Justin Rucker Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, United States

• Creating comprehensive care plans and coordinating care for clients to be connected to a wide variety of services. • Support team members in outreach, marketing, and programming efforts to decrease stigma of seeking support and increase utilization of basic needs services and financial well-being.• Meeting regularly with client’s tri-monthly to update status concerning substance use and client care plan. Meeting weekly with clients to address immediate needs pertaining to housing, transportation, and mental / physical health. • Provide one-on-one case management to approximately 22 community members who need support navigating a path towards recovery as well as connecting clients to housing.• Implement inventory tracking of basic needs and harm reduction items.• Practice Strengths-Based de-escalation techniques utilizing evidence-based practice in mental health, social work, and psychology research.• Provide case management via telephonic, email and face to face interactions.

San Diego, California, United States

• Represented MCRT as an alternative to law enforcement response that provided stabilization in the community, connect people to community resources and treatment services, and avoid a trip to the hospital or jail.• Engaged with community members, assess their circumstances, and resolve their presenting concerns by making referrals to community resources.• Experience responding to diverse cultures and groups of people including, foster youth, unhoused, housing insecure, socioeconomically disadvantaged, young families, and single parents in acute crisis. • Engaged in short term limited case management, identifying resources needed in the moment and connecting clients to those resources as soon as possible.

Master'S Degree, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Currently enrolled, graduate studies Marriage and Family Therapy

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

BA in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Mental Health

General Education, 3.0

High School Diploma, General Education, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Peer Mediator, Choir, & Principals Honor Role