Experience

Turning Point Youth Services

• Canada
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Supervisor

  • Oct 2019 - Present

• Assistant Supervisor

  • Mar 2014 - Oct 2019



Tyrs

• Pickering and Newmarket

• Child and Youth Worker

  • Feb 2009 - Mar 2014

  • Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of adolescent “females” age 12 – 17 of various gender orientations, from varied backgrounds and sexual orientations, afflicted with a number of psychosocial and personality disorders, as well as learning disabilities. • Responsible for providing informal individual counselling and case management. • Responsible for providing mentorship to female youth in and outside of the group-home setting. • Responsible for facilitating, and leading, group discussions. • Intervene in crisis situations using behaviour management and therapeutic crisis intervention techniques and by employing non-judgemental problem solving skills. • Employ a harm reduction approach when working with youth who engage in self-harming behaviours. • Responsible for assessing risk while bridging home visits, in the community and in the residence. • Responsible for understanding the laws and services directly that directly impacted our adolescent clientele. • Maintain appropriate documentation, including daily logs, case creation and management, IR/SORs. • Coordinate with multidisciplinary team including Social Workers, Crisis Counsellors, Teachers and Police and Probation Officers. • Responsible for providing weekend respite care to foster parents who are part of the agency. • Ability to analyze situations, make decisions and provide feedback and counselling to clients using Cognitive Behavioural Tools, social skills behaviour evaluations and anger management techniques. Show less