Michaela Bindewald

860 White Oak Mountain Drive Dry Fork, VA 24549 11165 Franklin Street Ferrum, VA 24088 Home: 434 724 6705 Cell: 434 429 8006 mbindewald@ferrum.edu

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW Junior - Ferrum College - Social Work Major with a heart for helping children have a greater sense of self-regulation and competence by understanding that knowing "who I am" results in knowing "what to do". Career goal is to become a child therapist after completing a B. S.W. and M.S.W. and state licensure. S UMMAR Y OF QU A LIF IC A T IONS Experience as a psychometrician, scoring child and adolescent psychological tests Childcare responsibilities with family and friends Experience working with staff and students in the athletic department at Ferrum College Course work in Child Development, Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Social Work, Social Problems, Cultural Diversity, Substance Abuse, Nutrition of the Healthy Human Body, Social Policy & Child Psychopathology

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

EDUC AT ION Bachelor of Social Work : Social Work, 2015 Ferrum College - Ferrum, VA, USA High School Diploma : Advanced Studies, 2011 Galileo Magnet High School - Danville, VA, USA EXPERIENCE Psychometrician , June 2009 to Present Whole Counsel Associates Inc - Danville, VA

Score assessment tools completed by parents, teachers, and children and adolescents under the supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist.
Student Assistant, College Athletic Department , August 2012 to Present Ferrum College - Ferrum, VA

Various duties including keeping score, video-recording games, writing up programs, entering statistics of games online.
ACCOMP LISHMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS *Dean's List at Ferrum College *Full-time course work while working two part-time jobs: in the athletic department at Ferrum College and as a psychometrician for a mental health private practice specializing in child and adolescent mental health *Independent living in my own apartment 2012- present *Presentations at Christian Heritage Academy, Westover Christian Academy, and Heritage Academy "Transcultural Living - My Life as a Missionary Kid in the former Soviet Union"

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MEMBERSHIPS/SCHOLAR LY SOC IETIES *Member, Social Work Club at Ferrum College 2011-present *Participant in Christian Sorority and Bible Study at Ferrum College 2011 -2012