OFFSHORE PLACEMENT IN EAST METRO YOUTH

SERVICES (EMYS) (TORONTO)

BY OLIVIA CHAN

INTRODUCTION OF AGENCY & SERVICE

Agency:East Metro Youth Services (EMYS)

Website:http://emys.on.ca/

Location:1200 Markham Road, Suite 200 Scarborough, Ontario M1H 3C3

Mission:EMYS continuously strives to engage YOUTH and YOUTH ADULTS in reaching their personal best through:•Enhancing their MENTAL HEALTH.•Investing in their FUTURE POTENTIAL.•Innovative collaboration with our diverse FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES and SERVICE PARTNERS.

Vision:DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES– We are committed to doing whatever it takes to meet the needs of the clients, participants and families we serve.

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES: Counselling and Case Management

Development Services

Newcomer Program

Residential Services

School-based Programs

Violence Intervention Program (VIP)

Youth Outreach Worker Program (YOW)

StrengthReputationNetworkingService Diversity and UniquenessService ProfessionMoral and LeadershipManpowerCapacity and Infrastructure

WeaknessAccessibility

OpportunityMarket DevelopmentPartnershipTechnology DevelopmentResources

ThreatPolitical issueFunding

ASSIGNMENTS & OTHER EXPERIENCE

Walk-in Clinic (1hr/Session)

Drug addictionSuicidal problem

Parent-child relationshipFemale and male relationship

Mandated court session

Harm reductionSafety plan

Coping mechanismAction plan

CBT thought record

Participants in Session

How did the client respond to the homework/next steps plan from the previous session?

What is better since the last time?

What is the priority concern (1) that brought you to the clinic today?

What did the client hope to get out of today?

Relevant information related to the priority concern?

Strengths, Resources, Commitments, Values, Beliefs?

Clinical Impressions/ Formulations

Homework/ Next Steps

This file will now be closed to the agency.The client is welcome to return whenever they want and the file will reopen.

Long-term Case Management

Depression symptoms

Parent-child relationship

Newcomer Program

Team building

Site-visit

Art and Crafts

Drop-in

Volunteering

Difficulties

WHAT I HAVE LEARNT?

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Listening and Interviewing skills

Time Management

Writing and Organizational skills

AcceptanceFlexibility

OTHER REFLECTIONS

‘The MORE you prepared, the MORE you obtain!’

READ

RESPONSERESEARCH

OBSERVANT

RECALL

1001 Solution-Focused Questions: Handbook for Solution-Focused Interviewing (A Norton Professional Book)Paperback – October 25, 2010by Fredrike Bannink

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Paperback – February 7, 2012by Adele Fabe

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children Paperback – May 20, 2014by Ross W. Greene PhD

THANK YOU!