David Yuskoski
Mississauga,ON
Summary
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [Job Title] position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
ITINERANT CHILD AND YOUTH WORKER
DUFFERIN-PEEL CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
09.2012 - Current
- Prepared individual behaviour and safety plans for children who experienced difficulty in the classroom setting
- Designed and created calming rooms as a proactive self-regulating strategy for children with particular needs
- Prepared and implemented positive incentive programs
- Worked one-to-one with behavioural children to help develop strategies/solutions that would help teachers better service that particular child
- Created visual schedules and incentive boards to help encourage positive child behaviour and cooperation within the classroom
- Developed collaborative plans/strategies with teachers, ECEs, CYWs, special services staff and administration
- Implemented social skills through the use of various programs such as 'Model Me'
- Retained up-to-date paper work and records concerning the individual child
- Communicated with parents concerning the performance, behaviour and abilities of the child in the school and home environment.
CRISIS RESPONSE WORKER
PEEL CHILDREN'S CENTRE
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Answer incoming crisis calls and determine initial triage
- Provide immediate crisis response, safety planning and case management services to children and youth experiencing serious mental issues and behavioural difficulties
- Maintain knowledge of resources, programs and partnerships with outside agencies
- Implement various coping strategies and grounding activities with the youth
- Attend home visits to help stabilize situations and establish short-term plans/goals
- Conduct counselling sessions with children, youth and their families using an integrative approach including Solution Focused, Systems and Strength Based models
- Conduct risk assessment, suicide prevention, principles of crisis theory and intervention
- Participate in hospital discharge planning and connect youth with ongoing support
- Provide support and check-ins post crisis with ongoing telephone support and connecting youth to the appropriate follow-up programs/agencies.
RESIDENTIAL CHILD AND YOUTH WORKER
PEEL CHILDREN'S AID
09.2009 - 07.2017
- Used behavioral management approaches with high risk, hard-to-serve youth within a multi-disciplinary team
- Participated in clinical and program planning (recreational activities)
- Partook in clinical interventions and created safety plans
- Assessed, observed, and documented client behavioural changes
- Tracked youth's goals, plans, and interventions
- Provided counselling and problem solving strategies to parents in crisis
- Addressed family relationships, community agency involvements, goals of service and treatment in a plan of care environment
- Worked with youth and their families to set treatment, clinical, residential state, and transitional goals and routines
- Facilitated various therapeutic groups and programs (life skills, job and resume writing, anger management, peer relationships, positive affirmation, healthy relationships, and eating disorders).
FAMILY SERVICE WORKER
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF TORONTO
09.2009 - 09.2010
- Assessed referrals needs as well as appropriateness of program to family
- Assessed families as to their behavioural, family dynamics, relational, psychological, mental health aspects, consistency and supervision, and the ability to engage rules, rewards and consequences
- Worked within home environments to find the strengths within the families to achieve set goals
- Connected families with community resources and programs to achieve goals of service as well as to assess any special needs for continued service
- Prepared clinical paper work, clinical referrals, clinical updates to other programs and supervisors, termination reports, provided case management and created common goals of service for all involved community resources.
Education
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology -
Yorkville University
01.2024
Child and Youth Care B.A. Program -
Ryerson University
05.2012
Skills
- Child Development
- Community Outreach
- Crisis Intervention
- Individual Counseling
- Behavior Management
Certification
- Understanding and Managing Aggressive Behaviour (UMAB) - 09/2019
- St. John Ambulance - Standard First Aid CPR/AED Level 'C' - 01/2021
- Tug-of-War, Working with High Conflict/Access Cases (CAS) - 09/2010
- Member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (Qualifying)
- Member of the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Counsellors
Strategies Modalities
- Disengagement Strategies in volatile situations
- Crisis Management & Conflict Resolution
- Harm Reduction
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Humanistic Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Behavioural Management Technique
- Crisis Theory
References
Available upon request
Timeline
CRISIS RESPONSE WORKER
PEEL CHILDREN'S CENTRE
01.2017 - 01.2022
ITINERANT CHILD AND YOUTH WORKER
DUFFERIN-PEEL CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
09.2012 - Current
RESIDENTIAL CHILD AND YOUTH WORKER
PEEL CHILDREN'S AID
09.2009 - 07.2017
FAMILY SERVICE WORKER
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF TORONTO
09.2009 - 09.2010
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology -
Yorkville University
Child and Youth Care B.A. Program -
Ryerson University
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