Paula Honeykats

• Provide therapeutic services to families, couples, children, and individuals
• Areas of expertise Family and Domestic Violence, Post Separation and Blended Families
• Work from a Trauma Informed approach to always ensure safety of clients
• Provide supervision to several staff members and collaborate with other senior clinicians and practice managers to ensure that the counsellors and family advisors are supported and heard
• As a Social Worker I have supervised a number of Social Work Students on placement.
• Engaging with a range of stakeholders ensuring a professional service

• Manager of a team of 21 staff across a range of programs in Canberra.
• In May 2021, I transferred to the RACR Wagga Wagga office as Practice Manger Therapeutic Services
• Provided supervision to a number of staff as well as undertake a range of administration tasks supporting the team and the organisation
• Responsible for data/reports being compiled as required by funding bodies and management
• Engaged with stakeholders to ensure that clients where provided the appropriate services as well as staff obtaining required training

• Crisis Intervention - Responding to people (primarily women) subjected to violence and assisting them via giving and obtaining information, through listening, questioning and being supportive
• Room 4 Change - is a program for men who use violence against their partners, children or other family members
• In this program, workers assist men who are wanting to engage in making behaviour change in their life
• This is done via case management, group work and for those who were eligible, an accommodation component
• I was primarily a group facilitator with the Men’s Behaviour Change group and Caring Dads group, and I carried a case load of clients under case management
• Within this role, I was required to case note and contribute to the reporting system of the organisation.

• In this role, I was a key member of the Family Protection Unit of the Western Australian Police and Department of Child Protection specific to inter-agency coordination and case tracking of family and domestic violence (FDV) cases
• The three services triaged the current Police FDV call outs on a daily basis and determined the next level of engagement for the families
• Within the Counselling stream, I provided support, advocacy and psychotherapeutic services to women and young women (17+) who had been subjected to FDV and sexual assault
• Clients would be referred to assist them in dealing with FDV concerns, however often the clients presented with complex trauma, drug and alcohol abuse and mental health concerns as well as dealing with family separation
• Maintain records and provided reports as per policy guidelines to adhere to the agreement with funding bodies

• Engage with the separated parties within a group setting or sometimes one on one sessions where required in which I delivered and processed the program content with the individual
• This program assisted separated parents to obtain a child focused lens and learn skills to assist them in being able to co-parent
• The role of Children’s Contact Service, support worker, I facilitated supervised access and changeovers between children and family members/carers
• In this role, I was required to liaise with parents, community organisations and the Courts
• Provided reports, and maintained all data entry requirements

• Within this role, I was responsible for appointments for counsellors, nurses, workshops and community events
• Maintained the organisations data base, website, face book page, compiled flyers and arranged events to coincide with specific dates, for example International Women’s Day
• Engage with community organisations keeping up to date with services to refer clients to

Program Facilitator:

• Delivery of group-based therapeutic interventions to community-based offenders
• Programs provided were in the domains of domestic/family violence, cognitive skills, and drug and alcohol
• Coordination of program delivery across the Riverina/Murray community corrections cluster, including Tumut, Albury, Griffith and Wagga Wagga
• Reporting on treatment gains and outstanding needs on program completion

Unit Leader:

• Responsible for correctional practice and quality assurance oversight over a team of 10 staff, including endorsement of Court reports, assessments, breach notifications and KPI achievement
• Provision of case management and supervision of complex, high risk offenders
• Workload allocation

Probation and Parole Officer:

• Case management of allocated clients, generally circa 40 cases
• Court reporting, including attendance at Court for provision of sentencing options and prosecution of breaches.

• Compiled reports for management, worked with reception ensuring procedures were followed and ensure clients and other stakeholders where given a professional service
• One of my roles was to make changes to processes within the office and work with the team to utilise the changes
• Provide reports and maintain data compliance in line with funding agreements
• My skills of rapport building, listening and engaging with people assisted me in making connections within the community to enhance our services.