Alexandra Horton, Lsw Email & Phone Number

• Mental health team member of criminal defense teams
• Visit regularly with both in and out of custody clients
• Conduct client and witness interviews in a way that is strengths-based and trauma-informed to gather a deeper understanding of the client's social history and past traumas for the purpose of mitigation
• Write biopsychosocial history reports, identifying any trauma, mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and substance abuse issues
• Conduct research related to the client's life experiences, including topics such as adoption and foster care, brain development, abuse, domestic violence, TBI, mental illness, substance abuse, homelessness, and PTSD
• Review legal, medical, psychological, educational, and institutional records to gain a holistic view of the client

Main Street School

• Main Street School is a tier 3, K-12 school that provides services to students with behavioral challenges and emotional disabilities who need a structured and therapeutic educational setting.
• Maintained a caseload of elementary, middle, and high school students, meeting 1:1 with students for mental health counseling
• Trained staff in restorative justice practices and facilitate restorative circles/conversations among students and staff
• Co-facilitated a weekly Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills group for high school students utilizing DBT Skills in Schools curriculum
• Provided crisis intervention throughout the day, including suicide risk reviews and verbal de-escalation
• Collaborated with team members to develop and implement BIPs

Main Street School

• Supported middle school students throughout the school day, utilizing trauma-informed techniques, restorative practices, and PBIS
• Provided and implemented BIPs and crisis intervention plans
• Collected data through direct observation for creating and updating BIPs, and monitored and provided feedback to the students' support team on behavior progress

Golden, Colorado, United States

• Trained new volunteer classes on the effects of trauma, giving them interventions they can use with the children they will be working with
• Maintained a caseload of 20-30 volunteers/cases and assisted, supported, and directed volunteers so that they advocate for abused and neglected children to the best of their ability
• Matched and assigned CASA volunteers to dependency and neglect cases and monitored their progress through the duration of the case
• Reviewed and edited volunteers' written court reports and attended all court hearings
• Managed all interns, which included providing assistance, supervision, and helping interns identify and reach their internship goals

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• School for elementary-aged children with learning differences that provides an intentional classroom environment for students with emotional and cognitive struggles.
• Worked 1:1 with children while implementing Equipping Minds Cognitive Developmental Curriculum, which is a a research based, scientifically tested cognitive program designed to strengthen working memory, processing.
• Completed TBRI® and Trauma-Informed Classroom training
• Support teacher for students on a 1st grade level

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Actively engaged in refugee resettlement process by completing case management tasks, such as home visits, assessments, airport pickups, and attending medical appointments
• Designed and conducted qualitative research resulting in a 40-page Internal Program Evaluation; included interviews with 12 different staff members for 1 hour each, followed by data analysis, connection to literature.
• Participated in a task group that created a holistic and strengths-based intake form

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• School for elementary-aged children with learning differences that provides an intentional classroom environment for students with emotional and cognitive struggles.
• Led therapeutic, social emotional learning (SEL) groups by orchestrating sensory and therapeutic exercises and leading discussions on emotions, self-regulation, and coping skills, all while utilizing TBRI® and Zones of.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Matched mentors and mentees, including heavy involvement in matching 50+ football players with at-risk youth boys by interviewing, completing required paperwork, and maintaining case files
• Created and facilitated activities with mentors and mentees
• Evaluated mentorship effectiveness through relationship building, in-person surveys, and phone calls

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Worked with staff to facilitate and lead after school program activities for refugee youth
• Conducted independent home visits to families whose children were enrolled in the after school program
• Assisted in establishing an additional after school program for newly arrived refugee youth by recruiting and leading group activities

Master'S Degree, Social Work, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; Recipient of inaugural scholarship funding internship with a refugee.

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Member of Sigma Nu Tau Entrepreneurship Honor Society; Event Planner for International Justice Mission Belmont.