- Featured in:
Looking for cover letter ideas? See our sample Youth Specialist Cover Letter.
Find out what is the best resume for you in our Ultimate Resume Format Guide.
Additional Social Services Resume Samples
Youth Specialist Resume Samples
No results found
0-5 years of experience
Joined as Youth Specialist, managing a caseload of 40-60 youth with juvenile justice involvement, mentoring and building lasting relationships with at-risk youth.
- Assisted youth with linkage and referrals in the community
- Led and coordinated approximately 3-5 service learning and community service projects monthly.
- Provided supportive services on as needed basis
- Made sure all newly enrolled youth met program requirements, enrolling approximately 5-10 youth per month
- Carried a case management load consistently of 40-60 youth involved with the juvenile justice system
0-5 years of experience
- Obtained and coordinated resources to support youth aged 3-24 in multiple settings
- Provided short-term case management services to youth and their family
- Advocated for youth needs to ensure welfare, health, development, and success
- Supervised interns and trained new employee
- Created and distributed monthly newsletters for youth and young adults in the community
0-5 years of experience
- Worked with youth from diverse backgrounds displaying sexually offending behaviors.
- Coordinated care and monitored progress with therapists, supervisors, and youth specialists to meet individualized treatment goals established in a team setting to provide optimal quality of care.
- Assisted residents with improving relationships, positive social skills, increasing self-awareness, teamwork, and developing appropriate expressions of feelings and emotions, and life skills necessary for transitioning back into the community.
- Provided supervision to employees for shifts throughout the week promoting a positive and safe environment and encouraged team communication.
0-5 years of experience
Supervise everyday life activities of assigned residents throughout the day and evening ensuring safe and secure conditions.
- Supervise home visits along with clinical care for youth residents.
- Assist youth residents to and from school and recreational activities.
- Interpret the Agency’s Polices and requirement and procedures.
- Provide a strong sense of security and well being for each resident by assuring protection from physical or emotional abuse.
- Provide a wide range of office support typed correspondence, faxing and clerical work.
0-5 years of experience
- Coordinate and implement services, including mentoring match support, supervision, conflict resolution, service learning, youth development activities and recognition, based on current research of best practices.
- Plan, lead and support team members with mentor match and youth development activities including service-learning, job shadowing, career exploration, life skills workshops and recreation.
- Serve as a Goodwill representative in the community and engage in community outreach, resource development and networking activities in order to grow and market the program.
- Maintain positive working relationships with community partners, service providers and collaborating agencies.
- Monitor partner operations to ensure compliance with MOU’s.
- Perform background checks, conduct reference checks for potential mentors and other volunteers.
0-5 years of experience
- Supervised youth in shelter
- Transported/supervised youth on outings
- Collaborated with treatment team
- Performed intakes and discharges
- Logged shelter activity
- Administered medication
0-5 years of experience
- Provide direct support to the client assisting with modifying behaviors and daily activities and the agency rules.
- Provide client observations and feedback, and other activities that promote integrations and systematic awareness.
- Complete documentation/filing in timely manner.
- Participate in weekly meetings with supervisor and monthly team.
- Distribute medication and give medical attention to youth requiring assistance.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide support and supervision for at risk youth.
- Aiding youth in accomplishing program objectives as outlined in their treatment plans
- Ensure the safety, integrity and proper implementation of therapeutic programming.
- Build positive relationships with students, aiding in their growth and return to their communities.
- Provide prescribed medication when scheduled.
0-5 years of experience
After School Program Youth Specialist Intern
- Provide individual support to children in Partial-Hospitalization setting
- Plan and implement strategic plans for clients
- Develop targeted curriculum to improve client’s behavior and coping skill
- Observe professional clinicians through shadowing of mental health assessment
- Facilitate group activities
0-5 years of experience
- Provided crisis intervention information to clients and their families
- Prepared intake paperwork and attended staff meetings
- Developed daily program planning
- Assisted in lead recreational, social and academic activities
- Prepared and maintained files in a confidential manner
- Logged and charted behavior patterns and activities
- Ensured a safe and secure environment for residents
- Provides youth supervision; implements group and individual treatment plans.
- Develops effective relationships with youth, co-workers, and treatment team members
- Assists in preparing reports regarding each youth’s adjustment and progress.
