Team Lead-Intake and Triage Department – View Point Health / Lawrenceville, GA
September 2017 – Present
- — Supervises the intake and triage department.
- — Ensures new intakes are completed accurately, to include: biopsychosocial assessments, treatment plans, safety plans, suicide risk assessments, health & wellness, Connects, & all documentation is signed within 24 hours.
- — Supervises and provides triage & crisis intervention services for clients presenting in need. Refers client to appropriate level of care.
- — Supervises and Completes implementation of 1013’s; facilitates appropriate transport based on level of dangerousness and personal safety needs to an emergency receiving facility.
Behavioral Health Assessment Clinician – View Point Health / Lawrenceville, GA
June 2010 – September 2017
- — Provides comprehensive mental health and addictive disease assessments for adult clients seeking treatment services.
- — Practices motivational interviewing with the prospective client and /or collateral(s) to complete a biopsychosocial assessment, assess current level of functioning, resources, & needs of the client.
- — Formulates initial treatment recommendations based on the interview results.
- — Prepares initial individual service plan utilizing assessment data, diagnostic formulations, identified strengths, needs, preferences, and resources to develop appropriate goals and objectives.
- — Practices and conducts crisis intervention principles to assess level of dangerousness and personal safety needs.
- — Provides triage and crisis intervention services for client presenting in need.
- — Refers the client to the appropriate level of care.
- — Arranges initial treatment service appointments & initiates referrals to outside services as needed.
- — Co-facilitates weekly Dual Diagnosis Group Therapy with Court Ordered &/or Voluntary Adults. Provides Psychoeducation & Therapy to Adults with Co-occurring Disorders.
Direct Care - Jesse’s House “Emergency Children’s Shelter”/ Cumming, GA
February 2010 – April 2010
- — Provided supervision and support to children/adolescent female residents in a structured environment.
- — Provided positive direction to assist the residents to meet their Individualized Service Plan (ISP) goals.
- — Practiced and conducted crisis intervention principles.
- — Maintained daily documentation on all residents in the form of residential shift notes and staff shift notes.
Psychiatric Social Worker - Princeton House Behavioral Health/Princeton Healthcare System (University Medical
Center at Princeton)/ Princeton, NJ
October 2001 – March 2007
- — Provided direct practice care/case management services to adults in a general psychiatric & dual diagnosis in-patient treatment facility.
- — Completed psychosocial assessments, clinical intakes, evaluations, & reviews.
- — Developed comprehensive discharge plans to meet the patient’s needs for continuing care.
- — Provided & facilitated psycho-education to patients, families, & groups.
- — Practiced and conducted crisis intervention principles on a daily basis.
- — Evaluated and documented patient’s level of functioning and progress toward attainment of goals.
- — Evaluated treatment goals and patient’s clinical status on an ongoing basis, and documented revisions of goals and/or significant changes in functioning in a timely manner.
- — Participated in daily treatment planning meetings as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Art Teacher's Assistant - Benigna Willman Studios / Highland Park, NJ
September 1989 – March 2007
- — Taught art lessons to young children and adults, in drawing, acrylic & oil painting, and pastels.
Consultant/Group Facilitator - “Project Phoenix" The Families’ GOALS Project (Going on After Loss) / Piscataway, NJ
Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
- — Participated with a team of professional educators that provided psycho-educational groups aimed at addressing grieving and traumatic loss to family members of victims lost in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.
Field Work Internship/Social Worker - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH)/ New Brunswick, NJ
Sept. 2000 – May 2001
- — Conducted case management services for patients in: Emergency Department, Neurology, Oncology, &. Renal Care.
- — Conducted discharge planning; providing appropriate referrals/ follow up to patients and families.
- — Conducted clinical intakes and psychosocial assessments.
- — Provided supportive counseling and crisis intervention for patients and families.
Field Work Internship/Social Worker - Roosevelt Care Center / Edison, NJ
Sept. 1999 – May 2000
- — Interacted one-on-one with the residents in a therapeutic manner.
- — Assisted residents as a resource advocate.
- — Participated in multidisciplinary team meetings.
- — Assessed and documented residential issues in process note recordings.
- — Co-facilitated recreational activities for the residents.
Mental Health Specialist - UMDNJ-University of Behavioral Health Care / Piscataway, NJ
Nov. 1998 – Aug. 1999
- — Interacted one-on-one with patients in the adult & adolescent inpatient units in a therapeutic manner.
- — Facilitated group activities for the patients in a milieu setting.
- — Responsible for taking patients’ vital signs.
- — Assessed and documented patients’ behaviors in written chart format.
Service Learning Internships/Teacher’s Assistant - MCEOC Head Start Childcare Services / North Brunswick, NJ
Feb. 1998 – May 1998/Oct. 1998 – Dec. 1998
- — Assisted in teaching children ages three through five in a day care system.
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Affilation, Certification & Skills
Professional Affiliation — National Association of Social Workers, Member since December 2000.
Certification — CPR-Heartsaver First Aid, since June 2010: American Heart Association.
AMSR Leader — Authorized to lead the curriculum of Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR), sponsored by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), since 2016.
Computer Skills — Proficient in MS Word, MS Outlook, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Internet Search.