Certified Recreational Therapist

A-Kiea Wilson

* ******* ** *** ** Reisterstown MD 21136

443-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Objective To obtain an immediate position at your facility

Education Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC

Bachelors of Science Therapeutic Recreation December 2002

2002 13-week Internship at Maryland General Hospital Acute Rehab, TBI, and Psych Units

East Columbus High School, Lake Waccamaw, NC

Diploma, June 1994

Professional Experiences

Hermitage House: Memory Care Facility, Castle Hayne, NC November 2013- November 2015

Position: (Certified Recreational Therapist/Activity Director)

Responsibilities: Developing and carrying our daily activities, providing cognitive stimulation, and gross motor movement groups. Create weekly and monthly calendars. Organizing outings, special events, and advocating for community service involvement with the facility and residents. Documented resident’s daily participation and completed four to six month progress notes. Completed MDS forms for the activity department and Co- Chaired Safety Committee. Provide one on one and group sessions.

Betty H. Cameron Company, Wilmington, NC May 2013 – October 2013

Position: (Recreational Therapist (contract part-time) for frail elderly with Dementia)

Responsibilities: Provided therapeutic activities that assisted with Independent feeding and other activities of daily living to maintain best quality of life. Assisted client in maintaining range of motion with wheelchair exercise, light stretching, foot and hand massages. Reminiscent activities and other meaning activities were utilized until she was no longer able function at highest practical level.

Community Support Agency, Delco, NC December 2012- June 2013

Position: (Intake Coordinator Counselor)

Responsibilities: Provide new consumers with intake counseling, identifying their needs, goals, and the stressors that have caused them to need behavioral services. Completed Pre-admission forms and individualized care plans. Assist consumer with completion of intake paper work and making sure consent forms are signed. Communicate with various MCO and insurance companies to verify authorization. Create spread sheets for outcome analysis for needs assessments. Linking and coordinating consumers to community supports and resources.

Professional Experience Continued:

Community Support Agency, Delco, NC December 2011-December 2012

Position: (Qualified Professional Intensive In-Home/ Case management)

Population Served: Children, Adolescents, and Teenagers with mental illness and behavioral problems.

Responsibilities: Utilized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) interventions as foundation to enlighten consumers of the effects of thoughts, feelings, and actions, how it relates to their negative behavior or emotional outburst, and provided various positive outlooks to approach

negative situations; engage other people, and events. Consumers and families were provided assistance with developing goals and creating plans to achieve those goals. Assisted consumer with building skills to self- manage emotions and negatives behaviors, identify precipitants of negative behaviors and emotional outburst at school, home, and in the community. Presented the opportunity to build social and communication skills, decrease impulsivity, and promote self-confidence and self-esteem, through therapeutic intervention strategies. Assisted consumers and or parents with building job skills such as resume writing, computer skills, interview skills, job search, and providing on the job support. Developed a Person-Centered-Plan of consumer’s strengths, areas of concern, what’s important to consumer, and the best plan to support consumer. Provided counseling sessions for the entire family to build parenting skills, positive rapport between family members, develop effective conflict resolution, stress management, and tension release techniques, in order to form cohesiveness and assemble family on one accord. Research and linked family with community resources to meet their needs. Arranged and Lead Child and Family Treatment Team Meetings to review progress, goals, and create plan to address consumer needs.

PRP (Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program)- Group Lead for adults and geriatric population. Groups Included living skills, relapse prevention, positive coping skills, smoking cessation, Job skills trainings, money management, and time management.

Maryland General Hospital Rehab and Psychiatric Unit Baltimore, MD January 2003-July 2011

Position: (Senior Certified Therapeutic Recreational Specialist): Floated for a two years between Acute Rehab Unit, TBI Unit, and Psych.

Population Served on Acute Rehab & TBI Units: Post Stroke, Back Surgery, Total Hip/Knee Replacements, Closed Head Injury, Spinal Surgery, Open Heart Surgery.

Responsibilities: Perform evaluations, progress notes, and implement therapeutic activites to help build and or maintain function. Member of discharge planning.

Population Served on Pysch: (Adults and Geriatrics, ages 18-90+) Adults were dual diagnosed having a mental illness and substance abuse or just required Detox. Mental illnesses that were common to the unit were Bipolar, Schizoaffective, Schizophrenia, Eating Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Major Depression, or Borderline Personality Disorder. Substance Abusers treated on unit were abusing Prescription drugs, Meth, Alcohol, Crack/Cocaine/ and Marijuana. Most Geriatric client’s diagnoses were Change in Mental Status, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, and Dementia.

Responsibilities: (Adults) Providing direct care, in charge of developing, planning, and coordinating therapeutic programs and activities consisting of individual and group counseling sessions on various topics such as coping skills (Anger, Anxiety, Stress, Money Management and Relapse Prevention/ Substance Abuse Counseling). Assisted clients with identify positive and appropriate leisure activities, and life skills such as job skills, social skills, and identifying the triggers of their negative behavior (ex. aggression, substance abuse, & etc.). Modified interventions to meet the needs of clients. (Geriatrics) Provided cognitive activities such as reminiscence, current events, sittercise, fine/gross motor, arts and crafts activities to maintain function and performance of life skills such as Activities of Daily Living. Collaborated with clients to set short/long term goals, in order to provide client-centered approach.

Professional Experience Continued:

Utilized educational strategies such as Cognitive Behavioral Techniques for client to gain insight to illness, behavior, and substance abuse. Administered JACHO regulated Recreational Therapy Evaluations, Care Plans, and assessment tools such as the Mini-Mental which screens cognition of clients. Documented client’s daily progress in medical record. Vital member of the interdisciplinary team, performed chart and group audits, with some clerical duties. Supervised a staff of two, completed requisitions for supplies and equipment, developed budget, orientated new Recreational Therapy Staff, coordinated and developed group/activity schedule, and planned special events for Recreational Therapy Department. Linked clients with community resources upon discharge.

Computer Knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Power Point, and Excel

Experience

Current First Aid/CPR, Nonviolent Crisis Prevention Intervention

Certification Certified by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation

Certified Therapeutic Recreational Specialist 51805

Patient Care Assistant Certification

Professional Member of ATRA

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