A skilled Social Worker with over 10 years of experience in counseling, assessment, crisis intervention, behavior management, youth education, agency partnership, and community outreach for individuals with mental illness, at-risk youth and families from diverse ethno-cultural, socio-economic and racial backgrounds.Employment duties, utilized skills and accomplishments include (beginning with earliest employment): 1. being primary worker for foster care children, their foster family and their biological family. 2. thorough investigation of complaints of physical abuse and neglect, conducting forensic interviews, devising treatment plans for reunification and reporting to the Court with thorough written documentation regarding each case and recommendations made. 3. Providing individual therapy with children who have mental and behavioral disorders requiring them to attend a Level-5 residential treatment center. coordinating services in the children's home community in successful discharge planning, active member of multi-disciplinary team, and regular crisis intervention services. 4. Being promoted from intake counselor to Director of Admissions, conduct thorough psycho-social and needs assessments focusing on the strengths based model, develop detailed treatment plans for success.