Maria Uribe-Pizana, Lcsw Email & Phone Number

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Houston, Texas, United States

- Conduct comprehensive assessment to interpret patients social, emotional, environmental and financial needs.- Plans course of treatment through individual and/or group counseling.- Develop patient goals, monitor progress, address barriers to goal achievement and evaluate outcomes of individualized care plans. - Refers cases to appropriate professionals, institutions or agencies to ensure patients receive appropriate treatment or referral. - - Participate in teaching and staff development activities, functions as an instructor in the social work graduate student clinical practicum program.- Provide education to physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers on community resources and the impact of psychosocial factors.- Utilize crisis intervention, conflict resolution, and mediation to address patient/family concerns.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Direct and manage district-wide mentoring and social work programs.• Write and acquire grants, negotiate and sustain contracts and oversee large budgets for district programming.• Collaborate with Spring Branch Education Foundation to track and communicate grant issuance status to facilitate strategic decision-making for future funding allocations.• Manage over 500 volunteer mentors tasked with supporting student social, emotional and academic growth.• Lead and support a team of over 50 school-based staff responsible for social service delivery, integrated student supports and family engagement.• Develop and deliver training content for school-based staff, volunteers and district partners around mental health, behavior management, culturally responsive practices, family engagement and other topics.• Serve as district liaison to foster and build partnerships with community service agencies.• Establish and fortify corporate business partnerships to increase program impact through donations and volunteer recruitment.• Enhance mentor programming by increasing recruitment, creating trainings, managing campus coordinators, and generating program evaluations.• Collaborate with community engagement team to support district-wide programming, events, and customer service conferences.• Partner with the communications team to create communication plans for district-wide events, national mentoring month, marketing materials and developing campaigns for recruitment.• Coordinate district donations and orchestrate distribution to campuses for students and families.• Establish measurable goals for all programming and optimize data reports for stakeholders and donors resulting in program preservation and increased partner donations.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Provide at-risk students with individual supportive counseling and facilitate support groups • Collaborate with school staff and administrators to implement Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) process aimed at providing support to students facing academic and behavioral challenges.• Develop and evaluate master-level interns and volunteers, manage budgets, and oversee campus caseload and compliance goals as set by campus contract and grantors.• Create and deliver trainings for school staff, volunteers, parents and community around mental health, behavior management, culturally responsive practices and family engagement best practices.• Generated comprehensive reports for program evaluation and provided updates to grantors on effectiveness of programs and services.• Coordinate and implement programs such as, mentoring, tutoring, family engagement, refugee support programs, and charitable programs.• Provide professional consultation during crisis situations for social workers at schools.• Link students via referrals to local social service agencies to meet basic needs .• Attend professional trainings to keep up to date with current research on mental health issues to maintain social work license.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Managed social services and foster care for caseload of 20 unaccompanied refugee minors.• Conducted psychosocial assessments and created service plans for each client.• Maintained compliance with Federal Laws and ORR regulations• Built relationships with community service agencies and schools to better serve the needs of clients.

Brownsville, Texas, United States

• Conducted forensic interviews with child victims of abuse and witnesses to crimes.• Supervised forensic interview staff and trained on best practices for interviewing techniques.• Partnered with law enforcement officials, prosecutors, therapists and child protective service workers through all phases of the criminal case.• Knowledgeable of investigative procedures and the Texas Family Code and Texas Penal Code.• Collaborated in grant reporting, grant writing, fundraising activities, and organization of gala events.

Master'S Degree, Social Work

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology