Carolyn Jones
Republic,MO
Summary
Currently a Parent Aide with over 13 years of successful experience in community resources and crisis management. Strengths in building relationships with families and advocating for families (and especially families who have children with disabilities) backed by training in child and family development and years of experience with different jobs.
Looking to seek and maintain a position at KVC, as a Placement Finding Specialist, that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Parent Aide
Self-Employed
Republic, MO
01.2021 - Current
- Supervises visits between biological parents and their children while children are in foster care.
- Schedule visitation times between foster parents and biological parents.
- Offer resources to foster parents that would provide respite for their foster placements to allow time with their own families.
- Attend Family Support Team meetings and advocate for biological parents and their rights.
- Found community resources for biological parents to help meet their needs and needs of their family.
- Work with families on time management, mental health, budgets, parenting, and their individual family dynamics.
Case Manager
Missouri Alliance Children and Families
Springfield, MO
06.2022 - 04.2023
- Developed appropriate care plans for at-risk individuals and high-risk families. • Coordinated resources from diverse providers for intervention plans. • Maintained lists of resources helpful to clients. Developed workable solutions for recurring problems for individuals and families. • Interviewed clients individually and in family groups to determine services to best address specific needs. • Administered conflict resolution strategies to help families resolve disputes. • Directed protective placement, case management, parent education and family reunification activities. • Referred patients to community resources for mental health treatment, child protective services and assistance for people with developmental disabilities. • Visited clients at residence for home study assessments to assist courts with custody decisions.
- Facilitated communication between clients, families, caregivers, social services and other agencies to ensure client needs were met.
Parent Aide
Springfield Partners
Republic, MO
03.2019 - 12.2020
- Supervised visits between biological parents and their children while children were in foster care.
- Scheduled visitation times between foster parents and biological parents.
- Offered resources to foster parents that would provide respite for their foster placements to allow time with their own families.
- Attended Family Support Team meetings and advocated for parents and their rights.
- Found community resources for biological parents to help meet their needs and needs of their family.
- Worked with families on time management, mental health, budgets, parenting, and their individual family dynamic.
Embedded Care Coordinator
Creoks
Wagoner, OK
11.2017 - 02.2019
- Helped stabilize foster children in their current placements.
- Helped foster parents understand trauma and the impact it has on the lives of the children in their home.
- Implement action plans to help decrease the amount of behavior problems with the foster children.
Intensive Family Reunification Specialist
Great Circle
02.2015 - 11.2016
- Be eyes and ears in homes of biological parents as their 90-day home trial started with their children.
- Worked with biological parents on basic skills (management skills, budgeting, parenting, resourcing, communication, anger management, relationship goals, & discipline) and was a support system through their 90-day trial.
- Worked closely with Department of Human Services (DHS) to report all positive and negative circumstances going on within biological parents' home; to help determine when the children could be placed back into their homes.
Service Coordinator
Abilities First Program
08.2008 - 04.2014
- Worked with Families who had children with developmental delays/medical conditions.
- Determined Eligibility for children who had concerns of developmental delays.
- Coordinated meetings with myself, families, and therapists.
- Met timelines for paperwork, case notes, filing, and phone calls.
- Provided Resources and networking for families 2.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Child and Family Development
Missouri State University
Springfield, MO05.2008
Skills
- Special Needs Care
- Relationship Building
- Problem Solving
- Communication and Cooperation
- Observing and Monitoring Behavior
- Safety Monitoring and Management
- Coordination and Teamwork
- Social and Emotional Development
- Child Supervision
- Parent Relationships
- Child Advocacy
- Crisis Management
Timeline
Case Manager
Missouri Alliance Children and Families
06.2022 - 04.2023
Parent Aide
Self-Employed
01.2021 - Current
Parent Aide
Springfield Partners
03.2019 - 12.2020
Embedded Care Coordinator
Creoks
11.2017 - 02.2019
Intensive Family Reunification Specialist
Great Circle
02.2015 - 11.2016
Service Coordinator
Abilities First Program
08.2008 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Science - Child and Family Development
Missouri State University
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