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- Provide direct clinical counseling to students. Caseload of 50 - 60 regular student appointments in addition to occasional student visits and crisis intervention.- Consult with, coach, and support their faculty, administration, families, and outside providers.- Design annual social and emotional goals with students who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and present these for consideration at Committee on Special Education (CSE) meetings.- Participate in weekly peer and individual supervision.- Assess and appropriately respond to clinical crisis situations, including team collaboration in the formation of a treatment plan, communication with families, outside providers, and law enforcement, as needed.- Maintain documentation of plans, progress, and attendance.- Facilitate student counseling groups with content from the RULER program - an evidence-based approach for integrating social and emotional learning into schools, developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence - the Safer, Smarter Schools curriculum and other materials.- Train faculty, staff, first responders and other community members in Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) to aid in the early detection of mental health crises in the student population.- Develop new groups including PEAK performance to address stress and anxiety within high performing student groups using skills and strategies.- Create and deliver parent education programs on supporting their children with a variety of typical adolescent and young adult issues from school transitions to social dilemmas to academic challenges to conduct / alcohol and other drug use.- Faculty Fellow - PRIDE Fellowship - two-year cross-district group working for change in the diversity and equity climate.- Faculty Advisor - Class of 2023, Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Group.

Balance Seekers provides therapeutic and personal growth / coaching / mindfulness support. From teenagers to corporate executives to small business owners, empty nesters to stay-at-home parents, career changers to caregivers, our individual sessions, groups and retreat workshops support you as you transform and create your future.

Complete overhaul of mentor training curriculum and program for the Restorative Communities Collaborative (RCC) serving populations including: survivors of domestic violence, veterans, homeless individuals and returning citizens (previously incarcerated).- Coordinate, design and deliver training to over 100 mentors across programs.- Support and coach program leaders in delivering the RCC core curriculum with goals of reducing trauma and increasing coping as participants return to their functional selves.

ANDRUS provides mental health counseling services to a broad range of children and adults in a community setting. In conjunction with a multi-disciplinary team, I address the needs of these clients through direct therapy, collateral counseling with parents and family members, and consulting with teachers, principals, school psychologists/social workers, community partners and physicians. Provide clinical, trauma-informed counseling for children, adolescents, adults and families in the mental health division of this multi-service non-profit. - Conduct initial bio-psycho-social assessments, perform classroom observations, and establish treatment plans with clients.- Coordinate and lead team meetings with school and community-based providers.- Trained in Sanctuary and Wrap-Around Service Models.

Mobile social work services for at-risk caregivers referred for child abuse and neglect throughout Westchester County including: o Initial bio-psycho-social assessments and client treatment plans.o Providing in home visitation for 1-3 hours each week for seven to 12 clients.o Participating in client “team” meetings with the various providers involved in the case.Client and service-level advocacy across the Westchester County Mental Health Network.Awareness-building and fundraising event planning and execution – galas, walk-a-thon and golf / tennis outing.

Process design and re-engineering related to organizational development and technology implementation. Assess existing operations, design and recommend changes, manage resources and technology required to implement.Technology product management and marketing strategy and implementation. Clients include internet & technology start-ups, universities, government agencies and small businesses.Newark Public SchoolsNew York City Department of EducationColumbia UniversityNew York City - 311Vantage PropertiesFull Circle Family Care

Concept originator, program designer, marketer and fundraiser for this child-to-child teaching organization. The program was created to offer children the hands-on learning of helping others and was specifically targeted the Hurricane Katrina-affected schools in Louisiana. It successfully served families in the Bronx and Westchester County, NY for three years. Resources provided have allowed the program to extend to shelters, schools and food banks across the U.S.

Expertise in staffing positions that emphasized superior analytic talent and the use of advanced quantitative / modeling techniques and technology in business decision making. I translated skills into real business roles.

Business Development Strategy and Technology Consultant

Established and directed product marketing and management processes.

Expanded the value-added research and consulting group within I/PRO.Designed and authored advanced research papers on the "big data" trends for the nascent Internet advertising giants.

Marketing research and brand management consulting for Fortune 500 consumer products companies including: P&G, Heinz, Oral-B, Warner Lambert.Business development and client engagement to the COO and CMO levelLed a team of analysts in managing current business while pursuing new.