laina aboujawdeh

* Provide case management to children in foster care and their families * Attend family court,family support team meetings and advocate for clients * Worked through family conflicts and helped clients find community resources

* Assisted field education staff members with duties and tasks * o Helped organize sensitive paperwork * o Worked using the school database, input school data and updated contacts

* Case management work with 20 4th and 5th grade students * o Met with the clients individually during school hours * Conducted 30 minute sessions with all the clients once a week * o Taught coping and life skills * o Worked through conflict, taught conflict resolution skills * o Helped increase self-esteem

* Conducted individual therapy for a caseload of 5 students * o Worked through behavioral and psychological issues * o Managed behavior, worked on self-esteem issues * Co-facilitated a middle school and high school group * o Discussed issues of anger management, grief and conflict resolution * Assisted in the Behavior Intervention Room and the All Day Room * Co-facilitated a parent group * o Discussed family dynamics, provided parent education * Performed a program evaluation of the Incident Report Services * o Tracked the progress of consequences given to students caught smoking cigarettes * o Provided recommendations of how to help decrease the problem behavior

* Provide school-based counseling services to elementary and middle school aged children and their families. * Provide individual, group and family counseling. * Provide referrals to children and families in need.

Activities and Societies: Secretary of Clinical Practice Student Organization (CPSO), General Member of Jesus, Justice and Poverty (JJP),

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Omega (General member, Vice President of Communications, Fall 2010 Recruitment Counselor), Alternative Breaks, Natural Ties, Mentors in the Lives of Kids (MILK), Adopt-A-School, LeaderShape Winter Institute (2008),