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As a volunteer with Orangewood PALS our goal is to make a positive impact on lives of children who have been abused and neglected. We achieves this goal by supporting Orangewood Children’s Foundation programs for current and former foster children and those placed at Orangewood Children’s Home. Our fund raising efforts support scholarships and mentoring programs, tours, field trips, and other fun activities for the children.

Planned, managed, and supervised the classroom and children; Ensured that all parents, children, and staff concerns are appropriately addressed; Designated areas in the classroom for reading, music, science, arts and crafts, dramatic play, and building; Provided lesson plans on a weekly basis.

Responsible for the overall leadership of a childcare site including staff supervision, daily schedule and curriculum, enrollment, parent and school relations, facility maintenance, risk management, and licensing compliance.

Planned, managed, and supervised the classroom and children; Ensured that all parents, children, and staff concerns are appropriately addressed; Designated areas in the classroom for reading, music, science, arts and crafts, dramatic play, and building; Provided lesson plans on a weekly basis.

Planned, managed, and supervised the classroom and children; Ensured that all parents, children, and staff concerns are appropriately addressed; Designated areas in the classroom for reading, music, science, arts and crafts, dramatic play, and building; Provided lesson plans on a weekly basis.

- Counseled, supervised, and cared for abused and neglected children of all ages at Orangewood Children's Home.- Assisted in the responsibility for over-seeing and structuring every part of a child's everyday life, and implementing treatment plans at Orangewood Children's Home (OCH).- Coordinated recreational activities with other members of the OCH multidisciplinary team when the activity influences the team member's area of responsibility.- Coordinated and implemented OCH's Operation Santa Claus/Holiday Toy Drive.- Coordinated and implemented holiday planning procedures for OCH Annual Holiday Party.- Maintained the OCH gymnasium, pools, game room, weight room, and craft rooms in order to maximize use of these facilities.Interfaced with members of community/volunteer groups who are sponsoring special events.- Implemented and coordinated activities of all ages and created a Recreation Director's Manual at OCH.- Interfaced with the Community Program Specialists with regard to the planning of activities and the use of volunteers for OCH.- Assisted once a month as a Duty Officer at Orangewood Children's Home; supervised and assisted staff with crisis and everyday activities; coordinated serious incidents and wrote shift report and signed serious/minor incident reports.

Coordinated meeting with stress peer advisors; assisted as an advisor for college students; scheduled appointments for stress peer advisors; attended weekly meeting with Student Health Services Staff and student heath coordinators.