Wesley Crawford
Vancouver,BC
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Student Support Worker A
Vancouver School Board
03.2017 - Current
- Provides assistance in elementary and high school for students with developmental, behavioural and multicultural needs
- Assisting with assessing, planning and reviewing student progress
- Documents case notes and maintains files
- Supervise students in school related activities
- Provide life skills training and support services for clients, one on one and brief family sessions
- Properly deals with difficult situations while under pressure
- Empathize and actively listen in a sensitive manner accessing appropriate additional support when necessary
- Effectively creating a working relationship with clients and deal effectively with different behaviours
- Able to work effectively in a team
- Provides a range of evidence-supported strategies and interventions to improve the student's social, emotional, and behavioral development
- Able to plan and implement strategies for students to use while in a dysregulated state
Residential Care Worker / Adult Day Program
Developmental Disabilities Association
07.2013 - Current
- Promoted and supported client rights and self-determination
- Encouraged clients to balance health and safety and provided education and resources to support their decisions
- Enabled individuals to develop and maintain support networks, friendships and lead active social lives
- Advocate for inclusion and meaningful contributions by clients in their communities
- Promote professional and organizational effectiveness and accountability
- Provide clients with proper nutrition
- Successfully established working relationships with difficult clients
- Able to communicate, cooperate and work effectively with team members as well as clients
- Properly and effectively responded to client needs and issues
- Met clients physical, emotional, social, recreational, and medical needs
- Assessed program needs and implemented new goals
- Weekly ongoing work with meals on wheels to enhance the work with ADP seniors
Rehabilitation Care Worker
Cheshire Homes Society
01.2014 - 04.2015
- Educate clients with Acquired Brain Injury regarding issues such as personal care, access to community leisure programs, and housekeeping duties
- Empowered the clients to perform all aspects of daily living as independently as possible, providing support and intervention where necessary
- Provide life skills training and support services for clients
- Provided support with budgeting and meal planning
- Properly dealt with difficult situations while under pressure
- Effectively created a working relationship with clients
- Able to work effectively in a team
- Properly and successfully dealt with client needs
Student Social Worker
Family Children Services: School Support Program
04.2012 - 01.2013
- Assisted troubled youth in an educational environment
- Developed working relationship with students
- Ability to work with diverse populations
- Took initiative to support students with school work
- Learned how to properly resolve conflict
- Ensured educational and personal growth of students
- Attended meetings discussing interventions for youth
- Able to properly use Front Line to obtain child information
- Efficient at case writing
- Led and organized “Me to We” group
- Contact and set up events with other organizations in the community
- Respond appropriately to the needs of the clients
- Communication with clients, foster parents, and community members
- Created group goals and evaluative methods
- Arranged student schedules
- Flexible to change
- Ability to implement programs for children and youth
- Gained knowledge of child protection issues
Education
Ontario Secondary School Diploma - Social Service Program
Conestoga College
Kitchener, ON01.2013
Skills
- Great Interpersonal & Communication Skills
- Positive Interaction with Clients
- Implement Real Life Experience to
- Conscientious Work Ethic
- Identify problems and form strategies with most favorable outcomes
- Team player
- Teacher support
- Autism spectrum support
- Behavioral support
Certification
- CPR/First Aid training, Developmental Disability Association, Richmond, BC, July2013
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention, Developmental Disability Association, Richmond, BC, May2014
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Student Support Worker A
Vancouver School Board
03.2017 - Current
Rehabilitation Care Worker
Cheshire Homes Society
01.2014 - 04.2015
Residential Care Worker / Adult Day Program
Developmental Disabilities Association
07.2013 - Current
Student Social Worker
Family Children Services: School Support Program
04.2012 - 01.2013
Ontario Secondary School Diploma - Social Service Program
Conestoga College
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