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•Provide online counseling services to adults 18 years and older with various mental health and emotional wellness needs, specializing in the modalities of CBT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, grief support, person center support and brief solution focused therapy.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

•Provide psychosocial care management and counseling services to patients receiving in-center and home dialysis treatment, utilizing various evidence based strategies to promote improving quality of life. •Conduct team approached education with our patients, assisting them to achieve a greater understanding and independence with their disease management needs. •Collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team to help foster our patients’ positive adjustment to treatment, improving treatment outcomes, and enhancing the functional status for each patient. •Partner with several community care services and resources to streamline effective patient care management needs to further enhance health and independence. •Oversee and implement the social work department’s quality improvement programs, initiatives and team education projects.•Collaboration with our financial coordinators to ensure patients maintain adequate insurance coverage and assist with establishing grants, funding and assistance programs to meet their financial and medical needs.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

•Provided patients and families counseling and case management support to ensure their physical, economic, social and emotional care needs were optimized. •Assessed patient and family dynamics, their capacity to cope with health situations and provided specific and targeted counseling services. •Coordinated with several community resource agencies to provide optimal level of physical and emotional health functioning, thus effectively streamlining patient care.•Provided patients, families and referral sources compassionate education and information about the benefits of home care and hospice services.•Assisted with the initial hospice admission paperwork to help streamline patient care.

Wyoming, Mi

•Independently managed the 80 bed facilities social work department, providing psychosocial support and care management to all residents to ensure that they could attain the highest practicable level of physical, mental and psychosocial well-being. •Developed and coordinated our rehabilitation patients discharge plan to the community and/or appropriate setting by linking them with the necessary services to meet their long-term care management needs. •Managed residents overall mental and behavioral health needs through the monitoring of behavioral tracking logs, coordinating psychiatrist services to monitor and manage each resident’s psychotropic medications, along with ensuring that contracted mental health services were effectively meeting the mental health needs of each resident requiring this level of support. •Acted as the main resource to the Admissions Director, completing all required admission paperwork with newly admitted residents during the Directors’ absence.

Master Of Social Work

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Work

Bachelor Of Social Work