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EOTC/Dress for Success Internship Visit

As undergraduate Counseling and Human Service students at The University of Scranton, we are granted the fortunate opportunity to gain exposure and competency within the helping profession through service learning. The surrounding Scranton, Pennsylvania community has so much to offer, and we could not be more grateful for the invitation to volunteer and intern within Scranton’s remarkable organizations. Scranton’s organizations reflect our mission, as developing individuals, students, and helping professionals, to become men and women for and with others. This is something you almost cannot believe until you see. Professor Rozelle took the initiative to, so generously, dedicate our career seminar class time to visiting Dress For Success, as pictured above, and EOTC. Dress For Success is internationally recognized as a not-forprofit organization that dedicates their services toward empowering women to achieve economic independence. Not only do they provide top of the line services for these women, such as career counseling and training, but they provide top of the line fashion as well. Our first reaction when we walked in was, “I cannot believe how many clothes there are!” As of October 2016, they are able to provide each women with two weeks worth of professional attire to kick off their professional career in style. After our tour of Dress For Success, we walked out the door and right into EOTC (We aren't kidding when we say the opportunities for service learning in Scranton are endless.) EOTC provides a variety of programs that promote family stability and economic selfsuffciency. How we prefer to sum up EOTC after our visit is “they have a little bit of everything.” Prior to our visit with these two wonderful organizations, we had merely a bird’s eye view, but after this experience Dress For Success and EOTC were written into our classes “top three” organizations we wish to volunteer/intern with in the near future. Written by:

Emily Mulhaul and Adrian Laudani CHS Students