Josephine Graham Fogarty
Customer Service, Cashier
Tacoma,WA
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
CASE RESOURCE MANAGER
DSHS/DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION
Tacoma, WA
01.2021 - Current
- Case Resource Manager on Supported Living and IFS Transition Team.
- Completing Assessments, home visits, employment DVR, Community Engagement, Person Center Planning, requests.
- Worked with families and clients to discuss how to best meet their needs in the community within home and as well as out-of-home options.
- Completed payment authorization through CDWA system, as well as assisting providers with coordinator with CDWA system to make sure the payment authorizations were correct.
- Worked with the payment team to report and prevent overpayments.
- Work with Behavioral Services, Employment Services, Staff and Family Consultation and stabilization Services, Hospital safety plans, Tacoma Fire Department and Mental Health Services within Tacoma, WA.
- Working closely with several hospitals on safety plans for clients in order to keep clients safe in the community.
Social Worker 3 CFWS/ CPS/ FAR unit
DCYF KING SOUTHWEST OFFICE
Kent, WA
01.2016 - 01.2021
- Front line CPS duties assessing safety for children in the home and determining if out-of-home placement is in the child’s best interest.
- Interviewing parents and children.
- Completed Forensic Interview Training as well as CPS In Service Training.
- Appeared in DCYF Court at least 8-12 hours a week, social workers of the day once a week for up to at least 12-15 hours to stay with a client with behavioral challenges and keeping them safe in the community.
- In close contact with King County Juvenile Court System in Seattle, WA.
- Also worked with DCYF office of Indian Child Welfare closely to make sure correct association of / with Children of Office of Indian and Child Welfare were correctly placed per WAC (Washington Administrative Codes).
Social Worker 3 CFWS Unit
DCYF KING SOUTHWEST OFFICE
Kent, WA
05.2017 - 07.2019
- Ensure timely permanency outcomes for children in caseload to include reunification, adoption, guardianship, and third-party custody plans.
- Develop partnerships with families, service providers and others to address primary safety and risk concerns.
- Age-appropriate communication with interviewing children.
- Identify root circumstances within the family that led to the department referral and assist the family in addressing those circumstances as needed.
- Develop Individual and family level objectives.
- Assessed safety and risk throughout the case and take additional action when needed to meet the needs of child safety, permanency and wellbeing.
- Recognized and document incremental progress made by the family towards meeting the identified objectives/goals.
- Social Worker within the CFWS (Children and Family Welfare Services).
CASE RESOURCE MANAGER
DSHS/DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION
Seattle, WA
01.2009 - 01.2016
- Case Resource Manager-Worked on Children/ Adult Waiver Team 2009-2012 Then on Residential Case Management Team from 2012-2016.
- Completed Assessment, Prior Approvals, ETP/ETR in CARE.
- Coordinated Wrap Around meetings to best meet client needs in respect to Drug/ Alcohol, as well as Mental Health Counseling, working closely with Sound Mental Health providers.
- Assisted client with Housing, section 8 assistance, social security assistance, as well as connected to resources within King County.
- Worked with clients finding employment as well assisting employment vendors with assisting clients with keeping the employment they currently had and working on barriers that were possibly risk of client losing their employment, for example behavior management training within the place of employment for the client.
- Worked closely with clients’ families in helping them understand their child’s/ or adult child, and how to work together to best meet their needs.
JOB COACH SUPPORT SPECIALIST
NORTHWEST CENTER
Seattle, WA
01.2005 - 01.2009
- Supervise a team of Developmentally Disabled Adults in a Supported Work Team, for them to then obtain employment in the community.
- Trained and supported 10 clients in supported work team environments to assist clients with the ability to work on their own independently.
- Worked in a 52,000-foot square foot laundry facility with several clients to clean laundry facility with dusting all equipment which includes 50-foot machines, for drying washing, plastic strips in place to prevent cross contamination, as well as sweeping, mopping all concrete falls of 52,000-foot facility.
- Also, I would complete all tasks that clients were not able to complete.
- Hours 5am-3pm.
