Child Youth Full Time
Resume:
Taurus Childs-Daniels
Auburn, Alabama 36832
******.******@*****.***
Objective: Call center Representative
Education:
Master of Rehabilitation Counseling Phenix City, Alabama 01/2016
Vocational Rehabilitation
Bachelor of Human Services/Sociology Phenix City, Alabama 01/2009
Professional Experience:
Alabama Council of Human Relations 08/2009-Present
Parent Educator Full Time: 40 hours/week
Help parents and caregivers gain the knowledge and skills required to raise emotionally, psychologically and physically healthy children.
Worked in childcare centers and provided family support care.
Help families in crisis or because a court has recommended parent education courses.
Interview participating parents and caregivers to assess their strengths and weaknesses and establish the parenting issues they are facing.
Planning, organizing, and implementing home and center activities for home-based families.
Knowledge of adult learning principles and family dynamics.
Communication with adults, community resources and linking families with appropriate resources.
Work with participants in a positive manner, respecting their privacy, their right to parent their child and cultural background.
Look for their strengths and interests and build on those areas.
Interact with participants, talking with them and listening when they are talking, showing interest and concern, ask questions in appropriate situations.
Complete parent engagement summary with each participant, setting reachable goals and steps.
Work with participants to assist in achieving their goals.
Make determinations as to the eligibility for the type of benefit sought to include questions relating to adequacy of military service, medical evidence, and the evaluation of evidence of income, employability, dependence, and relationship.
Request examinations, re-examination, or opinions to evaluate disabilities resulting from diseases or injuries.
Review claims cases to assure all issues have been addressed, applies, and interprets parents/children’s laws, including parental case law, existing statutes and procedures, precedent rulings, and state law in the adjudication process.
May conduct interviews in person or by phone with veterans, representatives, and advocates to explain the full range of ACHR benefits and related programs.
Prepare and release correspondence for use by other federal, state, and local agencies.
Utilize various electronic data processing (DEPP) systems to input data for processing claims and generating automated correspondence.
Solace Expressions 12/2017-06/2020
Behavior Health Aid 16 hours/week
Provide one on one direct behavioral intervention with children/youth.
Serve as a positive role model for the child/youth.
Provide time-structuring activities.
Provide immediate behavioral reinforcements.
Provide appropriate time-out strategies.
Provide cognitive behavioral approaches, such as cognitive restructuring, use of hierarchies, and graduated exposure.
Collaborate with and support for the family caregivers’ efforts to provide a positive environment for the child/youth.
Assists the child/youth to engage in, or remain engaged in, appropriate activities.
Helps to increase the child/youth’s social and community competencies by building or reinforcing those daily living skills.
Assists in developing the child/youth’s ability to sustain self-directed appropriate behavior, internalize a sense of social responsibility.
Verifies the authorization for medical treatment forms and any other required forms are completed and on file.
Communicates professionally with clients, parents, and guardians.
Attends ongoing clinical supervision meeting as required; participates in case conferences.
House of Restoration 05/2011-6/2012
Internship 40 hours/week
Provide individual and group counseling to help veterans adjust to their disability.
Provided individual and group counseling sessions to provide information and assistance with the program.
Assisted veterans with exploring and identifying rehabilitation needs, goals, and objectives.
Provided problem-solving counseling to a diverse adult population with a wide range of disabilities.
Serves as an entry or journey level Rehabilitation Counselor providing personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions, and case coordination services.
Uses evidence-informed and evidence-based modalities to aid Veterans with severe disabilities, such as physical, psychosocial, psychological, or neurological barriers, integrate successfully into the community. Serves Veterans who have myriad barriers to overcome and achieve competitive employment, educational, and independent living goals.
Uses effective counseling skills to promote self-awareness, adjustment to disability, enhanced job retention and successful integration to the community.
Conduct biopsychosocial assessments using medical records, pertinent disability documentation, observation and interviews with Veterans and their support systems to generate personal, vocational, and educational histories.
Selects, administers, and interprets vocational and other psychometric instruments to evaluate abilities, transferrable skills, functional capacity, labor market analyses, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, and overall work resilience and synthesize into an interpretive data report.
Develop patient-centered treatment plans utilizing Specific, Measurable, agreed upon, Realistic, and Time-based (SMART) goals and provides ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress.
Communicates appropriately with community health care professionals to provide useful input to other team members and employers concerning the Veteran and the family's psychosocial needs.
Utilizes knowledge of the military culture, military transition to civilian occupations, and specific factors and dynamics associated with Veterans, particularly combat Veterans, to advise those who are returning to the community, and community-based work.
Adheres to the professional rehabilitation standards of the Joint Commission and Commission for Accreditation Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).
Knowledge of human development and behavior, medical, psychosocial, and vocational aspects of disability and differential influences of environmental and cultural factors to assist persons with disabilities in determining suitable vocational goals.
Knowledge of history, philosophy and disability rights legislation in the field of rehabilitation to apply in the practice of rehabilitation counseling.
Ability to synthesize assessment and diagnosis information in conjunction with labor market trends and community/educational resources to develop an effective individual service delivery plan.
Knowledge of caseload management strategies to maximize an individual's independent functioning from assessment through provision of post-employment services.
Ability to employ person-centered job development strategies to facilitate successful job placement.
Knowledge of assessment tools and methods, functional capacity evaluations and specific vocational preparation to evaluate transferrable skills, residual capacities and needs for accommodations and assistive technology.
East Alabama Mental Health 08/2008-08/2009
Case Manager 40 hours/week
Assessing, planning, Implementing, monitoring and evaluating actions required to meet the client’s health and human service needed.
Advocate options and services to meet family comprehensive health needs through communications and available resources to promote safety, quality of care and cost.
Link Clients with community resources.
Advocate for services to meet the client’s specific needs.
Assess the needs of client and client’s family.
Monitor client progress.
Make determinations as to the eligibility for the type of benefit sought to include questions relating to adequacy of military service, medical evidence, and the evaluation of evidence of income, employability, dependence, and relationship.
Request examinations, re-examination, or opinions to evaluate disabilities resulting from diseases or injuries.
Review claims cases to assure all issues have been addressed, applies, and interprets parents/children’s laws, including parental case law, existing statutes and procedures, precedent rulings, and state law in the adjudication process.
May conduct interviews in person or by phone with veterans, representatives, and advocates to explain the full range of ACHR benefits and related programs.
Prepare and release correspondence for use by other federal, state, and local agencies.
Utilize various electronic data processing (DEPP) systems to input data for processing claims and generating automated correspondence.
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