A family advocate resume that is spot on with an employer’s needs is the one that can take your career to great heights.
Focus on your strong points when writing a resume, and you should be able to come up with something like this:
Family Advocate Resume Example
Steve Wright
11 Mitchell Street
Roscoe, SD 57412
(000) 455-7290
stevewright @e mail .com
FAMILY ADVOCATE
Perceptive, methodical, and resourceful.
SUMMARY
15 years of successful track record of creating, providing, and coordinating services and activities with families and communities, that foster strength, healthy living, and overall well-being. Highly effective in providing support in case management styles, acting as a liaison between families and communities. Collaboratively work with staff and community agencies to support the needs of families and children.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Exceptionally well-versed in identifying and recruiting eligible families, including children with disabilities and underserved populations.
• Excellent skills in selecting participants based on established plans and procedures.
• Able to make appropriate referrals for families to community agencies, and ensure appropriate follow-up.
CORE COMPETENCIES
✓ Needs Assessment ✓ Goals Establishment
✓ Recruitment/Enrollment ✓ Workshop Planning
✓ Surveys Administration ✓ Case Management
✓ Follow-up ✓ Parental Involvement
✓ Crises Intervention ✓ Counseling
✓ Resource Generation ✓ Communication
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Family Advocate
Inspire Development Center, Roscoe, SD
2015 – Present
• Engage assigned families in conversation to identify their needs and assist them in determining what resources are available to them.
• Build effective relationships with assigned families through direct contact, over the telephone, and through emails.
• Establish and maintain an ongoing recruitment process that will ensure the enrollment of eligible families and children under different funding sources.
• Handle eligibility verification of children and families, by maintaining waiting lists and recruiting them based on established criteria.
• Perform strength and needs assessments and develop correlating progress goals with all participating families.
• Develop local community partnerships and bridges with agencies to identify and maintain sources for assigned families.
• Assist families and children in accessing resources such as healthcare and rehabilitation.
• Provide referrals to community services and follow-up case management as instructed.
Selected Accomplishments
• Successfully secured counseling services for an entire family of 10, helping them recover from a series of traumatic experiences.
• Saved a family from potential self-harm, by recognizing signs of distress, and determining a cooperative plan of committing suicide.
Family Law Associate Attorney
Family Services Inc., Roscoe, SD
2008 – 2015
• Assisted in determining eligible families and children for established advocacy programs
• Built effective relationships with families to assess family strengths and needs
• Educated families about the importance of attending advocacy programs for the benefit of their children
• Provided support in documenting services, family assessments, and case notes in the facility database
• Developed and implemented transition programs to ensure that children continue to receive services at the end of the program tenure
Selected Accomplishments
• Designed and implemented a series of interactive communication programs, which proved to be highly successful for assigned families and individuals.
• Increased the percentage of people interested in the facility’s programs by 58%, through effective and aggressive outreach activities.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work
South Dakota State University, Roscoe, SD | 2002