By Jalen Sanders, CFCC Student Fellow (2019-2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participating in the CFCC Student Fellows program, I have learned and acknowledged a lot. There is no difference between a student, a faculty member, a lawyer, a judge, or an advocate. No pay grade, word of mouth, or potential job offer can change that. What destroys our titles is the realization that everyone in the legal system is a servant.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We would not be here today but for the communities we serve. Be it a student fulfilling the desires of a professor, or a judge providing an interpretation of justice, we serve.\u00a0Albeit the means or methods, our service is what generates the impact we have in the communities we serve. The CFCC Student Fellows program has brought me to this conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a problem with holding onto things. I usually don\u2019t trust a lot of people. I was such a servant to my own vices, ideologies, and passions that I started being a slave to my processes. I was so used to handling situations with aggression and apprehension that I prided myself on being able to find any inkling of distasteful behavior someone showed me. I believed that it was my \u201cmaturity\u201d that allowed me to \u201csniff out the dirt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What ultimately set me free is my participation in CFCC\u2019s Student Fellows program. The rich history of therapeutic jurisprudence and the work CFCC does within the family justice system is truly enlightening. I saw how the Truancy Court Program (TCP) works to keep the children\u2019s best interests in mind and how the Student Fellows work to support the TCP participants\u2019 needs. Responding to assigned questions asking us to reflect on our experiences and sitting in restorative circles with TCP participants helped me channel my energy into the safe spaces the program provides. I learned how to rely on the most powerful tool in my skillset: compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through the aid of this law school course, my self-realization has rekindled in me what it means to be a servant. What is bigger than I am are the communities I serve. The law\u2019s success, no matter how much you want to deny it, is based on the community you serve. Remember who you are. Remember what you do. And most importantly, know that you will always be a servant to someone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Jalen Sanders, CFCC Student Fellow (2019-2020) Participating in the CFCC Student Fellows program, I have learned and acknowledged a lot. There is no difference between a student, a faculty member, a lawyer, a judge, or an advocate. No pay grade, word of mouth, or potential job offer can change that. What destroys our titles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}