Jomo Phillips

Experience

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  Welfare Department

  Jun 1996 - May 1998

  Social Worker/Welfare Officer

  Screened potential welfare clients and provided social work intervention with individual families and groups also provided intervention in Family Services Section specifically to persons presenting with marital problems, child support, and domestic violence issues.

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  Network Services Centre

  Jun 1998 - Jul 2000

  Employee Assistance Counsellor

  Provided counselling services to Employee Assistance Program (E.A.P) referred clients. Developed and delivered workshops and training for companies, serviced by the E.A.P as well as provision of other core technology components to clients also provided counselling and training to the general public.

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  Barbados Community College

  Jan 2001 - now

  Social Work Tutor

  I coordinate the Associate Degree Applied Arts, Social Work Programme. I am involved in research and teaching. I lead our Social Work faculty and I am engaged in course development and evaluation.

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  University of the West Indies: Cavehill

  Aug 2005 - now

  Part-Time Lecturer

  2012-2015 Developed curriculum for co-curricular Basic Peer Helping course. Lectured course, including didactic and online classes, managed a course website and developed and graded assignments.2007-2015 Peer Helping Workshop, Office of Student Services (2010-2015): Developed curriculum for 21 hour workshop for students interested in peer helping program. Delivered workshop sessions to students. Assisted Office of Students Services to develop Peer Helping Program.2006-2007 Co-taught Substance Abuse Management in Caribbean Society course with two other colleagues delivered lectures and taught tutorials for the following course units: an introduction to substance abuse; screening, diagnosis and assessment; systems of care and family systems and chemical dependency.2006-2006 Introduction to Social Work: Taught tutorials over the course of a semester and assisted lecturer in marking student assignments.Guest Lectured on family therapy interventions for courses in Masters in Counselling Psychology, Masters in Counselling via Distance Show less

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  Verdun House

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2015

  Part-Time Counsellor/Family Therapist

  Assessment and delivery of inpatient counselling and family therapy services to persons affected by drug and alcohol abuse and dependency using a number of modalities including individual, group and family interventions.

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  University of the West Indies, Open Campus

  Mar 2014 - Jun 2015

  Course Writer

  The development and writing of a Crisis Intervention and Management course for an online B.Sc. Social Work Programme.

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  North Dakota State University

  Aug 2015 - Jul 2017

  Research Assistant
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  Omari Systemic & Wellness Consultants

  Jul 2016 - now

  Consulting Lead
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  The Relational Practices Ltd.

  Dec 2017 - now

  Couple & Family Therapist & Owner

  Clinican providing individual, couple, and family therapy

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  Strong Hope (Barbados) Inc.

  Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

  Couple & Family Therapist