Shantavia Burke
Manassas
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Pretrial Services Officer
Pretrial Services Agency
01.2025 - Current
- Gathers and verifies biographical and other background information on persons charged in U.S District Court with violations of criminal and regulatory codes. Interviews defendants, their families and community members. Research relevant law enforcement automated systems to investigate defendants criminal justice history and offender status. Identify defendants with possible drug or alcohol abuse, medical conditions or other circumstances that may affect decisions on release and for eligibility for placement ina community supervision program while in pretrial or post conviction status.
- conducts investigations and verifies background information concerning persons charged with a federal offense when they are arrested or summoned to court.
- Evaluates information and prepares reports for the judge prior to the initial hearing with assessment of non-appearance and danger to community. A recommendation regarding bail and/or release of a defendant is included in the report. conduct risk assessment, analyzes information and prepares recommendations to the court on program eligibility and other issues relating to conditions of release.
- Supervises defendants who are released with supervision conditions.
- Notifies the court and the U.S. Attorney of any violations.
- Develops a supervision plan and maintains a detailed record of case activity.
Pretrial Release Officer II/ TPO Compliance Officer
Cobb County Magistrate Court
06.2023 - Current
- Conducts interviews with defendants, victims, family members, and references; gathers defendant's demographic information, residence, employment, criminal history, driving records, and other pertinent information; completes intake process; verifies references; evaluates defendants against established program requirements; and prepares release recommendations.
- Prepares for bond hearings: prepares bond assessment reports containing identity, criminal history, and reference information; makes recommendations regarding release of defendants; and removes defendants in violation of their release from their original bond. Monitors defendants' compliance with release conditions as assigned: conducts field visits and drug screens; provides referrals to social and rehabilitative agencies as needed; coordinates with community partners, facilitators, providers, and other interdependent agencies to provide services to program participants; assists program participants in resolving and/or handling problems; files bench warrants for non-compliant defendants; and opens and closes cases.
- Prepares and updates case histories and other documentation: prepares and submits evaluation reports; provides defendants with court notifications; runs criminal histories through Georgia Crime Information Center and National Crime Information Center databases; and prepares bench warrants, bail revocations, and other court documents as needed.
Supervised Visitation Specialist
Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida
02.2020 - Current
- Complete intakes for clients referred to family court services from court to assist them with getting started.
- Complete orientation with both parties and children prior to starting visits Observes scheduled visits and exchanges and performs associated roles relative to program requirements.
- Documents compliance and progress of visitation and exchange cases.
- Ensures that contact between parties proceeds pursuant to court order.
- Intervenes, where necessary or appropriate, to ensure the welfare of the child or parent.
- Manages cases involving domestic violence and cases with active restraining orders pursuant to the program's policies and procedures.
- Terminates the visit if the child's safety or that of the other parties or staff cannot be maintained.
- Assists with reports and testifies in court as requested by the Court or subpoena.
- Maintains the quality of services within the supervised visitation and exchange program.
- Facilitate parent team meetings and provide mediation for families, provide parenting skills to families, assistance with bonding and engaging with their children, assisting with creating healthy parent and child interactions and strengthening relationships.
- Collaborates with attorneys, guardians ad litem, and other professionals as required.
- Maintains independence from parties; remains neutral and maintains unbiased rapport with parties.
- Attends and participates in staff meetings, when available, or in supervised visitation program meetings if necessary.
Therapeutic Case Manager
Seeds That Grow Inc.
04.2022 - 06.2023
- Performs diagnostic assessments of clients. Administers developmental assessments to clients.
- Develops strength based service plans, monitors treatment progress, documents interactions and maintains electronic clinical records and other reporting data for individuals in care.
- Provides ongoing assessment, crisis intervention and case management services.
- Evaluates and documents client's level of functioning and progress toward attainment of goals.
- Individual, family and other providers
- Provides on going support and case management functions in accordance with the strengths needs and preferences identified within the treatment plan in order to help the individual achieve stated goals and objectives.
