Mentor individual clients in a healthy and positive environment. Drawing from academia, a respite worker will target therapist goals.

-enhanced individualized support in community/home for adults suffering with severe/symptomatic mental health diagnoses-hired upon program’s inception at Pillars*outreach to in-house clients, hospitals, other medical providers to build program caseload-regularly managed 3, 4, and infrequently, 5 appointments per day, between various intervals depending on treatment/logistics, 30-120 min each appointment-educated and facilitated conversation with client and client’s support systems regarding mental health, fitness, and nutritional meals -developed MHA’s (mental health assessment) and treatment plans for new clients, and kept up-to-date release information keeping standard with IL state law and DSM-4 standards and practices *Regularly used Microsoft Office programs for travel logs, progress notes, emails, online service/provider research using work laptop w/wireless hotspot in office and community -Undertook a unique standard of engagement with clients, emphasizing passion based activities, laid back approach, and intimate interpersonal connections to patiently develop rapport-establish sound relationship with CST as a whole.

As a mentor, demonstrating leadership and strong work ethic was required before group discussions with elementary students. As group leader with elementary students, leadership to discuss topics ranging from tolerance of others to coping with personal issues was implemented once a week for and hour.

As a paraprofessional, listening to a caller is the utmost important aspect of understanding their grievance. The use of empathy and feedback is used to make the caller feel understood. Reasoning with the individual's emotions and illogical thoughts alongside said skills puts the individual in need to undergo a realization and begin a train of thought to cope and fix their psychological and physical issues.

Slice meats and cheeses, fry variety of foods, prepare raw chicken for oven roast, bread chicken pieces, maintain clean work space. Offer customer service needs for holiday events and holiday meals. Maintain and have accountability of frozen, uncooked, and packaged products.