• Provides individual and group counseling sessions to address interpersonal or family issues that interfere with school performance, including crisis intervention consultation and/or family therapy as needed.• Maintains all required paperwork including but not limited to communication logs and meticulous notes regarding all services provided to students. • Conducts interviews with students, family members, and school personnel to gather information required to assess student social, emotional, and behavioral adjustment to school and the community. Determines appropriate individual and group topics based on above interviews. • Maintains regular contact with students’ parent/guardians to inform of student’s progress, areas or difficulties, and any changes or situations in home life that may affect school performance. • Collaborates with education and social services professionals (for example: wrap-around, probation officers, court systems) to develop appropriate agency services for students and their families. • Refers students and families to other community agencies and resources as appropriate.

• Performed operational duties related to counseling and advising clients in need of services at a County mental health, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse program facility. • Consulted with assigned staff regarding clinical procedures.• Initiated case follow-up.• Referred patients to community agencies.• Provided individual and group counseling.• Referred clients to other community agencies and resources as appropriate. • Prepared and maintains various reports and records. • Attended official meetings and functions as required.

• Assessed the level of risk to children by conducting face to face interviews with the alleged child victims and their caretakers; collaborates with law enforcement when children are physically removed from caretakers when the child is found by the courts to be at risk in the home; testifies in court as to the level of risk to children placed in the agency’s legal custody, and/or, • Served as the case manager for children in foster care; ensures that the children are placed in permanent stable families within as short a time frame as possible; visits foster homes; supervises visits between children and parents; testifies regarding the status of the agency and/or parent’s progress towards the court approved placement. • Was available for on-call scheduling. • Engaged in required state-wide travel. • Performed other professional responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

• Conducted and co lead group sessions every week at South Metro at Flat Shoals High School.• Demonstrated written and oral communication skills by submitting an agency profile.• Conducted individual session. • Reviewed student records and Individual Educational Plan (IEP) and become familiar with student diagnoses, social history, and psychological or psychiatric information.