Develops individualized plans for participants based on assessment, and coordinates any additional services needed, revising as necessary.Works directly with program participants to provide therapy and help them develop healthy coping mechanisms.Conducts individual, group or family sessions as appropriate with participants, focusing on "meeting people where they're at" within the context of harm reduction through integrating evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches.Cultivates and maintains working relationships with outside agencies, i.e. behavioral health organizations, government agencies, healthcare providers, courts and prisons, schools, churches and other community organizations to create and/or strengthen MHP services.Conducts street outreach with the goal of developing meaningful and trusting relationships with participants experiencing homelessness or economic insecurity with behavioral health needs.Engages participants in various settings to assess the social, medical, and emotional health of an individual to determine needs and presenting concerns; develop a planful approach to addressing those needs.Provides crisis intervention and de-escalation to participants as necessary.

Perform individual clinical therapy in partial hospitalization programConduct family therapy with clients and parents, with a focus on healing ruptures in the family systemCreate and run process groups weekly as well as groups that focused on relapse prevention and recovery skillsTrained in and practicing Attachment Based Family Therapy Develop client’s relational skills in high acuity settingContracted with clients to write and update treatment plans with focus on personalizing goals and objectivesWork with interdisciplinary treatment team weekly in case review and conceptualization Provide each client with a biopsychosocial Assess client’s for suicidal ideation routinely and aid in the creation and maintenance of safety plansSupport clients and families through the process of stepping down to intensive outpatient carePartner with outpatient providers and referents in continuing to inform client’s ongoing support systemEngage with schools to in client’s developing a transition plan for support in the academic environment upon leaving PHP.

Clinical Therapist at the Brooklyn Community Program working with client survivors of harm from all over Brooklyn. Primary Responsibilities included:Providing free and ongoing clinical therapy to a wide range of clients from all over the borough of Brooklyn; Building Safety Plans for all clients with special emphasis on clients still living in precarious situations with family and chosen partners; Writing letters of advocacy to NYCHA for clients in need of safety transfers; Working with legal representation to assist clients in seeking custody, orders of protection, and other recompense; Supporting clients through the VISA application process in therapy and by writing thorough letters for consideration; Processing outcomes with clients in ongoing weekly session; Referring clients to continuing mental health programs such as art therapy, rehabilitation, psychiatrists, and case management services; Additional Initiatives: Working with community partners to help build further referral networks; Created trainings around domestic violence for college programs; Co- creating a training manual for volunteer advocates in hospitals working with sexual assault survivors; Studying grief as a means of working with clients who have experienced traumatic loss.

Consulting Social Worker for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Contracted at the Nicholas Scoppetta Children’s Center through Safe Horizon, working with sex trafficked, exploited, and ‘in the life’ young people ages 12-23.Primary responsibilities included: Conducting risk assessments; safety planning around street homelessness, survival sex, and sex work, while helping to guide clients through pre-placement with ACS; training ACS providers and staff in harm reduction strategies in small trainings and OCFS statewide conference; creating and leading groups with clients regarding safer sex, motherhood, and rights in healthcare; consulting with interdisciplinary teams during building-wide rounds. Additional initiatives: Advocacy within child welfare system; referring youth to organizations outside of ACS and collaborating on intersite programming; client career development; assisting with development of the network of providers in a citywide tattoo removal program for youth in foster care; consulted in developing building safety protocols for youth.

Social Work InternPracticed clinical engagement while servicing clients’ concrete and everyday needs, and supported staff in planning and executing events. Responsibilities included: Co-leading parenting groups; escorting clients to appointments with HRA, HASA, and other social services; packaging and distributing needle exchange materials.

Interfaced with Fort Greene community around the changes occurring at the Auburn Family Shelter.Responsibilities included: Engaging with shelter residents about the conditions of the facility; advocating for individual shelter residents struggling from a lack of services; attending meetings with DHS officials and city council members; organizing a community tabling event with several organisations around the neighborhood.

• Assist clients with legal questions, housing, shelter placements, and safety planning• Answer hotline and refer callers to resources in and outside the organisation• Escort clients to court dates and interface with lawyers• Plan and run heatlh and wellness workshop for clients• Work with Family Justice Center on interorganisational civil­legal referrals

• Interviewed and interfaced with directors of community organizations• Develop and write online content for soon to launch BKA Blog• Write Newsletter• Assisted Director of Marketing with annual gala

• Designed and implemented lesson plans for pre­kindergarten 3 and 4 year olds• Co­taught cooking classes• Supervised field trips in and around New York City

• Assisted registering new members of the community• Organized pantry and ran check out• Interned in garden, learning the art of urban gardening

• Worked with individual recording artists to develop online presence• Managed New York office• Performed all administrative tasks from arranging travel to hiring and overseeing interns• Coordinated promotions and publicity for national and international tours• Managed front­page Web content, as well as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube• Created and lead release­based viral marketing campaigns• Project managed funk band Chin­Chin release interfacing with artist, label, publicist and distributor• Wrote press releases and bios for artists and albums• Planned and hosted album release and after­show parties• Recruited and managed the Definitive Jux international street promotions team, aged 17+