Yadira Toro

Provide individual Social Work sessions with identified students. Serve on a multidisciplinary team for special education. Provide social work assessment.

School Social Worker - Chicago Bulls College Prep

(2024-08)

• Provide individual Social Work sessions with identified students.
• Serve on a multidisciplinary team for special education.
• Provide social work assessment.
• Review, update, and develop IEP goals and objectives based on assessment results
• STLS Liason
• MTSS Committee
• Supervise Interns.

School Social Worker - Plainfield Academy

• Provide individual Social Work sessions with identified students.
• Serve on a multidisciplinary team for special education.
• Provide social work assessment.
• Review, update, and develop IEP goals and objectives based on assessment results.

School Social Worker - Bolingbrook High School

(2023-08 - 2023-12)

• Provide individual Social Work sessions with identified students.
• Serve on a multidisciplinary team for special education.
• Provide social work assessment
• Review, update, and develop IEP goals and objectives based on assessment results
• Plan school- wide social-emotional initiative

Grow Therapy/ Surrenderandaction

(2024-11)

• Provide individual therapeutic services/Coaching Services

CoreExcellent LLC

(2023-10 - 2024-10)

• Provide individual therapeutic services.

Begin Within Therapy

(2022-08 - 2023-10)

• Provide individual therapeutic services.

School Social Worker - Morton Alternative School

(2022-08 - 2023-05)

• Provide individual Social Work sessions with identified students.
• Serve on a multidisciplinary team for special education.
• Provide social work assessment
• Review, update, and develop IEP goals and objectives based on assessment results
• Plan school- wide social-emotional initiative

School Social Worker - Golder College Prep - Chicago, IL

(2018-08 - 2022-05)

• Provide individual Social Work sessions with identified students
• Serve on a multidisciplinary team for special education
• Provide social work assessment
• Review, update, and develop IEP goals and objectives based on assessment results
• Plan school- wide social-emotional initiative

Adjunct Professor- Social Work - Dominican University College - River Forest, IL

(2018-08 - 2023-08)

• Facilitate in-person /online Class Instruction
• Evaluate student performance
• Respond promptly to grade determination
• Mentor students

Student Advocate - West 40 Student Advocate/T.A.P.E.S.T.R. Y

(2014-05 - 2017-06)

Morton East School- Cicero, IL

• Provided individual and family counseling to at-risk students
• Counseled students who are experiencing crisis in school, communities, and/or home
• Collaborated with SASS/DCFS, when needed
• Communicated with counselors, deans, and teachers, in order to make sure student is on track
• Advocated for students, as needed
• Conducted home visits
• Connected student and families to outside resources
• Trained new advocates
• Assisted students who experience high stress by implementing SEL groups
• Assisted with coordinating Family nights
• Created Data Reports- Data Management

Administrative Assistant/Translator/Intern - West 40 Regional Safe School Middle- School/ Harbor Academy High School - Hillside, IL

(2013-04 - 2014)

Working with Adolescents and Families, primarily Latino

• Conducted individual counseling/family counseling with Latino families
• Co-facilitated girls/boys group counseling sessions
• Mediated//resolved conflict
• Developed partnerships with community programs
• Performed Intake Assessments –Spanish Families
• Lead Social Skills group
• De-escaladed and intervened in student crises.

Administrative Assistant/Translator - West 40 Regional Safe School Middle- School/ Harbor Academy High School - Hillside, IL

(2011-04 - 2014)

Working with At-risk Youth who are expulsion eligible

• Assisted expulsion- eligible students in goal-setting and life skills
• Set up parent-teacher conferences and/assist in translating for Spanish speaking families
• Administrative duties
• Assisted teachers in classrooms, as needed
• Input attendance
• Spanish Translator for Harbor High School and West 40 Middle school

MSW - Dominican University Graduate School of Social Work (2014)

BA - Social Work - Northeastern University (2012)