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0-5 years of experience
- Provided assessment, crisis intervention & counseling to adolescents and families at risk; served as liaison interfacing with schools & courts
- Consulted with interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal educational and mental health plans for youth and families
- Hired and supervised part-time counseling staff and student interns
- Assisted in grant writing for after school program; provided administrative support for this program
- Developed and coordinated Peer Outreach Leadership Program for high school students; mentored youth and provided training in life skills
- Collaborated with four town initiative for Youth Leadership Project; served as Coordinator of the Four Town Talent Show 1990, 1991
0-5 years of experience
- Provided mentoring support to youth and participated in development of individualized service plan for youth
- Educated youth to acquired greater communication, system navigation and self regulation skills
- Developed and maintained positive relationships with youth and families receiving services
- Identified needs of youth and families and took appropriate actions to rendered appropriate assistance
- Thoroughly documented work done on behalf of youth clients
- Maintained comprehensive documentation
- Served on the Sacramento County Youth Advocate Committee and executed team projects
- Advocated for youth clients voice and perspective in development and treatment planning
0-5 years of experience
Provided direct client care, parenting and youth skills training for at risk youth and families.
- Provided one on one Case management for the following areas, housing, employment, school success, and crisis support.
- Making decision, solving problems, analyzing, and evaluating for the best outcome success for the youth and family.
- Provided DV support, violence prevention including gang activities in the community and schools, through skills building.
- Established and maintain interpersonal relationship with outside agencies.
- Knowledge of community resources, enabling appropriate refers specific clients’ needs.
- Provides violence prevention skills training groups in school and community settings.
6-10 years of experience
- Operated crisis-line, addressed crisis intervention needs, and hospital response support.
- Research and prepared community education presentations and group lesson plans.
- Prepared and maintained client files accurately and neatly.
- Provide support for children and adult survivors of Domestic/Sexual Violence.
- Maintained strict client confidentiality.
- Attended and participated in community council meetings.
0-5 years of experience
- Helped young individuals transition out of care and support their personal goals
- Assisted in event and program planning for youth in foster care and juvenile justice programs
- Prepared summary reports and performance evaluations
- Maintain records of challenges during program and develop recommendations to address issues
0-5 years of experience
Advocated and mentored adolescents in mandated program by the Department of Juvenile Justice.
- Attended Juvenile Court with clients
- Assisted clients and their families with community connections and services as well as other needs such as homework and transportation.
- Worked closely with probation officers, teachers, therapists, and case workers in a wraparound process.
0-5 years of experience
- Ensured that youth in [company name] programs are treated with dignity and their rights are protected
- Helped to resolve any complaints or concerns a youth may have
- Ensured compliance with all youth treatment policies and regulations
0-5 years of experience
Effectively work with and be respectful to persons from various cultures, socioeconomic, ethnic, racial and religous backgrounds.
- Participate in the development of the youths Initial Service Plan and am a member of each youths service team implementing goals and objectives.
- Teach life skills and resume building to assigned youth.
- Complete all required reports and documents for any incidents involving assigned youth.
- Repspond directly to emergencies and crises which occur with youth.
- Meet weekly with the Treatment Team to review the goals, progress and sctivities related to assigned youth.
- Transport youth to school, job interviews, sports functions, various appointments and court dates.
0-5 years of experience
- Assist students in achieving positive academic outcomes including high school graduation; attaining life skills; and completion of a successful employment experience.
- Meets regularly with students enrolled on my case-load in the academic environment to review grades, attendance, social skills, and future plans.
- Develops strong relationships with students and their families to understand and/or identify home issues that might impede school, work, and post-secondary success.
- Completes monthly family interactions through home visits and/or phone calls to ensure that parents and/or guardians are informed of, and in agreement with, the service goals established for their child.
- Partners with core subject teachers and school counselors to ensure students on their case-load come to class on-time and are prepared to learn.
- Accurately completes program documentation and reporting on students in case-load in the required format and in accordance with required timeframes.
- Partners with the Jobs Institute team to resolve employment partner challenges/issues.
0-5 years of experience
Provide mentoring support to youth
- Model pro-social behaviors for youth
- Develop relationships with families of youth clients and maintain regular dialogue with family members about youths’ needs, progress in the program, and challenges
- Assist in supervision of youth during all on and off-campus activities
- Plan and lead weekly bible study for young men
- Assist in cleaning duties for assigned classroom
0-5 years of experience
- Work in a residential Dorm/group home for adolescent girls
- Provide direct support for 25 individuals 11 to 21 years of age
- Work with girls with behavioral and mental health issues
- Ensure the following of handbook and other Dorm rules
- Log case notes and complete paperwork related to individual clients
- Inventory, order, and administer medications
0-5 years of experience
- Provided drug and alcohol awareness training to at risk youth.
