Yolanda Cobb

• Improve client behavior by implementing individualized ABA therapy plans and tracking progress.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members for comprehensive treatment planning and optimal outcomes.
• Enhance client's communication skills through use of visual aids, social stories, and role playing activities.
• Promote positive behavior change by utilizing reinforcement strategies, token economies, and behavior contracts.
• Develop rapport with clients and families, fostering trust and open communication essential to successful treatment outcomes.
• Maintain detailed records of client progress, enabling data-driven decision making for intervention adjustments and goal development.
• Assist Board Certified Behavior Analysts in designing personalized treatment plans tailored to each client''s needs and goals.
• Increase client independence through teaching of daily living skills such as self-care routines, meal preparation, and household chores.

Assisted program coordinator with continuous development and/or delivery of professional learning as it relates to mental health, training materials and proven treatment strategies specifically designed to meet needs of students who have been diagnosed with mental condition and currently possess either established 504 plan or Individualized Education Plan.

• Communicated frequently with parents and/or guardians concerning student growth and progress, inclusive of recommending at-home Social Emotional Learning/Behavioral reinforcements to support struggling students and boost family involvement aimed to enhance ongoing student success upon completion of program.
• Developed and implemented various Social Emotional Learning activities on daily basis to enhance overall development and growth of students exhibiting behavioral and/or mental health challenges within general education classroom, home environment, and/or community at large.
• Oversaw work of classroom teaching team to optimize each student’s social, emotional, behavioral and overall mental health outcomes upon completion of program.
• Partnered with program coordinator, social workers, counselors and doctors/nurse practitioners to develop individualized plan of care for each student.
• Promoted available resources and connected individuals including but not limited to students, home-school staff, and parents/guardians, etc. with services to support and maintain ongoing success upon completion of program.
• Utilized National Crisis Prevention Intervention techniques for purposes of de-escalation and/or behavioral management when dealing with students in crisis situations.
• Worked with program closely coordinator to ensure compliance with state of SC curricula by designing and providing Social Emotional Learning lesson plans, resources, materials, etc. to support current K-5 Day Treatment teaching staff and students.

• Created and implemented lesson plans that addressed general students as well as those with individualized 504 plans and/or Individual Education Plans as part of integrated classroom within alternative school setting.
• Developed and implemented various Social Emotional Learning activities on daily basis to enhance overall development and growth of students exhibiting behavioral and/or mental health challenges within general education classroom.
• Devised activities identified along Restorative Practices continuum to address social and emotional needs of 3rd-12th grade students with behavior difficulties.
• Held conferences with parents to address questions, discuss program progress and encourage healthy home and school partnership on behalf of individual student.
• Instructed Clover School District personnel in Nonviolent Crisis Intervention to safely prevent, manage and de-escalate students exhibiting problematic behaviors.
• Partnered with administrative leadership to improve school-wide discipline practices based on data findings with alternative classroom environment.
• Piloted Roosevelt READS, after school program designed to address social, emotional, behavioral and core academic needs of specifically identified at-risk students located within targeted community.
• Provided state-wide professional learning opportunities highlighting successful behavioral programs to various SC alternative school educators.