Dedicated social worker with six years of experience providing a variety of services to children in a residential setting and providing counseling services to youth in the Dallas Center-Grimes school district. Currently completing Master of Social Work degree and will graduate in May 2023. Specialized in working with youth aged 9-18 with diverse backgrounds and challenges including removal from home, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, bullying, school success, planning for the future and connecting clients to community resources. Strength's include building rapport, creating a safe and accepting space for all individuals, fiercely advocating for others, utilizing a trauma-focused strengths based-approach, meeting the client where they are at, multi-tasking and consistently prioritizing needs as they arise.
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Jessica Allard
Employee and Family Resources Clinical Intern
Des Moines,United States
Summary
Overview
8
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Employee and Family Resources
Clinical Intern, MSW Foundation Practicum
05.2021
Job overview
- Provide short-term counseling to youth via their school's Student Assistance Program via Telehealth
- Attend weekly trainings and supervision meetings to foster personal and professional growth
- Create agency-wide group programming
Employee And Family Resources
Clinical Intern, MSW Advanced Practicum
08.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Provide short-term counseling to adolescents via their school's Student Assistance Program in a school-based setting
- Maintain confidentiality
- Collaborate with school guidance counselors to best serve the needs of the diverse school populations
- Attend weekly trainings and supervision meetings to foster personal and professional growth
- Observe veteran therapists in group and individual settings
- Timely submission of required documentation
YESS
Community BHIS Counselor
01.2019 - 11.2019
Job overview
- Provide individual, sibling and family sessions focused on skill-building
- Collaborate with licensed therapist on client goals
- Timely submission of required documentation
- Schedule client sessions
YESS
Child Advocate Counselor
07.2016 - 01.2019
Job overview
- Provide individual counseling sessions
- Complete evidenced-based intake and discharge assessments; substance abuse and human trafficking assessments as needed
- Create and execute multiple weekly trauma-informed care groups
- Collaborate with case managers and use community resources to ensure quality of care
- Individual and family crisis counseling
- Implement programming for this grant-based position, including building rapport with agency and community members, educating on grant usage, creating structure for the position, implement weekly trauma-informed care groups, create and present relevant trainings to agency employees, provide a safe safe previously unavailable to clients within the agency
Youth Emergency Services and Shelter
Resident Advisor and Supervisor
03.2015 - 07.2016
Job overview
- Provide direct care to children ages 9-17
- Supervise clients and help them with daily routines
- Provide support to youth in a trauma-informed manner
- Work in collaborative atmosphere with unit staff, supervisors and case managers
- Build rapport with clients
- Supervise colleagues in troubleshooting shelter issues, medication management and crisis situations
Lutheran Services
Youth Associate
01.2015 - 03.2015
Job overview
- Direct care with youth ages 9-13
- Facilitate groups
- Timely submission of required documentation
- Facilitate relationships between client's and families
- Organize weekly one-on-one activities with client's assigned to caseload
Education
University of IowaDes Moines, IA
Master of Social Work from Social Work
05.2023
University Overview
Drake University Des Moines, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts from Creative Writing
05.2005
University Overview
Skills
- Biopsychosocial Assessment
- Building Rapport
- Facilitating Counseling Sessions
- Resource Linking
- Case Documentation
- Effective Communication
- Adaptability
- Collaboration
- Time Management
- Problem Solving
- Strengths-Based Approach
- Value and Honor Diversity
- Accountability
- Mandatory Reporter
- Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel proficient
Certification
Iowa Association for Play Therapy 9/22/16 – 9/23/16
Iowa Victim Justice Symposium 9/12/16 – 9/13/16, 9/11/18 – 9/12/18
Freedom in Action 4/24/17
Adventures in Social Drama 7/24/17 – 7/28/17
Mentors in Violence Prevention 8/16/17
Transgender Education Summit 11/17/17
GEMS CSEC 101 2/28/18 – 3/2/18
Human Trafficking Summit 4/18/18
Timeline
Clinical Intern, MSW Advanced Practicum
Employee And Family Resources
08.2022 - Current
Clinical Intern, MSW Foundation Practicum
Employee and Family Resources
05.2021
Community BHIS Counselor
YESS
01.2019 - 11.2019
Child Advocate Counselor
YESS
07.2016 - 01.2019
Resident Advisor and Supervisor
Youth Emergency Services and Shelter
03.2015 - 07.2016
Youth Associate
Lutheran Services
01.2015 - 03.2015
University of Iowa
Master of Social Work from Social Work
Drake University
Bachelor of Arts from Creative Writing
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