Evanique Hylton
West Chester,PA
Summary
Creative, disciplined and practical social work graduate with an unpretentious aspiration to serve others and a unique drive to assist vulnerable members of society. Dependable, self-aware, and compassionate individual, who requires minimal or no supervision to complete tasks assigned. Team player with excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and professionalism acquired through a myriad of experiences.
Overview
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Work History
Direct Care Professional
- Plan and implement recreational, social, educational, and other developmental programs assigned for at risk and disabled Youth.
- Identify when a student is anxious and/or having a meltdown and address appropriately with therapeutic techniques to address behavior, while ensuring the safety of others in the classroom.
- Work with students separately to determine interest and skiffs and toeuron building these skills to help the transition to leave residential treatment program educate youth in daily having skills in preparadon to return toy environments.
- Provide instruction in exercise, nutrition, social, and life skills.
- Work with youth to integrate into the community.
- Learn about individual students’ needs and what treatments they respond to best too.
- Determine strengths and goals and contribute these during Individual Learning Plan Development.
- Document the behaviors in the electronic incident reporting (RADAR) system.
- Participate in educational and behavioral training, professional rounds, courses, and other learning opportunities.
- Demonstrate judgment in interactions with youths and awareness of inappropriate behavior.
- Comply with Mandated Reporter Status by identifying and reporting allegations of abuse.
- React promptly and appropriately to situations.
- Demonstrate judgment in interactions with youths and awareness of inappropriate behavior.
- Comply with Mandated Reporter Status by identifying and reporting allegations of abuse.
- React promptly and appropriately to situations.
- Communicate with school youth and family members.
- Document transactions with internal/external care providers and information relevant to social, educational, psychological, or treatment history.
- Provide training, advocacy, needs assessment, and treatment to youth and their home placement families with the goal of reunification and/or the reduction of long-term out of
- Manage a schedule for youth to obtain services, such as medical care, therapeutic recreation, living skills, community integration, and career exploration.
- Document in a professional manner their observations as to the youth's development, responsiveness to treatment, and educational, psychological and medical needs.
- Recognize development and behavior patterns that require adjustment of appropriate treatment plans and facilitate their learnings in a school setting.
- Treat and advocate for youths in residential care with the goal of re-unifying with their families or to facilitate a long-term home placement.
- Describe the underlying principles of Safety Techniques which include Position, Leverage, Balance and Conservation of Energy.
- Identify the appropriate Safety Technique to use in crisis situations and be able to correctly perform each technique approved for use pertaining to the situation.
- Continuously identify advantages and benefits, as well as limitations and risks, of each technique.
- Various behavior shaping techniques such as backward chaining
- Prompting hierarchies and modeling.
- Various point-and-level systems to reinforce pro-social behaviors. PECS, Murdoch Task Analysis System.
- PECS is a functional communication system designed for individuals with limited expressive communication skills.
- The Murdoch TA system teaches a variety of adaptive living skills.
- Point-and-level systems are group behavior support systems designed to increase more appropriate behaviors.
Social Work Practicum
St. Elizabeth Youth Innovation Center
Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth
02.2021 - 04.2021
- Successfully planning and hosting events for at risk youths and their families with a 90 % success rate.
- Conducted home visits and community outreach for vulnerable families.
- Organize personal and professional development series: “Youth in Aktion Not a Bag a Mouth” with 100% success rate.
Social Work Internship
West Indies College Preparatory School
Manchester
01.2021 - 04.2021
- Psychological observation
- Behavioral Intervention Program with a 65% improvement in behavioral and social skills.
- Teaching with a 70 % improvement in cognitive skills and academic
Education
Bachelor of Social Work -
Northern Caribbean University (NCU)
Mandeville, Manchester08-2021
Skills
- Effective team player
- Perceptive, attentive to non-verbal cues
- Competent in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access
- Planning and multi-tasking
- Interpersonal competence and effective communication skills
- Objective and empathetic
- Persistent and time management skills
- Problem solving
- Persuasion and networking skills
- Patience and maintaining a calm presence
- Open to constructive criticism
- Ability to use positive language
- Social Perceptiveness
Certification
- Certificate of Appreciation (Seel Programmed) Youth Innovation Center / Ministry of Education, Youth & Information [2021]
- Certificate of Appreciation (Practicum) St. Elizabeth Youth Innovation Center [2021]
- Certificate in Customer Service Heart Trust NTA [2021]
- Certificate of Academic Excellence (Honor Roll) Northern Caribbean University [2018-2020]
Timeline
Social Work Practicum
St. Elizabeth Youth Innovation Center
02.2021 - 04.2021
Social Work Internship
West Indies College Preparatory School
01.2021 - 04.2021
Direct Care Professional
Bachelor of Social Work -
Northern Caribbean University (NCU)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Rotaract Club, 2019, 2021, Participated in the Feeding of over 50 homeless persons., Organized, collected and donated food packages to the Ebenezer Home, Participated in the Lend a Hand Project which successfully rehabilitated and refurbished a house for elderly lady., Organized and participated in numerous fundraising projects.
- Rotaract Club, Treasurer, 2020, 2021, Collecting Funds, Preparing Budgets, Reconciling Statements
- Rotaract Club, Assistant Secretary, 2019, 2020, Organize monthly meetings., Write reports.
- Social Work Club, Member, 2017, 2021, Attended and participated in monthly meetings.