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COMMUNITY SUPPORT SPECIALIST
Professional Profile

Compassionate social services professional and advocate dedicated to working tirelessly with clients to help them resolve personal barriers and thrive to achieve self-sufficiency.

Highlights
  • Experienced in serving veterans with various challenges: addiction, employment, housing, self-sufficiency.
  • Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor License # 05-11-59


  • Assisted in designing an offender-based transitional program
  • Served as family reunification specialist in FAN housing
  • Client advocate
Experience
Community Support Specialist, 10/2010 to CurrentColumbia Community Mental Health － St Helens, Oregon
  • Provide care in a residential setting to clients with chronic mental illness.
  • Provide recreational therapy to patients.
  • Prepare clients for their transition back into the community.
  • Distribute client medications and provide nurse delegated care to residents.
  • Document mental health symptom severity when presenting behaviors arise.
Case manager/Counselor, 05/2004 to 02/2013Central City Concern － Portland, Oregon
  • Advised clients about community resources, made referrals and devised realistic treatment plans.
  • Assessed program participants and delivered comprehensive case management services.
  • Presented case history material for review and discussion with other staff members.
  • Counseled and prepared offenders and clients for their transition back into the community.
  • Provided support to homeless veterans, clients, and ex-offender populations, connected them with community resources.
  • Maintained thorough case history records and wrote detailed reports.
Education
Associate of Arts:Organizational Dynamics/Business,2013Warner Pacific College － Portland, Oregon, US

Have been on Deans List since original term of study.

Certificate in Human Resource Management:Management,2009Portland Community College － Portland, Oregon, US
Completed 2 years of study:Social Sciences,1987Ouachita Baptist University － Arkadelphia, Arkansas, US
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Columbia Community Mental Health
  • Central City Concern

School Attended

  • Warner Pacific College
  • Portland Community College
  • Ouachita Baptist University

Job Titles Held:

  • Community Support Specialist
  • Case manager/Counselor

Degrees

  • Associate of Arts : Organizational Dynamics/Business , 2013
    Certificate in Human Resource Management : Management , 2009
    Completed 2 years of study : Social Sciences , 1987

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