Kaneeka Austin
Fairbanks,Alaska
Summary
I am well-trained in working with several individuals to support daily living wants/and needs. Experienced in personal/public settings. Strictly focused on helping each individual thrive and improve their wellbeing with individualized care and emotional regulation. An effective leader experienced in behavioral health, trained with extensive professional work in assisting persons with issues that impair learning, social functions, addictive behaviors, lack of boundaries, and having experienced abuse, or PTDS. Proven record of accomplishment in promoting healthy long-term relationships and providing quality care and support services. Refined ability to take instructions and lead with life skills and solid hands-on crisis management proficiency. Motivator with demonstrated track- record of successfully working with diverse, vulnerable client populations in one-on-one, and group settings, while ensuring a safe, secure, and legal work environment. Empathetic Peer Support Specialist with proven to build trusting relationships with clients. Caring with genuine concern for wellbeing of peers. Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SOAP Program Manager
Fairbanks Native Association
2023.10 - Current
- Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.
- Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
- Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
- Developed and maintained logistics workflows, procedures and reports.
- Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
Peer Support Specialist 3 /CT
Fairbanks Native Association
- Assists and guides clients toward the identification and achievement of specific goals defined by the client and specified in the Individual Treatment Plan (ITP)
- The work involves a variety of routine, standardized tasks that facilitate work performed by higher-level providers
- Lived experience' who has been trained to support those who struggle with mental health, psychological trauma, or substance use
- Assisting their peers in articulating their goals for recovery, learning and practicing new skills, helping them monitor their progress, supporting them in their treatment, modeling effective coping techniques and self-help strategies based on the specialist's own recovery experience, supporting them in advocating for themselves to obtain effective services, and developing and implementing recovery plans
- Recovery planning
- Recovery coaching
- Motivational Interviewing
- Building support groups
- Resources for drug rehabilitation
- SBIRT trained
- Knowledge of domestic violence, Q.P.R
- Suicide, substance abuse, case management, peer support, elder abuse, child abuse, many different scenarios of trauma, culture care, and workplace boosting.
Manager/ Case Manager
Fairbanks Rescue Mission
2020.01 - 2020.01
- Oversees some of the in-home daily operations
- Manage client services, including intake and discharge procedures
- Manage the home's finances, including budgets and billing
- Referrals
- Team trainings
- Residential training
- Residential tracker
- Make schedules
- Transport patients to and from appointments, clinics, laboratories, and/or treatments, as and when appropriate
- May perform initial patient evaluations to determine treatment priorities; may take vital signs, weights, and urine, stool, and sputum specimens
- Attends and participates in group sessions, in-service education, and staff meetings
- Maintains established institutional policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, and safety, environmental and infection control standards
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings and workshops
- May provide liaison with patients, families of patients, or external facilities and agencies
- Collaborating with the community
- Organization
- Administrative skills
- The ability to support and explain clearly – for both homeless people and volunteers/other workers
- Maintain professional boundaries
- Billing, records keeping.
Personal Care-giver
ResCare
2017.01 - 2019.02
- Provide various personal caregiving services in accordance with an established plan of direct care
- Provide for the personal needs and comfort of people in their own homes
- Assist patients with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting
- Prepare meals and special diets
- Perform general housekeeping activities
- Provide transportation assistance to and from activities
- Provide compassionate companionship to patients
- Other duties as assigned
- Maintains confidentiality of patient records.
Mental Health Tech.
Boys and Girls Home of Alaska
2013.01 - 2018.01
- Provides care to patients in a manner that promotes safety, comfort, and the therapeutic environment
- Assists patients with activities of daily living; attends to patient behavioral problems and aids in crisis intervention, as needed
- Works with other members of a multi-disciplinary team in leading milieu activities such as current events groups, community meetings, goals groups, fitness groups, activities of daily living groups, and/or recreational activities, as appropriate to the specified patient population
- Charts patient observations, following prescribed procedures and standards
- Participates in the development and implementation of patient treatment programs.
Family Advocate
Mary's Place
2010.01 - 2013.01
- Proactively create a welcoming and affirming environment, engage families in high-quality shelter services
- Engage guests in conversations around their housing goals and assist them with resource navigation
- Maintain a calm, affirming demeanor and model positive behavior, such as upholding professional boundaries
- Address behavioral challenges, provide trauma-informed crisis management, conflict de-escalation, and set appropriate limits through an equity lens
- Effectively collaborate and regularly communicate with other staff members and supervisors to ensure consistency; a team-based, solution-oriented approach to the work; and high-quality service delivery
- Welcome and orient new families to shelter—provide shelter tours, explain program, and complete and upload shelter intake documents.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Technology of Psychology
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ06.2025
Skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Time management
- Ongoing motivational interviewing training
- Emotional Support
- Attention to detail
- Knowledge of public resources
- Leadership Skills
- Community Outreach Programs
- Positive Environment Facilitation
- Effective Collaboration and Interaction
- Problem-Solving Skills
References
Lakesha Jordan, 1-907-888-3233, Fairbanks, previous supervisor Donna Westphal, 1907-505-0657, Fairbanks, previous supervisor Mineta Jones, 1-907-888-7747, Fairbanks, previous supervisor John Coghil, 1-907-687-6091, Former co-worker Aisha Starkweather 1907-388-0971, Fairbanks Rescue mission Nancy, 1907-479-4400, previous supervisor Sheryl Jenkins, 1907-590-9718, Previous supervisor, Kaycee Clemons, 1907-799-7489, Friend, personal reference Katy Christianson, 1907-315-9756.
Certification
- Certified QPR, Sister Sky Incorporated, 2023
- BHC1, ACBHC, 2023
- CDC1, ACBHC, 2023
- PRSS3, ACBHC, 2022
QPR gatekeeper
Sister Sky Inc. is a SBA-certified 8(a), Native American, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business (EDWOSB) dedicated to delivering empowerment and enrichment services to Native American and disadvantaged communities through culturally-conscious training, technical assistance, event management and communications. As a 100% Native American owned company, Sister Sky Inc recognizes cultural uniqueness and sensitivity as crucial in fostering improvements in health, education and self determination. We are familiar with Indian Country because we live, work and stay connected to the communities we serve. We have worked extensively with over 300 Native American tribal communities across education, economic development and social services. In addition, we have existing relationships with tribal leadership organizations that can improve outreach, partnership and participation. QPR Institute to create a new cultural adaptation of the QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Gatekeeper Training suitable for the wide diversity of Native American cultures, while maintaining QPR’s integrity as an evidence-based intervention. A useful suicide prevention training!
Timeline
SOAP Program Manager
Fairbanks Native Association
2023.10 - Current
Manager/ Case Manager
Fairbanks Rescue Mission
2020.01 - 2020.01
Personal Care-giver
ResCare
2017.01 - 2019.02
Mental Health Tech.
Boys and Girls Home of Alaska
2013.01 - 2018.01
Family Advocate
Mary's Place
2010.01 - 2013.01
Peer Support Specialist 3 /CT
Fairbanks Native Association
Bachelor of Science - Technology of Psychology
University of Phoenix
- Certified QPR, Sister Sky Incorporated, 2023
- BHC1, ACBHC, 2023
- CDC1, ACBHC, 2023
- PRSS3, ACBHC, 2022
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