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Skills
case management, framing, mental health, peer review, scaling, scheduling, therapy, treatment plan, treatment plans
SOCIAL WORKER
Professional Summary

Licensed MFT experienced in the treatment of dual-diagnosis disorders. Excels at building a positive therapeutic rapport with clients.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy expert and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in California and Texas offering a comprehensive background in mental health treatment, addiction services and life skills counseling.

Skills
  • Strengths-based solution-focused therapy
  • Compassionate
  • Analytical thinker
  • Family reunification specialist
  • Structured Decision Making (SDM) tools knowledge
  • Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS)
  • Skilled community-based case manager
  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor
  • Case management
  • Crisis intervention techniques
  • Solution-focused counseling
Work History
Social Worker Civic Center Blvd - Yuba City, United States, CA 01/2011 - 01/2012
  • Provided non-clinical solution-focused counseling on demand, responding to inquires in less than 60 minutes, ensuring each client was given complete support.
  • Interviewed and evaluated clients need though motivational interviewing techniques, assisting the client in prioritizing needs.
  • Used unconditional positive regard, active listening, reflection, re-framing, and modeling to assist the client in developing treatment goals for approximately 15 hours per week.
  • Supported and collaborated with the clients to develop both short and long-term goals.
  • Encouraged clients to freely express presenting issues in multiple sessions, intervening on maladaptive responses to promoting progress toward treatment goals.
  • Reviewed goals with client, measuring progress towards resolutions of problems through on-demand problem identification, action planning, and short term motivational counseling.
  • Modeled social skills using role play and repetition in Child and Youth Programs for approximately 10 hours per week.
  • Improved problem solving skills through identification of teachable moments with staff, children, and parents.
  • Focused on teaching children to verbalize feelings, follow rules, turn taking, and effective conflict resolution.
  • Assisted staff and parents in managing challenging child behavior and setting boundaries, reducing stressors and increasing mission focus.
  • Modeled positive guidance techniques to staff promoting quality of care.
  • Briefed military personal, staff, and children during family life cycle changes, deployments, and reintegration, promoting the effectiveness of the military community.
  • Consulted regularly with supervisors, classroom leads, and trainers on an on-going basis, maintaining continuity of care and client satisfaction.
  • Demonstrated positive interactions with military parents, military youth, teens, and staff.
  • Motivated teen and youth social development through social role play, team building, and mentorship for approximately 12-15 hours per week.
  • Educated staff and parents on youth development concerns, connecting staff and families to necessary referrals within the community.
  • Engaged youth and teens by providing active listening techniques, empathetic understanding, and peer-to-peer support.
  • Assessed individual needs of children to promote school readiness.
  • Participated in Youth Program events to support families and children.
  • Researched and delivered presentations on topics related to Domestic Violence Awareness month, including stress management, anger management, teen dating, and communication skills.
  • Conducted training for 20 teens and staff, promoting awareness of the Military and Family Life Counselor (MFLC) program.
  • Facilitated referrals to military personnel and families, providing guidance and support if presenting problem was beyond the scope of MFLC program, building formal and informal referral resources.
  • Developed a professional working relationship with referrals, ensuring client satisfaction, safety, and treatment goals were met.
  • Educated clients, through briefings of MFLC program dynamics, providing clear explanations of the program, increasing program utilization.
  • Used various media outlets to meet the needs of the military community, such as meetings, briefings, local training events, to meet the needs of the military community by providing outreach.
  • Addressed service member and family concerns through training of transition and relocation concerns, normalizing some reactions and referring others for further assessment and intervention.
  • Arranged outreach for pre-deployment, reintegration, and "newcomers" briefings, on a weekly to bi-weekly basis.
  • Addressed service members of up to 60 individuals, where direct communication was gathered and the program was promoted.
  • Facilitated outreach opportunities and built community resources with the service members and their families.
  • Maintained professional working relationships and referral resources to base agencies, increasing referrals for the MFLC program.
  • Repaired degraded relationships with key civilian and military personal, regaining opportunities for outreach, promoting the program.
  • Modeled and maintained confidentiality of program clients, as mandated by DOD.
  • Ensured clients were informed of rights to confidentiality and communicated with clients their rights under the MFLC program.
