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EMAIL AVAILABLEPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEWork ExperienceICM-Case Manager-PresentHighland Rivers Behavior Health - Smyrna, GAo Provides and develops natural supports to promote community integration. o Identify services needed according to individuals Recovery Plan. o Refer and link to services and resources identified through service planning process. o Coordinating services identified on IRP to maximize integration and minimize service gaps. o Ensures continued adequacy of the IRP to meet his/her ongoing and changing needs. o Stacking deliveries into or onto the delivery vehicle (Raymond Center Rider & OP) as needed. Assistant Program DirectorBrightstone Transitions - Gainesville, GAo The role of Assistant Program Director is to provide support to the Program Director in managing day- to-day operations at Brightstone Transitions.o The Assistant Program Director assists in ensuring proper oversight and client/customer service(s) is given to the case managers, mentor staff, and to stakeholders. o Contributes positively to the Brightstone team environment by fostering a fair supportive work environment and continues to promote the growth and development of Brightstone staff and clients. o Attends weekly Leadership Team meetings and assesses needs of varying parts of the program.o Independently conducts yearly evaluations of support staff positions and assists with those of the Director of Residential Life positiono Identifies needs for ongoing training and support and collaborates with the Program Director to facilitate training.o Oversees and plans for areas of coverage, ensuring all parts of the program have adequate staffing. o Communicates effectively and thoughtfully with Educational Consultants or other stakeholders. o Fosters community connections to create opportunities for Brightstone clients. Child Care WorkerThe Children's Center of Hamden - Hamden, CTo Teaches the children necessary life skills and provides guidance for their daily care. o Assists in treatment planning for each child and conducts daily documentation such as contact notes, milieu notes, and precautionary notes.o Participates in client transports to various locations. o Participates in recreation therapy with children and improves children's behavior through coping skills and other therapeutic interventions.o Conducts group and 1 on 1 counseling sessions.o Counseling students in grades 6 through 8, using cognitive behavioral, reality, and person-centered approaches, to address depression, assertiveness issues, self-esteem, poor academic performance and retention.o Led and co-led boys, girls and mixed groups weekly. Topics included social skills, academic issues, behavior issues, bullying, sexual harassment, assertiveness training and transition to high school. o Participates as a co-teacher in an alternative education setting with students within a classroom. Monitoring performance and behavior, and inputting to target goals for individuals, group and overall student counseling needs.Quality AuditorXPO Logistics - Union City, GAo Ensure all the quality specifications are according to the organization policy. o Prepare a quality audit report and review at periodic intervals to track the progress after the audit. o Provide a report for non-compliance on all aspects of quality assurance and bring it to the notice of the key persons responsible for such functions in the organization. o Ensure compliance of quality parameters for external clients and quality certification standards as may be applicable to the organization.o Conduct random inspection in various departments that ensures quality checks at all levels apart from enforcing it well among all employees working in the organization. Behavior AideHillside Inc - Atlanta, GAo Helping children and teens who often have trouble translating the skills they learn in therapy to their everyday lives.o Coordinate with parents and other family members by bringing outpatient services to the home, and observing relationships in action within the home and community to better support families in their goals. o Explore family's strengths and utilize those strengths in developing a unique plan with specific interventions to target behaviors that have been problematic for the family. o Creating and distributing decision letters for admissions, collecting student documents, records and transcripts to create a student profile to make final admissions decisions. Providing higher education readiness workshops and training for first generation college students, low income community students and students from the foster care system with helpful workshops on admissions, financial aid, housing and academic advising.o Providing workshops on stress management when entering college, time management, independent living skills and community living skills.o Providing college advising and preparation for at risk youth in low-income communities' juniors and seniors. Advising applicants and parents on the application process, application requirements, and policies and providing timely responses to students and parents regarding questions and information. o Creating and distributing educational plans for students for long term academic success. o Assisting students with creating academic goals for the entering school year. o Serving as support staff to students and parents throughout the school year as a higher education college adviser.o Providing admission informational sessions and workshops for parents and students in preparation for the Higher Education application process.o Researched and updated all required materials needed for firm and partners. Cottage SupervisorHillside Inc - Atlanta, GAo Responsible for the direct supervision of all Behavioral Specialists assigned to his/her residential cottage adhering to supervision for their designated duties and responsibilities. o To provide direction for developing an understanding and appreciation of the philosophy, function, and operation of the cottage life program, as well as the structure for maintaining and implementing adequate standards of residential care for adolescents within a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility. o Providing therapeutic, counseling and academic planning to mentally ill or with disabilities, high- risk patients/students dangerously aggressive students and assisted living. Educational Assistance to mentally ill students that have suffered physical, verbal or emotional trauma. o Academic assisting for students with IEP's and with mental retardation. Creating learning programs for at-risk youth. Maintains students' files that are updated throughout their academic careers and makes changes to records as necessary.o Utilize data, as a key lever in supporting students' academic needs to achieve beyond typical growth. o Provide students with the foundation necessary to succeed academically and professionally while providing professional customer services to all parties involved with clients and their well being. o Create programs to enhance student's learning skills, encourage leadership and provide social development. Counseling and mentoring mentally disabled students academically and emotionally. o Providing resources to community living programs, providing students with a safe living environment and monitoring students' academic progress.o Providing comfortable housing for students and supervising 300 plus students for 9 hours a day and