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New York, Ny, Us

Tarrytown, New York, Us

Provides overall supervision to the team and is responsible for the allocation of staff time. Ensures all team members are kept informed of issues involving participants and their families. Monitors caseload size for the team members.Coordinates program outreach, intakes, and discharges. Facilitates weekly team meetings and provides training and supervision for the IPS specialist and peer. Rotating on-call responsibilities with other team members.Models and teaches a person-centered approach, honoring choice, self-determination, and shared decision-making.Serves as the primary clinician for a subset of program participants. Follows the established agency policies and maintains appropriate professional standards.Responsible for adhering to all standards and guidelines established by applicable regulatory authorities. Develop and sustain collaboration with the internal team and external community providers.Establish and maintain a culture that is recovery-oriented and grounded in service excellence. Provide supervision, mentoring, coaching, and performance reviews for direct reports.

Tarrytown, New York, Us

OnTrackNY- an intensive outpatient program for young adults (16-30 y/o) experiencing first episode psychosis. Providing therapy with an emphasis on CBT for psychosis. Conducted clinical diagnostic assessments to screen for eligibility and determine participants level of functioning and identification of needs. Consulted with clients' families, care networks and community agencies to develop effective care plans based on the shared-decision making framework. Spearheaded community outreach efforts and presentations. Co-facilitated weekly social skills group therapy and monthly family peer support group.

Tarrytown, New York, Us

Work with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, psychiatrists, CASAC workers and other specialists to provide thorough assessments, develop individual treatment plans and implement case management for 80+ clients at Community Care Behavioral Health Clinic (BHC) that provides clinical services to 500+ clients with mental health and substance abuse issues. Conduct assessments and screening of new clients; utilize C-SSRS, PHQ9/PHQ9A, NIDA, AUDIT, Fagerstrom, Violence Screen and Safety Planning assessments; prepare initial comprehensive treatment plans and quarterly review plans. Schedule weekly, biweekly and monthly appointments for a caseload of 80+ clients. Utilize the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) to diagnose for Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), substance abuse and other diagnoses. Administer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) modalities in treating clients. Received in-depth training in Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), Collaborative Documentation, Worker Safety, Mandated Reporter, Corporate Compliance, SafeTALK, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST), Incident Reporting, Harm Reduction & Psychotherapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Trauma Informed Care, Veteran’s Cultural Training, Narcan Administration and First Aid techniques.

Washington, Dc, Us

Provided full range of professional social work services on behalf of veterans, their families, and all other clients of the VA Hudson Valley Health Care Center.Conducted clinical interviews with patients to gather necessary information to complete a comprehensive psychosocial history and assessment including information about patients' financial and social support systems, family system, community resources, psychological health and substance abuse history.Developed appropriate treatment plans based on needs assessment of patient and family systems. Used known available resources and psychosocial assessment of patient to make initial and continuing decisions regarding treatment and support to veterans and their families. Utilized VA and community standards of care in treatment planning.Established continuing relationship with the veterans and evaluated progress towards goals with appropriate adjustments to the treatment plans as necessary.Provided clinical services to patients utilizing concepts from motivational interviewing and CBT methodologies.Assisted with benefits, provided counseling, advice, guidance and emotional support. Offered case management services including determination of eligibility, needs assessment, development of a comprehensive care plans, resource identification and referrals to outside agencies, community resources, or other governmental organizations.Actively participated as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team which included attending meetings and engaging in a collaborative decision making process.Participated in the Hudson Valley Rural Geriatric Education Collaborative Program to train social work interns on issues, concerns and interventions for older adults in rural New York State.

Washington, Dc, Us

Provided clinical outreach to homeless veterans and conducted biopsychosocial assessments as part of intake for specialized clinic to serve the needs of the homeless. Consulted with social workers, nurses, primary care physicians and psychiatrists in daily team meetings.Performed individual therapies with five clients in weekly meetings to monitor their mental states and progress towards finding housingFacilitated VA’s goals to provide permanent housing, housing assistance or domicile to homeless veterans with conditions including substance abuse and/or serious mental health issues including schizophrenia, PTSD, and mood disorders.Coordinated with HUDVASH caseworkers to help veterans collect required program documents.Visited weekly Jan Peek homeless shelter in Peekskill, NY with supervisor to consult with social work and administrative staff about veteran client compliance with VA contractual standards of behavior and activity towards finding housing.Communicated with social services agencies on behalf of clients regarding available programs to aid veterans.Responded to veteran outreach via VA National Homelessness Hotline to evaluate clients for homeless services or outside agency resources.

Hove, East Sussex, Gb

Received supervised training in individual and group therapies for adult clients with chronic and acute medical and psychological issues including physical impairments, bipolar disorder schizophrenia and family dysfunctions.Acted as co-leader of weekly moral support group where clients engaged with one another, reminisced and socialized to improve social and cognitive functioning.Creator and co-facilitator of art therapy group to encourage clients with cognitive impairments to reminisce with one another to gain insight into their psychological states and personal concerns.Intervened with highly agitated clients to prevent conflict among day center participants.Interacted with family members to coordinate services around medical compliance and transportation services as well as behavioral challenges.Completed three or more annual and semi-annual interdisciplinary client care plans every month as well as weekly recreational progress reports in compliance with New York State regulations.

Discovery attorney contractor for large New York law firms. Successfully completed numerous long-term document and privilege review projects.

New York, Us

Head recruiter for placement of attorneys in temporary and permanent positions.

Provided legal guidance for multi-million dollar, seed funded developer of electronic security software and hardware.

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