BLOG 25: Mentorship

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Contact Name & Number- Jolean Miller (626)914-8275

Interpretive:

The most important thing I gained from my mentorship experience was learning how to work with people better. Working at the Glendora Police Department, it has a very professional feel, you need to know how to respect each other, work with costumers correctly and get work done quick. To do all of this, I needed to learn from people already working in the station, whether it was from former police officers, cadets or the two animal control officers, it was always a group effort to perform as best as I could. So overall, learning how to better my skills when it came to working with others was a large part of my mentorship experience. 

Applied:

My mentorship experience has helped me answer my essential question primarily because of my mentor Jolean, all my interviews and having hands on experience in the field. I was able to develop most of my answers because of my mentorship, whether it was seeing how low adoptions were in the facility or how huge of an issue spay/neutering is in our communities. My interviews with both Jolean Miller and Vanessa Alvarez, animal control officers helped me answer questions I was having trouble with and they gave me tons of ideas to better my answers/back them up with research. After looking at all three of my answers, I came to the discision that my best answer would have to increasing adoptions. I chose this answer mostly because of what I saw in my volunteering. There were maybe 2 adoptions a month in their facility, with over 50 animals coming in a month. Most of those animals are taken to a kill shelter and euthanized within 3 days. My mentorship has had a huge impact on my senior project, especially when it came to discovering my three answers, developing my EQ and finding my best answer.