Dylan Miller

Reliable Social Work professional with a background in a community focused role in Children’s services. Skilled in fostering positive relations with community members in high stress and emergent situations. Possesses strong listening skills, team based collaboration and support, and driving positive outcomes within the community. Recognized for making co-workers and the community feel heard, commitment to betterment of families, and fostering positive relationships with and care for co-workers and team members.

Social Worker Core

• Engaged in team focused exercises covering a broad range of topics in Child Welfare.
• Learned from educators with collective centuries of experience in the field.
• Engaged in exercises for, safety assessment, Interviewing parents and children, safety planning, case management, alternate methods for safety, and managment of personal bias.
• Received additional training on The Indian Child Welfare Act.
• Received training on childhood development, the impacts of trauma on development, acknowledgment of family culture, assessments of generation trauma in Social Worker practice and service of families.

Child Welfare Services, Case Management System

• Performed exercises across all aspects of California's Child Welfare operating system
• Learned how to keep proper documentation, update client pages, file court paperwork and import outside documents for record keeping purposes

Political Philosophy

• Analyzed the dense philosophical and political texts from the 17th-21st centuries.
• Applied learned concepts to modern social ills such as the unhappiness crisis.
• Applied high level political and sociological frameworks to better understand people of a wide variance in background and deepen empathy for both our peers and all of the people that surround us

Jazz Lab 1

• Developed strong nonverbal communication skills through active listening and looking for hand signals in high intensity performance situations.
• Organized and led my section through rehearsal time outside of required hours.
• Developed diligent practice, focus, and teamwork skills.