Scott Bloom, Lcsw-R Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Bronx, New York, United States

New York, New York

Responsible for overseeing a portfolio of $30 million dollars in mental health programs and services for New York City public schools. Facilitated the expansion of Thrive NYC in schools by increasing access to mental health services, promote consultation, treatment, and support to NYC children and families across the Department of Education school system. Manage day-to-day operations of school mental health program; Lead 5 Program Directors who oversee a total program workforce of 130 staff. Conduct performance reviews and evaluations. • Oversee the implementation of the School Mental Health Consultant Program serving 900 schools to promote, assess, and link services to school communities and their youth.• Designed and implemented mental health interventions for the 130 Community Schools and 49 High Needs Schools in order to assess school’s needs, map gaps in services, and implement mental health interventions in a 3-tiered model of Universal, Selective, and Target interventions.• Oversee the 100 Schools Project creating greater access to mental health interventions, reducing stigma of mental illness, provide consultations to identify, approach, and refer students who are suffering from psychological stress. • Promoted the creation of Screening the At Risk Student - designed for Nurses to identify and refer students with suicide ideation and depression.• Co-created and support the School Response Team serving 29 schools that offer linkages to supportive resources, consultation and rapid crisis response. • Work with key DOE staff to integrate school mental health service programs . Establish priorities for new programs. Recommend ways to improve linkage across systems and propose all overall cost effective school mental health plans. Serve as point person for mental health initiatives and participant in key city and statewide initiatives. Identify the gaps in the existing programs and models and make recommendations of ways to address the gaps.

New York, United States

Teach Human Behavior in the Social Environment I & II in the graduate program at New York University School of Social Work.

SCHOOL BASED CLINICS Overall coordination and administration of Mental Health Program's policies, procedures, and budgets for five middle and three elementary school-based mental health clinics; four school-linked clinics. Analyze statistics and ensures contract compliance with OMH, DOE, DOH. Coordination of integration of school programs and multi-disciplinary health related programs. Expedites medical and CHP billing for mental health services. Supervise and evaluate 18 employees and their performance to ensure a high quality of service delivery. Hold monthly program meetings to introduce new procedures and to discuss challenges pertaining to mental health component in schools. Lead monthly clinical in-service and training. Collaborate with senior staff in development and implementation of staff training and curriculum plans. Serve as liaison between the school administration, the community, and the community's school's division. Networking and outreach with external organizations, including city and state agencies, community groups and national organizations for delivery and implementation of mental health treatment in schools. Implement quality assurance mechanisms and collate outcome measurements. Provide mental health presentations and program solutions to CAS Community School Technical Assistance Center and their respective clients.

Created sibling program and coordinated services for siblings of children with disabilities. Ran parent groups emphasizing parent skills and effective parent*child communication. Ran and implement presentations to parents, professionals and agencies. Supervised social work interns; social work staff for individual psychotherapy. Wrote articles for Family Links professional newsletter. Provided psychotherapy treatment for children and adolescents.

Provided psychotherapy services, short and long*term treatment, for adolescents in a school based clinic. Administered crisis interventions, family and play therapy. Conducted groups in specialized issues such as children of substance abusers, sex education, anger management, adolescent development, pregnancy prevention, and communication skills. Supervised social work interns. Provided family counseling at Young Adult Clinic for male and female teens.

Msw, Clinical Social Work

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Theatre; Honors

Certificate In Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy