Grace Sztuke

gracesztuke@hotmail.com - (613)-328-3474

PROFILE

I have gained valuable experience in both the youth and elderly community. I have experience with troubled
youth, youth with disabilities, and with the elderly which has taught be the flexibility to be able to adapt to any
position or opportunity.

I am polite, courteous and have great people skills. I work well in a team setting and can also work
independently. I would be a great fit for any work with the public both adult and youth as I have a positive
personality and like to help others. I am always willing and happy to learn new things and follow instructions.

EXPERIENCE

Community Living Kingston, Direct Support Professional - Apr. 2019- Present

● Manage and administer medications,
● implementation of morning routines,
● medication count
● prepping meals
● writing different reports (ie. incident, medication errors)
● behavioral interventions
● communicating with team and residence
● organizing community outings
● Daily household chores
● assisting in bathroom routine (ie. showering, toilet, oral hygiene)
● Ensuring that persons served develop and maintain skills that encourage independent living
Briley Children's Residence, Child and Youth Worker - Jan. 2019-Apr. 2019

● Manage and administer medications,

● implementation of morning routines,
● medication count,
● petty cash count,
● meal preps,
● daily household chores as required,
● report writing as required,
● communicate with the team via,
● meetings and daily logs.
● Describe and document behaviors while implementing the in house program
EXPERIENCE CON’T

Quintilian School of Kingston, Child and Youth Worker, 2017-2018

● providing advocacy for students
● support for families (e.g., referral to medical and/or community mental health agency)
● consultation to school personnel, families and community partners
● developing, implementing and facilitating prevention and intervention strategies to address individual, small group,
classroom and universal needs
● goal-specific individual interventions
● assisting with the development of behaviour plans
● providing guidance on safety plans
● crisis intervention

Bayridge Secondary School, Child and Youth Worker Placement Student, 2016-2017
Assisting teachers and program counsellors in the School to Community Program with:
● Behavioural, social and emotional development of students with attention to communication, personal management and
social skill acquisition
● Addressing issues with students such as friendship difficulties, classroom expectations, and inappropriate behaviour with life
space interventions and learning from crisis situations
● Supporting students on the Autism spectrum, students with exceptional behavioural needs and students needing support and
assistance to meet their academic goals.
● Developing, implementing and facilitating group projects of special interest with students
● Developing of behaviour plans
● Providing guidance on safety plans
● Crisis intervention

Youth Diversion Program, Kingston (Co-Operative Education Placement)

2014-2015
● planning and making breakfast and lunch with the students
● helping each student reach their personal, family and educational goals
● helping build educational and social abilities by playing board games, word games, reading and writing stories with students
alone and in groups
● monitoring and recording student’s behaviour at the end of the day

BestBuy Canada, Certified Operations Worker, 2017- 2019

● be responsible for the processing of all customer purchases, returned product, exchanges, service requests, and/or defective
products
● communicate return, exchange, and/or service policies to determine the best option for customer
● manage inbound calls by answering questions; offers product and service sales opportunities to phone customers
● assist customers that come into the store to pick up their product
● help resolve in-bound customer problems and issues, escalating to management as necessary
EDUCATION

Alison Online Education, 2020

Mental Health Studies - Diploma

Mental Health Studies - Suicide, Violent Behavior, and Substance Abuse - Certificate

St. Lawrence College, Kingston, ON, 2015-2018

Child and Youth Care – Advanced Diploma – *With Distinction (Honour Roll)

Lasalle Secondary School, Kingston, ON 2011-2015

Ontario Secondary School Diploma - *Honour Roll

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