Christine Suarez
Browns Mills,NJ
Summary
Qualified Probation Officer with 9 years of experience working with probation clients. Effective at managing difficult cases and focused on encouraging offenders to rise above obstacles and accept life's challenges. Extensive training in motivational interviewing techniques.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Probation Officer
Burlington County Courts
Burlington, NJ
01.2016 - Current
- Screened clients pre-sentence report and criminal history and complete intake interviews and paperwork.
- Built relationships with clients, assessing living conditions and case background information.
- Explain the Statutes, Court Rules, Policies, and Conditions of Probation
- Researched each case thoroughly to strengthen case outcomes.
- Using Ohio Risk Assessment System(ORAS) to determine the appropriate level of supervision and to create a corrective action plan.
- Using Enhance Outcome Base Supervision (EOBS) addressing client’s needs and using appropriate incentives and sanctions to achieve desired behaviors and outcomes.
- Provide client's information of available services
- Collect an oral or urine specimens to test for substance abuse
- Recommend Treatment Facilities and other programs through community contacts
- Monitored client's compliance and progress in treatment by reviewing reports from counseling agencies.
- Write probation violations, updates, and recommendations and present and testify in court.
- Use State and Federal Systems to Run SBI reports
- Coordinate with other divisions and court officials to ensure all operational needs and stats are met.
Probation Officer-Juvenile
Burlington County Courts
Burlington
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Screened juveniles court referrals and completed intake interviews and paperwork.
- Conducted office, home, field, school, agencies, and treatment provider visits
- Advocated juveniles enrollment into alternative, training, or township schools or other educational programs
- Built relationships with client, client's family, schools, and other involved agencies, assessing living conditions and case background information.
- Advised and recommended counseling and treatment programs for Juveniles families
- Recommended procedures to ensure the juvenile complied with court orders
- Coordinated with the juvenile’s families, case workers (CMO, DCPP), group home managers, treatment and school counselors on a corrective action plan.
- Used juvenile behavior grid to determine sanctions and incentives to correct behavior.
- Placed and monitored electronic monitoring devices on a juvenile in accordance to department policy
- Wrote Violations of Probation and presented updates on juvenile’s adjustment to probation to the court.
- Assessed home situations to determine need for removal of client from current home.
Investigator-Child Support
Mercer County
01.2014 - 01.2014
- Performed case management tasks to enforce court-ordered child support and Spousal Support obligations.
- Verified the Payee’s address and employment using NJKIDS
- Sent out standard form letters for wage garnishments, postal verifications, and delinquency letters
- Prepare cases for court for enforcements or closures through NJKIDS
- Presented enforcement cases to Hearing Officer with recommendations
- Interface with other agencies (DCPP, Social Security, Motor Vehicles, Unemployment, Department of Labor, IRS, Credit Reporting, and Passport) for information to locate payee.
- Executed collection calls and written or in-person interactions to solicit child support payments on pass due accounts.
- Interviewed involved parties to confirm facts and verify data.
- Documented data and completed accurate updates to case records.
Judiciary Clerk III
County
Burlington
01.2005 - 01.2014
- Collaborated with judges, team leaders, and court service officers to ensure court needs are met
- Scheduled and hired interpreters and processed interpreters’ payment vouchers
- Audited finance reports and process jury payroll
- Kept statistical data on jury workload
- Provided orientation to jurors regarding their role in the court system
- Advised and trained team members and other staff
- Created training procedures and judiciary main frame systems manuals.
Owner/Tax Preparer
Christine’s Tax Express
Mount Holly, NJ
01.2001 - 01.2007
- Interviewed clients and analyzed tax returns
- Resolved customer’s complaints
- Filled out applications for client’s bank loans for RAL
- Hired and evaluated staff
- Audited and Budgeted company’s financial needs.
Judiciary Clerk II, Child Support
County
Burlington
01.1996 - 01.2005
- Compiled Statistical Data, drafted charts, and spreadsheets of transfers and dismissals
- Processed before and after court child support cases and modified court orders
- Edited and typed correspondence for Investigators and Probation Officers
- Performed data entry on ACSES.
Senior Court Clerk
County
Burlington
01.1995 - 01.1996
- Dictated and typed pretrial intervention reports
- Processed and scheduled municipal appeals and expungements
- Researched criminal records for public
- Data entry on PROMIS GAVEL.
Senior Court Clerk
Burlington County
01.1990 - 01.1995
- Entered data for Civil, Matrimonial, Special Civil, Small Claims, and Landlord Tenant; regarding complaints, motions, and answers
- Balanced bail reports and processed bail judgments
- Advised attorneys and pro se litigants on filing court documents
- Data entry on ACMS, PROMIS GAVEL, and FACTS.
Education
Master’s Degree - Business Administration/Accounting
University of Phoenix
7.2011
Bachelor’s Degree - Psychology
University of Phoenix
5.2009
Associate Degree - Business
University of Phoenix
4.2007
Skills
- Cognitive Behavioral Training
- Caseload Management
- Ohio Risk Assessment System
- Enhance Outcome Base Supervision
- Professional Relationships
Certification
- ORAS Certified (UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI CORRECTIONS INSTITUTE)
- EOBS Training
- Disability and Mental Health Training
Timeline
Probation Officer
Burlington County Courts
01.2016 - Current
Probation Officer-Juvenile
Burlington County Courts
01.2014 - 01.2016
Investigator-Child Support
Mercer County
01.2014 - 01.2014
Judiciary Clerk III
County
01.2005 - 01.2014
Owner/Tax Preparer
Christine’s Tax Express
01.2001 - 01.2007
Judiciary Clerk II, Child Support
County
01.1996 - 01.2005
Senior Court Clerk
County
01.1995 - 01.1996
Senior Court Clerk
Burlington County
01.1990 - 01.1995
Master’s Degree - Business Administration/Accounting
University of Phoenix
Bachelor’s Degree - Psychology
University of Phoenix
Associate Degree - Business
University of Phoenix
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