Thomas Kaudo

Background

About Thomas Kaudo

CAREER OBJECTIVE:To empower children families and communities towards improving their health, safety, and well-being.[Open to New Opportunities]#ONOKEY SKILLS> I have 10 years of experience in community social work having worked with developmentally disabled adults empowering them to make choices that meet their Individualized Support Plans, medical patients, and senior citizens living safely in their homes. I have expertise in coordinating with their providers to ensure that the clients’ psychosocial needs are met.> Additionally, I have conducted care coordination, case management, crisis intervention, risk assessment and management, psychosocial assessment community engagement, research, and training skills to children served by Washinton State.> I am proficient in motivational interviewing, safety planning, care planning, discharge planning, alternate placement services, child and family assessments, careful note-taking; confidential documentation and information handling, time-sensitive report writing, forensic interviewing, supporting refugees and other minority groups; community outreach; resource mobilization, training and knowledge sharing.ACHIEVEMENTS:* I have successfully provided timely, goal-directed, and task-centered crisis counseling and interventions to facilitate the family’s access to community-based services.* I prepared, documented, and presented written and oral testimony for court proceedings.* Trained and consulted with peers on cases, participated in advanced departmental and non-department training focused on career development.* I designed and carried out approved community interventions, interviewed clients and community partners.* I was selected as the agency’s liaison for a newly created “Fatherhood Engagement Program.”