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Eleanor Deckert

 Box 2552, Clearwater, B.C. VOE-1NO … predictablepatterns@yahoo.ca … (250) 678-5305

 Career Objective:

To deliver skill building activities and experiences to parents, grand-parents, children and other family members in the area served by the Ministry of Children and Families, Clearwater, BC, through home visits, handouts, charts, diagrams, exercises, games, discussion, journaling, collage, in consultation with other professionals.

Skills and Abilities:

Communication: Good written and oral presentation skills. Good use of “body language,” facial expression, gesture and tone of voice to convey meaning. Liaison between groups, including between “authority figures” and family members. Special focus on accommodating to beginners and others who feel reluctant to try something new. Adapts vocabulary to listener. Willing to seek correction, input, information and guidance from superiors. Very sensitive and intuitive to the needs of others.

Effective Communication skills: Interview, listen, feedback, connect, introduce, encourage, inquire, respond, record and report. Illustrate new ideas with examples, use of metaphor, use of humour, establish connections through common experience.

Problem-solving: Effective at seeing problems through another’s perspective while also seeing the vision of changes possible that will bring solutions. Able to see the steps necessary to achieve a goal. Able to analyze and evaluate the parts and the whole. Takes initiative in new territory. Works well within existing systems while opening up new possibilities. Sees wide variations of possibilities within existing limitations. Continues to lead with a purpose while balanced with a spontaneous kaleidoscope of playful potential to redirect energy towards the goal.

Organization: Persistent at interviewing, researching, prioritizing and compiling new information. Well organized to gather and synthesize resources. Able to meet deadlines. Able to effectively multi-task. Conveys organizational skills useful in the home with family members in a sustainable way.

Creativity: Verbal, visual, musical. Effective use of visual displays and charts.

Encourages others to add their creativity. Enthusiastic. Uses music to convey message to children (i.e.: tempo, change of activity, quiet time, transitions, encourage cooperation, use of rhythm in activities, build positive memories).

Self-starter: Identifies individual, family and group needs and responds accordingly. Able to redirect others to meet goal. Willing to discard goal and begin again, recreating activities to adapt to current interests of participants. Draws from decades of experience and a wealth of supplies to quickly improvise and change to actives led by individual’s or family’s interests or problems. Designs and initiates projects specific to needs expressed or observed. Manages time, resources, money and human resources. Dedicated worker without close supervision.

Computer Literacy: MSWord, e-mail, internet search, PowerPoint, MSPublisher

Related Work Experience:

2006 - present   “Super Nanny” to family of 4 young children in Vavenby, BC, through Yellowhead Community Services, Clearwater, BC

2006 - May-Nov.: “Super Nanny” to family of 5 teens in Vavenby, BC, through Ministry of Children and Families, Clearwater, BC

2005 - Sept.-June 2006: live-in Nanny assisting 3-year-old child in developing    speech, Brooklyn, NY

2005 - Feb-March: Wells Grey Community Resources Society, series of 4 seminars at 4 locations (16 seminars total)