Mental and Behavioral Health Specialist with experience in providing support to individuals with Autism, Special, Physical, Mental, and Behavioral needs. Dedicated to helping clients, caregivers, family members, teachers, and those involved in clients life reach their goals and improve or restore functioning by offering quality services.
Skills
Crisis Intervention
Mental health, wellness, and behavioral services
Working with children with special needs
Establish trusting professional relationships
Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively with wide variety of different individuals
Superb verbal, written, and listening communication skills
Case documentation and report preparation
Proficient in use of PC in Windows environment, MS Office Applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet
Work History
03/2019 to Current
Therapeutic Behavioral Service CoachIntegrity Learning Center – Plainfield, IN,
Provide intensive behavior services individually and in group settings, for clients of various ages, socio-economic backgrounds and cultures, in school or home setting.
Experience working with clients who suffer or have experienced trauma, crisis, abuse, neglect, emotional or behavioral problems, and those who are at risk which affect their personality, family, school and way of living.
Plan, develop, and provide self-help and client oriented treatment models using motivation based activities, interventions, and safety plans to help clients reach their goals.
Provide advocacy, education, counseling, and crisis intervention and stabilization.
Discuss goals and objectives of proposed treatment plans to help improve or restore client and environment functioning.
Assist in training for personal hygiene, taking care of personal needs, and developing basic self-
sufficiency.
Effectively communicate and collaborate with others to meet clients needs such as family, caregivers, community members, court, counselors, teachers, and other individuals involved with clients to improve quality of life for all involved.
Visit clients to observe progress, provide counseling, gather data, and to report significant changes in client's condition to designated professional staff.
Participate in Clinical and Child Family Team Meetings as scheduled.
Maintain progress notes, records and write reports and summaries for client documentation.
06/2017 to 03/2021
Behavioral TherapistCatholic Charities, Archdiocese Of Hartford – New Haven, CT,
Develop, organize, and direct activities, programs and resources dedicated specifically to client in one-to-one and/or Group settings matched to reach clients needs for over three years.
Work with clients who have Autism, developmental delays, special needs, physical/mental disabilities, behavioral, health, and nutrition needs.
Form strong relationships with caregivers and teachers in order to help clients reach their goals through behavior management and motivation.
Assist students by interpreting classroom assignments.
Apply behavior modification techniques.
Facilitate self-help groups for clients, youth, family members and caregivers.
Assist in training for personal hygiene, taking care of personal needs, and developing basic self-
sufficiency.
Follow functional analysis of behavior to obtain understanding of client's behavior and assist in developing intervention plan.
Help asses and follow Cognitive and Developmental evaluation to determine clients functioning in areas of language, visual-spatial, cognitive, social, motor, and self help skill development.
Maintain clients goals, reports, absence logs, injury reports, and other important documentation up to date.
06/2016 to 06/2017
Assistant TeacherCSUSB Infant Toddler Lab School – City, STATE,
Provided quality care for clients using Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
Followed NAEYC principals.
Maintained documentation of absence logs, health checks, ratios, meal counts, injury reports, unusual mark reports, lesson plans, routine information and operational records.
Assisted with routine clerical duties directly related to classroom work.
Assisted in maintaining neat and orderly environment.
Assisted in training parent volunteers.
Conducted parent teacher conferences
Maintained rapport with family and staff members
Created lesson plans that help enhance clients development and prepared progress reports for students.
Implemented fun curriculum based activities to help enhance clients current and emerging skills
Partnered with teacher to plan and implement lessons following school's curriculum, goals, objectives and philosophies
Prepared charts, flash cards, dittos, worksheets, art materials, bulletin boards, and similar materials.
Through positive and nurturing interactions allowed clients to develop sense of safety and well-being which enables them to feel secure and explore world
Established individual attention and respectful interactions
Education
Expected in 06/2017
Bachelor of Arts: Psychology And Human Development California State University - San Bernardino - San Bernardino, CA GPA:
Majored in Psychology, Human Development and Child Development
Coursework in social welfare, social or behavioral sciences, social/human services, and counseling.
Expected in 05/2014
Associate of Arts: Psychology And Spanish Crafton Hills College - Yucaipa, CA GPA:
Majored in Psychology and Spanish.
Coursework in Psychology, Child Development, and Spanish.
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