Patrick Riegert Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

From June 2015-September 2016, I worked as a case worker for an Active Community Treatment team (ACT), where I worked with young adults who were undergoing severe mental illness. I would meet with each of my 20 clients approximately 2-3 times per week to connect them to services in the DC area, encourage them to take charge of their mental health and would provide emotional support as well. This job required excellent organizational, writing, and verbal skills in order to ensure that documentation/billing was done in an orderly fashion as well being able to advocate for clients who could not advocate for themselves.I was promoted in September 2016 to work as a Transition Specialist for the "Our Time: Healthy Transitions program". This program is designed to connect young adults who are experiencing mild mental health illness and to connect them to necessary services, such as employment programs, housing assistance and access to mental health agencies in D.C. This program was built from scratch where I was responsible for establishing partnerships with service providers in the D.C. community in order to build a case load and to then work with clients to connect them to the services they asked for.

In Atlanta I was responsible for tracking equipment at our warehouse. I was also trained in staging drills in case of any disaster was sent our way. I also assisted multiple regions with preparedness and updated the National Volunteer Organization Agency Directory.In New Jersey, at the Sandy Recovery Office I worked with the External Affairs team and compiled reports and promoted Sandy recovery efforts to the public and private sectors. I also primarily worked with the Disability Integration Department on writing the New Jersey Accessible Housing Guide, which helped people with disabilities and seniors find programs to help finance their needs to get into their homes, particularly if their home had been elevated.In Washington DC at FEMA Headquarters I took notes during several meetings and provided actions that my point of contacts needed to accomplish once the meeting was finished. I also edited the Recovery Support Function Leadership Group (RSFLG) Annual Report for 2014.Finally I was also my team's Media Representative, so I was responsible for using various types of media to get the word out about the type of work we were doing in the office and for the volunteer work we did throughout the local communities. I was responsible for getting our team 2 interviews with separate newspapers and a radio interview as well.

I worked with and supervised you children and adolescents and consistently promoted the use of healthy coping skills to deal with stress in day to day life. I also worked with nurses and social workers on developing treatment plans for patients and provided doctors with daily updates on how their patients were behaving throughout the day.