they face. Tenaja has the strength of perseverance. She was able to take where she came from and keep going, and not let her circumstances get her down. Also, The Harvey Milk School is one of Tenaja’s systems. Each person has their own systems; one of Tenaja’s would be her…show more content…
I would introduce her to the founder of True Colors. The founder who, like Tenaja is a lesbian woman. I would hope this connection and the accepting environment would gain trust and she would become less reluctant about our meeting. It may be hard to build a trusting relationship with Tenaja because of her past of being thrown out of her home, but after spending time at the Harvey Milk school, she may be more open and trusting now. Trust is important to form, A theory that supports this is Attachment theory. Attachment theory describes interpersonal relationships and the pros and cons of what a strong attachment or a poor attachment will happen to a person. Part of a strong attachment is trust; if there is not a strong attachment there might not be a strong level of
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