  • Provided flexible schedule, to include weekends, nights, and holidays to meet service members as requested.
  • Arranged training and presentations with Key Spouses on communication, providing to support to military spouses, and increasing resiliency.
  • Gathered and maintained sufficient supplies of MFLC program resources to included business cards, pamphlets, intervention materials, and stress reduction materials approximately 5 hours per week.
  • Identified and utilized local resources to maintain supplies of MFLC materials, to include DOD approved coloring books, deployment aids, visual aids, and coloring supplies.
  • Engaged local networks and professional associations, which enhanced MFLC services, and support services, including "Zero to three" and "Military Kids Connect," and providing a supply of materials supporting the MFLC program and referral resources.
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Interviewed, and counseled clients on issues related to divorce, separation, parenting, and financial difficulties for approximately 15 hours per week.
  • Assessed clients using biopsychosocial assessments, likert scale, House Tree Person, and Beck's Depression Inventory tools.
  • Clarified and explored information from clients using interviews, scaling questions, discussion, and observation, enabling a clearer treatment plan to be developed.
  • Explored feelings, thoughts, and behaviors with clients in determining short and long term goals of treatment options, congruent with assessment, using motivational interviewing, solution focused and cognitive behavioral techniques.
  • Normalized clients' processes feelings in sessions, on an individual, couple, and family basis, exploring the full range of the presenting problem.
  • Provided sessions both in person and through telemedicine, as necessary to meet the needs of the client.
  • Monitored and tracked each case to evaluate and ensure client satisfaction and therapeutic goal completion.
  • Periodically examined cases with supervisors, referring complex cases to doctorate level supervisors.
  • If cases were within scope of practice, the examined cases and supervision was followed, allowing complete treatment options were available for client utilization.
  • The use of proper release of information was in place to protect client privacy.
  • Refocused client on treatment goals, if goals were not being met.
  • Responded to concerns through empathetic understanding and reframing of initial goals of treatment.
  • Educated each client of their confidentiality and provided with written and verbal explanation of his or her rights.
  • Offered therapeutic support to individuals, couples, and families, enabling under-served clients an opportunity to get their mental health needs met.
  • Consulted with schools, psychologists, psychiatrists, and case managers to provide wrap-around services for clients.
  • Identifying and building professional formal and informal local networks to reach and met the needs of serviced population.
  • Counseled individuals with severe mental health disorders, who were apprehensive of attending mental health treatment hospitals.
  • Referred clients to surrounding therapists and various facilities if higher standard of care was needed.
  • Planned client meetings congruent with limited meeting places, adapting to constantly changing therapeutic environment.
  • Promoted the counseling program at local universities to increase community awareness of the mental health programs.
  • Developed curriculum, taught, and organized therapeutic groups, on topics such as grief, healthy habits, anger management, and mood disorders groups for approximately 5 hours per week.
  • Refocused clients on treatment goals when conflict arose.
  • Demonstrated an understanding of communication styles, including the five basic types: assertive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, submissive, and manipulative.
  • Challenged coping skills and reduced group conflict, increasing of goal attainment.
  • Organized client scheduling for several therapists in the office.
  • Evaluated phone intakes and referred clients to appropriate resources in the community.
  • Facilitated the use of local resources for transportation, food stamps, and section 8 housing by clients.
  • Clarified client's basic needs, on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs were met.
  • Facilitated the organization of client notes, ensuring that confidentiality and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) rules were followed.
  • Maintained progress notes, process notes, informed consent, documentation of session, congruent with current legal and ethical standards.
  • Documented therapy progress providing care to the client, both in the present and in the future following the life of the case to be documented and adjusted as needed by the client and treatment goals.
  • Supervisor: Dr.
  • Bill Falzett (530-742-5049) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Sutter County CPS Hours per week: 40 Established and maintained working relationships with mental health agencies (law enforcement agencies and other organizations including drug treatment, foster care, and group homes) ensuring services were not duplicated and case management records were accurate.
  • Examined reports of child abuse, checking if a child had suffered or was at a risk to suffer harm from a parent or guardian, per California Welfare and Intuitions codes.
  • Interviewed and assessed biological parents, foster parents, and children on a routine basis; evaluating if abuse occurred and addressing the risk factors for further abuse.
