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Skills

  • Case management
  • CCTV
  • Supervision
  • Administrative support
  • Invoice generation
  • Communications
  • Organization
  • Recordkeeping
  • First Aid/CPR
  • IEP writing knowledge

Work Experiences

  • Assessed clients' needs by conducting psychological evaluations, ensuring accurate case planning for more than 5 children per quarter.
  • Assisted senior leadership in developing a foster family recruitment initiative.
  • Built strong relationships with biological, foster, and adoptive families, expediting the placement process by 17 days on average.
  • Provided victims with information about legal procedures and timelines.
  • Achieved reduction over system.
  • Oversaw parent support groups that covered topics like positive discipline and parenting styles.
  • Assisted senior leadership in developing a foster family recruitment initiative, leading to a 19% increase in the agency’s licensed foster families.
  • Built strong relationships with adoptive families.
  • Built trust and rapport with victims of violent crimes by remaining calm and compassionate in a variety of situations.
  • Located appropriate community resources and made service referrals.

Summaries

  • Professional with a thorough understanding of client relations and method situations.
  • Ability to recognize process issues and integrate framework solutions to achieve metric.
  • Motivating leader who has built and managed metric teams in the past.
  • Foster Care Counselor is a hardworking and dependable Foster Care Counselor who excels at team leadership and budget management.
  • Professional with a strong sense of direction and the ability to lead.
  • Salesforce and SAP experts with exceptional interpersonal skills.
  • In stressful situations, maintain a calm, composed demeanor.
  • Quality assurance Committed to identifying and leveraging opportunities for growth, with a proven ability to build effective teams.
  • Looking forward to taking on a new challenge with a successful team.
  • Metric, procedure, and program are all available.

Accomplishments

  • Secured and administered $11 in funding for mental health and wellness programs, significantly improving resources for long-term foster care families.
  • Led individualized therapy sessions for foster children that improved emotional regulation and coping mechanisms, with emotional health scores increasing by 83%.
  • Developed individualized support plans incorporating life skills teaching, leading to 77% of foster teens successfully transitioning to independent living.
  • Developed a permanency planning model that accelerated the foster child-family matching process, reducing system delays by 77% over method.
  • Conducted crisis intervention and de-escalation training that resulted in 53% reduction of behavioral outbursts in foster homes across Boston.
  • Collaborated with therapists and psychiatrists on developing trauma-informed care plans, resulting in 33% fewer trauma-related incidents among foster children.
  • Managed a caseload of 4 foster care clients, successfully achieving permanency planning and placement success in 32% of cases within 18 months.
  • Monitored and documented 6 foster children’s progress in Tableau, ensuring full compliance with state regulations and reducing lag times in reporting.
  • Conducted thorough home safety assessments leading to 9% compliance with state regulations post-assessments, reducing the chance of child placement disruptions.
  • Implemented regulatory compliance measures that reduced non-compliance incidents by 68% across 6 foster homes within the catchment area.

Affiliations

  • Member, Foster Club National Network for Foster Youth program
  • Affiliate, Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) standard
  • Volunteer Counselor, Foster Youth Educational Support Program framework
  • Member, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), 2016 – Present
  • Active Member, Foster Family-based Treatment Association (FFTA) category
  • Participant, Behavioral Health in Foster Youth Conference, 2019, Seattle
  • Co-organizer, Annual Symposium on Post-Adoption Challenges, 2023, Phoenix
  • Attendee, National Conference on Child Abuse Prevention, 2021, Portland
  • Participant, Crisis De-escalation Techniques for Foster Care Workers Training 2022
  • Member, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), 2021 – Present

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Certification (SFBT) - Beacon Labs
  • ServSafe
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • Certified in Family Systems Therapy 2019, Ironclad Systems
  • Anger Management Specialist Certification (AMS), Ironclad Systems
  • Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • National Certified Counselor (NCC) framework
  • Trauma-Informed Care Certification (TICC) - Harbor & Co.
  • Mental Health First Aid Training (MHFA), 2020, Northwind

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