Bailey Hicks, Lcsw Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Research and build documentation on accessibility standards. Communicate and collaborate effectively as part of a global team. Use frameworks, templates, and checklists for course design and maintenance. Demonstrate competency with HTML, third-party tools, and a range of learning management systems (LMS). Help to ensure courses meet accessibility requirements and create alternative learning experiences for online components that are not accessible. Shadow senior members of ID team to co-design new courses. Build prepared content in a learning management system (LMS).

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Work extensively with children, adolescents, and adult survivors of sexual violence and their significant others. Provide clients with broad-based individual, couples, and family counseling services. Assist in clients’ on-going case management services to ensure a holistic approach to healing.Develop individualized service plans for each client based on their individual needs and therapeutic goals. Deliver assistance for clients and advocates in discerning how state and local policies impact direct service work. Assess and provide trauma therapy and crisis intervention to sexual violence survivors and non-offending significant others. Input and maintain data to ensure comprehensive, accurate record keeping in order to meet multiple funding sources requirements.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked with unaccompanied minors in a residential facility, ensuring adaptive functioning in this new environment. Administered trauma-informed, strengths-based, and culturally competent clinical services to children from 15+ countries. Supplied clients with short-term therapy, case management, and crisis intervention to ensure all participants’’ needs were met. Advocated for cases and maintained communication with multiple governmental agencies.Worked extensively with the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Office of Trafficking in Persons in the provision of services. Hosted weekly psychoeducational support groups for participants discussing separation from families and home environment in order to process trauma and develop social connections. Monitored positive and adaptive functioning of participants in clinical and milieu environments to help participants build needed social and coping skills.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Performed intake assessments of women and families escaping domestic and sexual violence. Co-facilitated bi-monthly supportive and psychoeducational groups centered around trauma processing. Co-facilitated skills groups for shelter children focused on communication, safety-planning, and hygiene.

Greater Chicago Area

Provide both milieu and clinical support in a residential facility for Unaccompanied Minors (UAC) coming into the United States and waiting to be reunited with their sponsors. Facilitated communications skills groups to enable participants to develop and enhance conflict resolution abilities. Provided mental health support for young participants with difficulties adjusting to classroom environments.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Created an inclusive community for all residents in a residence hall of 650+ students. Developed and implemented education, social, and intercultural awareness programs. Served as the primary responder for an on-call duty rotation. Co-chaired hall clubs about environmental awareness, queer identities, and body positivity.Advising experience:Q - Allen Hall/Unit One's LGBTQ student support groupPlaneteers - Allen Hall/Unit One's environmental sustainability education clubAllen Hall/Unit One's body peace and positive body image clubParaprofessional Balance Committee - advising on a healthy balance among the RA position, academics, and personal time

Researched new grant opportunities to help fund some of the ongoing programs, such as the Children's Birthday Project, Senior Citizen Project, and Feed the Kids, all in an effort to help alleviate the negative effects of poverty in DuPage and Kane Counties. Created Letters of Intent and grant proposals.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked in the School and Youth Department. Performed administrative duties, such as mailing letters and maintaining Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and also created a survey for schools to fill out after they completed one of the fundraising programs. Assisted in research and creation of a plan to expand fundraising efforts into colleges and universities in Illinois.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Helped teachers with their lessons to the students, assisted in the care of and oversight of students during transition times in between lessons, administered tests to prospective Sylvan students on a one-on-one basis, and performed administrative duties, such as answering phones and scheduling meetings.

Master Of Social Work (M.S.W.), Social Work

Mental Health Concentration

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Pi National Co-Ed Honor FraternityEnglish major and Business minior