Jamal Nelson Email & Phone Number

• Analyze account details such as client comments and assessments to enhance understanding of effectiveness and client needs.• Assist families in overcoming obstacles by utilizing and building upon their strengths and vision.• Update client information in database.• Manage between 18-20 client accounts.• Assess, design, implement, and manage youth guided and family driven, Individual Service Plans (ISP) for children and adolescents whose needs are complex and require intensive care management techniques.• Ensure effective referrals and linkages with appropriate services and resources.• Communicate and coordinate with physical health providers.• Maintain on-going contact with the children and families, as well as document visits and meetings in a timely, clear, and concise manner.• Facilitate Child and Family Team meetings to develop and manage the ISP.• Actively participate in regularly scheduled staff meetings, supervision, and in-service training programs to enhance professional performance and development.

• Provided linkage and referrals to clients with mental illness to community services to decrease hospitalization and increase overall better quality of life.• Provided outreach to clients to assess compliance on medication and counseling on daily living skills.• Advocated on behalf of clients with internal and external service systems.• Provided continuous evaluation of clients' progress against service plan, including development of new service goals.• Facilitated groups to increase knowledge and provide support to mentally ill clients.• Documented all treatment services and other applicable interaction/interventions with the clients.

Hackensack, Nj

• Provided quality daily care and supervision of assigned clients.• Consulted with clients when developing long term treatment plan goals and objectives.• Prepared and maintained confidentiality of all required clients' treatment records.• Documented daily client observations, issues, and incidents.• Counseled clients to help them understand and overcome personal, social, and behavioral problems while providing strategies for coping with their problems.• Counseled clients individually and in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making positive changes.• Encouraged clients to express their feelings and discuss what was happening in their lives and helped them to develop insight into themselves and their relationships.• Prepared clients for their future ahead of them once discharged from the facility.• Documented daily client observations, behaviors, issues, and incidents within 15-minute intervals.• Provided daily group counseling sessions, life skills instruction, individual therapy, art therapy, and adjunctive therapeutic activities.• Certified in CPI and Handle with Care.

Mountainside, Nj

• Assisted children with overcoming behavioral challenges.• Assisted parents with developing ways to manage their children's anger and aggression.• Documented clients' progress weekly.

• Implemented lesson plans, assigned homework, and maintained classroom control and discipline.• Worked one-on-one with students with severe emotional and behavioral disorders.• Assisted parents on developing ways to monitor their children's progress at home.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology And Criminal Justice

Activities and Societies: Sociology Club, Educations Club

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