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Support Specialist Recovery

Location:
Bridgeport, CT
Salary:
30.00
Posted:
January 17, 2024

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JULINA GRAHAM

ad2u4d@r.postjobfree.com

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OBJECTIVE

Looking for a rewarding full-time Recovery Support Specialist (RSS) position with opportunities for professional growth.

SKILLS

*State Regulations & Resources

*Confidentiality/HIPAA

*Managing staff and participants.

*Facilitating groups.

*First Aid and Adult/Infant CPR.

*Foster care parents for 26 years.

EXPERIENCE

HARC WELLNESS SPECIALIST

3/2019-Currently Employed

Trains new employees and supervises 24 job coaches.

Facilitates Wellness Programs including, aerobics, massage therapy, reiki, and Zumba.

Teaches Health and Wellness classes to participates.

Creates meeting agenda and coordinates meetings.

Perform screenings for client wellness and then assign Wellness/Exercise programs to these clients based on their health needs and preferences.

Responsible for coordinating staff, activities and managing zoom meetings.

Interacts with board members by promoting and encouraging participation on the zoom site.

Founding Member, Coordinator, Conversation Starter and Visual Storyteller for HARC’s Connection Corner.

April 30, 2020- Currently Employed

Due to the Pandemic HARC has created a site for HARC participants and others to be able to communicate and express themselves through media that is always accessible to the participants.

Communicate using Visual Media. Stories are told using photography, Illustration, or Video submitted by the participants in the group homes and enhanced with graphics, music voice and other audio.

Self-Advocacy segments presented by the participants themselves on what Self Advocacy is and why it is important.

Daily responsibilities include, creating site content, creating a schedule, coordinating staff, participants, and all zoom meetings.

MASSAGE THERAPIST

6/22/1998- Current Massage Therapist

Perform Therapeutic Massages of soft tissue, Deep Tissue, and joints.

Provide treatment for medical conditions, injuries, or Wellness Maintenance.

Administer therapy treatments to patients using hands or physical treatment aids.

HARC CASE MANAGER

06/15/2016 – 3/1/2019

Advocate and a mediator for a caseload of 25 participants.

Assimilate large amounts of information and help clients in making life decisions.

KLINGBERG CENTER FOSTER PARENT

6/10/1997- Current Foster parent

Provide a safe and comfortable family environment for the child.

Provide for the child’s basic physical and emotional needs as you would for your own child.

Help and guide children through the grieving and adjustment process that accompanies the removal from their families.

EDUCATION

DEGREE / DATE EARNED

*Completed RSS Certification Training at Advocacy Unlimited

December 2022

*Recovery Support Specialist (RSS) Certification #1376

January 2023

*CT Center For Massage Therapy

Newington CT

Graduated 6/22/1986



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