Paula Orellana

Provide comprehensive case management services by ensuring all relevant classification paperwork is timely, accurate and complete. Ensure supervisees are appropriately employed during their incarceration. The position focuses on supervisees release planning and performing case management/counseling for adult supervisees, which includes classification. Promotes the development of self and staff through providing training. Acts as a role model by providing guidance/direction for offenders in a correctional facility, which enhances facility security and promotes long-term pro-social behaviors.

Drafted legal documents including deposition notices, certifications, contracts, briefs, complaints, subpoenas, motions, and pleadings
Conducted legal research into case law, and interviewed clients and witnesses
Created summaries of depositions and testimonies
Provided additional support to Attorneys during real estate closings, court hearings, depositions, trials, and will executions
Organized and maintained legal files
Filed documents with any applicable court systems

Contributed to the agency’s public safety mission by supervising and counseling probationers in the community setting. Worked directly with supervisee in support of the Department’s reentry mission. Interviewed gathered, verified and evaluated information to prepare pre-sentence investigations including sentencing recommendations/suggestions. Informed probationer of conditions of supervision and developed case plans. Directly monitored supervisees’ behavior. Maintained supervisee files and documented case activities. Investigated, reported, and followed up on alleged supervisee violations to determine appropriate and available sanctions. Prepared sentencing guidelines and testifies in circuit court.

Drafted legal documents including deposition notices, certifications, contracts, briefs, complaints, subpoenas, motions, and pleadings
Conducted legal research into case law, and interviewed clients and witnesses
Created summaries of depositions and testimonies
Provided additional support to Attorneys during real estate closings, court hearings, depositions, trials, and will executions
Organized and maintained legal files
Filed documents with any applicable court systems

Provided case management services for families that had complex challenges. Managed an active foster care caseload that reflected cases with serious social and family challenges where the children had been separated from their caretakers due to abuse and/or neglect. Provided and managed direct services to clients whose presented challenges which required a high level of skill. Made well-informed decisions on behalf of children. Facilitated teaming meetings to build a positive rapport with the children and families being served. Referred clients to Family Assessment & Planning Teams. Engaged with children and families to ensure that specific needs were addressed. Conducted initial and continuous assessments of foster homes to ensure the foster parents and perspective adoptive parents qualified to meet the children’s physical and emotional needs. Coordinated service delivery toward the attainment of permanency for children. Eliminated barriers to permanency. Provided support to natural supports that were willing to accept children into their home as kinship care providers.Ensured that reunification services were provided by linking the children and families to services in the community, both formal (community providers) and informal (family, friends, neighbors, church, school, etc.) resources to strengthen the family while ensuring the safety of the children.
Prepared narratives, court reports, home studies and social histories; testified in court hearings; presented cases to the Family Assessment and Planning Team. Coordinated community resources to effectively address client needs; monitored and evaluated progress of families to ensure the safety and well-being of their children.
Conducted community visits that required traveling outside job locality.
Participated in Family Partnership Meetings. Utilized family engagement and crisis intervention skills; organized records; used computer to complete work assignments within required time frames and maintained compliance with state law and policy.
Followed federal, state, and local guidelines associated with child safety, well-being, and permanency.

Drafted legal documents including deposition notices, certifications, contracts, briefs, complaints, subpoenas, motions, and pleadings
Conducted legal research into case law, and interviewed clients and witnesses
Created summaries of depositions and testimonies
Provided additional support to Attorneys during real estate closings, court hearings, depositions, trials, and will executions
Organized and maintained legal files
Filed documents with any applicable court systems