Experience

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  Gould lake outdoor centre

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2012

  Outdoor educator

  Developed fast and efficient methods of establishing meaningful relationships with staff and students while effectively coordinating and teaching lessons on wilderness survival skills, mental and physical health, nutrition, group leadership and personal care.Facilitated for three consecutive summers the participation and integration of student’s living with a diversity of exceptionalities either behavioral and/or cognitive.

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  Limestone district school board

  May 2010 - Jun 2012

  Spring literacy tutor

  Efficiently managed own time within a structured school schedule to optimize student learning and achievement of learning objectives. Worked with students navigating diverse exceptionalities, behavioral and/or cognitive. Effectively worked with a team to brainstorm new effective strategies for facilitating prolonged learning for groups of at-risk youth, while executing and adapting strategies to meet the needs of specific students independently.

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  Reena

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2014

  Recreation support worker

  Provided daytime and evening respite care for individuals living with developmental disabilities, facilitating swim clubs and cooking clubs, Sunday programming and full-time weekly summer camp.Participated in the group development, organization and execution of day-to-day programming focused on the development of soft skills including cooperation and communication, alongside hard skills such as cooking and crafting.

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  North york harvest food bank

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  Student assistant to the agency development coordinator

  Facilitated all communication between North York Harvest and smaller community food banks. Initiated goal setting and goals implementation planning with food bank managers and volunteers. Produced policies and training protocols for volunteers which emphasized accessibility and anti-oppressive practice. Wrote micro-grants and was successful in obtaining a $1500 grant for the development of a community food hub.Developed and managed the work plans for physical renovations to the food bank which involved vendor management and materials procurement. Show less

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  Family service toronto

  Sept 2015 - Apr 2016

  Responsible for arranging, organizing and delivering short-term counseling services for a weekly walk-in counseling clinic.Completed full assessments and maintained regular case notes.Experienced in facilitating risk assessments and safety planning.Skilled in working clients who present with anxiety, depression, anger, intimate partner violence, suicidal ideation, and violence in the home.Led sessions with couples and experienced at navigating a therapeutic alliance with both partners, at times performing assessments for intimate partner violence. Show less Assisted in the delivery of Partner Assault Response programming with an 'open group' format.Performed in-person intake assessments, reviewing confidentiality, the structure of the program and discussing pay schedules.Assessed participants' progression towards personal accountability, through their willingness to engage with the weekly themes (impact of abuse on children, healthy relationships, etc...) and overall participation.Completed group participant’s closing assessments which were reviewed by their parole officers and/or the courts.Built respectful and professional relationships with court-mandated participants. Show less

  • Student Walk-in/Short Term Counselor

    Jan 2016 - Apr 2016

  • Student Assistant - Next Steps Program

    Sept 2015 - Dec 2015
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  Durham children's aid society

  Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

  Family service worker - ongoing family services

  Experienced in completing assessments and providing informal counselling in person and over the phone, encouraging the collaborative development of strengths, assessment of needs, and facilitate the co-development of dynamic service plans within a strengths based practice framework.Successfully maintained a caseload of 21 families with uniquely distinct concerns, relational dynamics, and challenges including poverty, homelessness, chaotic substance use, domestic violence, sexual violence, neglect and parent/teen conflict.Skillfully built meaningful relationships while operating in a complex, and often volatile context, and maintaining a keen awareness of the safety and wellbeing of everyone involved.Experienced in facilitating large scale case conferences, mediating participants in varying degrees of conflict to establish a foundation of respect and build towards family driven solutions.Successfully maintained ongoing case notes, monthly home visits and timely recordings as per ministry standards. Show less

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  Simcoe muskoka family connexions

  Mar 2017 - Nov 2020

  Child protection worker

  Occupied Multiple Child Protection roles including;Ongoing Family Service Worker collaborating with individual families needing ongoing support and service following a verified child protection concern.After Hours and 1-9 Child Protection Worker handling both immediate and non-urgent child protection investigation into the sexual & physical abuse or neglect of children, and collaborating with families and community services to establish creative and strength based interventions to address immediate concerns, and delegate ongoing service needs and support to an ongoing Family Service Worker.Joint Forensic Child Protection Team working together with Barrie Police and OPP to investigating and interview children who either disclosed or sustained physical injury by way of sexual and physical victimization and abuse. I worked jointly with criminal investigators, families and community services to establish safety plans and connect families with appropriate health and trauma supports. Show less

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  Familytlc.ca

  Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

  Msw - psychotherapist

  Provided integrated private practice psychotherapy to children, youth and adults. Worked with a broad array of client from foundation of Narrative Therapy, aiding in the re-authoring of a diversity of challenging and problematic experiences that interfering in the daily lives of Family TLC clients.

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  Turning point counselling

  Aug 2021 - now

  Michael bartlett msw rsw

  Practicing Psychotherapy as a member of Turning Point Counselling, a collective of highly experienced Social Workers providing Psychotherapy to a broad array of clientele in Collingwood broader area.Working with children, youth and families , with a focus on emotional regulation, anger and anxiety, and family conflict. I have growing experience with neurodiverse children living with ADHD and ASD. Equally focussed on adult male clients struggling with Anger, Self-Regulation, Trauma and a diversity of men's issues.Practicing from a Narrative Therapy foundation, while also integrating additional concrete and evidence based interventions from other modalities including but not limited to CBT, DBT, Strength-Based, Brief Solution Focussed and Play Therapy. Show less