Dwayne Britton Email & Phone Number

Staten Island New York

Facilitated counseling groups with mandated students. Conducted individual counseling sessions with at risk and mandated students.Worked on interdisciplinary teams within the school, focusing on truancy prevention and academic achievement.

•Guided parents through an intake process to assess what services are needed in the form of mental health, medical, judicial, behavioral and other societal support systems.• Regularly conferenced with Department of Probation staff to increase desired client outcome. •Assisting parents in navigating systems within the department of education, juvenile justice systems andchild welfare.•Constructed a resource guide of community resources used agency wide•Conducting outreach with neighborhood service providers, to be able to provide information about viable neighborhood based resources.•Taught intervention skills for parents to use with their family.•Provided a culturally sensitive, non-judgmental support system to the family to help increase family involve- ment and serve as liaisons with professionals to decrease unintentional bias towards parents.

Staten Island

•Aided disaster survivors in understanding their current situations and reactions, reviewing their options, and linking them with other individuals and agencies for additional assistance.•Provided support and educational services to help survivors cope with their levels of recovery and event reactions.• Co-facilitated children recovery groups in school and after school settings. Focusing on event reactions and positive coping skills.• Co-facilitated a parent support group.

United States

•Supervised sixteen to eighteen head and assistant counselors.•Oversaw and organized a division of one hundred and fifty counselors who worked directly with eight to ten year old children.•Created and established daily program activities.•Taught vital skills to staff during training and in the field.•Registered all teen program attendees and conveyed center rules. •Regularly communicated with parents and documented incidents.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Clinical Social Work

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Social Work, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Honor Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars

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