0-5 years of experience
- Serves as a youth supervisor with responsibility for the safety, personal conduct, care, and therapy of the youth during a shift.
- Implement group and individual treatment plans
- Assist in Maintenance of youth records
- Develop effective relationships with youth, co-workers, and treatment team members
- Assists youth with their personal issues and refers issues to the group in accordance with the principles of the program.
- Provides information regarding youths’ progress to parents or guardians as requested.
0-5 years of experience
- Maintain emotional and physical safe environment for youth ages 5-11
- Have knowledge, understanding and application of all program policies and procedures
- Communicate with Lead Staff/Site Coordinator regarding concerns about children
- Work cooperatively with children, parents, other program and building staff
0-5 years of experience
- Supervise At-Risk-Youth at minor shelter & transitional living facility
- Create and Perform Life Skill education groups for youth
- Provided guidance & crisis intervention for youth between ages 10-20 yrs old
- Demonstrate & assist with everyday life skills such as cooking, tutoring, cleaning, etc.
0-5 years of experience
- Attend training as required – (HIPPA, Trauma, and Team Primacy etc.)
- Observes student behavior and intervenes appropriately
- Assisting the students to make choices that are effective, positive, and safe.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide a nonjudgmental and empathetic approach in supporting children in the residential treatment
- Assist children in daily needs and collaborate with therapist, school workers and state workers to develop educational plan and behavioral interventions
- Minimally supervise new youth specialist and act as a teacher and mentor for techniques on verbal de-escalation, restraints and tools to manage troubling behaviors
0-5 years of experience
- Assist youth in developing life skills that will enable them to become responsible community members by conducting programs to teach the value of teamwork
- Demonstrate the appropriate manner to deal with personal issues and/or refer them to peer groups for resolutions
- Accompany youth to school, appointments, and all group activities
- Observe, report and maintain information concerning behavioral conditions of clients
- Demonstrate how to appropriately confront negative behaviors whenever they arise
- Ensure that residents are provided with quality care in matters of health, safety, clothing, hygiene and provide immediate therapeutic crisis intervention
- Janitorial duties as needed; cooking, ordering, stocking food and supplies for the cottage
- Support a safe, orderly, caring and therapeutic environment
0-5 years of experience
- Observe, reports, and records behavior of residents.
- Provides an accurate summary of each youth’s daily behavior in their progress notes.
- Maintain a professional and ethical code of behavior.
0-5 years of experience
- Responsible for providing a structured therapeutic environment
- Assist with providing coping skills for trauma and emotional behaviors
- Counseling so that the child can function successfully in the community
0-5 years of experience
- Interact with youth clients to provide care.
- Establish and maintain a therapeutic adult and child relationship.
- Provide a structured environment.
- Provide crisis intervention according to agency standards.
- Supervise family visits to home residencies.
- Transport clients as required using agency vehicles.
- Set limits and understand the needs of adolescents.
0-5 years of experience
- Supervision of up to 20 youth
- Scheduling and planning daily activity for youth
- Coordinate Services for all youth and outside agencies and representatives
- Role Molding and Mentoring
- Administrate medication
- Capture and documenting pertinent information
- Taking inbound and out bound calls.
0-5 years of experience
- Overseen Shelter and Secure
- Supervised CPS and delinquent adolescents
- Conducted Intake process
- Completed Daily Paper work
0-5 years of experience
- Maintaining client relations
- Provide transportation
- Teach life skills
- Mentor youth and provide encouragement
0-5 years of experience
- Conduct intake admission process for new referrals
- Administer assessments and interpret results as part of intake process to determine a plan of action
- Collaborate with youth, family, community providers to develop and implement an Individual Service Strategy to meet the community integration and service coordinate needs of the youth.
- Assist youth in accessing benefits and services by providing information and education about community resources and facilitating the use of community resources selected by the individual.
- Assist youth with enrolling in post-secondary education and vocational skills training programs.
- Provide guidance, supportive counseling, crisis intervention to youth as needed including locating and coordinating services necessary to resolve potential crisis.
- Manage and organize full case load.
- Advocate for and promote full involvement of youth in all opportunities in the community.
- Work flexible hours to accommodate the youth.
0-5 years of experience
- Supervise and care for youth
- Crisis interventions
- Provide behavioral interventions
- Develop coping and problem solving skills