- Also, I would complete all janitorial tasks by filling up and rinsing out all mop’s buckets for 52,000 sq. foot facility.
- I would dump all the buckets and confirm all areas were cleaned before the end of the day, and before leaving for the day, I would make sure all of the facility was cleaned prior to the next day.
- Also to remove all bullets and any possibly damaging particles/ as well as particles left in pockets by the offices of Fort Lewis McCord as that facility at that time cleaned all of their laundry tasks.
SUPPORT SPECIALIST
NELLIE GOODHUE GROUP HOME
01.2002 - 01.2003
- Assisted several Women who had Developmentally Disabilities with their daily living skills as well as in the community in a Group Supported Living home.
CASE MANAGER
SEATTLE EMERGENCY HOUSING
Seattle, WA
01.2002 - 01.2004
- Assisted Homeless families with resources within King County as well as maintaining a safe home for homeless families with children.
- Worked with families in obtaining transitional homes as well as employment as well as connecting with resources necessary for success for example mental health counseling, drug/alcohol treatment programs, parenting support connections in the community.
BOYS FOSTER HOME / RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR
HOUSE OF SARAH
Renton, WA
01.2001 - 01.2002
- Cared for several children ages 6-14 in a foster home while their parents worked on following through with necessary requirements for reunification, working closely with DSHS Children’s Administration.
CASE MANAGER
SACRED HEART HOMELESS SHELTER
Seattle, WA
01.1994 - 01.2001
- Maintained a shelter of up to 26 Adults and up to 15 children.
- Assisted families with daily goals to obtain housing, employment, and with daily living skills.
- Connected Families with resources in the community as well as focusing on children’s welfare daily.
- Facilitated weekly meetings with clients residing in the shelter to go over how they were doing and how to better improve their lives as well as how the shelter assisted them and how to better communicate with the needs of everyone within the shelter daily.
Retail Sales
SUPER SUPPLEMENTS
Seattle, WA
01.1992 - 01.1994
- Retail sales as well as clients assisted with questions on health care, and referrals to books on health and supplements.
- Completed transitions for all retail sales worked full time open to closing, balancing cash register, checking all deliveries, stocked shelves, cleaned store, vacuuming, bathrooms all janitorial tasks as necessary, product testing, close contact with ordering.
Administrative Assistant
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
New York City, NY
01.1988 - 01.1992
- Worked in the Membership Department for Actors Equity Association 1988-1989, then as Administrative Assistant to CEO Alan Eisenberg.
- Worked closely with President of AEA Colleen Dewhurst, and Vice President Ron Silver and Labor Union to address Actor’s needs, as well as addressing at that time EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS and worked closely with Tom Viola and the AEA insurance that was available to Actors at that time with AIDS.
- Completed all tasks for 60 Committee meeting for as Actors Equity Association Committee Secretary, followed through with Media and AEA Members on Media and coordination and mediation of phone calls, customer service, for Actors Equity Association.
- Also, I have completed all daily tasks as Administrative Assistant to CEO Alan Eisenberg.
Timeline
CASE RESOURCE MANAGER
DSHS/DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION
01.2021 - Current
Social Worker 3 CFWS Unit
DCYF KING SOUTHWEST OFFICE
05.2017 - 07.2019
Social Worker 3 CFWS/ CPS/ FAR unit
DCYF KING SOUTHWEST OFFICE
01.2016 - 01.2021
CASE RESOURCE MANAGER
DSHS/DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION
01.2009 - 01.2016
JOB COACH SUPPORT SPECIALIST
NORTHWEST CENTER
01.2005 - 01.2009
SUPPORT SPECIALIST
NELLIE GOODHUE GROUP HOME
01.2002 - 01.2003
CASE MANAGER
SEATTLE EMERGENCY HOUSING
01.2002 - 01.2004
BOYS FOSTER HOME / RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR
HOUSE OF SARAH
01.2001 - 01.2002
CASE MANAGER
SACRED HEART HOMELESS SHELTER
01.1994 - 01.2001
Retail Sales
SUPER SUPPLEMENTS
01.1992 - 01.1994
Administrative Assistant
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
01.1988 - 01.1992
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