Christine Rainwater Email & Phone Number

Bogart, Georgia, United States

• Collaborate with grade level language arts teachers to create, implement, and facilitate engaging lessons in accordance with state curriculum standards.• Utilize classroom management to create a positive learning environment and ensure completion of classwork.• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students, including special education students that qualify in various categories of special education.• Manage a caseload of 8 to 10 special education students, including facilitating IEP and reevaluation meetings, collecting and analyzing academic and behavioral data, and acting as a liaison between students, parents, and classroom teachers. • Serve as a member of the “Teachers as Advisors” committee to educate students on topics including life skills, career development, and academic success. • Participate in professional growth and professional learning activities.

Snellville, Ga

• Develop and prioritize short and long-term instructional objectives based on district AKS curriculum.• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of special education students with high-functioning autism, emotional/behavioral disorders, speech impairments, other health impairments, and other learning disabilities.• Manage a caseload of 10 to 13 students with emotional/behavioral disorders, including managing IEPs, and acting as a liaison between students, parents, and classroom teachers. • Provide behavioral and emotional support to EBD students.• Participate in professional growth and professional learning activities.

• Monitor student behaviors in special education and general education classrooms. • Adapt classroom assignments and activities for students in order to support and reinforce IEP objectives and BIPs.• Provide behavioral and emotional support to EBD students.• Support teacher by completing record keeping functions, such as weekly data collection, maintain student files, attendance, and assisting with instruction.• Administer K-TEA testing to special education students who are due for their reevaluations of special education eligibility.

Monroe, Georgia

• Conduct behavioral health assessments, service plan developments, and determine diagnosis and therapy goals.• Manage caseload of 15 to 20 clients, ages 13 to 55, diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illnesses.• Develop treatment plans collaboratively with clients using S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-limited) goals and objectives.• Manage paperwork including weekly therapy notes, intake and discharge reports using electronic health records.• Use concurrent and collaborative documentation when completing all clinical notes.• Utilize interpersonal process psychotherapy to improve mental health concerns and develop therapeutic rapport.• Facilitate group counseling weekly teaching 7 to 10 clients coping skills for depression and anxiety and processing significant events in clients’ lives. • Conduct crisis intervention, use the Columbia Suicide Risk Assessment (C-SSRS) to evaluate for self-harm, develop safety plans and refer for inpatient hospitalization as needed.• Determine clients’ level of care and award benefit plans based on behavioral health assessment, diagnosis, and LOCUS or CAFAS score.• Participate in weekly individual and group supervision to support case conceptualization and therapeutic intervention. • Received training in evidence based practice of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP).

Snellville, Georgia

• Answer phones, make appointments, complete daily reminder calls to patients regarding upcoming appointments, and verify insurance.• Compile medical records as requested by patients, other medical offices, the Social Security Administration, attorneys, and insurance companies.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Professional Counseling: Community Counseling

Activities and Societies: Community Counseling Student Association

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology

Core Curriculum