- Provided peer counseling.
- Organized group motivational, self-improvement and team building activities.
10+ years of experience
- Coordinate all Recreational and Educational programs at the V.A. II Clubhouse
- Provided after school assistance, computer lab and research services.
- Developed community Coalitions and Resident Councils
- Developed strong Empowerment Network to assist residents with housing and education issues
- Participated in Tribal Council meetings.
0-5 years of experience
- Create and structure a safe space for students to come for varies resources for throughout the community.
- Provided case management and mentoring services to over 20 at risk youth
- Assist with developing individualized service plans twice a week
- Facilitate work force development trainings twice a month
- Tutoring youth with core classes (English, math, science, and civics)
0-5 years of experience
- Assist and provide group management in High Quality Sports, Fitness & Arts
- Provide coaching, mentoring, guidance, referrals and advocacy to help participants progress successfully in program
- Assist and, as needed, lead daily workshops and build relationships with participants
0-5 years of experience
- Working directly with high risk youths.
- Working directly with familes providing them with resources in the community.
- Worked directly with school officals in Jefferson county.
- Worked out Individualized servces plans for the family to obtain certain goals.
- Kept detailed record of any and all events involing the youth, as well as the any and all reached goals of the familes.
0-5 years of experience
- Targeted minority, at-risk, low-income youth
- Mentored students, grades 10th-12th, in S2S program
- Educated teens on college, programs, clubs
- Assisted in FASFA, scholarships, applications
- Maintained binders on each individual student
- Assisted non-documented students in college process
- Conducted campus tours, orientation, registration
- Monitored students’ grades, attendance and progress
- Visited local high schools and shared success/struggles
0-5 years of experience
- Work to promote an ideal that nobody from foster care should age out of the system to face adulthood alone
- Support and advocate for teens who are matching with a prospective adoptive family.
- Collaborate with other Youth Advocates to create informational sessions that will answer questions and concerns pre-adoptive youth may have.
- Assist GPSII/MAPP leaders train prospective foster and adoptive parents in a 30 hour training mandated by New York State.
0-5 years of experience
Youth Advocate
- Manage and track weekly hours and activities of assigned caseload.
- Provide interventions and set weekly activities for caseload in community.
- Interact and provide services to assist with family needs of client.
0-5 years of experience
- Assist youth clients in identifying immediate and long term needs by developing case plans to meet those needs
- Use SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) concepts to help identify needs of clients
- Help clients understand their triggers and develop a plan to identify and strengthen healthy coping skills/boundaries
- Support educational/vocational goals of client
- Assist clients in developing techniques to cope with stress, anger and other various emotions
0-5 years of experience
- Create advertisement about events involving youth
- Create presentations for trainings and workshops
- Work with agencies throughout Wayne County Systems of Care
- Plan, prepare and arrange nutritious meals for children
- Accompany children in parks and activity clubs
- Perform child related everyday jobs as directed by parents
0-5 years of experience
- Go to meetings and discuss policy’s for foster children
- Meet with the governor to discuss changes
- Host meetings to inform people about what goes on in the system
- Explain to people the importance of fostering
- Surveying youth in foster to see what needs to be done
- Create booklets to hand out to those interested in making a difference
0-5 years of experience
- Meet with youth for individual sessions every month.
- Provide appropriate resource referrals for youth to other youth-serving agencies
- Provide support by creating an individualized service plan, setting goals, and creating a fun and safe space to explore intersections of identities.
- Employ strength based approaches to build critical thinking.
- Reflect the values of [company name] by demonstrating and embracing integrity, diversity, and innovation.
- Participate in creating and maintaining a workplace that treats everyone with respect without regard to race, color, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability.
- Advocate for positive girl culture.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide comprehensive guidance and counseling to disadvantaged teens/young adults seeking educational and employment support.
- Lead Instructor of Backpacks to Briefcases: A program geared toward building leadership skills, defining
- Act as intermediary between client and Business Services Partner to support youth in getting employment
- Maintain case management duties to meet compliance.
- Partner with and identify community resources to connect client to needed support.
