Sandy Gardner, APHR

Experience

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  Alternative Community Resource Program

  Jun 2006 - Jun 2009

  Therapeutic Support Staff

  Responsibilities include working with a team of supervisors to better improve the lives of children with mental disabilities. I enjoyed working in the school setting, helping the child to improve and learn skills that will help them maintain on task and focus on the task at hand. It was essential to maintain the child in the ongoing activity while displaying minimal disruptive behaviors in the classroom. Duties also involved interventions in the home setting; modeling appropriate parent behavior, discipline, interactions, and engaging the child in appropriate interactions with siblings and household members. During the summer months of 2007 and 2008, I participated in a ‘Summer Camp’ that was geared towards ADHD-diagnosed children. I was a camp counselor and group leader as well as a sports coach. Summer camp was a highly effective means of teaching the children to follow a set schedule, appropriate peer interactions, and abiding by rules and having appropriate consequences for their negative behaviors. Show less

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  Bedford County, PA- Children and Youth Services

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2014

  Child Protective Services- Lead Caseworker

  Responsibilities included managing a caseload, working effectively with community services, identifying needs of families and their children, connecting families with appropriate resources, monitoring the effectiveness of the resources, and most of all, ensuring the safety of children. I have worked with challenging families and have had successful outcomes. I have taken part in many adoptions and have worked diligently to find appropriate resources for older children who appear to have no placement options. I have experience preparing court documents. I have prepared for, attended and testified in court hearings; which includes communicating effectively with paralegal, county solicitor, and Guardian ad Litem, as well as the children, parents, and the child’s extended family. I have done investigations in the areas of physical and sexual abuse. I have completed a sexual abuse training course that allows me to increase my skills as an effective interviewer and better prepare me for future sexual abuse investigations.451 Training Hours obtained. Show less

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  UPS

  Nov 2014 - Jan 2015

  Helper Coordinator

  Temporary position through the holiday season as extra personnel was hired to help with increased truck loads. After applicants were hired, I was responsible for the orientation of 60+ new workers and distribution of uniforms. I created each schedule for each ‘helper’ every day through the holidays and ensured that the helpers worked in unison with the UPS drivers to effectively deliver all packages in a timely manner.

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  Larimer County DHS

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2016

  Social Caseworker

  General duties include working in crisis interventions with families and their children. Caseworker is able to work effectively with other departments in the community, such as police and medical departments, to ensure the safety of children and teenagers. Caseworker is able to identify safety concerns and effectively address the concerns with parents and caregivers to identify a plan of safety for the children. Caseworker must be able to identify family strengths and promote a positive outcome for the family. In difficult situations, a caseworker must be able to identify other family supports/ resources or an appropriate foster home on an as needed basis. Caseworker is required to prepare court documents and attend court sessions as an expert witness as needed. Caseworker may facilitate mediation sessions with little to no preparation time. Caseworker is to meet agency, state and federal requirements and must be able to effectively document all work that is done with the family. Caseworker will help develop risk statements and goal statements with the family and develop plans that will help ensure safety of the children in the future, so that the family will not return into child welfare services. Show less

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  City of Fort Morgan, Colorado

  Aug 2016 - Apr 2018

  Courts

  Daily responsibilities include assisting customer’s at the Clerk’s window, receiving payments for fines, bonds, and restitution. My responsibilities include preparing the docket for arraignment, bond, show cause and review hearings. I also prepare files for trial and prepare discovery for the City Attorney as needed. I also provide information to the public, in person and by phone, in a courteous, professional manner as to represent the court. My role is to prepare files for arraignments by creating defendant files, pulling criminal / driver history, Municipal court history, preparing the blank orders and Register of Actions. I also have some experience creating warrants and protection orders through Eclipse. Show less

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  Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center

  Sept 2018 - now

  Case Manager