Social Worker and training professional with leadership experience in staff development, process improvements, performance management, and curriculum design.
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Sydney Matlock-Pettus
Bakersfield,CA
Summary
Overview
12
years of professional experience
Work History
University Of California Berkeley
Training and Curriculum Specialist
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Managed the California Social Work Education Center's (CalSWEC) curriculum for Common Core 3.5, a comprehensive onboarding training series which is mandated for all new California county child welfare social workers.
- Teamed with subject matter experts in revision of training courses in order to continually improve learning outcomes.
- Collaborated with evaluation team to create learning objectives that monitor the effectiveness of California's child welfare workforce and training system.
- Facilitated curriculum oversight and strategic planning workgroups that integrate input from California Department of Social Services, Regional Training Academies, and CalSWEC's curriculum, evaluations, and learning management system teams.
Kern County Department Of Human Services
Social Service Worker V
06.2012 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Managed successively complex child welfare caseloads in the Family Reunification, Family Maintenance, Wraparound, and Adoption programs.
- Collaborated with families and system of care professionals in planning and coordinating services to stabilize youth with high-risk mental health and behavioral concerns.
- Composed comprehensive biopyschosocial adoption assessments for foster children in order to make recommendations to the juvenile courts about each child’s best permanency plan.
- Selected as lead worker in an Adoption program unit, encompassing the responsibilities to mentor new staff, provide job shadowing experiences, and review documents in the absence of the unit supervisor.
- Served as the agency's primary Child and Family Team (interdisciplinary team) facilitator from April 2015 through January 2018.
- Lead over 300 Child and Family Teams in building realistic goals to promote positive change within families and making out-of-home care placement decisions which support children’s safety, permanency, and well-being.
- Conducted mandated reporter trainings for elder and child abuse on behalf of community agencies, in order to ensure local mandated reporters, understand their legal responsibilities and rights.
- Developed and provided in-person and virtual training on child welfare protocol/best practices to onboarding staff, experienced workers, management, community organizations, and local stakeholders with training seizes varying from one-on-one to upwards of 90 participants.
- Spearheaded creation of training curriculum on California's Continuum of Care Reform, Level of Care Protocol, Intensive Services Foster Care and the federal legislation Family First Prevention Services Act.
- Provided project management to cohorts of newly hired Social Service Workers and ensured they complete state mandated Common Core training curriculum, which adheres to the California Integrated Core Practice Model.
Kern County Aging And Adult Services
Social Service Worker II
10.2011 - 06.2012
Job overview
- Secured in-home medical care for aging persons and people with health impairments through case management of the In-Home Supportive Services program.
- Provided empathic social work services to a workload of over 100 clients, as well as their family members and caregivers.
- Collaborated with community agencies to create and distribute lists of local resources to families with medically fragile children and adult children who provide care for aging parents.
Education
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Arts from Communication
University Overview
California State University - BakersfieldBakersfield, CA
Master of Arts from Master of Social Work
University Overview
Skills
- Community Resource Brokering
- Family Assessments
- Case Documentation
- Team Meetings and Facilitation
- Communication Strategies
- Training and Workforce Development
- Federal and state Child Welfare Laws and Policies
Affiliations
Affiliations
- National Association of Social Workers
Timeline
Training and Curriculum Specialist
University Of California Berkeley
01.2022 - Current
Social Service Worker V
Kern County Department Of Human Services
06.2012 - 01.2022
Social Service Worker II
Kern County Aging And Adult Services
10.2011 - 06.2012
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts from Communication
California State University - Bakersfield
Master of Arts from Master of Social Work
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