Jenni Galloway is one of Pendletons many heros. Changing lives and getting thanked on everyday basis. Pendleton wouldn’t be the same without her. She works for a program called the C.A.R.E program (Community Access for Resource Effectiveness). It is a Program that provides resource connections to parents to help increase attendance, reduce homelessness, and identify and address social and emotional concerns. One of her favorite things about her job is being able to work with all different kinds of people with their own specific unique needs. She doesn’t like watching children live in high risk situations; such as extremely unclean homes, drug abusing parents, lice infestation, physical abuse, family conflict, and ongoing poverty. Jenni has been working with the C.A.R.E program for 12 years. If she didn’t have this job, she would want to own her own business in retail.
Jenni thinks the hardest thing about her job is that there is not enough people doing what she is doing to meet the high needs of our County. Before working at the C.A.R.E. program, Jenni was working at the Umatilla County Mental Health working with families boosting resiliency factors and before that she was employed at the Umatilla County Juvenile Division for six years working as a Detention Supervisor. She chose this job because after working at the Juvenile Department she decided she wanted to work in homes trying to reduce generational poverty and dysfunction. She also wanted to increase resiliency factors in children to promote successful family systems. New incidents happen everyday at Jenni’s work. She’s seen cockroach infested homes, medical marijuana grow, open sores on drug abusing people, and bruised and injured victims. She has been involved in traumatizing situations, chased by dogs, and apart of criminal investigations when she works closely with law enforcement. Jenni doesn’t know how much longer she will be working with the C.A.R.E program, but she invisions about 5 years.
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