Edna Blacksmith

• Established strong rapport with clients through empathetic listening skills, leading to higher levels of trust between individuals served.
• Promoted inclusivity by developing culturally sensitive programming tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse populations within the community.
• Improved community engagement by organizing regular events and workshops focused on local issues.
• Support clients with their social issues and provide counsellling to them
• Conduct regular follow ups with clients
• Responsible for writing progress notes of each client, making reports to transfer of client file to other departments and close inactive file
• Compile client report for case discussion
• Maintain an update files for the clients
• Able to handle social interventions
• Perform referrals when necessary

• Intervene with individuals and families issues
• Perform counselling with clients who have life social challenges
• Responsible to write progress reports and to update files to perform the filing for the children and youth under the Y.P.A.
• Attend at courts concerning my clients
• Responsible for providing foster homes, placements of children or work in collaboration with the CLSC Community Worker. NNADAP Worker and other medical Social Services staff and other outside services

• Improved community engagement by organizing regular events and workshops focused on local issues.
• Responsible of planning and organizing projects for community members
• Responsible to write report for the completion of projects and submit it to Health Canada and Cree Nation of Mistissini
• Promote and advertise program to the community

• Responsible for organizing and coordinating of meetings for the elder's council.
• Take minutes for local Elder's Council meetings.
• Responsible of writing up the recommendations from the Elders and submit it to the Council of Cree Nation of Mistissini.
• Follow-ups on the directives from the Local Elder's Council and prepare the annual reports and the financial reports of the Local Elder's Council.
• Organized travel arrangements for the elder's council that are going out of the community for invitational gatherings or special meetings.
• Responsible to perform the secretarial tasks such as answering calls, take messages, filing and typing letters, memos, reports and proposals.

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• Responsible to answer the phone, take messages, record incoming and outgoing mail.
• Assist the Administrative Technician with her work.
• Performed secretarial duties in the office
• Enter information of students into the computer.

• Responsible to assist special needs students and shadowing each child to guide to classroom and to the bus transportation.
• Help the special needs student with their academic subjects like English, Math, Science, and Teach Programs.
• Assist the student with Art, Cooking, and other subjects.
• Escort student for recess and for gym and outings organized by the Special Needs Teacher.