Sekou Nkrumah
New Orleans,United States
Summary
I have more than 35 years of experience in mental health, including individual and family counseling. I've worked with people of all ages and various ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. I have experience caring for individuals with disabilities in various capacities. I've worked as a Youth Care Worker, Vacational Insructor, Case Manager, and Mental Health Specialist within the Edcation, Health and Family Services systems in both the United States and Canada. I have been a strong advocate for my clients within multidisciplinary teams, and have the experience to be able to work independently as well. My entire career has been dedicated to providing exceptional care and devising creative treatment plans for clients which focus on maximizing the clients independence.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Youth Care Worker
Akoma Family Centre
08.2012 - 05.2017
- My responsibilities included supervising and monitoring youth in a pre adoptive setting, specific duties include teaching life skills, social skills, academic support, providing individual and family counseling and ensuring overall safety and welfare of the youth.
Youth Care Worker
IWK Health Center, Adolescent Center for Treatment
06.2004 - 12.2012
- I worked within a multidisciplinary team in a residential treatment program for youth with concurrent disorders
- My responsibilities included supervising and monitoring youth with various mental health, addictions and behavioral diagnosis
- I implemented programming including behavior modification, social skills, recreation, education, anger management, life skills and activities of daily living
- The goal was to reintegrate the youth back into their families, the education system and their social environments.
Case Manager
Children's Aide Society
05.2005 - 06.2006
- My responsibilities included providing one to one support to youth in their homes with the goal of keeping the family system intact
- I implemented behavior modification programs, activities of daily living and education and support to parents and children.
Case Manager/ Assistant Program Coordinator
Shared Housing of New Orleans
01.1999 - 04.2001
- This was a part time position
- My responsibilities included conducting daily assessments of homeless individuals for qualification for transitional housing, and facilitated relationships between homeless individuals and elders through ongoing support
- I ensured participants compliance with program policies and procedures, served as a liaison and referral source to other social and community services, performed annual reviews to monitor and ensure long term self-sufficiency and prepared monthly reports for submission to grants and financial sources.
Teacher and Juvenile Caseworker
Impact Alternative School
01.1999 - 02.2001
- My responsibilities included preparation of lesson plans and materials for classroom activities in history and science
- I assisted with the preparation of progress reports, maintained basic discipline and structure in the classroom through close supervision and one to one support of the students.
Mental Health Specialist
Active Intervention
05.1997 - 12.1998
- I worked within a multidisciplinary team in a case management capacity
- I developed and implemented behavior modification programs, facilitated groups in stress management, and conflict resolution, and trained participants in basic living skills.
Employment Specialist/ Qualified Mental Rehabilitation Speci
Ideal Management Services Inc
09.1994 - 05.1997
- My responsibilities included preparing training modules to assist skill development, provide vocational training, for contracted work assignments, secured job placement for program participants and directly supervised individuals and job coaches
- I acted as a liaison with Louisiana Rehabilitation Services who referred clients to Ideal Management for vocational support.
Vocational Instructor
Association for Adults with Disabilities
06.1991 - 01.1994
- This was a day treatment program in which my responsibilities included training clients in daily living and social and vocational support
- The main objective of this position was to enable clients to function to their fullest capacity within the community.
Vocational Instructor and Group Home Manager
Employment Enterprises/ Normal Life of New Orleans
01.1986 - 01.1990
- I was a Vocational Instructor/ Job Developer, in this role I procured employment for clients with mental health diagnosis and provided individual support for clients
- As a Job Developer I secured in house contracts for client requiring individual support as well as community based jobs for clients who were more independent
- The main objective of this role was to prepare client to be able to function at their fullest capacity within the community
- I also acted as the Group Home Manager in the residential program, in this role I provided staff supervision, maintained the budget, provided weekly education sessions, provided monthly progress reports and initiated active treatment.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Southern University of New Orleans
01.1983
Skills
- Non Violent Crisis Intervention
- First Aide and CPR
- Food Safety
- WHMIS
- Suicide Intervention
- QMRP Qualified Mental Rehabilitation Personal
- Autism Spectrum Disorder/PEC's
- Vocational Instructor
- Behavior Modification
- School Liason /Teacher
- Case Management
- Concurrent Disorder
- Bully in Workplace Training
Timeline
Youth Care Worker
Akoma Family Centre
08.2012 - 05.2017
Case Manager
Children's Aide Society
05.2005 - 06.2006
Youth Care Worker
IWK Health Center, Adolescent Center for Treatment
06.2004 - 12.2012
Case Manager/ Assistant Program Coordinator
Shared Housing of New Orleans
01.1999 - 04.2001
Teacher and Juvenile Caseworker
Impact Alternative School
01.1999 - 02.2001
Mental Health Specialist
Active Intervention
05.1997 - 12.1998
Employment Specialist/ Qualified Mental Rehabilitation Speci
Ideal Management Services Inc
09.1994 - 05.1997
Vocational Instructor
Association for Adults with Disabilities
06.1991 - 01.1994
Vocational Instructor and Group Home Manager
Employment Enterprises/ Normal Life of New Orleans
01.1986 - 01.1990
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Southern University of New Orleans
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