CLARE NEKESA KARANI
Turkana
Summary
A professional social worker with empathetic, solutions-oriented and compassionate case management abilities to SGBV survivors, foster child, Child headed Households, Teenage mothers, vulnerable groups, Asylum Seekers, Refugees, OVC, Youth, All children and Adolscents.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Child Protection Assistant Associate
DANISH REFUGEEE COUNCIL
08.2021 - Current
- Conducted best interest assessments to identify potentially abused or neglected refugee and host community children, including UASCs and other vulnerable individuals. Reviewed referral notes as well as assessment data.
- Investigate allegations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation through home visits and follow up assessments to gather factual evidence while creating effective case plans.
- Perform evaluations to assess parental fitness and caregiver competence, make decisions regarding child removal from hazardous environments, and facilitate foster care arrangements.
- Maintained ongoing communication and assessment of the well-being of children under alternate care.
- Facilitated access to external services not offered by DRC through referrals of vulnerable children
- Monitor to ensure social assistance is reaching out to vulnerable refugees
- Provide basic counseling and or psycho-education to children at risk and refer complex cases to the Pediatric counselor for continued counseling
- Collaborated with national/county child protection officers to conduct joint in-home visits for host community children
- Aided in ongoing capacity building efforts for foster care families, ensuring their continued growth and development.
- Attend and instruct planned trainings for parents and foster families within the community
- Support with management of the CFS and child-to-child activities within the CFS
- Served as a support for conducting sensitization, dialogue, and training sessions addressing child protection issues with the residents of Kalobeyei settlement.
- Facilitate child protection structures (CBPN) meetings, Child rights clubs in schools and other sensitization forums
- Provide high quality weekly and monthly reports and data to Protection Officer-CP and M&E officer highlighting individual performance, progress against targets and client needs
- Must complete extensive documentation, maintain case files and perform other types of administrative tasks related to case management
- Monitor and provide objective feedback related to staff performance, including objective setting, probation & performance evaluations to promote growth and professional development
- Provide leadership and support to ensure social workers and community incentive staff well-being, i.e
- Monitor and manage stress management by providing regular opportunities for staff debriefing to address secondary trauma
- Ensure staff timesheets are done and submitted.
Child Protection Intern
THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION
01.2019 - 07.2020
- Directed clients towards accessing necessary resources
- Awareness to new arrivals
- Offered comprehensive counseling services tailored specifically to meet the unique requirements of LGBTI clients.
- Ensured smooth delivery of NFIs to those being relocated
- Oversaw maintenance of cleanliness
- Assessing and identifying children with protection concerns (vulnerable children) and provided appropriate interventions to them
- Training teenage mothers on adolescent developmental stages, sensitization on SGBV, Livelihood skills
- Monitoring visits of children with protection concerns and distributed the Care Relief items.
- Assisted in the preparation of documents and reports for senior management.
Education
Diploma in Social Work and Community Development -
UNITY COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
01.2021
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) C -
Turkana Girls National School
01.2016
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) -
Kalemunyang Primary School
01.2012
Skills
- Leadership skills
- Experience in conducting Best Interest Assessments
- Experience in conducting Best Interest Determination
- Experienced in SGBV response
- Experienced in child protection
- Experienced in livelihoods
- Experienced in program management
- Experienced in participatory techniques
- Experienced in community mobilization
- Experienced in training
- Experienced in facilitation
- Pattern detection
- Confidentiality maintenance
- Listening skills
- Observational skills
- Interviewing skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Conflict management
- Deadline management
- Teamwork
- Interpersonal skills
- Analytical report writing skills
- Proposal writing skills
- Knowledge in project cycle management
- Knowledge in social work projects
- Administrative work experience
Tel
0741037152
References
- ANTONY KWALANDA, TRAINER, THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION, 0722895479
- SR FLORENCE NABWIRE, PRINCIPAL, TURKANA GIRLS NATIONAL SCHOOL, 0711682663
Timeline
Child Protection Assistant Associate
DANISH REFUGEEE COUNCIL
08.2021 - Current
Child Protection Intern
THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION
01.2019 - 07.2020
Diploma in Social Work and Community Development -
UNITY COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) C -
Turkana Girls National School
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) -
Kalemunyang Primary School
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