Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Professional Development
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Community Service
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Jennifer Bannister-Yarde

Texas City,TX

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Resident Advocate Evening B

Bay Area Turning Point
04.2024 - Current
  • Assisted in the development of life skills workshops, empowering residents to achieve self-sufficiency and independence.
  • Contributed to program evaluation efforts by collecting data on resident outcomes and satisfaction levels, informing future improvements in service delivery.
  • Collaborated with case managers to create customized care plans for each resident, ensuring their unique needs were met.
  • Empowered residents through assertive advocacy at meetings with landlords or government agencies as needed, ensuring their voices were heard and respected throughout critical decision-making processes.

Behavioral Support Specialist

Devereux Advanced Behavior Health Texas
10.2023 - 03.2024
  • Work with children ages 10 to 17 in a 24-hour residential setting
  • Clients are on various levels of the Autistic spectrum, intellectual disabilities, and emotional disturbance disorder
  • Some clients are present due to court orders due to behavioral health issues
  • Some clients are in full state custody
  • The goal is to assist with the treatment and help create healthy coping mechanisms and life skills with the possibility of the client being adopted into the appropriate home, depending on the severity of behavioral health issues
  • Most clients are with us, so we help their parents and clients be safe at home
  • Behavior support specialists are the eyes and ears of the social worker, Therapist, Board Certified Behavior Analyst
  • We report any changes to behavior or new behaviors that we come across as we work with each client.

Substitute Teacher

Kokua Houston
01.2022 - 10.2023
  • Work with all grade levels in the Special education department
  • Works in multiple schools throughout Houston, TX
  • Currently working as a long-term sup for International Leadership of Texas at Windmill Lakes-Orem High School
  • Teaching 9th-grade Algebra 1.

Service-Learning Case Aid

Harris County Juvenile Probation
02.2019 - 11.2019
  • Assist Service-Learning Juvenile Probation Officers with weekly projects
  • Assist with Done-In-A-Day (Saturdays) at various C.U.P.S
  • Units
  • Assist with office projects
  • Grant Research
  • I worked at J.J.A.E.P
  • Excel Academy, assisting the youths with project research and presentations
  • I assisted with teaching kids the importance of Horticulture Monday through Thursday
  • On Fridays, I helped with The Gardening Club, a therapeutic class that gets the children outside, showing them how to take care of a garden hands-on and the importance of having a healthy nutritional diet.

Juvenile Supervision Officer (J.S.O.)

Harris County Juvenile Probation
01.2016 - 02.2019
  • Harris County Youth Village
  • Juvenile Justice Dentition Center
  • We are to maintain the safety and security of the residents
  • While maintaining 24-hour
  • Surveillance with hopes of the residents learning to be law-abiding citizens
  • We also help the residents obtain their high school diploma and or G.E.D
  • We are the eyes and ears of the Supervisor, Probation Officers, and Therapists
  • It is up to the Judge to determine when these residents can be released case by case, essential solely to their behavior.

Substitute Teacher

Kelly Educational Services
08.2014 - 01.2016
  • Works with grade school students PreK-12th grade
  • Works in multiple schools throughout Harris County
  • As the Primary teacher or the Teacher Assistance
  • Also, work in facilities
  • Works with at-risk youth in after-school programs
  • Contract worker.

Conservatorship Specialist 1

Child Protective Services
04.2015 - 07.2015
  • Works with children after they have been removed from their homes, with hopes of providing a healthy and safe environment while providing services to children and their parents with the possibility of the children returning home
  • Went to various court hearings
  • While shadowing another caseworker.

Education

Master’s in social work -

Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, TX

Bachelor of Science, Juvenile Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, Criminology, Anthropology of Food, Probation and Parole, Criminal Law - Criminology

University of Houston-Clear Lake
Houston, TX
12.2013

Associate of Arts - General Studies

College of the Mainland
Texas City, TX
05.2011

Skills

  • Computer - PowerPoint, Word, Excel
  • Retail - Sales Associate, Customer Services
  • Cultural Competency
  • Client Advocacy
  • Self-awareness
  • Verbal Communication
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • De-Escalation Techniques
  • Crisis intervention strategies

Professional Development

  • University of Houston-Clear Lake - New Student Orientation Leader Spring 2012-2013
  • National Society of Leadership and Success Spring 2012-2013
  • Black Student Association Fall of 2011-2013
  • Student Leadership and Community Engagement Spring 2012-2013
  • Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society December 2013-present
  • Teen and Police Service Academy (TAPS) Spring 2014-2015 - Goals are to reduce the social distance between at-risk youth and law enforcement.

Goals

To reach one child at a time, plant seeds with the hope of them growing academically, socially, psychologically, and physically

Community Service

  • President of the Baby Stewart Foundation, 2015, 2022, Organize fundraisers. In charge of community research. Distribute donations to several business clients. Provide car seat safety and sex education classes.
  • Houston Food Bank/Day of Service, 03/2012
  • Rainbow Connection/U.T.M.B. Health, 03/2012, Facilitated recreational activities at Camp for All. Advised children with cancer and their siblings on overcoming fears and barriers.
  • Mission Trip/Managua, Nicaragua, 06/2002

References

References are available upon request.

Timeline

Resident Advocate Evening B

Bay Area Turning Point
04.2024 - Current

Behavioral Support Specialist

Devereux Advanced Behavior Health Texas
10.2023 - 03.2024

Substitute Teacher

Kokua Houston
01.2022 - 10.2023

Service-Learning Case Aid

Harris County Juvenile Probation
02.2019 - 11.2019

Juvenile Supervision Officer (J.S.O.)

Harris County Juvenile Probation
01.2016 - 02.2019

Conservatorship Specialist 1

Child Protective Services
04.2015 - 07.2015

Substitute Teacher

Kelly Educational Services
08.2014 - 01.2016

Master’s in social work -

Our Lady of the Lake University

Bachelor of Science, Juvenile Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, Criminology, Anthropology of Food, Probation and Parole, Criminal Law - Criminology

University of Houston-Clear Lake

Associate of Arts - General Studies

College of the Mainland

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