FREDRICK FRIMPONG
Accra
Summary
Dedicated and experienced social services professional with strong commitment to fostering positive outcomes and enhancing community well-being of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families. Adept at providing support, advocacy, and resources to diverse populations while maintaining high ethical standards. Demonstrates collaborative approach, adaptability to changing needs, and focus on delivering impactful results. Skilled in case management, crisis intervention, and effective communication.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Social Worker
High Hopes Foundation
09.2020 - Current
- Ensure work with autistic individual is underpinned by principles of personalization. By holding the individual at the center of practice, working with them to identify their unique abilities and challenges, and working alongside them to achieve their self identified needs.
- Promoting the human rights and dignity of autistic adults. Focusing on what autistic individuals can do and work to reflect and change the negative assumptions autism.
- Provide regular health assessments to ensure the identification of co-occurring health conditions, stopping worsening physical and mental health of autistic individuals. Including sensory needs and ‘triggers’ of crises in all assessments to reduce behaviors.
- Provide Counselling services for a safe environment for a child to process some of their observations, concerns and worries.
- Work with autistic individuals develop goals and strategies for addressing these problem areas.
Social Worker Intern
Kingsby Educational Center
05.2019 - 09.2020
- Manage challenge, working with professionals and co-production of de-escalating plans of crises can prevent involvement of coercive psychiatric treatments. Consistently offers professional, friendly, and engaging service.
- Responsible for creating and supporting an individualized Educational Plan for the autistic child.
- Work to serve as a support for parents in coping with stressors relating to educational goals, as well as external stress factors.
- Providing parents with autistic child resources in the community to cope with the stresses that often accompany having a child with this diagnosis.
Education
Bachelor of Arts -
Kwame Nkrumah University
Skills
- Guest experiences
- Email and phone orders
- Food safety procedures
- Reheating and cooldown procedures
Timeline
Social Worker
High Hopes Foundation
09.2020 - Current
Social Worker Intern
Kingsby Educational Center
05.2019 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Arts -
Kwame Nkrumah University
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