Andrew Berlin

Experience

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  Positive Alternatives, Alpha House

  Jan 2007 - Aug 2010

  Student Intern, hired on as a Resident Counselor

  I worked in the Alpha House group home to provide: daily structure, counseling, crisis intervention, independent living skills training, foster achievement towards treatment plan goals, and document resident interactions accurately and objectively.

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  Mendota Mental Health Institute, Program of Assertive Community Treatment

  May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Student Intern

  I was able to provide community treatment to individuals with a mental health disability. I worked in conjunction with others to develop and update client plans, meet with individuals to progress towards achieving goals outlined within these plans (e.g. vocational development, attending weekly groups, grocery shopping, attending appointments, apartment hygiene, personal hygiene, etc.). I restructured the weekly work-group curriculum, later used by PACT to acquire a grant from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Show less

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  Workforce Resource, Inc. of West Central Wisconsin

  Sept 2008 - Aug 2009

  I worked to evaluate youth's interests and abilities to match the youth with the best summer job opportunity. Throughout the summer I provided vocational support, education, and development to the youth and the work-sites. I also accurately and objectively managed individual cases. Use of informal American Sign Language while working with a Deaf Somali, completing GED and ESL coursework. I worked to provide, plan, and coordinate a variety of services to individuals at the Chippewa County Job Center. Most notably, I worked to host an employment seminar weekly to eligible job seekers.

  • Youth Job Coach

    Mar 2009 - Aug 2009

  • Private Consultant

    Oct 2008 - Mar 2009

  • Student Intern

    Sept 2008 - Dec 2008
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  University of Wisconsin-Stout

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

  Vocational Evaluation Graduate Assistant

  Assisted university professors during class periods. Organized, updated, and helped others understand various work samples and evaluation instruments in the lab.

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  Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2010

  Graduate Vocational Evaluator

  I was supervised, conducting Vocational Evaluations, by a Certified Vocational Evaluator while completing practicum hours towards my degree completion in Vocational Evaluation.

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  Woodrow WIlson Rehabilitation Center

  Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Graduate Vocational Counselor and Evaluator

  As a counselor I worked with the Post-secondary Education Rehabilitation Transition program. I worked with youth who were high school students to coordinate a comprehensive vocational evaluation, independent living evaluation, and recreational evaluation. As an evaluator I worked under a full-time M.S. Vocational Evaluator to provide comprehensive vocational assessments to people with disabilities.

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  SVRI

  Aug 2011 - Nov 2013

  As a vocational evaluator I help people discover unknown strengths, areas of improvement, and preferences. That information is used to form a plan for each particular person to achieve their employment goal. As an Assistive Technologist, I helped people go to work, stay at work, or become more efficient at work. I did this by assessing, researching, recommending, and implementing technology that is helpful for the individual situation.

  • Vocational Evaluator

    Apr 2012 - Nov 2013

  • Assistive Technologist

    Aug 2011 - Apr 2012
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  Bloomer/Colfax High School

  Nov 2011 - Apr 2016

  Assistant & MS Wrestling Coach
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  Community Care Connections of Wisconsin

  Dec 2013 - Mar 2016

  Community Resource Coordinator

  In this position I worked together with an RN case manager, to provide medicaid/long-term care case management services to members of CCCW's Family Care program. When providing case management, timely, objective, person centered planning was essential. Education, and empowerment based on research was provided to assist members with decision making that our team felt would assist the person to be as healthy and independent as possible. However, members made their own decisions about how this looked and how independent and integrated they wanted to be. Various supports might have included, but not limited to, home care, medication, personal health supplies, nutrition, hygiene, housing, employment, shopping, transportation, community engagement, and chronic and long-term disability management.In addition to planning and working with members, we were responsible for monitoring and empowering the providers of supports that were necessary for each member, to assist our members in achieving their goals. Show less

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  Innovative Services, Inc.

  Mar 2016 - Oct 2018

  Vocational Coordinator

  In 2016, start-up of employment services in Northwest Wisconsin for Innovative Services Inc., as an expansion from previous service areas of North East Wisconsin, Fox Valley Wisconsin, and Central Wisconsin. -Develop and build relationships with funding sources, market and educate consumers or potential consumers regarding employment and supports.-Develop relationships with local businesses in an effort to assist with their hiring demands and our job candidates skills. -Assess individual employment skills and strengths, work together to build resume's, cover letters, and other related employment documents, empower individual independence on the job. -Provide regular, objective reporting/documentation on activities completed and future plans/goals. -As we have expanded since 2016, employee hiring, training, empowering, and implementation of best practices. -Vocational department leadership team. Show less

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  The Hartford

  Oct 2018 - now

  Vocational Rehabilitation Case Manager