Alexandra Freed

· Nigig Nibi Ki-Win -Articulating Child Welfare Law & Exercising Inherent Jurisdiction, Child Well-being Agency Development/Capacity Building.

· Community engagement and consultation.

· Structural and organizational development; laws, policies, and framework through which exclusive jurisdiction may be exercised.

· Capital Project Build Lead, Nigig Nibi Ki-Win: community needs assessment & sustainability studies, community working groups, community-based research.

· Capital Project Build Lead, Nigig Nibi Ki-Win: community needs assessment & sustainability studies, community working groups, community-based research.

· Supporting Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation in the development, enactment, implementation, and operationalization of Pikwakanagan’s child and family well-being law, Nigig Nibi Ki-win.

· Forefront of the discussions regarding funding, coordination agreement; C-92, An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Metis children youth and families, capital infrastructure, staffing, program development, and service modeling for Indigenous child and family well-being.

• Development and implementation of Protocols and Agreements with external child welfare agencies engaged with AOPFN citizens.
• Child Welfare Development of Child Well Being Law for AOPFN to articulate and exercise inherent jurisdiction over child and family well-being.
• Leads regular team meetings to set goals and monitor team performance and engages the team in successful accomplishment of goals.
• Meets with children, families, customary care providers, foster parents, adoptive parents and the worker to clarify processes and expectations and to review progress, gather information and/or create a shared understanding.

• Manages recruitment, performance evaluation, coaching, discipline where necessary ensuring accordance to Human Resources policy and within the context of the collective agreement.
• Oversees staff orientation, learning and development plans and ensures accordance to AOPFN policy, procedure and guidelines.
• Provides supervision to all team members and manages in a manner that motivates, guides and directs employees in AOPFN values, objectives and performance expectations; maintains a work environment that expects fairness, consistency, respect and approachability while promoting staff participation, teamwork and positive employee relations.
• Leads regular team meetings to set goals and monitor team performance and engages the team in successful accomplishment of goals.
• Assigns cases for investigation, ensures prompt and effective case management including transfer to ongoing services, manages files at Family Service for continued review of services provided, and reviews for closure.
• Advises, monitors, mentors and clinically supervises workers in all aspects of planning, organizing and delivering program services to clients and their families, customary care providers, foster families and/or adoptive families, using collaborative decision-making techniques to ensure the most suitable service or program is chosen to meet the needs of the children and ensure those services are delivered.
• Monitors and reviews all case files ensuring the timely completion of casework recordings, proposed casework plans of care/service including critical decisions such as apprehensions, placements and placement changes, safety plans, permanency, court applications etc., approving the same in accordance with agency policy, professional standards and legislative requirements.

• The National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP) helps reduce and prevent, drug and solvent abuse in Aboriginal communities. NNADAP wholistic treatment focus is on blending Algonquin customs and traditions for culturally specific healing and recovery, NNADAP key components; prevention, early identification and intervention, screening, assessment and referral, treatment, discharge planning and aftercare, performance measurement, research and knowledge exchange.

• Perform responsible human support and paraprofessional work assisting classroom teachers or other professional to achieve instructional objectives; assisting students with disabilities with achieving established goals with personal care and mobility.