{"id":6764,"date":"2013-04-03T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T21:23:11","slug":"moores-work-with-children-started-at-camosun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/04\/03\/moores-work-with-children-started-at-camosun\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsteen Moore\u2019s work with children started at Camosun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now holding a bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctorate in psychology, Kirsteen Moore says that it was actually her two-year diploma from Camosun College that helped prepare her for the academic journey ahead.<\/p>\n

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Camosun alumni Kirsteen Moore says your career has to follow your heart (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moore, who specializes in child and youth therapy with high-risk children between the ages of 5 and 19, started out at Camosun getting her Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) diploma before obtaining honours in her educational pursuits at the University of Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t a fish out of water,\u201d explains Moore. \u201cThere was a lot of theory and it was an intense two and a half years at Camosun. It was a lot of work and, quite frankly, it was more work than my degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore has had to work diligently to ensure that her goals could be accomplished. At a time when the ECCE certificate was usually followed by a career instead of more education, she was pushing to go farther.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack then people just stopped, they didn\u2019t go on to get a degree,\u201d she says. \u201cNow it\u2019s pretty commonplace, but I had to make a big case for that, I had to get letters of support. So, it was a big deal to take the entire program at Camosun and say, \u2019I\u2019ve done half a degree, count it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s decision to further her education can be traced to a passion for her work with children, as well as a belief that as someone who works so closely with them, she should have a say in decisions that were being made.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a really good pulse on what was happening because of my training from Camosun and I felt equipped to write care plans or program plans, but I was always overruled by someone with a degree,\u201d says Moore. \u201cSo, I thought, \u2018Okay, I\u2019ll get a degree and I\u2019ll be fine,\u2019 and as things evolved it would be someone with a master\u2019s degree who made all the decisions, so I wanted to get one of those. So I just kept adding. I was on the frontline and I felt like I knew the kids best and I had a really good relationship with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious that helping children and youth is Moore\u2019s passion and it\u2019s also obvious that she loves her career. And just as she gives to the children she helps, she feels that she gets back just as much from them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt keeps me young and vibrant,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery day is a new day, every child is different\u0143they\u2019re unique, diverse, dynamic, and incredibly creative. I love that energy. I get the one job in the world where I can say for sure that I get as much as I give. I don\u2019t know how many people can say that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best advice Moore says can give students when focusing on education and career choice is to follow their hearts when choosing a career path.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake sure you are where you\u2019re supposed to be, make sure it\u2019s a fit, not your parents idea of a fit,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to plug in if you don\u2019t feel connected or excited about what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now holding a bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctorate in psychology, Kirsteen Moore says that it was actually her two-year diploma from Camosun College that helped prepare her for the academic journey ahead. Moore, who specializes in child and youth therapy with high-risk children between the ages of 5 and 19, started out at Camosun getting her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-april-3-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6822,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions\/6822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}