JASON McCRANEY
Columbus
Summary
To establish a relationship with an organization that could benefit from my 15 years of experience working in the criminal justice and child welfare system seeking a role to utilize my strong assessment, case management, and communication skills in supervising offenders, enforcing court orders, and connecting individuals with essential resources. Excellent communications and organizational skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Transitional Living Coordinator
NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM
Columbus
05.2024 - Current
- Work one-on-one with youth ages 14-18 to provide independent living skills and connect with available community resources.
- Assist youth emancipating from foster care with applying for benefits and finding housing with kinship options or other additional resources.
- Collaborated with various organizations to secure financial assistance resulting in students being awarded scholarships to continue their education.
Family Preservation Case Manager
NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM
Columbus
06.2023 - 05.2024
- Assessed At Risk Families to determine strength and needs of children.
- Collaborated contact with families through regular, planned, and unannounced to visitations to monitor safety.
- Facilitated parent education, counseling, community resource linkage, advocacy, transportation and other professional services.
- Assisted in administrative and court reviews of the case plans and proceedings.
- Interfaced with Foster Treatment Coordinator to visit Foster Care Programs.
- Pursued permanent custody and planning for adoption or other permanent substitute care for children who cannot be returned to their birth families.
- Performed ad hoc duties including on-call duties to ensure community based services to youth and families are in compliance.
Supervisor Adult Probation Officer
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Lafayette
02.2020 - 02.2023
- Supervised felons offenders through counseling and referrals to community resources on social adjustment problems.
- Conducted criminal justice social background investigations of offenders and made recommendations for various decision makers in the criminal justice system including courts, parole board, pardon board and office of the Governor.
- Conducted arrests and transported violators to various courts and hearings.
- Administered drug test and evaluated results.
- Conducted jail housing audit and made recommendations for pressure point control.
- Assisted coordination of Emergency Preparedness Operation for Covid-19 and Hurricane Relief.
Probation Officer
STATE OF LOUISIANA
05.2009 - 02.2020
- Supervised over 500 adjudicated youth from various parish court systems.
- Excellent Mediator with judges, attorneys and court personnel.
- Completed over 100 in-depth court reports detailing social histories of families.
- 2016 Probation Officer of the Year.
Education
Bachelor of Science - CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
BATON ROUGE, LA05-2008
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINATTI
CINCINNATTI, OH01.2005
Skills
- Case Management
- Crisis Intervention
- Conflict Resolution
- Risk Assessment
- Microsoft Office
- Youth Mentoring
Timeline
Transitional Living Coordinator
NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM
05.2024 - Current
Family Preservation Case Manager
NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM
06.2023 - 05.2024
Supervisor Adult Probation Officer
STATE OF LOUISIANA
02.2020 - 02.2023
Probation Officer
STATE OF LOUISIANA
05.2009 - 02.2020
Bachelor of Science - CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINATTI