Elizabeth Good
Chilliwack,Canada
Summary
Collaborative professional focused on enhancing client well-being through partnerships with families and colleagues, emphasizing cultural continuity and strengths-based practices. Proven experience in direct client support, crisis intervention, and advocacy. Skilled in effective communication and empathy to establish trust and provide guidance. Demonstrated success in implementing community outreach programs and creating supportive environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Kinship Social Worker
Kwumut Lelum
07.2024 - Current
- Provide various support to out of care caregivers including, completing Extended Family Plan Home Assessments and Kinship Assessment Tool. The role worked closely with the different social worker teams in creating plans for children and families. Also, ensuring to follow child safety practices guidelines and standards
- Interviewed clients, families, or groups to assess situations, limitations and issues and implement services to address needs.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure appropriate care coordination and resource allocation for clients.
Resource Social Worker
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
07.2023 - 07.2024
- Provides emergency placements for all regions, for children who need safe places. This role works primarily with caregivers on reserve and particularly out of care caregivers. Supporting caregivers through meetings. Also, child and youth visits that are out of care.
- Established positive relationships with clients through empathetic and culturally sensitive communication techniques.
Family Service Social Worker
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
08.2022 - 08.2023
- The first point of contact for child protection reports, and works collaboratively with families, community members, band designates, Elders, and other supports, in planning and service delivery. The FS social worker provides services within the scope of Family Development Response FDR, Protective and Voluntary Family Service. Participation in important community events and ceremonies.
- Increased client engagement in treatment plans by building trusting relationships through empathetic listening and consistent support.
Child Protection Coordinator
Seabird Island Band
05.2022 - 07.2023
- This position was developed to work closely with social workers in the development of child protection jurisdiction, for the community to take care of their child safety matters relevant to children from their community. The role of the child protection coordinator involved administration, setting up events, community meetings.
Social Worker Assistant – Rapid Response Worker
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
04.2018 - 01.2020
- Provided direct assistance to social workers. Support youth in care by arranging services with provincial ministries. Work together with children in care, youth, and foster parents, provide transportation assistance, coordinate administrative aspects of client case management as well as interact and maintain contact with children-in-care, foster parents, and families.
Regional Administrative Clerk
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
01.2018 - 03.2018
- General clerical duties and routine administrative tasks. Administrative filing and record keeping; data entry, typing; preparation/drafting of routine email correspondence; ordering of office supplies and equipment. Covering administrative staff for phone coverage.
- Increased office accessibility, organized workspace to accommodate needs of all employees, ensuring comfortable and inclusive environment.
Community Engagement Worker (Term Position)
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
06.2017 - 12.2017
- Worked to hire facilitators that would work in communities on reserve. These programs would be held in community on a weekly basis to help preserve cultural continuity.
Casual Student Worker
Shxwhay Village
06.2009 - 05.2017
- In this time of working in my community, I worked full-time in the summer months while working casually throughout the school year. The position entailed different tasks each year during the first few years of my employment, I was on the maintenance crew where we would tend to community lawn care, planting trees, cleaning up around the community. During the summer months there was summer programming. Chaperoning for community events with younger children to water slides, the zoo, sciences world and nature walks etc. In 2016 and 2017, I worked as program coordinator where I worked closely with older youth in planning school success and attending youth events such as Visions and Voices etc.
- Worked in team environment to maintain high levels of productivity.
Education
Master of Arts - Professional Communication
Royal Roads University
Victoria, BC08.2026
Bachelor of Arts - Integrated Studies
The University of The Fraser Valley
Chilliwack, BC06.2022
Skills
- Compassionate case management
- Client advocacy
- Conflict resolution
- Efficient under pressure
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Case documentation
- Client confidentiality
- Self-awareness
Languages
English
Timeline
Kinship Social Worker
Kwumut Lelum
07.2024 - Current
Resource Social Worker
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
07.2023 - 07.2024
Family Service Social Worker
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
08.2022 - 08.2023
Child Protection Coordinator
Seabird Island Band
05.2022 - 07.2023
Social Worker Assistant – Rapid Response Worker
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
04.2018 - 01.2020
Regional Administrative Clerk
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
01.2018 - 03.2018
Community Engagement Worker (Term Position)
Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children & Family Services Society
06.2017 - 12.2017
Casual Student Worker
Shxwhay Village
06.2009 - 05.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Integrated Studies
The University of The Fraser Valley
Master of Arts - Professional Communication
Royal Roads University
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