NEW JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday June 10th I was offered a position as Case Manager/Skills Coach at SOASTC. After some deliberation (this happened faster then I thought and I can't go to church camp) I decided that a full time position was obviously more important so I accepted. Right now I am primarily the Treatment Foster Care Case Manager because the person I will be working under as of today is on vacation for 3 weeks. So the past couple weeks have been full of franticly trying to fit my old 2 jobs in at the same times as training as much as possible for the new one. I have been working 9-11 hour days sometimes just so I can fit it all in. However, A.F.T.E.R is done since the school year is over, and tomorrow is my last day at the daycare. Sooooo Friday is my first full day of work at SOASTC and I'm excited to be down to one good job!!

Now what exactly does a Case manager do? Well we have Treatment Foster Homes where kids are in these foster homes either from their actual homes, or DHS has placed them there but they actually have goals and objectives and things they are working on that are usually behavior oriented. So, every day I'm in charge of checking in with the foster parents and documenting anything and everything they tell me. Did I mention documenting? Documenting is a HUGE part of this job because if I don't get it right then our program doesn't get it's money. And since we are not part of the government it is important that everything goes smooth.

Now what does a skills trainer do? Well I'm not 100% sure since I won't start that for a while but I think that I will be going to homes of families and working with kids that are in day treatment programs on certain skills to help their behaviors.

So, overall I'm excited and a little nervous since I'm it for the next 3 weeks I'm hoping that nothing too crazy happens. Annnddddd WOOHOOO I'm actually using my degree!!!!!!

When I went home this last weekend my mom and sister decorated a table and bought me some fun work stuff in celebration of my new job! I love them and they are awesome for it!!!