Direct and oversee all PMHP training activities including overall strategic planning for clinical and organizational training delivery (825 live hours in FY 2022), content selection/development, and data/evaluation; hire and supervise training staff; cross-functional management of operations and marketing teams; manage relationships with external training partners, DMH leadership, and community stakeholders. Design, develop, and launch asynchronous e-learning pathways and paired coaching/communities. SME on Recovery-oriented Care, Harm Reduction, Motivational Interviewing. (UCLA-LA County Department of Mental Health (DMH) Public Mental Health Partnership (PMHP) is an intermediary purveyor organization that supports intensive mental health and homeless services systems transformation county-wide through research-informed training, capacity building, and technical assistance activities.)

First Implementation team member during start-up. Activities include design/selection of conceptual frameworks and assessment tools for implementation, assessment of organizational change, implementation readiness, and needs across providers, facilitating stakeholder groups and learning communities, and clinical training strategy, delivery, and content development.Training content developed and delivered (in-person and remotely) include: Harm Reduction, Trauma-informed Care, Recovery-oriented Care, Provider Wellbeing, Transitioning into and Sustaining Housing, Systems-oriented Care, Motivational Interviewing• Additional projects include: - planning/facilitating in vivo learning experiences between NYC and LAC community mental health workers - planning/facilitating a LAC peer specialist workforce development stakeholder visioning work group - development of a taxonomy of supportive housing types/services for LAC, drawing from NYC's infrastructure

Responsible for health/mental health care coordination program start-up, implementation, and oversight, including: establishing operations, policies, and standards for care and QA; team build-out, training, and clinical supervision; budget planning and growth modeling, health information technology integration, developing marketing and community engagement strategies. - Managed operating budget averaging 800k annually, with average of 32% net revenue for FYs 2017 and 2018 - Increased team size from 2 to 9 staff and doubled client enrollment in first full fiscal year of operationPresented at NYS Care Management Conference in 2017 and 2018 on using harm reduction-based and trauma-informed clinical approaches to impact healthcare cost reduction in the era of value-based payment.Collaboratively wrote proposals for 2 new agency programs that were approved and funded.

Manager to team of service coordinators providing supportive services to consumers living in 84 units of mental health scattered-site transitional housing program operating under housing first model.Duties include providing clinical supervision, training within program and throughout agency, facilitating conflict mediation and crisis intervention as needed, revising program protocols and policies, QA and reporting oversight.

Counseling to individuals with history of homelessness and/or mental health concerns engaging in risky behaviors utilizing a harm reduction model, motivational interviewing, and behavioral therapy in individual and group contexts.Consultant within agency for the development, implementation, and training of best harm reduction practices; member of agency’s Harm Reduction Committee.

Social work field instructor for 2013/2014 and 2016/2017 academic years.

Grant writing, creating program evaluation and data tracking tools, program development, and conducting outreach for peer-driven cooperative model non-profit that aims to support youth and young adult transient homeless population in New York City’s East Village. Program operates from harm reduction perspective, with specific goals of reducing transmission of HIV/AIDs and Hepatitis C in high risk-drug use and offering health care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, animal care, food, and housing/shelter resources and linkages in a mutual aid context.

Administrative manager and liaison between the program’s academic director, residents and fellows, Graduate Medical Education office, and other medical centers and departments. Coordination of resident/fellow recruitment and selection process and evaluations, coordinating accreditation activities including site visits and reviews, assisting the program director and faculty in planning, developing, and implementing quality improvement projects.

Clinical interventionist and research coordinator on study investigating early treatments for traumatically injured adults and adolescents targeting post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, substance use, and high risk behaviors. Interventionist duties include utilizing targeted engagement strategies with a diverse population to administer psychotherapeutic interventions from risk reduction and behavioral perspectives, care management, medication management, and mental health assessments, while also maintaining interdisciplinary collaboration within hospital and community. Research coordination duties include leading weekly clinical case and data review meetings, data management, training and supervising research assistants, and adhering to and revising research protocols as needed.

Clinical interventionist on study investigating family-based behavioral treatment of obesity in 7-11 year old children.

Conducting mental health assessments, treatment planning, and individual and group psychotherapy with female veterans with history of military sexual trauma, combat trauma, and/or substance abuse issues.

Study investigating alcohol's effects on young women's appraisal of HIV risk, condom negotiation, and sexual decision making. Managing participant recruitment, training and supervising research assistants, coding open-ended data, maintaining lab journal article archive, conducting experimental alcohol administration sessions, computerized data collection, and debriefing interviews.

Duties include conducting psychosocial assessments, communicating with medical staff about treatment plans, treatment referrals, attending to patient’s family involvement, discharge planning, strengths-based, goal-setting, and brief supportive/crisis counseling, designing and facilitating group work, and creating a policy for and managing the mental health inpatient intake cell phone.

Program serves as a furniture bank for survivors of domestic violence and their children. Managing referrals from social service agencies and conducting client visits, recruiting and coordinating volunteers, administrative duties such as billing, report writing, and managing program statistics, and planning and conducting delivery and pick-up of furniture within the community.

Training and leading student research teams and assisting in collecting, entering, verifying, and analyzing data for community alcohol intervention research in naturalistic settings and assisting in project planning (methodology and financing) and data management for various health behavior research projects. Presented research at the following conferences: Maryland Association for Behavior Analysis and Virginia Psychological Association; co-author of presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis.