Christopher Gerou Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Serves as a spokesperson and clearly articulates the benefits of Trauma Informed Care to school staff, parents, and members. • Clearly articulates the benefits of mental health in the tier system of support. • Coordinates activities to increase awareness and reduce stigma around mental health. • Participates in school/district work teams to define/develop policies, procedures, practices, and safety planning for creating a trauma-informed school. • Develops strategies to link school and community resources to increase collaboration resulting in more student and family seeking treatment for mental health services. • Complies with health confidentiality standards I accordance with HIPPA and FERPA.• Participates in school/district work teams to define policies and procedures related to mental health supporters.• Works proactively and collaboratively with principals, school staff, and other administrators regarding providing services. • Provide PDs on trauma/grief-related topics districtwide.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Verify the facts regarding the crisis• Convene emergency Staff Meetings to inform faculty, counselors, and building support staff. Review and distribute Debrief exercises and Information sheets to teachers.• Distribute Community Resources Lists as needed to faculty, students, and families.• Identify students, staff, and/or parents most likely to be affected by the crisis.• Provide Debrief for Crisis Response Team• Provide and implement various grief groups for the stakeholders affected by the crisis.

• Provides individual counseling to adults/students with identified concerns and needs.• Form personal goals and treatment plans for the specific client.• Provide grief /trauma support to about 95% of the caseload. • Average caseload size 50-65• Maintain all documents and notes on the progress of clients.• Successful case closures of 169 for 2021, 90 for 2022

Kenosha,Wi

Private Practice

Racine, Wisconsin, United States

• I have worked with various students on credit recovery options.• Provides individual counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.• Schedule classes, monitor, and evaluate individual progress.• Develop various reports and share the data with multiple stakeholders.• Collaborate with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational and career planning.

Racine, Wisconsin, United States

• Discuss and collaborate on the comprehensive School Counseling program with the school administrator. Develops and maintains a written plan for effective delivery of the school counseling program based on the Wisconsin Comprehensive School Counseling Program Student Standards and current individual school data.• Maintains current and appropriate resources for education stakeholders.• Uses time-provided services through the Guidance Curriculum, Individual Student Planning,Preventive and Responsive Services and additional time in program management, system support, and accountability based on the ASCA Comprehensive Model.• Provides leadership and collaborates with other educators to integrate the School Counseling, and "Student Content Standards" across the curriculum.• Implement developmentally appropriate and prevention-oriented group activities to meet student needs and school goals. Individual Student Planning• Assist all students, individually or in groups, in developing academic, career, and personal/social skills, goals, and plans.• Accurately and appropriately interprets and utilizes student data.• Collaborate with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational and career planning.• Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.• Consults and collaborated effectively with parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, and other educational/community resources regarding students with identified concerns and needs.. Implements an effective referral and follow-up process.• Accurately and appropriately uses assessment procedures for determining and structuring individual and group counseling services. System Support• Use available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program.• Adheres to the school counseling profession's laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards.

State Of Wisconsin

• Service planning face-to-face interviewing, individual counseling, and case management services serving about 150 clients during an average month.• Coordinated disability services with high schools and colleges/universities.• Provided persons with disabilities with comprehensive career assessment, goal setting, career planning, and contracting for needed support services.• Counseling and advising consumers on college preparation/process, FASFA, vocational training, and career exploration.• Maintained contacts with employers, community agencies, and contracted service providers.• Assured timely documentation, monthly reporting, and sending written correspondence.• Maintained requirements for 30-day contact with my clients, IPE development within 90 days, and eligibility completion within 60 days. Having exceeded the 90% standard for the past five years.• I have provided job search/readiness and placement assistance and established employment or training opportunities for clients via employers. Ranked 2nd in the State of Wisconsin among the 163 vocational counsels, having assisted 50 people in obtaining employment in 2014 and exceeding my goal of 23 by making 38 successful placements in 2015.• Requested and authorized payment to service providers.• Conducted consumer satisfaction surveys. (My overall rating is at 97%)• Applied WIOA standards focused on outreach to transitioning high school and college students, focusing on the preparation needed for future careers. Applying DVR resources through my knowledge base and understanding of the WIOA law's expectations to the benefit of my clients.• Working knowledge of converting IEPs to 504 plans.• I have mentored incoming new counselors.• I served on the State-wide Sensibility Team, identifying the best methods to help the sensory disabled.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Marriage And Family Therapy/Counseling

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Thanatology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Sociology

Activities and Societies: Alpha phi Alpha