- Developed, and currently implement, The WalkAbout Program: An outdoor experiential learning
- Act as Interim Manager when necessary.
0-5 years of experience
Provide supervision and direction to Youth Home residents
- Assure the safety of Youth Home residents
- Assist in Youth Home group activities
- Help prepare and serve meals to residents
- Keep a daily chore, room and activity log
- Encourage and motivate residents to exceed Youth Home expectations
- Advise and help residents navigate available resources
0-5 years of experience
Field Intern
- Front desk responsibilities including: answering phones, filing and greeting incoming individuals
- Responsible for monitoring, filling out referrals and providing assistants with helpful resources
- Shadowed prospective directors and advocates during initial intakes with respect to court appearances and homes; created intake packets
- Created entry surveys for admitted clients and exit surveys for discharged clients
10+ years of experience
- Directly supervises employees within the treatment program.
- Evaluate employee’s job performance.
- Help manage any concerns or problems that employees may have.
- Directly supervise a caseload of at risk children in a long term treatment program.
- Attends weekly team meetings to discuss and or revise clients’ treatment programs.
0-5 years of experience
Therapeutic Staff Support
- Provide one-on-one interventions for clients
- Assist clients and families with activities focused on strengthening ties
- Serve as an advocate for child, assist with behavior focused interventions.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide one-on-one case management services to juvenile offenders in both correctional and community settings.
- Contact, receive and review referrals from community-based organizations government agencies, community partners, and walk-ins.
- Conduct program orientation, intake evaluation and individual needs assessments and participate in the program evaluation process.
- Develop Individual Career Education Plans (ICEP) identifying barriers to education and employment and implement action steps to address those barriers.
- Assist Job Developer in building sustainable relationships with current and potential employers in demand-driven industries via marketing initiatives.
- Assist with the facilitation of the program’s employment readiness, leadership, and life skills workshops.
- Track youth participation in the six program components (Workforce, Educational, Case Management, Mentoring, Restorative Justice and Community Wide Violence Plans.
- Facilitate and coordinate life skills workshops and educational activities for youth.
0-5 years of experience
- Participate in advocacy efforts to raise awareness about Spina Bifida
- Periodically engage with local, state, and federal lawmakers to discuss important health issues and disabilities
- Provide input during congressional meetings with different aspects of having a disability, such as medical needs, insurance, financial aid, education, and mobility
0-5 years of experience
- Personal counseling/ Problem solving
- Special events coordination
- Program planning and evaluation
- Training and workshop facilitation
- Individual, group and systems advocacy
0-5 years of experience
- Facilitate a weekly seminar on emotional/behavioral concerns.
- Co-teach Character Education class.
- Assist Program Director in coordinating all program activities, including NYC SYEP and Work, Learn & Grow Programming.
- Provide individual and group counseling to students.
- Supervise Youth Advocate Counselors (4).
- Program oversight of senior postsecondary planning (College Fairs/Tours, College Applications, Financial Aid, SAT registration, Career Planning).
- Participate in family counseling sessions and parent conferences.
- Maintain student files, including progress notes, academic progress, career assessments, college application and financial aid, attendance, and outreach efforts.
0-5 years of experience
- Develop healthy and respectful relationships with adolescents
- Assess the risks and strengths for situations
- Provide case management services and referrals/resources for youth
- Assist in meeting the immediate needs of youth who come into center
- Complete intakes with youth, including assessments and goal writing activity
- Develop and maintain relationships agency-wide and community-wide with youth serving programs and agencies
- Properly and timely complete all documentation and data reporting as required by the agency, grant funders and the program
- Collaborate with other staff and maintain team work style, and maintain professional working relationships with clients or other outside agencies or contacts
- Comply with the agency’s written employment policies
- Model behavior that is consistent with, and supportive of healthy adolescent development
0-5 years of experience
- Decrease stigma associated with youth receiving services within the system of care (MentalHealth, Juvenile Justice, special education, etc).
- Advocate for youth friendly services and environments by giving input and participating in system of care activities, advocacy and awareness events, and sitting on local and statewide committees.
- Facilitate hands on trainings on a variety of topics, and help train other youth on facilitation, resume building, leadership, Microsoft Office, cultural competency, public speaking, event planning e.t.c, to help equip youth with personal and professional development skills.
0-5 years of experience
- Ensure youths maintain their rights
- Aide in developing skills in all areas of life
- Provide crisis intervention
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