Lars H. Hansen

Social Work Experience:

Campus Supervisor, The Arrow Project, Maryland
Nov. 2004 to Present
Supervise over 60 staff and 42 residents in one of Maryland's only Diagnostic Residential Units.
Co-ed facility diagnosing and treating troubled youngsters between the ages of 12 and 17.
Duties including:
Direct Supervision of Day Shift Supervisors.
Supervison of all full-time and part-time Diagnostic Unit staff.
Enforces policies and conducts corrective actions in cases of non-compliance.
Crisis Managment.
Organizing and conducting Full-Time Employee Training.
Participating in Part-Time Employee Training.
Contacting prospective new employees and Conducting First Tier Interviews. Making priliminary judgement as to continuing or terminating the hireing process. Arranging for Second Tier Interviews and assisting in completing hireing procedures.
Member of Diagnostic Leadership, Clinical, Recreation and other commitees.
Participant in Psychiatric Rounds Meetings.
Responsible for Diagnostic contribution to corporate newsletter.
Some fiscal responsibilities for Residents.
Conducts campus security rounds.
Assists staff in interfaceing with the company's computer network.
Preliminary quality assurance of unit documentation.

Trainings include:
Basic Counseling
On-The-Spot Counseling
Attachment Disorders
CPR
First Aid

Employee of the Month for August 2003.
Nominated for Maryland Social Worker of the Year for 2004.

Part-Time Health Care Assistant, Gentofte, Denmark
Residential program for clients (19 to 39 yrs. old) with autism, mild retardation and other developmental and psychological disorders.
Duties including:
Fulfilled day-to-day program objectives in a residential setting (max. 14 clients per household).
Assured proper and timely delivery of medications.
Communication with families and medical professionals.
Given specific responsibilities for clients with severe behavioral disorders.
Assumed some fiscal responsibilities for clients.
Special project member from Jan. 2000 to Mid-July 2000 – assisted in the reevaluation and modernization of programming for a client with autism and additional psychological and behavioral disorders.
Frequent one-on-one responsibilities for clients not attending day-care. These responsibilities included guiding the client through their ‘home-day’ program as well as taking clients on excursions, doctor’s appointments etc.
Chosen to accompany groups of clients on weeklong vacations out-of-house.

Other Work Experience:
Issue Director, International Media Advocacy Project / Earth Media – New York City
July 2000 to July 2002
Public Relations Firm serving non-governmental organizations.
Delegate to World Summit on Sustainable Development PrepComs 2 and 3 in New York City (as a member of the United Kingdom delegation of UNED – United Nations Environment and Development).
Chief officer in charge of Database Conciliation project.
Designed and implemented creation of WebSite as well as WebSite graphics.
Liaisoned with Scandinavian civil society delegations at the PrepComs.
Facilitated Press Conferences and other media activity in direct cooperation with the Executive Director and Project Coordinator.
General office duties incl. data entry.

Computer Skills:
Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, basic HTML for WebPages.

Education:
BA in Political Science with minor in Journalism – State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Graduated Dec. 1999, 3.6 GPA, Phi Beta Kappa, Gold Key and National Political Science Honor Societies.
Teaching Assistant – Political Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook, Fall 1999.
Staff Writer, ‘The Stony Brook Statesman’, Two Years (selected clips available)
Contributing Writer, ‘Blackworld’, (clipping available)
Contributing Writer, ‘Statesman’ Fall 2000.