Roberta Vena Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked within a primary care office as a part of an integrative team providing evidence based short and long-term interventions and/or therapies to individuals, families and groups contingent upon the need of the patients I am serving. The patients' needs can varied from strictly behavioral health to behaviors affecting medical conditions, to treatment for substance use disorder with Suboxone or other medication assistant treatment alternatives, responsible for completion of initial and follow up assessments, diagnoses, providing interventions to assist w the overall care of the client, medication recommendations if needed, and also provided referrals to assist clients in connecting to the appropriate levels of care to address their needs

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Supervised six social workers and 3 educators, who provided services to the 48 bed Child and Adolescent Units, LCSW supervision of staff and students as needed, managed the operating budget, implementation and development of the programming, case assignments, coordination of practice with Community Behavioral Health, as well as providing direct clinical care as needed through case management, initial and on-going assessments, individual and family therapies, utilization reviews with insurance companies, and aftercare and referrals.In my final year at Belmont, I led the team in implementing HIV testing for adolescents 13 years of age and older as recommended by the CDC, restructured the billing process for the education department allowing Belmont to collect on several years of backed payments, and established several committees to ensure evidence based practices were being utilized fully in the programming and treatment of patients.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Provided social work services to include initial assessments of new clients, individual, group and family therapy and interventions, utilization reviews with all insurances private and public, participation in daily team meetings and consultations regarding client care, and referrals to appropriate levels of care to include residential, continued inpatient, and all outpatient levels of care.