Darlene Pelley
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Case Manager/Social Worker
Kildonan Common/Candy Mountain
01.2020 - 02.2026
- Manage a case load of up to 28 youth
- Collaborate with agencies to help the youth succeed in our transition program
- Set up and complete Progress meetings with each youth and their agency worker monthly
- Act as a liaison for youth and agency worker
Human Resource department
Kildonan Common
01.2020 - Current
- Recruiting, selecting, screening and connecting new hires with trainers
- Following up with both trainer and trainee once the training is completed
- Monitoring and appraising job results, looking at discipline action when necessary
- Mediate conflict when necessary
Youth Care Provider/Team Lead
Kildonan Common
01.2015 - 01.2020
- Created a program plan in collaboration with management and agency
- Completed the physical set up of the homes
- Brought in a team of 5 and trained them to meet our KC standards
- Focused on building relationships and trauma informed care with the young person in each of the homes to help them adjust to their new placement and find healing.
- Team Lead for several of KC transition program, ages 16 to 21
- Training of new staff
- Helping youth meal plan for their specific budget
- Connecting youth to community resources
- Supporting youth through addictions
- Participating in progress meetings
- Resume building/job searching
- Suicide prevention
- Cultural connection/attending sweats
- Adjusting program plans to meet youth where they are at
- Supporting youth to appointments
- General household cleaning and maintenance
- Daily logging
- Dispensing of Medication and completing MAR sheets for medication
- Communicating with Social Workers on behalf of youth
Emergency Placement Resource
Winnipeg Child and Family Services
01.1994 - 01.2015
- Intake with youth coming into placement
- Documentation of each youth placed with my EPR unit
- Incident report writing, including critical incident reporting and Missing Person reporting
- Program planning for youth
- Team Lead for our team of 8
- Filling shifts when necessary
- Managing the household budget
- Activity planning
- Mediation for staff and youth
- Reporting to my coordinator
- Attending case plans
- Supervised family visits in a controlled environment
Timeline
Case Manager/Social Worker
Kildonan Common/Candy Mountain
01.2020 - 02.2026
Human Resource department
Kildonan Common
01.2020 - Current
Youth Care Provider/Team Lead
Kildonan Common
01.2015 - 01.2020
Emergency Placement Resource
Winnipeg Child and Family Services
01.1994 - 01.2015