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Additional Education: Currently working on her M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Chestnut Hill College.
Job Title: Child Preparation and Adoption Case Worker
Employer: Delta Community Supports, Inc.
Position Description: Doreen meets with foster children/teens individually for ten sessions in order to prepare them for whatever permanency they are going to encounter after their time in foster care. The sessions answer the questions Who Am I? What Happened to Me? Where Am I Going? How Will I Get There? When Will I Know I Belong? During the ten sessions they do a number of activities, the main one focusing on creating a life book which is a book that the child creates putting together photos from their past as well as their various foster home placements and schools.
Salary Range : N/A
Previously Held Positions: Case Worker and Area Coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Montgomery County as well as a Therapeutic Foster Care Case Worker for Delta Community Supports.
Courses Found Most Helpful: Dynamics of Family Interaction, Families in America (a sociology elective with Dr. Cobb), Adolescent Development, and both my Counseling Theories and Counseling Techniques classes.
How HDFS Helped to Prepare Her: “My Dynamics of Family Interaction course gave me a great understanding of how each of my client's is affected by his or her family system. Especially when working with foster kids, it is essential to understand that because of the disruption of the family system, and the strained relationships that have or continue to occur, the child is affected. Having that as a basis when coming into the field and working in the foster care system has allowed me as a Case Worker to have a good understanding of each child and has allowed me to have a great starting point with the child. It also assists me in discussing the concept with the children of how one's family truly does affect an individual.”
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