Sarah Castellanos
Sullivan,WI
Summary
Dedicated Treatment Technician with a proven track record at Lad Lake. Excelled in crisis intervention and behavioral management, significantly improving youth emotional regulation and engagement. Skilled in compassionate care, verbal deescalation, providing groups and activities for youth and positive youth outcomes before and after discharge.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Treatment Technician
Lad Lake
Dousman, WI
11.2023 - 01.2025
- Positive role modeling, showing youth how to regulate emotions, building healthy relationships, and teaching life skills.
- Planning & leading activities, conducting daily routines and activities that get the youth engaged
- Guiding youth when things get tough, using verbal de-escalation techniques.
- Completing appropriate documentation
- Giving rides in agency vehicles for off grounds outings and transporting youth to and from home passes
- Coordinating outings for youth
- Walking youth to and from school; sitting in classes with youth and supporting them with school work
- Contacting and working with families, HSWs and teams of the youth.
Internship Student
Lad Lake
Dousman, WI
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Serve as a positive role model for youth in our residential care programs
- Provide active supervision of youth by engaging in activities that are of interest to them.
- Assist in facilitating activities and daily routines
- Crisis intervention with youth through verbal de-escalation techniques
- Engage in, assess, and document youth activities (shift logs, incident reports, behavioral management logs, databases, etc.) collaboratively with staff
- Attend team meetings and provide input
- Maintain confidentiality within all written and verbal communications.
- Assure youth complete morning ADL's and that they are done to the proper standards
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Human Services
Waukesha County Technical College
Pewaukee, WI05-2023
High School Diploma -
Palmyra Eagle High School
Palmyra, WI06-2016
Skills
- Therapeutic techniques
- Behavioral management
- Patient confidentiality
- Charting and clinical documentation
- Family support and assistance
- Compassionate care
- Trauma-informed care
- Medication administration
- Anger de-escalation
- Problem-solving
- Family relations
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder strategies
- Family engagement
- Crisis intervention
- De-escalation techniques
- Case documentation
- Emotional regulation techniques
- Discharge planning
- Relationship building
Certification
- CPI certified
- Adult & pediatric first AID/CPR certified
- EQ2 training
- Zones of regulation training
- Risking connection training
- CPS (Collaborative Problem Solving) training
- Adolescent suicide & risk factors training
- CSEY 101 training
- Medication administration training (needs to be renewed)
Timeline
Treatment Technician
Lad Lake
11.2023 - 01.2025
Internship Student
Lad Lake
08.2023 - 05.2024
Associate of Applied Science - Human Services
Waukesha County Technical College
High School Diploma -
Palmyra Eagle High School
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