Payal Patel Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

• Manage a caseload of 6 on the adolescent unit and 10 on the adult unit, patients with substance use disorder and co-occurring disorder. • Complete biopsychosocial assessments and assess for mental and substance use disorders. • Develop comprehensive treatment plans specific to each patient and conduct reviews.• Provide clinical recommendations and progress notes for insurance reviews. • Complete weekly individual and family sessions on both the adult and adolescent unit and couples sessions on the adult unit. • Provide case management and discharge planning support including recommendations for step-down and aftercare.• Facilitate group sessions on ACT skills, SUD education, relapse prevention skills, and healthy relationships. • Facilitate daily process groups with caseload. • Utilize crisis intervention and de-escalation skills to prevent unplanned discharges..• Conduct suicide assessments and re-screens and refer to higher level of care in cases of high suicide risk.• Participate in weekly multidisciplinary treatment team meetings presenting case conceptualization and progress reports for each patient on caseload. • Document all sessions, contact notes, interventions, and consents in an EMR.

Houston, Texas

Provide effective team leadership through team building and conflict management.Ensure full compliance to hotel operating controls, policies, procedures and servicestandards.Manage on-going profitability of the hotel, ensuring revenue and guest satisfactiontargets are met and exceededHelping in the procurement of operating supplies and equipment, and contracting withthird-party vendors for essential services.Handling complaints and overseeing the service recovery procedures.

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Conducted danger assessments for survivors fleeing intimate partner violence. Presented research on vulnerability in the workplace. Collaborated with the Coalition for the Homeless on housing assessments for survivors. Distributed emergency COVID-19 funding to survivors.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Program coordinator for a global partnership with Hilton Worldwide focused on developing work force development and youth employability programming. This includes development of hospitality life skills training, providing strategic input to position the company as a thought leader in the youth development space and research assistance for the development of the Global Youth Wellbeing Index.

Baltimore, Maryland, Usa

As a consultant at IYF I worked on multiple programs including:- Event planning for IYF’s Global Partners Meeting- Data analysis for 7 innovation grants funded by USAID under the Obra Project- Coding over 200 field research documents, for a USAID funded YouthMap project in Uganda - On the job training for KeySurvey and Atlas.ti, both qualitative data analysis software

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Conducted gender assessments of the UN joint programs resulting in greater gender mainstreaming. Performed research and policy analysis to identify gaps on national violence against women initiatives leading to the establishing of a Government committee on eliminating violence against women. Developed sub-contracts, terms of references, work plans and trained staff in writing proposals and reports.Coordinated an advocacy campaign on gender-based violence resulting in the collection of over 1000 signatures of commitment for the UN UNiTE campaign and increased national awareness.

Held weekly tutor sessions with students resulting in improvements in English and writing.Marked and evaluated papers written by students in the writing class.; Gender Working Group August- May 2008Planned and coordinated campus wide events highlighting international violence against women crimes.Implemented advocacy campaign for 'Congo in Our Minds' resulting in greater awareness of the issue.

Developed ongoing solar power trainings for rural Indian and African women leading to empowering the women and their communities.Co-developed integrated English curriculum for night school programs attended primarily by rural girls.Researched and provided computer expertise for funding presentations and communications materials resulting in greater awareness of the organization and increased funding. Conducted a needs assessment of the NGO staff and made recommendations for improving the managing of the NGO and creating better communication and a more positive environment for the staff.

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Clinical/Medical Social Work, 4.0

Master Of Arts, Sustainable International Development

Activities and Societies: Member of Gender Working GroupSustainable International Development May 2010 Coursework focused on programming.

Ba, Spanish Literature

Activities and Societies: Paideia Scholar President of Indian Students Association Student Representative on the Diversity Committee.

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