Experience

Wraparound Facilitator ****-current

●Gallahue Behavioral Services

●Wraparound Services through Community Health Network

●Mental Health for youth ages 5-17

Special Education Teacher 2018-2021

●Mccordsville Elementary School

●Emotional Disability Classroom

●Grades Kindergarten through 5th grade

Student Teaching 2018-2019

●Elwood Haynes Elementary School

●Mild to Moderate Classroom

●Grades: 3rd through 5th

2014-2018

Substitute Teacher

●Taught students based on the absent teacher’s curriculum while I was obtaining my degree (grade K-12). I was able to manage the classroom (behavior, transitions, and other management) to keep the students on track with their work given to them

●Focused on my skill area which was life skills classrooms and assisted anywhere needed (aide’s secretaries, etc...) This allowed me to have full responsibility over a classroom while attending college.

Peer Tutoring 2011-2012

●Helped students become active in schoolwork while leading them to success in specific content areas. Also, organized student schedules and taught students new curriculum.

Education

Indiana Wesleyan University 2015-2018

Bachelor’s Degree in Exceptional Needs Education

Minor in Teaching English as a Second Language

Ivy Tech Community College 2012-2015

Associates Degree in Education

Skills

●Building rapport with families and youth

●Experience in social/emotional learning

●participate in mental health trainings

●Create Functional Behavior Assessment, Individualized Education Programs, child case studies, assessment report, interdisciplinary units, multiple lesson plans

●Creating social and emotional lesson plans

●One on one social skill instruction (grades K-5th)

●Collaborating with wrap around therapists and school-based therapists

●Use progress monitoring to assess social and emotional goals

●Attending and participating in various trainings to gain valuable resources (Crisis Prevention Intervention, Trust-Based Relational Intervention, Managing Behaviors in the classroom, How to Connect with your Student’s Parents in the Virtual World, Boy’s Town Program).

●Experience in various school districts

●Fieldwork experience in a life skills class, ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom, emotional disability class, and first and third grade elementary class

●Presented at the Learning Disability Association

●Conducted a CANS assessment for the youth and family

●Communicate effectively each week with therapists, families, life skills clinicians, and other wraparound facilitators

●certified as a SuperUser when conducting CANS assessments

●Communicate during crisis with families

●Conduct crisis meetings

●conduct family and team meetings every month

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