Catherine Reaume
Summary
Dedicated Social Worker provides exceptional professional care and implements appropriate interventions. Utilizes variety of resources to identify unique needs and assist vulnerable populations. Adept at establishing strong rapport with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Social Worker/ Child Advocate
Windsor Essex Child/Youth Advocacy Centre
06.2023 - Current
- Provide essential support to children, youth and family who have experienced child abuse and/or are victims of crime
- Offering trauma informed assistance and intervention, conducting needs assessments, sharing of information and collaboration with law enforcement/victim services
- Providing navigation assistance of the criminal justice system and implementing appropriate referrals based on needs assessment
- Developing safety plans for children, youth and adult victims of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and physical violence
- Provide crisis intervention and case management throughout child abuse and criminal investigations
- Serve as a liaison between families and the multidisciplinary team
- Assisting families in completing forms, gathering information and making referrals to social service agencies
- Maintaining strict confidentiality standards
- Improved client well-being by conducting comprehensive assessments and developing tailored intervention plans.
- Enhanced community outreach efforts for better service accessibility and increased program enrollment.
- Provide crisis intervention services for clients experiencing acute mental health or substance abuse issues.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure appropriate care coordination and resource allocation for clients.
- Promote cultural inclusivity, implementing trauma informed practice and fostering effective relationships with children, youth and families
- Educated families on available community resources, connecting them with essential services such as housing assistance, financial aid, or healthcare providers.
- Increased client engagement in treatment plans by building trusting relationships through empathetic listening and consistent support.
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENT
CHILDREN FIRST
01.2023 - 05.2023
- Completion of an Intake Social Work Assessment's in which information is gathered identifying complex, multi-system issues and other risk factors that children aged 0 to 6 are experiencing
- Enhanced client well-being by conducting comprehensive assessments and developing tailored care plans.
- Improved family functioning by providing supportive counseling and connecting them with community resources.
- Implementation of time limited therapeutic interventions including Crisis Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and Case Management to support the presenting needs of children and their caregivers
- Use of clinical screening and assessment tools including HEADS-ED and the interRAI CYMHA to identify risk factors, eligibility for service and priority
- Clinical assessments identifying family systems that are impacting the child, family and/or caregiver and any risk-factors that include exposure to trauma, domestic violence, high conflict, substance abuse, mental illness, sexualized behaviours, and other difficulties within the family system to develop service plan with caregivers for early therapeutic intervention
- Completion of clinical, detailed intake and assessment reports and case management notes.
- Strengthened child-parent relationships through the implementation of evidence-based parenting interventions.
REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER/CHILD PROTECTION WORKER
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX
07.2012 - 04.2017
- Ongoing child protection social work services to children living within London and Middlesex County experiencing and/or at risk of child abuse and neglect
- Providing ongoing support, counselling, crisis intervention and case management for children and their families
- Conducting interviews and assessments of child and family needs, strengths, risk, and protective factors
- Consultation with family and community agencies on the development of safety plans, interventions, and service co-ordination
- Ongoing case management of up to twenty-five families, including up to sixty children who are experiencing/at risk of experiencing child abuse or neglect
- Initiation of child protection applications under the Child and Family Services Act to the Ontario Court of Justice Family Court
- Anti-oppressive Social Work case management practice including collaboration with families, caregivers, and community agencies to mitigate risk factors for child abuse and neglect including substance abuse, trauma, and mental illness.
- Provided crisis intervention services for clients experiencing acute mental health or substance abuse issues.
- Enhanced community outreach efforts for better service accessibility and increased program enrollment.
- Improved client well-being by conducting comprehensive assessments and developing tailored intervention plans.
ADDICTION'S WORKER
VANCOUVER ISLAND HEALTH AUTHORITY
12.2009 - 05.2012
- Providing support and services to individuals in early recovery from substance abuse while working in a Sobering and Assessment Centre, Medical Detox, Supported Transitional Housing and Early Recovery Supportive Housing
- Implementation of crisis counselling, brief counselling, case management and nonjudgmental support to individuals in early stages of recovery
- Implementation of strengths-based service to individuals experiencing homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, family separation, mental illness, trauma, criminal justice involvement.
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENT
AIDS COMMITTEE OF WINDSOR
05.2010 - 08.2010
- Direct social work services and support to individuals from diverse backgrounds in Windsor-Essex who have been directly effected by HIV/AIDS including direct counselling, case management, and crisis counselling
- Community advocacy and education relating to HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Safe Sex and Harm Reduction including organizing monthly rapid, anonymous testing nights at the agency
- Participation weekly at the HIV Care Clinic, Windsor Regional Hospital providing pre and post HIV testing counselling and support.
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENT
VICTORIA AREA PAROLE OFFICE
01.2009 - 04.2009
- Assessment of risk to re-offend and case management for individuals who have been federally sentenced and released on parole with a focus being on safety of the community, treatment of mitigating factors related to the individual's involvement in the criminal justice system and assisting individuals with re-integration into the community
- Implementation of a holistic practice approach ensuring individuals are provided with necessary support and services
- Case conference experience with Victoria Police Department and conducting interviews in diverse settings such as maximum- and minimum-security prisons.
Education
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK ADVANCED STANDING WITH DISTINCTION -
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
Windsor, ON05.2023
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK WITH DISTINCTION -
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
Victoria, BC10.2010
BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS CRIMINOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY WITH DISTINCTION -
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
Windsor, ON06.2007
Skills
- Case Documentation and Case Management
- Intervention Planning
- Safety Planning
- Client Needs Assessment
- Treatment Planning
- Crisis Intervention
- Client Confidentiality
- Family Case Management
- Psychosocial Assessment
- Client Advocacy
- Risk Assessment
- Resource Navigation
- Educational Support
- Case Needs Assessments
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Certification
Registered Social Worker with The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers 820872
Membership
Member of the Violence Against Women Coordinating Committee Windsor Essex
Timeline
Registered Social Worker/ Child Advocate
Windsor Essex Child/Youth Advocacy Centre
06.2023 - Current
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENT
CHILDREN FIRST
01.2023 - 05.2023
REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER/CHILD PROTECTION WORKER
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX
07.2012 - 04.2017
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENT
AIDS COMMITTEE OF WINDSOR
05.2010 - 08.2010
ADDICTION'S WORKER
VANCOUVER ISLAND HEALTH AUTHORITY
12.2009 - 05.2012
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENT
VICTORIA AREA PAROLE OFFICE
01.2009 - 04.2009
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK ADVANCED STANDING WITH DISTINCTION -
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK WITH DISTINCTION -
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS CRIMINOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY WITH DISTINCTION -
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
Registered Social Worker with The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers 820872
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