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Provide clinical supervision, consultation, and individual diagnostic interview services to mental health organizations and practitioners in the state of NebraskaSupervises:BSW Candidates MSW CandidatesPLMHPPCMSWLMHP/LCSW

Monitor attendance of high school aged students, while working on individual attendance plans with students and families.Strengthen the home-school relationship to increase school attendance and performance. Connect families and students to vital community and school resources to help reduce barriers for students to come to school on time, everyday, ready to learn. Screen high school aged students for suicidal ideation and risky behaviors that impact school attendance and performance.Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure each student has individual needs met at home and school.Sponsor LGBT club to provide LGBT students with a safe, supportive space within their school environment.

Utilize evidence-based, Multisystemic Therapy analytical process to assess and treat antisocial behaviors in adolescents at high risk of out-of-home placement. Implement clinical skills to empower parents and caregivers to increase parenting skills, informal supports, and communication with important systems impacting the family unit.Engage family, juvenile probation, school system, managed care providers, attorneys, and other key stakeholders in problem solving and advocating for juveniles to remain in community. Participate in program evaluation tools to ensure efficacy of services provided.

Provided individual psychotherapy to adjudicated adolescent females in a secure facility.Assessed trauma history, mental health, and substance use of youth, and establish treatment goals accordingly.Collaborated on a multidisciplinary team to establish program goals and assess progress and barriers in treatment. Facilitated regularly scheduled clinical treatment groups for 4-6 youth.Identified and protect suicidal and self-harming youth by developing and implementing safety plans with team members.

Created SPSS shell, data analysis, and data interpretations for national homelessness prevention organization.

Conducted academic and developmental assessments on young children for federally funded 'Learning Frontiers Pre-K to Grade 3' research project.Engaged with parents of young children to complete parent surveys assessing academic and developmental outcomes at home and school.Entered assessment data into data collection systems.

Engaged in weekly home visits with at-risk families to empower parents in teaching early learning skills to their young children.Prepared and facilitated monthly parent-child interaction groups geared toward teaching parents child development skills.Utilized assessments to analyze children’s developmental needs, level of positive parent-child interactions, and families’ available resources.Connected families to community resources, of which partnerships were established, in order to help meet the families’ immediate needs.

Provided ongoing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and crisis management interventions to school-aged children. Composed empirical research article, including analysis of existing survey data, regarding parental choice of childcare in Nebraska.

Built trusting relationships with families in order to determine needs; connected the families with resources based on needs assessments.Collaborated with families and health professionals to ensure children are maintaining physical and dental treatments.Maintained open communication with Head Start teacher and Family Support Supervisor to ensure appropriate distribution of services.

Coordinated and supervised parenting time between clients and children of whom are currently in the foster care system.Provided support to clients by supplying transportation, parenting guidance, and communication of client needs to other case workers.Recorded all interaction with clients, children, foster parents, and other case workers.Established trusting relationships with clients by upholding honest and consistent communication.

Developed positive relationships with Human Service professionals throughout the Omaha community.Coordinated bi-monthly social emotional development trainings; including arranging training topics, locations, trainers, and creating fliers.Corresponded information regarding Child Development and Mental Health with other Human Service professionals.

Created and executed age appropriate lesson plans for older infants while maintaining their daily needs.Collected documentation of children's individual developmental progress.Established positive communication with parents by directing parent-teacher conferences and daily exchanges.

Collaborated with team to develop appropriate learning experiences based on individual needs of low-income preschoolers.Documented progress of each child in every area of development using observations and assessments.Built positive relationships with families by facilitating parent-teacher conferences, family nights, and parent volunteer opportunities.