Leah Starks Email & Phone Number

Prairie Village, KS, US

Kansas City, MO

Olathe, KS

• Provides direct child welfare services to at-risk children and families while using a trauma-informed care approach.
• Assists families by researching community resources, completing mental health assessments on parents and youth, meeting with the children and foster families in the home monthly to ensure the client’s needs are being.
• Attends court hearings and case planning conferences, as well as supervised visitations between children and their parents. Develops personalized safety plans to ensure the youth’s physical and emotional needs are.
• Maintains accurate documentation of all interactions with clients, provides written updates for court reports, and competes case plans and social history reports in a timely manner.

Olathe, KS

• Coordinated and facilitated daily therapeutic groups and activities for clients in a psychiatric residential treatment facility including group therapy, goals group, dance and movement therapy, unit meetings and daily.
• Assured physical safety for youth in crisis by using de-escalation techniques and performing safety holds as needed.
• Maintained a therapeutic milieu while in charge of supervising staff and children and ensuring that all group notes, progress notes, incident reports, and location logs were completed and entered by end of shift.

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Responsible for collecting court documents on PACER in relation to convicted terrorists.
• Used a data coding entry system with an oracle database to code the terrorists’ personal information including their charges and counts from Federal cases, location of the incident, the terrorists' criminal background.
• Collected multifaceted media collection documents from multiple online sources as well as data cleaning and coding.While working at the Terrorism Research Center, I became very proficient in navigating PACER as well as.

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• In charge of creating field reports on parolees for the parole board and judge to review.
• Accountable for entering court notes, office visits, scanned documents and drug tests into the eOMIS system.
• Applied my organizational skills by creating and filing all of the officer’s offender files as well as sorting out FBI and SID numbers.

Kansas City, Kansas

• Actively assisted the CSI Unit on all of their calls out to crime scenes including homicides, armed robberies, sexual assaults and autopsies.
• Learned how to properly photograph and package the evidence that was collected at the crime scenes.
• Responsible for collecting DNA evidence and fingerprints from most of these scenes.
• Observed several autopsies while helping the Officer photograph the bodies.
• Served as an assistant to the officers and filed any paper work that they needed.
• While working in this Unit, I was able to go on a couple of ride alongs with South Patrol and Midtown Patrol - I helped these officers file police reports and assisted them on all of their calls that they received from.

Master Of Social Work

Major In Criminal Justice & Sociology: Minor In Social Work & Legal Studies

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Sigma (National Criminal Justice Honor Society), Sigma Alpha Pi (National Society of Leadership &.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Soccer Captain, Varsity Volleyball, Club Volleyball, Spanish ClubVarsity Soccer Awards: • Starting.