Kaneeka Austin

**** ****** **. ***. *, Fairbanks, AK 99701

adt1ai@r.postjobfree.com

907-***-****

Professional Summary

I am well-trained in working with several individuals to support daily living wants/and needs. Experienced in personal/public settings. Strictly focused on helping each individual thrive and improve his or her wellbeing with individualized care and emotional regulation.

Experienced in behavioral Support and trained with multiple traumatic “walks” of life; with extensive professional work in assisting persons with issues that impair learning, social functions, addictive behaviors, lack boundaries, and have experienced abuse, or PTDS. Proven record of accomplishment in promoting healthy long-term relationships and providing quality care and peer support services. Refined ability to take instructions and lead with life skills and solid hands-on crisis management proficiency. Motivator with demonstrated track- record of successfully working with diverse, vulnerable client populations in one-on-one, and group settings.

Skills

-Written communication -practiced, training in SBIRT

-Verbal communication. -Organization.

-Time management.

-Ongoing motivational interviewing training -Attention to detail.

-Problem-solving. -Independence.

- Knowledge of case management -Crisis intervention

-Relationship building -Knowledge of public resources

-Trained in de-escalation -Peer Support 3 /Pre-service support/ CDC1 -Lived in experience

Experience

Mary’s Place Family Advocate Seattle, WA 2010- 2013

-Proactively create a welcoming and affirming environment, engage families in high-quality shelter services

Engage guests in conversations around their housing goals and assist them with resource navigation

- Maintain a calm, affirming demeanor and model positive behavior, such as upholding professional boundaries

- Address behavioral challenges, provide trauma-informed crisis management, conflict de-escalation, and set appropriate limits through an equity lens

- Effectively collaborate and regularly communicate with other staff members and supervisors to ensure consistency; a team-based, solution-oriented approach to the work; and high-quality service delivery

- Welcome and orient new families to shelter—provide shelter tours, explain program, and complete and upload shelter intake documents

Boys and Girls Home of Alaska Mental Health Tech. Fairbanks, Alaska 2013-2018

-Provides care to patients in a manner that promotes safety, comfort, and the therapeutic environment.

-Assists patients with activities of daily living; attends to patient behavioral problems and aids in crisis intervention, as needed.

-Works with other members of a multi-disciplinary team in leading milieu activities such as current events groups, community meetings, goals groups, fitness groups, activities of daily living groups, and/or recreational activities, as appropriate to the specified patient population.

-Charts patient observations, following prescribed procedures and standards.

-Participates in the development and implementation of patient treatment programs.

ResCare Personal Care-giver Fairbanks, Alaska 2017- Feb. 2019

-Provide various personal caregiving services in accordance with an established plan of direct care. Provide for the personal needs and comfort of people in their own homes

-Assist patients with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting

-Prepare meals and special diets

-Perform general housekeeping activities

-Provide transportation assistance to and from activities

-Provide compassionate companionship to patients

-Other duties as assigned

-Maintains confidentiality of patient records

Fairbanks Rescue Mission Manager/ Case Manager Fairbanks, Alaska 2020/2020

- oversees some of the in-home daily operations.

-manage client services, including intake and discharge procedures.

-manage the home's finances, including budgets and billing.

-referrals

-team trainings

-residential training

-residential tracker

- Make schedules

-Transport patients to and from appointments, clinics, laboratories, and/or treatments, as

And when appropriate.

-May perform initial patient evaluations to determine treatment priorities; may take vital

signs, weights, and urine, stool, and sputum specimens.

-Attends and participates in group sessions, in-service education, and staff meetings.

-Maintains established institutional policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance

program, and safety, environmental and infection control standards.

-Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational

programs, current literature, in service meetings and workshops.

-May provide liaison with patients, families of patients, or external facilities and agencies.

- collaborating with the community

- Organization.

- Administrative skills.

- The ability to support and explain clearly – for both homeless people and volunteers /other workers.

- Maintain professional boundaries

-Billing, records keeping

Fairbanks Native association Peer Support Specialist 3 /CT Fairbanks, Alaska late 2021-present

- assists and guides clients toward the identification and achievement of specific goals defined by the client and specified in the Individual Treatment Plan (ITP). The work involves a variety of routine, standardized tasks that facilitate work performed by higher-level providers.

- "lived experience" who has been trained to support those who struggle with mental health, psychological trauma, or substance use.

-assisting their peers in articulating their goals for recovery, learning and practicing new skills, helping them monitor their progress, supporting them in their treatment, modeling effective coping techniques and self-help strategies based on the specialist's own recovery experience, supporting them in advocating for themselves to obtain effective services, and developing and implementing recovery plans

-Recovery planning

-Recovery coaching

-motivational Interviewing

-Building support groups

-Resources for drug rehabilitation

-SBIRT trained

-Knowledge of domestic violence, Q.P.R. - suicide, substance abuse, case management, peer support, elder abuse, child abuse, many different scenarios of trauma, culture care, and workplace boosting.

References

Empower Empire

Lakesha Jordan 1-907-***-**** Fairbanks, mentor

Fairbanks Native Association

Donna Westphal 1-907-***-**** Fairbanks, previous supervisor

Boys and Girls Home

Mineta Jones 1-907-***-**** Fairbanks, previous supervisor

Fairbanks Rescue Mission

John Coghil 1-907-***-**** Fairbanks, previous supervisor

Sirena Linear 1-907-***-**** Fairbanks Rescue mission

Nancy 1907- 479-4400 Fairbanks Rescue mission

ResCare

LC Tolver 1-907-***-**** previous supervisor

Sheryl Jenkins 1-907-***-**** Previous supervisor

Personal

Kaycee Clemons 1-907-***-**** Friend, personal reference

Katy Christianson 1-907-***-**** friend, personal reference

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