on call for 3 hours of the day on weekends.Coordinating on campus housing programs that educates the students about independent living, hygiene, career planning, budgeting money when it comes to managing housing and community living.Teacher Counselor IIYouth village - Douglasville, GAo Teaches the children necessary life skills and provides for their physical daily care. o Assists in treatment planning for each child and conducts daily documentation such as contact notes, milieu notes, and precautionary notes.o Participates in client transports to various locations. o Participates in recreation therapy with children and improves children's behavior through coping skills and other therapeutic interventions.o Conducts group and 1 on 1 counseling sessions.o Counseling students in grades 6 through 8, using cognitive behavioral, reality, and person-centered approaches, to address depression, assertiveness issues, self-esteem, poor academic performance and retention.o Led and co-led boys, girls and mixed groups weekly. Topics included social skills, academic issues, behavior issues, bullying, sexual harassment, assertiveness training and transition to high school. o Participated in weekly teachers meeting on student's classroom performance and behavior, as input to target individual, group and overall student counseling needs. Security OfficerUniversal Protection Services - Atlanta, GAo Responsible for providing security services at assigned locations. o Duties consist of foot patrol of interior and exterior areas of assigned locations. o Observe and report suspicious activities and persons and write detailed narrative reports and maintain daily activity reports (DARs).o Enforce rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and respond to emergency situations requiring security assistance.o Investigated disturbances and detained unruly guests until the authorities arrived. o Wrote a daily report and archived it to be reviewed later if necessary o Broke up loitering groups and dispersed crowds effectively. o Responded to emergency, criminal and disturbance calls. o Attend to the security needs of multiple corporate properties both during and after business hours. o Patrol sites on foot, by vehicle, or with bikes to provide visible deterrence to incidents and respond quickly to disturbances.o Monitor closed- circuit television footage to check for suspicious activities. Personal TrainerDREAM1122 - Atlanta, GAo Certified personal trainer and independent sub-contractor providing individual and group instruction in the areas of strength training, fitness, weight loss, and body sculpting to clients throughout metropolitan Atlanta.o Guide clients in safe exercise, taking into account individualized limitations. o Devise and announce new classes and distribute guest passes to market the club. o Consistently attain facility targets, including revenue goals and member retention rates.o Lead clients and occasional groups of all ages through personal workouts and skill development training. o Carefully evaluated member needs and assisted them in achieving personal fitness goals. o Administer fitness assessments, which include the seven point skinfold body fat measurements, blood pressure and treadmill tests.o Counsel clients on proper nutrition and exercise habits. o Taught clients how to modify exercise appropriately to avoid injury. Senior CounselorWordsworth Academy - Philadelphia, PAo Supervised 10 counselors in a residential treatment facility for at risk youth ages 15-19. o Mentored residents by providing support, guidance, and life skills. o Coordinated the development and implementation of behavior plans with the unit team leader and other staff; and conducted assessments.o Engaged children in individual therapy as well as in group therapy sessions of between three and seven students at once.o Consulted and collaborated with teachers, parents and community agency personnel regarding appropriate treatment.o Led counseling for small groups of three to five children as well as individual counseling sessions. o Overseen caseloads of 10-15 families.o Wrote a treatment plan, including measurable goals and time frames. o Assisted staff psychiatrists in working with patients at substance abuse rehabilitation and treatment centers.o Participated in a comprehensive substance abuse treatment plan. o Ensure that day to day needs of patients at the treatment center appropriately were satisfied. Learning Community Instructional LeaderCommunity Education Partners - Philadelphia, PAo Supervised four teachers and four instructional assistants in an alternative middle school setting. o Implemented academic guidelines to meet and maintain student and school academic achievement goals.o Assessed the skill level of students and provided classroom instruction addressing different student learning styles.o Managed compliance with Pennsylvania and Philadelphia school district curriculum to assure students were receiving proper instruction.o Allocating jobs and workloads to individual staff members based on their ability. o Implementing new initiatives and making sure all staff understand them. o Giving prompt and accurate information on individual staff member performance. o Making sure all tasks given to staff are done on time and to the required standard. o Ensuring a clean, safe and friendly working environment for all team members. o Ensuring that there is a certain level is slack in the system to cover busy periods. o Managing any staff sickness levels and organizing the necessary cover. o Making sure that Health & Safety rules are strictly followed by all team members TeacherCommunity Education Partners - Philadelphia, PAo Taught high school social studies in an alternative high school setting. o Prepared and implemented lesson plans and developed activities and materials for use in the classroom.o Managed student and classroom behavior. o Engaged in behavior interventions, when necessary, and according to state and local district codes of conduct.o Turned around class that had severe management issues, by establishing a strong teamwork environment that reduced behavior issues by 45%.o Established open-door policy, improving communication and trust with students and parents o Collaborated with staff members in developing school activities and joint lessons that result in improving school morale.o Organize fun and educational games, read storybooks that increase children's interest in story time and plan outdoor activities such as walking to the local playground and park. o Meet with parents on a weekly basis to discuss plans for the following week, as well as issues. o Provided tutoring to children in Math and English, assisting with homework and school projects. o Intervened during strong disagreements, establishing open and safe environment for communication EducationBachelors of Arts in Labor StudiesRutgers University - New Brunswick, NJAugust 1997 to October 2002Holy Cross High School - Waterbury, CTSeptember 1993 to June 1997Career CounselingCollege AdvisingSkills Specializing in SpecialEducation PlanningIEP (Specialized Education Plan), 504 (On watch specialization educational plan), Crisis Intervention Compliance Management Case Management Individual / Group Counseling Quality Audits Social work Customer service Teaching Compliance management Mentoring Experience working with students LeadershipCertifications and LicensesCertified Personal TrainerCertified Fitness InstructorDriver's LicenseJune 2023 to July 2029 |
