Tiffany Porter
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SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS
. 6 Years of Customer Service experience
. Ability to observe and evaluate children's developmental
progress
. Skills in planning parent/child activities.
. Skills in conducting research on Child and Youth intervention
programs
. Skills and experience in developing and teaching educational
lessons
. Skills in designing activities which contribute to social,
emotional, intellectual, and physical development of children
. Over 5,000 hours of experience working with Children and Youth
. Knowledge of and ability to apply Family Systems Theories
. Skills in conducting intakes for juvenile case files
. Skills in preparing documents for Case Managers
. Ability to type 40+ WPM and use various office equipment
(computers, printers, scanners, fax machines) multi-line telephones
and software programs
EXPERIENCE
January 3, 2012- December 12, 2012
Catholic Charities, St. Vincent's Villa
Residential Treatment Counselor
. Supervised and assisted children in all daily living activities to ensure
the physical care and emotional nurturance of the children.
. Recognized the needs and abilities of the children in relation to
interactions and activities.
. Maintained unit documentations.
. Provided crisis intervention, including recognizing and deescalating
problems between children.
. Communicated information regarding children's progress or problems in
residence with teachers, therapist, and unit staff.
. Established meaningful relationships with the children
. Recognized and met the basic need of the environment by actively working
to ensure a clean, safe, and well-organized unit environment.
June 2007- Present
YMCA of Central Maryland
Senior Camp Counselor
. Supervised 10 counselors.
. Administered developmental guidance and educational lessons to children
of various age groups.
. Developed procedures and lessons, which support the goals of the children
and youth program. Assist in planning group activities.
. Collaborated with parents to established learning goals for children.
. Provided positive guidance and instructional advice to parents pertaining
to children's social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills.
. Enforced proper safety measures; maintained appropriate standards for
health, physical safety and sanitation of the YMCA. e.g., compliance with
health, fire, safety, facility, program requirements and standards.
2006- 2007
Forever Baby Daycare
Daycare Assistant
. Assisted in managing daycare classroom; maintained order and discipline
among children in the classroom.
. Developed educational activities for children.
. Enforced proper safety measures; maintained appropriate standards for
health, physical safety and sanitation of the daycare. e.g., compliance
with health, fire, safety, facility and program requirements and
standards.
EDUCATION
Towson University Bachelor of Science, Liberal
Arts, 2011
Towson, Maryland Major: Family Studies and Community
Development
Track: Services to Children
Minor: Psychology
RELATED COURSE WORK
Introduction to Family Studies (3 sem hrs), Family Resource Management (3
sem hrs), Theories of Family Functioning (3 sem hrs), Trends in
Contemporary Family Life (3 sem hrs), Family Law (3 sem hrs), Preparing
Human Service Workers: Pre-Internship (3 sem hrs), Family Relationships (3
sem hrs), Parent-Child Across the Lifespan (3 sem hrs), Community Services
for Families (3 sem hrs), Writing and Research Methods in Family Studies (3
sem hrs), Internship in Family Studies (3 sem hrs), Senior Seminar in
Family Studies, (4 sem hrs), Early Childhood Development and Intervention
(3 sem hrs), Introduction to Psychology (3 sem hrs), Human Development (3
sem hrs), Social Psychology (3 sem hrs), Personality (3 sem hrs),
Adolescent Psychology (3 sem hrs), Behavioral Statistics (4 sem hrs),
Psychology of Learning (3 sem hrs), Research Methods in Psychology (4 sem
hrs), Fundamentals of Speech Communication (3 sem hrs),
RESEARCH
. Independently conducted 3-month research and orally presented a 75-
minute lecture on the topic of The Importance of Bullying Among Youth:
Bullies and Victims.
. Applied Family Systems Theories to case studies and true-life
situations.
. Researched topics of family concern such as in-school form of
bullying, cyber-bullying, bully and victim statistics,
characteristics, and family background, coping mechanism, bystanders,
and ways to prevent bullying for oral presentations and written
reports.
INTERNSHIPS
August 2010 - December 2010
Department of Juvenile Services
Performed a variety of administrative duties for Juvenile Case Managers.
Duties included; receiving telephone calls, verifying the nature and
purpose of the calls or visits and determining the importance of the call,
preparing information needed for meetings, conferences and case files.
Maintained files and reports for the agency, covering administrative
procedures and management documents.
January 2010 - May 2010
Sharp-Leadenhall Community
Assisted Community Leader with the distribution of surveys to the residents
that would provide information about their needs, skills, level of
education, and occupational interest. Performed administrative duties for
the Community Leader; e.g., receiving telephone calls, distributing work
among other volunteers, scheduling appointments and preparing documents for
community.