Coordinates with Stroger Hospital Psych Inpatient and Thresholds Stroger ER Crisis Team to identify individuals to provide with community-based crisis stabilization services.Provides initial outreach to member at Stroger ER, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, or in the community.Develops relationships with inpatient psychiatric hospitals to facilitate crisis stabilization services and discharge planning for assigned members.Assesses member’s personal, medical, social, emotional, and environmental situation to plan for transition from the hospital, linkage and treatment course.Provides community support, engagement activities, transition linkage, case management and other services as need to support members in addressing needs aimed at achieving stability.Provides brief therapeutic interventions as clinically indicated.Advocates and assists members with securing short‐term or emergency housing, which includes, but is not limited to obtaining identity documents, obtaining proof of benefits or income, searching for housing, completing housing application and paperwork.Transports members to appointments as needed to support recovery.Collaborates with the entire Assertive Community Linkage Team on engagement strategies, safety planning, clinical consultation, and problem solving to support member’s needs and linkage to necessary supports.Intervenes with collateral sources, agencies, bureaucracies, facilities, and families on the members’ behalf. Advocates and assists with problem solving/resolution that will help the member access and utilize support from the community.Identifies and investigates available resources in the community.Assists in the application process for public benefits and entitlements such as Medicaid and Social SecurityPerforms peer and clinical roles as needed on the following other teams: Mobile Crisis Response, The Living Room Program, Homeless Outreach West, Homeless Outreach CTA

Provided psychodynamic psychotherapy to individual clientsParticipated in consultation and fellowship groupsMet with supervisor on a weekly basis

Clinical interviewing, assessment, case conceptualization, and treatment planning with the client to determine needs and priorities.Help clients stabilize by helping meet immediate social service needs, with a focus on building empathic rapport, engaging in psychoeducation, and utilizing brief clinical interventions to help clients progress inneed areas.Provide 16-weeks of therapy sessions to clients who have experienced intentional interpersonal trauma in the past three yearsFacilitates weekly Men's Support Group

Works collaboratively in a dyad to provide mobile crisis response including de‐escalation, assessment, safety planning, and referral to community members experiencing a crisis.Responds to Thresholds crisis line and assesses caller to determine needs and level of intervention necessary. Utilizes private phone line, does not coordinate with law enforcement. Provides linkage to resources within the crisis continuum.Utilizes person‐centered, recovery‐oriented care that is rooted in evidence‐based practices aimed at assessing crisis and determining appropriate safety planning.Develops resources within the agency and/or community.Fosters relationships with other community providers.Participates in the assessment of members to determine the need for service. Identifies and investigates available resources, explains options available to the patient and assists in the application process.Advocates and assists with problem solving/resolution that will help the member access and utilize support from the community.Uses their personal recovery experiences to facilitate and support the recovery of others. Through their experience, they will help individuals navigate the mental health system, encourage participation, and reinforce person‐centered treatment.Helps the member identify their options and participate in all decisions related to establishing and achieving stability.Assists the member to develop problem‐solving skills so they can respond to challenges to their recovery.

Provide crisis intervention as neededMaintain safety of the residenceProvide linkage to emergency mental health and medical care

Provide direct service to members through outreach (60% of workday spent out of the office providingdirect service) including case management, counseling, advocacy, linkage and referral, crisis interventionand collaboration with providers.Facilitated weekly Men’s Therapy Group, Gardening Group, and Wellness Recovery Action Plan Group

Conducts Client Assessments and presents client crises to the Financial Assistance Committee in order todistribute emergency financial assistanceProvides client referral and linkage to external and internal service providersParticipates in a Social Action Committee along with community members and other service providers,presented on transitional housing models in Chicago in order to help direct the development of a newtransitional housing program

Provides Life Skill development services, mental health intakes, strength-based assessments, andsupportive services to refugees, asylum seekers, and survivors of torture and human trafficking who havebeen referred to the Early Employment programWorks collaboratively with staff from all areas of the organization in developing resources oriented to the needs of each participant: housing, job training, employment, mental health support, languageacquisitions.Co-facilitated men’s trauma recovery group

Assisted program participants in job readiness trainingActed as liaison between employers, legal team, and clientsAssisted with health and employment intakes

Worked as liaison between Duke University hospice and lawmakers developing legislation related to end of life careProvided direct service to patients receiving palliative careManaged resource allocation and public outreach efforts within local community regarding issues faced by women in hospice or palliative care

Restorative Justice Training, homelessness prevention outreach and policy development, displaced youthassistance, 19th Ward Ceasefire Initiative

Community health outreach with homeless populations, organized health care events