Barbara Westermann Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Indianapolis, In

Indianapolis, In

Fallon, Nv

Churchill County School District provides for the educational needs of 2,200 students in grades Pre K – 12, employing approximately 350 employees. The district operates a high school, junior high, four elementary schools and an early learning center. Provide crisis intervention and short term, solution focused counseling in individual or small group settings. Conduct consultations with teachers and parents regarding academic difficulties, behavior problems, and adjustment issues. Responsible for training students and teachers in character education, violence and bullying prevention, and positive peer relations. School site test coordinator responsible for managing the data, materials, schedule and training of teachers in test security for the state proficiency testing. • Established, trained and facilitated “high performing” Instructional Consultation Team resulting in an increase in teacher confidence, improved teaching practices, and ultimately, a reduction in students identified as learning disabled.• Selected as one of four out of sixty qualified educators by the State of Nevada to provide Instructional Consultation training and support to new schools in northern Nevada.• Developed and led a community coalition which succeeded in supporting training and adoption of CHARACTER COUNTS© in all schools.• Chaired District Violence Prevention committee which re-wrote violence prevention policy.

Fallon, Nv

New Frontier Treatment Center is a not-for-profit community based organization established and incorporated in 1971 to provide substance abuse treatment services to individuals and their families.Program Director, Youth and Family Services March 1994 – August 1996Provided all aspects of case management for adolescent substance abuse day treatment program including initial assessment, intake and orientation, individual and group counseling, treatment planning, referral to outside resources and after-care. Interviewed, evaluated and wrote substance abuse assessments for all youth referred to agency. Liaison between schools, parents, teachers, law enforcement programs, courts, social service agencies and other referral sources. Supervised counselor interns, oversaw school component, and participated on agency management team.• Increased program utilization from an average of 6 part-time to 12 full-day participants.• Piloted the use of correspondence courses for migrant education, which substantially reduced the cost of home bound instruction and increased the rate of credits earned.• Opened adolescent treatment services in two remote location clinics where adolescent services were previously unavailable.Juvenile Specialist, Adolescent Day Treatment March, 1990 – December, 1991Supervised students attending Adolescent Day Treatment Program. Responsible for intake, orientation, individual and group counseling. Coordinated school work with teachers from student’s home school and supported home bound teacher in education component. • Partnered with Juvenile Probation to develop summer school program which provided physical education credit for credit deficient high school students.

Honolulu, Hi

As Hawaii’s oldest and most comprehensive private, nonprofit human services provider, Child and Family Service employs approximately 450 individuals who work in a variety of programs on Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Lanai, Molokai and the Big Island.Therapist/Social Worker, Ho’Omalule Group Home ProgramResponsible for providing professional counseling and case management services to adolescents in a therapeutic group home setting including individual, group and family counseling, intake/screening, coordinating client collateral services, treatment planning, and case records.

Master Of Arts Degree, Counseling And Educational Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Sociology, Social Service Option

Theology, Sociology

Associate Of Arts, Theology