Heather Garriott Cigoi

• Conducted visitations weekly to assess well-being and environmental conditions for each child.
• Advocated for children in court Juvenile Court and to ensure their CAPTA rights are upheld.
• Develop ISPs and conduct other assessments to ensure Youth's meet their goals and address mental heath issue.
• Established and maintained relationships to meet community needs and avoid service duplications.
• Ensure Therapeutic Foster Parents are meeting the needs of the Youth in custody.
• Coordinate services with County CPS throughout the state.

• Scheduled, coordinated and held meetings, supervising Housing Specialist and other community partners.
• Established and enforced clear goals to keep Housing Specialist working with clients to ensure they maintained their vouchers.
• Oversaw the Re-entry Program to ensure Parolees had vouches upon release from prison and Ensure Housing Specialist assist them with maintaining their vouchers
• Developed housing plans for clients in crisis to maintain their vouchers
• Conducted mediations if there landlord/client conflicts
• Planned and delivered training sessions to improve employee effectiveness and address areas of weakness.

• Assist clients with a mental health diagnosis who have a history of being homeless.
• Ensure client's maintain stable housing for themselves and their children.
• Provide assistance with connecting clients and their children to community supports.
• Educating clients about government resources.
• Review ISP goals and record the progress of clients.
• Develop new goals with clients based on the client's progress and life altering events.
• Provided needed support for clients during mental health crises.
• Coordinated mental health services and assist clients by educating them with appropriate coping skills.
• Assisting clients with Criminal, Junenile, and Department of Children and Family Services cases.

• Maximize the organizations revenue by fundraising to subsidize the cost of ice for our skaters.
• Responsible for running and organizing 5 test sessions and a major competition each year.
• Educating skaters, parents, and coaches about Safe Sport, including physical abuse, sex abuse, emotional maltreatment and safety on and off the ice.
• Responsible for investigating all grievances reported to the board concerning skaters, parents, and coaches. Developing safety plans until the investigations are completed and determining any disciplinary actions that need to be taken.

Effectively investigated allegations of abuse. Forensically trained to interview all parties involved in the complaint. Assisted and testified in criminal proceeding. Assessed situations for safety and made the necessary recommendations for medical and psychological treatment. If a child was determined unsafe if their current environment, a complaint would be filed with Juvenile Court and the child would be removed from their current setting and new placement would have to be identified. Accurately documented investigations and wrote reports. Ensured the safety of children and completed successful removal and placement of children in a safe environment. Comfortable in crisis situations and able to deescalate confrontations. Successfully maintained a high caseload successfully.

• Effectively investigated allegations of abuse specializing in sex abuse.
• Coordinated investigations with Law Enforcement.
• Forensically trained to interview all parties involved in the complaint.
• Assisted and testified in criminal proceeding.
• Assessed situations for safety and made the necessary recommendations for medical and psychological treatment.
• Accurately documented investigations and wrote reports.
• Ensured the safety of children and completed successful removal and placement of children in a safe environment.
• Comfortable in crisis situations and able to deescalate confrontations.
• Successfully maintained a high caseload successfully.
• Skillful in identifying services depending on an individuals' needs.

• Conducted interviews of criminal offenders and wrote detail Pre-sentence reports to criminal court.
• Participated in all aspects of community control and supervision.
• Performed detailed background investigations on offenders.