Kameelah Palmer
Delran,NJ
Summary
Skilled probation professional with substantial experience in managing caseloads, conducting risk assessments, and developing rehabilitation plans. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, ensuring reliability and adaptability to changing needs. Expertise includes conflict resolution, case management, and legal compliance, with personality that values integrity, empathy, and effective communication.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Probation Officer
Middlesex Superior Court-Probation Division
05.2019 - Current
- Key Achievements: Manage a specialized caseload to enforce court orders, while also ensuring clients with severe mental illness are treated with respect and dignity
- Core responsibilities: Mental Health Diversion Program, Provide counseling and support for clients with severe mental health concerns, Collaborate and meet with the Judge, prosecutor, public defender biweekly focusing on client’s progress/compliance to successfully complete Probation, Ensure clients engage in Mental Health treatment and provide community resources, Present violation of probation reports and recommendations to the court, Help facilitate a team approach to reduce criminogenic behavior amongst this population
Crisis Screener (Per diem)
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital
03.2022 - 05.2025
- Key Achievements: Assessing patients for psychiatric hospitalizations and crisis/emergency treatment.
- Core Responsibilities: Conduct Crisis screens, Refer patients/family for appropriate level of care, Interact and collaborate with Psychiatrist to determine best interest of patient
Family Service Specialist II
Department of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P)
11.2007 - 05.2019
- Key Achievements: Efficiently facilitated Family/childcare programs by conducting Family/Child Needs Assessments to determine specific needs
- Core responsibilities: Liaised with parents to process and maintain information and records related to program requirements, Manage and assess cases for risk and safety, Conduct routine home visits monthly, Collected and analyzed significant facts about abuse/neglect to determine appropriate services plans, Managed cases in compliance with federal, state, and local planning and reporting requirements, Collaborated with other agencies and worked with multi-disciplinary teams for providing services to customers, Initiated investigations to screen allegations, including child welfare assessments
Education
Masters of Social work -
Monmouth University
Long Branch, NJ01.2021
Bachelors of Arts Degree - Sociology (Minor in Children and Families)
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, NJ01.2005
Skills
- Team leadership
- Mental Health first Aid
- Client-oriented Community Services
- Supervision and Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
- Risk Assessment
- Analysis and reporting
- Empathetic and Approachable
- Family/Child Maintenance
- Case Management
- Independent and teamworking
- Strong Verbal and Written Communication
- Relationship Building
- Problem-Solving
- Multitasking and Caseload Prioritization
- Domestic Violence
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Risk and needs assessments
- Verbal and written communication
- Case planning
Certification
- Core Correctional Training (CCP), 2020
- Trauma-Focused Training, 2020
- Cultural Competency Training, 2020
Timeline
Crisis Screener (Per diem)
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital
03.2022 - 05.2025
Senior Probation Officer
Middlesex Superior Court-Probation Division
05.2019 - Current
Family Service Specialist II
Department of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P)
11.2007 - 05.2019
Bachelors of Arts Degree - Sociology (Minor in Children and Families)
New Jersey City University
Masters of Social work -
Monmouth University
CORE COMPETENCIES
Proven background in assessing risks, case management, enforcement of court orderd; utilizing Coginitive Behvaioral Health techniques to help identify the barriers and needs of the client.