Substitute Teacher Health Worker

Kimberly Nelson

P O Box ***** Phoenix, Az.*****

313-***-**** (Cell)

******.**********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Licensed, professional Social Worker

Broad spectrum of experience including infants/children, teens, adults, elderly & SMI

Experience treating substance abuse and multi-cultural

Resourceful, flexible, problem solver, able to handle difficult customers and issues

WORK EXPERIENCE

11/2015- Present Substitute Teacher

Contracting for Phoenix and Glendale Schools working in the reading and computer labs testing and assisting students in a program called Success Maker, also reading and speech comprehension and assisting Spanish speaking student with learning English.

09/2014- 11/2015 AZ State Hospital

Work at AZ State Hospital on their Civil and Forensic Units giving support and encouragement to SMI and NGRI patients. Conduct group therapy and wrap up to find out if the patients are working on their goals that day and how the day went for them. Various other duties.

10/2013- 3/2014 DES AZ Dept. Of Economic Security

Worked as a case manager for DDD consumers assisting them with entitlements and to stay in their homes safely with dignity, ensuring the proper contractors and funding were available for them.

01/2011- 10/2012 Nexus Home Care

Worked as a Medical Social Worker assisting seniors with medical and medication programs, housing and food programs, chore services resources for housing furniture, assessments and evaluations.

11/2003-5/2011 Dynamic Home Care and Hospice Best Services

Worked as a medical social worker at a company that was three agencies in one providing home visits and resources and linking them to housing, employment adaptive supplies, transportation nutrition programs to maternal support seniors, infants and terminally ill patients.

12/2011-08/2013 Gateway Detroit East

Worked as a case manager in an Out Patient and Co-Occurring substance abuse treatment program linking and coordinating consumers to various different agencies for resources and referrals training and employment programs SSI, schools and assisting with receiving driver license and birth certificates, court hearings home visits Parole officers, transportation also worked with NGRI, and SMI consumers.

01/2001-6/2003 Development Center

ACT Case Manager worked with SMI consumers assisting with staying out of the hospital making sure they saw their doctors transporting them to the doctors and bringing them their medication, assisted them with their daily personal business assisted them in enrolling in school finding a job, networking with companies that were willing to take a chance on the consumers . Assisted them with proper meal nutrition taking them to the grocery store, home visits.

04/1996-10/2002 Sophie Wright Settlements

Social Worker Tutor. Tutored children ages 6- 13, counseling, supervising and assisting children social guidance and various other duties.

11/1996-6/1998 Garden City and Westwood Public Schools Districts

Worked as a substitute teacher at junior highs and high schools teaching various subjects.

04/199*-**-**** Aurora Hospital

Mental Health Worker Counseled children, adults, teens and young adults. Adjudicated prisoners in response to treatment. Conducted group therapy.

03/198*-**-**** Detroit Osteopathic Hospital

Mental Health worker Participated in the therapeutic milieu for treating SMI patients attended treatment team meetings supervised and observed assisted and documented response the patients response to treatment conducted group therapy.

EDUCATION

Wayne State University Detroit, MI

Bachelor of Science, Psychology

Licenses and Boards

National Association of Forensic Counselors, Indiana

Psycho Therapy, The American Psycho Therapy Assoc. Indiana

Domestic Violence Counselors, Academy of Domestic Violence, Washington DC

Board of Social Worker State of MI

Certified Substitute Teacher

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