- Provides timely, high-quality documentation for all service contacts including face to face and collateral meetings and outreach attempts in accordance with agency/regulatory standard requirements
- Independently track access to resources and provide close support to address barriers, ensure client safety and stability.
- Processed all TPO Compliance case data and prepare court orders for status hearings, resulting in a 100% accuracy rate and timely completion within established deadlines.
- Designed comprehensive data reports that provide an outlook on various statistics, including compliance rates, violation rates, and court outcomes.
- Attended conferences for training, meetings, and community-based outreach related to domestic violence and nationwide reporting for defender and victim statistics, resulting in the acquisition of updated knowledge and skills that improve the quality of services provided to clients.
- Coordinated regular analysis of defender and victim statistics in legal-based settings, resulting in the identification of trends and patterns that inform policy changes and improve the effectiveness of services provided to clients.
Human Trafficking Care Coordinator
Citrus Family Care Network
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Work collaboratively with other departments at FCN as well as DCF, other behavioral health service providers and community-based programs and system partners to ensure that children and adolescents who have been victims of human trafficking a referred and connected with needed services and supports.
- Assist in facilitation of DCF human trafficking multi-disciplinary team staffing, prepare meeting forms, complete and review al HT MDT staffing form, and upload to FSFN.
- Assist FCN human trafficking coordinator in ensuring follow up to any human trafficking MDT action items; ensuring referral sources, linkages with partners, integrity of best practice interventions are implemented.
- Identify community clients who may benefit from chance or other HT services.
- Coordinate and link the client and their family to the chance and/or other community resources and mental health and substance abuse services, including residential placement as needed.
- Monitor the client's progress and communicate with treatment providers through coordination and facilitation of ongoing MDT staffing.
- Advocate for clients' needs, with other agencies or organizations, including but not limited to, the court system, the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Juvenile Justice.
- Participate in meetings, court and trainings, as needed.
Operations Review Specialist
Department of Children and Families
10.2019 - 10.2021
- Facilitate and monitor the completion of foster care referrals and complaint investigations
- Facilitate and lead foster care licensing legal staffing's
- Provide training and technical assistance to provider agencies
- Conduct agency reviews by ensuring relicensing and quarterly visits are in accordance with the requirements in code and applicable internal checklist/ tools
- Reviewing application packets and attestations by ensuring adherence to Florida Administrative Code, CFOP's and statute requirements.
Licensing and Recruitment Counselor
Pinnacle Family Services
02.2019 - 10.2019
- Identify, actively recruit, assess, train, and license prospective foster parents, and to provide ongoing support, assessment, and retention of licensed foster parents.
- Increase available foster home capacity through ongoing public awareness/recruitment events.
- Participate in speaking engagements in accordance with the Recruitment Plan and actively recruit foster family homes.
- Assists in development of an annual recruitment plan in cooperation with Licensing team members.
- Performed pre-service (Pride) training for prospective foster families.
- Performed initial licensing activities which includes a minimum of two home visits, gathering information and assessing the families for recommendation to DCF.
- Conduct all annual re-licensing activities in accordance with procedures and contractual requirements.
- Provide ongoing support and retention for licensed foster homes including but not limited to quarterly home visits, advocacy, training and special events honoring foster families and providing 24-hour support.
Dependency Case Manager/Lead
Children Home Society
06.2017 - 03.2019
- Conducted child safety assessments.
- Assessed client needs and develop service plans.
- Coordinated delivery of services, plan referrals and linkages to clients and families.
- Monitored service plan progress and evaluates reports from multiple service providers.
- Developed and maintained case and program documentation according to contract and CHS standards (assessments, treatment/service plans, progress notes, termination summaries, etc).
- Prepared case/status reports and made recommendations/ testify at courts or other prescribed body regarding reunification, termination of parental rights or other permanency plans.
