Desiree Q. Luong Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

We are looking for individuals who have grit and a growth mindset. Have you ever wanted to make a difference in the world? Now is your chance! Children are our future. What happens to them in the early years impacts their development, their place in society, and the advancement in the world. Whether you are looking for an opportunity to enhance your educational interest or professional expertise, Honu Intervention could be the place for you. We offer flexible working hours, competitive salary, mileage and equipment expenses reimbursement, medical insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. We are looking for early interventionists, RBTs, behavior techs, and and developmental specialists. Interested applicants, please contact me directly.

San Francisco Bay Area

Oversight in the development of assessment initiatives; serves as subject matter expert in current developmental assessment practices; coordinates assessments; provides leadership, technical support, and training to therapists; and disseminates findings to external constituents and agencies.

California

Maintain overall strategic and operational responsibility for employees, programs, expansion, and business plans. Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence; rigorous program evaluation; and consistent quality of finance and administration, communications, and systems. Lead, coach, develop, and retain high-performance senior management team.Executive Director (August 2015-February 2016)Responsible for implementing, supervising, and evaluating SARC and Insurance Programs in accordance with the organization’s standards. Provide clinical support to licensed supervisors, program managers, behavioral consultants, and behavioral therapists. Duties include human resource management, program curriculum development and delivery, overseeing mentoring programs, and conducting initial clinical assessments.Director, ABA Program (January 2014-August 2015)

-Bilingual SARC Intake Coordinator: (First Step) Conduct developmental, speech, and occupational assessments and evaluations for the Early Start Program. Make referrals to community resources when necessary.-Bilingual Developmental Specialist: (KidConnections/First5) Collaborate with mental health partners to evaluate at-risk children. Refer children with developmental variations or with mental and behavioral health needs to: Early Start Program, School District services, Mental Health Agency, KidScope, or other referral sources.

Facilitate case coordination for consumers eligible for the Early Start Program. Provide direct service for children with developmental deficits, for young individuals who are diagnosed with neurobehavioral developmental disorders, or who are identified as having sensory and physical impairments. Interface with families and other constituents involved in patient care for planning, delivering, and evaluating interventions that address the developmental needs of the child.

Conduct functional assessments of behaviors using the three-term contingency approach; apply reinforcement-based behavior therapy to foster developmentally appropriate and socially valid behaviors. Manage disruptive behaviors; typical approaches include operant and classical conditioning, chaining, and systematic desensitization. Monitor, measure, and quantify behaviors to design and implement an individualized intervention plan.Types of therapeutic approaches used, include: DTT, EIBI, PRT, VBI, DIR, TEACCH, PECS, sensory processing therapy techniques, speech therapy techniques, and occupational therapy techniques.

Developed, managed, and executed experiential marketing events using comprehensive Asian American marketing solutions. Applied various marketing strategies based on demographics and psychographics of target audience through search optimization, strategic content, PR, Social Media, and Application Development. Hired and managed project managers and brand ambassadors.

Support psychiatric clients diagnosed with affective, behavioral, cognitive, developmental, and perceptual disorders. Assess and report client concerns and progress, and advocate their equality in the community.

Managed service-learning volunteers who provided workshops to the community. Solicited and coordinated workshop requests, and evaluated workshop quality and client satisfaction. Served as a liaison to non-profit representatives in campus-community collaborative projects.

Researched empirical psychological literature on Mutual Help Groups (MHG) using scientific writing that conformed to the American Psychological Association style. Co-authored an extensive literature review chapter on MHG for an encyclopedia for psychology.Klaw, E. & Luong, Q. D. (2008) Self-help groups. In The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, (Vol. 4, pp. 1538-1540). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.

Provided supervision and recreational counseling to 30 behavioral and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. Delivered coordinated program services that included an after school program, individual tutoring, social learning activities, childcare support, and recreational activities.

M.Ed. Curriculum And Instruction: Applied Behavior Analysis

M.S. Behavioral Science, Psychopathology

Thesis: Autism in the Criminal Justice System

Double B.A., Psychology And Behavioral Science

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi, Psychology Club, SAVE, SPARC, and APAPresident of National Honor Society in Psychology and Psychology.