OBJECTIVE Seeking a position as a Child Welfare Worker with NET Community Care where my professional knowledge, outstanding communication skills, and child welfare experience can be utilized to enhance the quality of outcomes and goals with case families.

EMPLOYMENT

Northeast treatment Center Philadelphia, PA May 2020 – Present

After Care worker (Support Staff)

Support families who have been successfully discharged from DHS/CUA formal case-management services by providing reintegration supports, consultations and community resources

that will decrease the probability that the family will re-enter the child welfare system. While working closely with all members of the assigned case management team prior to successful discharge; with children, biological families, and with external agencies and partners. Lastly, focusing on planning intended to prevent re-entry. Ensuring the families served are connected to Mental Health, D&A Behavioral Health, Housing, Community Education as well as providing their families with resources for employment opportunities.

Aveanna Healthcare Feasterville – Trevose, Pa

Behavior Technician /Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapist January 2020- September 2021

RBT - Registered Behavioral Technician provides one-to-one mental health interventions to a child (ren) or adolescent(s) with a serious emotional disturbance in order to prevent more restrictive services or out-of-home placement and to promote age-appropriate psycho-social growth. These services, recommended by a psychologist/psychiatrist and approved by CBH, are designed to be short term with as little disruption as possible in the home and educational setting. The RBT should work collaboratively with the family, the teachers and other school personnel to help them develop the skills and techniques needed to integrate the child into normalizing activities. Positive behavioral reinforcement Emotional support Time-structuring activities Crisis intervention techniques other strategies as prescribed in the child's treatment plan.

Foundations Behavioral Health Doylestown, PA April 2015 – May 2020

Therapeutic Staff Support (TSS)

Specific interventions to assist the child in developing age-appropriate self-management skills, such as focusing attention, organization and planning and appropriate participation and interaction across multiple settings. Support to the teachers, parents, and other adults responsible for supervising the child in the classroom or in the home/community settings in their efforts to provide direct supervision. Assistance to the teacher, parent, or other adult in providing therapeutic structure and setting clear limits for the child. Assistance in implementing a behavioral intervention plan for the child.

Durham Transportation Philadelphia, PA June 2007- June 2018

School Bus Driver

The school bus driver's responsibilities include ensuring proper vehicle maintenance, observing safety and traffic rules, and maintaining order among students while they are on the bus.

Ivy Leaf School Philadelphia, PA September 2004 -June 2007

Teacher Assistant

Provide support to a lead teacher in charge of a classroom, reinforce lessons by tutoring individual students or small groups, creating lesson plans, documenting progress, and overseeing lesson preparations.

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix

Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Service: Human Services Concentration

Bok High School -Diploma