On the Advisory Council board

The Parent Child Advocate will work with women at risk of having a child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and with their immediate social networks, to improve their life circumstances. The Parent – Child Advocate will provide intensive, long-term, outreach support and advocacy, and will connect families to a comprehensive variety of supports in the community. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including being honest, direct, and have the ability to communicate empathy Collaboratively set goals as well as plan for and evaluate their attainment Accommodate a flexible schedule Identify the strengths of people in difficult situations and recognize and encourage small successes. Self-directed and flexible within a specified framework Recognize that change takes time and have a high degree of perseverance.  We work with the whole constellation of people involved in the program participant’s life Collaboratively assess program participant and family strengths, problems and needs Role model basic skills, social behaviors and parenting skills Set goals, develop a plan of action, evaluate success,  Build a network amongst program participant’s friends, relatives and service providers. Assess and enhance program participant’s readiness to make positive changes Assist program participants’ with implementation of the plan through role-modeling, teaching, information, brokering, advocacy, and providing practical assistance. Document activities and comply with program and evaluation protocols Assist participants to secure childcare while program participants are attending appointments Understand that relapse is expected, and women are never asked to leave the program because of relapse or setbacks. Present program to service providers in the community

Practicum student Had a caseloadFace to Face meetings,Service team meetings. Shadow case workers, intake workers and accessorsCompleted OR’s OCAR’s, concurrent plansContact with clientsCourt proceedingsCollaboration with multi- disciplinary teams. Go out with assessors on urgent

Team Lead for 5 housesThe clients I worked with were high risk youths, males and females.Did case notes, refereed to crisis unit.Activity planning for the youths. Crisis counseling, suicide interventions, and collaborated with other agencies.

Worked in several sectors, HIV clinic, Senior housing, Orphanages, home visits face to face, service team meetings. Built four mud huts for families that were in crisis. Worked at Kanidana the seniors homes, cleaned, cooked, planned activities.Out patient at the hospital, did intake for emergency, worked at the pharmacy A local school, I taught classes in English, planned day activities, did home outreach, taught parents whose children were deaf basic sign language. Helped with administration. Mwandii school, helped make action plans. OVC of Mwandii, orphanage for vulnerable children, handed out HIV medication, facilitated a young girls empowering group every Wednesday; planned the groups. HIV clinic did intake and HIV counseling.