  • Developed case plans based on specific demographics from interviews, to fully address risk factors and maintain safety of the family unit.
  • Explored concerns of biological parents, court officials, lawyers, and children; providing education, referrals, and follow up as needed.
  • Compiled data to document effectiveness of treatment intervention, adjusting both court and non-court mandated treatment plans.
  • Identified and compiled information from variable sources, including reporters of abuse, family members, police agencies, and school personal.
  • Investigated if abuse had occurred, documented all necessary details of the abuse and submitted documents to a local courthouse.
  • Gathered data, compiled statistics, and prepared reports for court submission and peer review.
  • Periodically reviewed cases with senior staff, before making recommendations to both the Sutter County courthouse or CPS families, meeting the needs of the more complex familial systems.
  • Conducted education forums for CPS family and staff, based on level of risk and parenting strategies.
  • Established level of minor risk; detaining (removing) the child from custody of his or her parents, with Child Protective Service (CPS) involvement.
  • Monitored each case from initial contact to closure of case, periodically evaluating effectiveness of treatment interventions and court mandated goals.
  • Maintained professionalism during detention of child, to build rapport with family during crisis, encouraging input from family on a possible relative placement.
  • Established protective placement for the victim, reducing the possibility of further harm.
  • Advocated for the victim of crime by securing approved foster placement, relative placement, and supporting child through court proceedings.
  • Established a case plan to correct issues which caused CPS involvement.
  • Solicited client involvement of setting specific goals, such as parenting classes and drug treatment.
  • Consulted, assessed, and documented each client interaction as mandated in accordance with state and federal regulations.
  • Conducted monthly in home inspections evaluating the safety of the environment and recommending interventions to maintain safety of the environment.
  • Focused on home visits with safety and confidentially as the main goal, per California state and Sutter county policy.
  • Conducted interviews for individuals, families, or couples depending what brought them to the attention for the county for approximately 12-15 families.
  • Removed child in a crisis and placed in protective custody.
  • Pointed out consequences to clients if deficiencies were not met, a permanency plan would be established, preparing for termination of parental rights and adoption of the dependent.
  • Explored case management goals for the child and parents, with the plan of returning child home, once goals were reached.
  • Observed parent-child interactions in court mandated visitations.
  • Arranged date, time, and frequency of visitations, for the well-being of the child, for approximately 12 to 20 children.
  • Conducted assessments of parental capacity in maintaining child safety, using Signs of Safety curriculum for approximately 10 hours per week.
  • Promoted understanding of parental expectations through one-on-one meetings and group meetings with Child Protective Service supervisors.
  • Documented all interactions of parents, children, foster parents, and CPS employees, for court proceedings for approximately 20 hours per week.
  • Referred clients to community resources to include job placement, debt counseling, parenting education, mental health counseling, and drug treatment for approximately 5 hours per week.
  • Provided concrete information on how to apply and where for food and housing assistance; transporting when necessary for approximately 5 hours per week.
  • This enabled the parents the opportunity to correct the deficiencies in the care for their children, which brought them to the attention of the county.
  • Provided continuity of care for the parents and children, being available from the beginning of the court case until all issues were addressed and the case closed.
  • Gathered data and complied statistics for outcome of children in custody.
  • Completed time studies as required documenting the time spent evaluating each case and required referrals in each case.
  • Delivered case studies to colleagues on a weekly basis, gathering research and delivering presentations for complete clarity of case studies.
  • Explored benefits and consequences of returning home, with family, colleagues, and children.
  • Followed recommendation of senior staff, on more violent or tenacious cases, for the safety of involved children.
  • Attended conferences monthly to build local networks enhancing service delivery to families with local agencies.
  • Ensured clients utilized available resources, provided transportation, training, or referrals.
  • Oversee client utilization of necessary services and available services, providing training or compiling court mandated reports, documenting the utilization of such services.
  • Ensured compliance of court documents and client records, in accordance with regulatory requirements.
Education
Master of Arts: Psychology Chapman University - Roseville, CA 2010
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Civic Center Blvd

School Attended

  • Chapman University

Job Titles Held:

  • Social Worker

Degrees

  • Master of Arts : Psychology

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