Norma Lopez Email & Phone Number

Longfellow Middle School

Sylvia Mendez Elementary And John Muir Elementary

Provide direct mental health services including consultation, mental health evaluations, treatment coordination, and individual/group therapy to students and families at two Berkeley Unified Elementary Schools.Serve as a member of the school team to provide behavioral health support and identify and develop prevention and intervention programs.Provide students with crisis counseling and intervention.

Longfellow Middle School And Rosa Parks Elementary

Riverview Middle School

Berkeley, Ca

Berkeley, Ca

Provided psychosocial assessments, diagnoses, and treatment of mental health disorders to transitional age youth and adults.Provided crisis intervention and worked with public mental health crisis response team if necessary.Collaborated with clinical social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and rehabilitation counselors and families to develop individualized treatment plans and achieve client goals.Provided education support and consultation to client’s families and support systems.

Moraga, Ca

Responsible for prevention and intervention programs for at-risk students.Implemented and managed numerous student support programs that served students in academic distress.Co-managed the Summer Bridge Program and First Year Program. Programs included study skills, time management and leadership workshops; a peer mentoring program serving low-income, first generation college students; other academic support programs for students in academic distress. Provided academic, personal and career counseling to first generation to college students.Planned and organized bilingual and bicultural programing for students and staff, including annual events such as the Latino Student Welcome Dinner, an orientation program for Spanish speaking parents of first generation to college students, and the Latino Graduate Celebration.Collected and analyzed student data to improve retention effortsManaged program budgets for Latino student programs.

Detroit, Mi

Provided first generation to college students with personal, academic and career counseling. Developed a curriculum and taught an academic success seminar that provided students with an orientation to the university, academic self-assessment, career exploration, leadership skills, and a four year academic plan leading towards graduation.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Children, Youth And Families

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Humanities/Humanistic Studies

Pupil Personnel Services Credential, Social Welfare