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Busy!!! Lots of multi-tasking, helping staff, clients and liaising with the community.

administrative work the first hour (email, phone calls, report writing); assisting with cultural/safety plans; attending home visits with MCFD; coordinating services with other service providers who have common mandates & maybe like clients' challenges and speaking with workers who arrange these or need assistance with agenda, action items from attending monthly meetings that is beneficial to my work (3 committees); keeping off island social workers aware of cultural events and family histories of families they work with; admin support (no one at front desk to answer calls or receive faxes, etc); assist executive director with information and other support when required; case management meetings with MCFD and other support service agencies when required;

8 -9 am arrive at office, check voicemails and emails, colleague debrief, prep for meetings, training or groups 9 - 11:30 child care center visits - observations of children or provide groups on music & movement/ literacy /or speech development group or parent caregiver meeting, or work directly with caseload child / support worker training and mentoring or 9 - 11:30 - community consultation at Strong Start or HUB parent child drop in programs- provide infant massage instruction, parent and child music and movement, information about community resources, consultation to families not registered in child care settings, observations of children or 9 - 11:30 community professional meetings - early years table, therapists meetings, join families at therapy sessions to reduce number of appointments during the day or 9 - 11:30 home visits 11:30 - 12 return signed docs to office and check emails and return phone calls or meetings with parents at preschool pick up and drop off, support worker debriefing and planning 1 - 3:30 center visits, community visits, home visits, community training, 3:30 - 4:30 - team meetings

Working single staffed with up to 12 adults (two side by side houses) with mental illness, addictions, and / or in crisis, cooking meals, cleaning, laundry, giving medications, intakes and discharges, listening and supporting clients in crisis, some referrals for housing or to treatment centres