- Provided specialized services that may include detainment, interstate compact, post placement supervision, relative/nonrelative caregiver home studies, court testimony, termination of parental rights and judicial review staffing.
- Assist family/caregivers in accessing subsidy, medical coverage, and other needed services for children. Provided support to children, caregivers, and family members to assure stable placement and timely achievement of permanency.
- Removed and place children. facilitated mediation staffing's for reunification's, TPR and detainment.
- Lead dependency case management team of 4-6 DCMs who identify, Assessed and Coordinated service delivery so that children/client needs, program goals and contract objectives are met.
- Coached DCMs in providing high quality, effective services in individual treatment plan development, behavioral assessment, and other direct treatment support, based on COA standard.
- Overseen professional, timely program case documentation and reporting, including tracking and monitoring of client progress and outcomes.
- Organized and facilitated team meetings weekly, discussing current case status, case load, case barriers and completing supervisory reviews.
Child Welfare Case Manager
Gulf Coast Jewish family services/ Family resource center
08.2014 - 12.2016
- Providing direct case management services to children, birth families, foster families and primary caregiver(s) in the home setting, day care, preschool, and/or school to ensure clients receive services appropriate to their needs, and continuity of care focused on resolving or preventing the issues of child abuse or neglect, rape, and domestic violence.
- Provides assessment, planning, linkage, coordination, monitoring, evaluation and advocacy to the child, family, foster family, and primary caregiver.
- Develop, strengthen, and maintain a direct working relationship with mental health professionals, community agencies and the child's own support system.
- Complete and assist clients in aftercare and discharge planning.
- Work with and advocate for Human trafficking victims. coordinated the delivery of services, plan referrals and linkage to clients especially human trafficking victims.
- Entered and closed Missing Child reports in the notation database. prepared case/status reports as to the efforts made to find a missing child. contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in regard to missing children assigned to the agency.
- Provide advocacy services and immediate crisis intervention to victims. Serve as source of support to the victims.
- Develop a comprehensive home study for potential family members such as relatives, non-relatives, pre-adoptive homes and reunification home studies and in-home assessments.
- Provide specialized services that may include detainment, interstate compact, post placement supervision, relative/non-relative caregiver home studies, court testimony, termination of parental rights and judicial review staffing.
Education
Master's - human services and child protection
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL12.2016
Bachelor's Degree - Criminal Justice
Brown Mackie College
Miami, FL11.2014
Associate Degree - Criminal Justice
Brown Mackie College
Miami, FL11.2012
Skills
- Interviewing skills
- Written and verbal communication
- Treatment planning
- Documentation proficiency
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Report preparation
- Cultural awareness
- Community relations
- Investigation leadership
- Information verification
- Rule enforcement
- Warrants and summons
- Court appearances
- Risk assessment
- Interview techniques
- In-court testifying
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Multitasking Abilities
- Problem-solving
- Decision-making
- Time management
Timeline
Pretrial Services Officer
Pretrial Services Agency
01.2025 - Current
Pretrial Release Officer II/ TPO Compliance Officer
Cobb County Magistrate Court
06.2023 - Current
Therapeutic Case Manager
Seeds That Grow Inc.
04.2022 - 06.2023
Human Trafficking Care Coordinator
Citrus Family Care Network
10.2021 - 04.2022
Supervised Visitation Specialist
Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida
02.2020 - Current
Operations Review Specialist
Department of Children and Families
10.2019 - 10.2021
Licensing and Recruitment Counselor
Pinnacle Family Services
02.2019 - 10.2019
Dependency Case Manager/Lead
Children Home Society
06.2017 - 03.2019
Child Welfare Case Manager
Gulf Coast Jewish family services/ Family resource center
08.2014 - 12.2016
Bachelor's Degree - Criminal Justice
Brown Mackie College
Associate Degree - Criminal Justice
Brown Mackie College
Master's - human services and child protection
Nova Southeastern University
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