Mikayla Silas
Motivated, goal-oriented, and results-driven candidate in social services
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About
Motivated, goal-oriented, and results-driven candidate seeks the opportunity to contribute to your company by utilizing my education in social services, humanities, cultural diversity, and data analysis. Combined with my willingness to learn, retain, execute and fulfill the outlined requirements and expectations associated with the announced employment opportunity, while delivering superior performance and high productivity.
Experience
Admissions Coordinator at Hermitage Hall (2026-06 – Present)
- Read referrals and make a disposition of acceptance or denial
- Utilize a technology data entry (MS4)
- Prepare paperwork for admission, coordinate with parents, referral sources, and prepare for admission arrival
- Authorize insurance and case agreements
Family Development Specialist & Foster Care Case Manager at Health Connect America (2025-06 – 2026-06)
- Create treatment plans and aftercare plans for clients to meet all required goals throughout In Home Services authorization time
- Create BIRP notes (Behavior, Intervention, Response, Plan) and stay in coordination with Health Connect America about all client sessions
- Coordinate with the Department of Children Services
- Documentation and processing through CareLogic Qualifacts systems
- Discharge clients with successful completion of services
- Engaged in In Home Services with children and youth ages six to seventeen
- Foster care case management
- Utilize interventions with clients who are currently taking part with Comprehensive Child and Family Treatment, Supervised Visitations, Therapeutic Visitations, and Family Support Services retrieve better outcomes of behavior
- Utilize CareLogic to view all of the clients release of information and enter required documentation
- Work alongside the Department of Children Services to schedule Supervised Visitations, Therapeutic Visitations, and Family Support Services
Behavior Health Support Specialist at Thompson Child and Family Youth Focus (Davidson Transitional Homes) (2025-04 – 2025-06)
- Communicated with supervisors and service providers via phone and email
- Care for youth daily in the residential home
- De escalate youth and teach youth emotional regulation when circumstances may arise in residential home
- Work alongside the Department of Children Services case managers in residential home
Education
Bachelor of Social Work in Social Work – Middle Tennessee State University
Minor in Public Health – Middle Tennessee State University
Masters of Social Work in Social Work – Herzing University
