Ali Jost, Licsw Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Rooting Resilience is a collective of licensed mental health professionals with more than 10 years of experience delivering culturally competent mental health, trauma, resilience and workforce wellness training to human service organizations.

The best way to change the world starts with getting very clear about who you are, what you want, and what you are willing to do to get yourself there. Through a coaching relationship, I work one-on-one with clients to help them pinpoint their passions, combat their fears, overcome the barriers keeping them stuck, and develop a plan to move forward in.

Ali Jost leads Bread for the City's Behavioral Health Integration program, which provides patient-centered and trauma-informed behavioral health assessments and interventions to more than 600 medical patients annually. Ali manages clinical operations for behavioral health and care coordination, including program design and review of outcomes, supervision.

Provided psychodynamic individual therapy and co-led CBT-based group therapy at the Johns Hopkins Adult Outpatient Community Psychiatry Program. Held a caseload of over 25 individual therapy clients in the adult outpatient program and co-led a 10-12 person daily skills-based healing and mindfulness group in the intensive outpatient program. Conducted.

Provided bilingual (English & Spanish) individual and group therapy and case management support to adult victims of labor and sex trafficking. Built powerful therapeutic relationships to help clients heal from extreme trauma; employed relational theory and coaching techniques (inspired by CBT) to help clients build trust, interpersonal skills, and set.

Washington, DC, US

Immigration Campaign Director for the largest union of immigrants in North America. Oversaw local and federal immigration policy, national field response, communications, immigrant electoral programs, and member education. Led a team of ten full time staff; managed a $2.5 million annual budget; and provided leadership and direction to more than 50 local.

Washington, DC, US

I convince reporters to write about how bad U.S. laws hurt good, hardworking Americans and immigrants. Sometimes, I pitch them hopeful stories about how-- through organizing and using the power of the vote--groups of people in the U.S. are changing laws to improve their lives.I also write a lot--press releases, op-eds, blogs, talking points, presentations.

Supported a broad range of nonprofit and advocacy organizations on internal and external communications. Developed websites, strategic media plans, directed day-to-day press operations, and led media outreach efforts for a national conference.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Managed operations for public relations department of the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S. Tasks included daily communication with English and Spanish-language media, overseeing staff assignments, writing press releases, drafting talking points, and assisting in writing speeches, Op-eds, and grants.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Responsible for scheduling, and preparing President for conferences, speaking events, and day-to-day meetings with major corporate, advocacy, and political leaders.

Msw, Clinical Social Work

Ba, Anthropology & Political Science