Lauren Cihosky Email & Phone Number

Halton, Ontario, Canada

• Builds rapport with youth ages 16-24 who are leaving care of a Children's Aid Society to form long-term case management and supportive counselling relationships• Provides advocacy and service connection based on the goals of each youth and an assessment of their needs in a path towards independence• Assists youth for service coordination and goal achievement in: housing, employment, education, mental health, health, life skills, legal, supportive counselling, etc.• Works with youth one-on-one to complete tasks, attend meetings and develop necessary skills, such as budgeting and money management, meal planning/grocery shopping, job search, research skills, housing search, organization and routine building, etc. • Conducts case management, completes accurate case notes, maintains files accordingly, and gathers statistics for ministry reporting• Provides outreach, presentations and allocates time for community committee membership

Burlington, Ontario

• Conducted intake interviews and determined suitable participants.• Built relationships with at-risk youth clients to facilitate their success in placement and connected them with the necessary community services to support their needs.• Recruited employers to participate in the program and maintained a network of prospective employers. • Negotiated placement agreements with employers based on the needs of the participants and monitored both parties during the work placement phase. • Supported participants in their work placements and provided assistance as needed to ensure that program targets were met.• Managed and maintained participant and employer files and completed monthly statistical and narrative reports.

Kitchener, On

• Built rapport and assessed the needs of young pregnant and parenting residents to provide support, crisis intervention, and consequences for breach of rules.• Completed case logs and paperwork to ensure accountability.• Supported residents to attend programs and school, as well as to complete any household and family responsibilities to develop autonomy and self-confidence.• Performed necessary health and safety checks to ensure that government standards were met and resolved any discrepancies.• Facilitated in-house programming for residents on health, wellness, and parenting topics while filling in for the program manager. • Assisted in the training and orientation of new staff members and the monitoring of placement students/volunteers.

Oshawa, On

• Scheduled volunteers for the Youth Justice Committee (YJC) program.• Participated in conferences by engaging youth and their families and determined appropriate sanctions and referrals to achieve YJC mandates.• Developed restorative sanctions according to perceived trends in client needs and reviewed previously developed sanctions to assess their relevance to the program.• Adhered to appropriate case management techniques for YJC and extrajudicial sanctions clients to promote sound storage and retrieval of information for statistical and reporting purposes.

Oshawa, On

• Researched intimate partner violence and kept an up to date collection of new studies published on the subject for the development of theoretical grounding for the academic paper. • Developed an SPSS database and complied all statistical data for entry and analysis in order to track and organize the results of the study, now published in Technology in Society, Volume 41, May 2015.• Categorized and noted additional qualitative information from interviews to preserve data and ensure that it remained connected to the appropriate study participant.

Ajax, On

• Prepared and co-facilitated a Conflict, Anger, Learning communication and Mediation (C.A.L.M) program for youth in conflict with the law in order to promote better conflict management. • Explored alternative lesson plans and investigated new directions to take through various funding initiatives and youth grants.• Wrote numerous grant applications in order to advance the program and ensure that all youth could access the service free of charge

Toronto Pearson Airport

• Completed month-long initial job training, including groundwork in customs knowledge, immigration principles, and defensive tactics procedures to ensure accurate application and safety practices within the airport.• Performed thorough and suitable interviews of incoming international and domestic passengers to maintain the security of the airport, its occupants and the domestic environment. • Demonstrated a respectful, professional and welcoming attitude towards newcomers, visitors and residents of Canada while performing everyday duties.• Communicated professionally with dissatisfied or lost passengers in order to address the problem and provide accommodating information.• Maintained vital work tools in a responsible manner and according to policy to maintain the safety of the workplace and documented the workday appropriately at all times to uphold agency rules and ensure widespread accountability for ones actions.

Milton, Ontario

• Prepared criminal information’s for court appearances and organized the courtroom dockets for each day to ensure the presence of relevant files and the orderly continuation of court.• Completed and logged copy requests to support the needs of the office and ensure the structured management of the copy request organizational spreadsheet.• Filed court documents after their use to ensure that they were accurately organized and could be easily located for further appearances.• Performed court clerk duties to aid small claims court Deputy Judges during settlement conferences, fulfilling custodial court duties and filling out the pertinent forms for the matters at hand.• Typed out and sent notices of court appeal dates to inform the parties involved and ensure their attendance in court.• Completed daily office maintenance tasks to aid co-workers and further the office as a team, such as mailing out letters, updating filing guides and re-organizing filing drawers. • Trained a new staff member to prepare the criminal court dockets and monitored their progress to ensure the continuous management of court documents.

Bachelor Of Arts

Youth Justice And Interventions