Scott Larson, Cpc, Aac Email & Phone Number

• Participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-departmental team providing on-going case management services to adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses.• Collaborate with DESC’s Scattered Sites Supportive Housing team in the development of client care and housing retention plans.• Provide outreach and engagement services to assigned clients, to initially engage clients and maintain working relationships.• Conduct psychosocial assessments; develop goal planners with consumer participation; facilitate linkages to collaborative resources when appropriate.• Assume primary responsibility for coordinating all aspects of consumers' support and goal planners. This includes: providing and/or coordinating the delivery of psychiatric treatment; substance abuse treatment; 24-hour support services; and performing acute case management to facilitate consumer access to food, clothing, housing, medical care, financial assistance and vocational training or employment.• Advocate for consumers' access to community resources and services, ensuring that consumers' needs are met and rights maintained; consult and collaborate with community providers to ensure continuity of care.• Travel locally to outreach consumers; make home visits and assist with home inspections, annual recertifications, address and report any maintenance related concerns and housing retention barriers.Provide crisis intervention and risk assessment; tolerate unusual or unpleasant behavior. Provide counseling, as qualified.• Fulfill role of protective payee for some consumers on behalf of the agency, creating monthly budgets with consumers, distributing funds, and assisting with purchases.• Establish and maintain professional relationships with landlords and property managers, assisting in building rule enforcement and lease compliance as necessary.• Participate in the planning, organizing and facilitating of unit mitigations for clients on your caseload.

• Provide clinical outreach & Peer services to a peer caseload of up to 30 clients at a time in each region.• Outreach client caseload with Peer team and MHP to shelters, encampments, hospital, streets, and housing.• Communicate with and advocate for the person within their faith, neighborhood or other components of the persons’ community.• Participate in biweekly supervision, daily check-ins, and weekly team meetings• Identify individuals in need, screen for services, develop rapport and trust while offering case management support, and assist with immediate and basic needs to individuals who are homeless/at risk of homelessness, support with connection to long term services.• Work with clients to determine personal recovery goals, shelter, basic needs, connection to providers as desired.•Provide assistance in obtaining and coordinating social services for eligible individuals experiencing homelessness. • Integrate personal experience with mental health concerns and substance use disorders into work with program participants.• Help participants identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination associated with mental health concerns and substance use disorders and develop strategies to reduce self-stigma.• Advocate for clients' access to community resources and services, ensuring that clients' needs are met, and rights maintained; consult and collaborate with community providers to ensure continuity of care, facilitate linkages to collaborative resources when appropriate.• Assist consumers with voicing their interests and goals through a variety of channels including: Goal Plans, Crisis Plans, WRAP, and other methods of expressing individual preferences for their recovery goals• Participate in verbal de-escalation and physical interventions in emergent situations and be willing and able to assist other staff as needed to maintain a safe and secure environment.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing ongoing case management services to adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses and/or chemical dependency issues.• Integrate personal experience with mental illness into work with program participants.• Utilize a recovery-based approach to assist consumers to reach their fullest potential.• Advocate for clients’ access to community resources and services, ensuring that client’ needs are met and rights maintained; consult and collaborate with providers to ensure continuity of care.• Engage clients admitted to the CSC and maintain working relationships through creative resourceful strategies which build trust and confidence.• Assist in creating and implementing discharge plans; develop goal planners with client’s participation; facilitate linkages to collaborative resources when appropriate.• Assume primary responsibility for coordinating all aspects of client’s support and goal planners including providing and/or coordinating the delivery of psychiatric emergent situations.• Maintain safety and security of the CSC by monitoring security cameras, answering telephones, and participating in facility walk-throughs/rounds.• Respond to emergencies and initiate the appropriate response including contacting emergency-response systems as needed.• Document client interactions and other shift occurrences as needed and as directed.• Follow all crisis solutions center procedures as well as DESC ethics policies in maintaining appropriate client-staff interactions.

Kent, Washington, United States

• Participated actively with the Program Director and Site Director in the overall development of Peer Kent Services, including management of the Housing and Employment Services. Provided feedback to support effective system change and improve staff development.• Developed a working knowledge of the FCS program requirements per the Amerigroup Administrator and the Clubhouse/Health Care Authority contract with Peer Kent. • Provided all required contract reports, communication, and promotion.• Provided program management and supervision of Peer Services Specialist team through direct supervision to Peer Services Specialists, including timecards, individual goals, and fostering their continued professional development. Included regular and ongoing individualized supervision and related documentation. • Developed opportunities to promote Peer Kent Services, representing both the FCS program as well as Peer Kent in the community, and make recommendations for streamlining processes and improving employee supports. • Developed and expand service delivery documentation, billing and communication as related to Housing and Employment supports and other Peer Kent Services as necessary.

Renton, Wa

• Co-facilitated weekly WRAP group sessions focused on various issues to help groups and individuals. Document group attendance and participation• Helped peers deal with substance abuse, mental illness, and other concerns by delivering personalized counseling support• Developed and optimized treatment plans to help Peers continue to progress• Educated family members and helped each support Peers by improving coping techniques• Worked with community resources to engage Peers in pro-social activities and help families access services• Explained available housing, domestic violence, employment, education, and substance abuse treatment resources to peers• Build relationships with staff, members, and community stakeholders to provide services that best serve the needs of our clients• Partner closely with other homeless service providing agencies• Collaborated and communicated with care team to ensure optimal results for clients • Able to document client progress toward SMART goals in care plan. Prepare documentation reports for management• Manage personal work schedule according to corporate guidelines to maximize service hours and client care• Entered peer data in a centralized database and maintained up-to-date case records for all peers• Collaborated with partner community agencies to find housing and employment for clients• Respond to client inquiries including general questions about available services and how to access those services and addressing client complaints to ensure their needs are met

Greater Seattle Area

• Led classroom-based driver education classes starting with general driving concepts proceeding to practical specifics• Guided students through the process of obtaining vehicle operator’s license in Washington State, including planning for the road test

Renton, Wa

• Repaired or installed new wiring, boxes, antennas, and other system pieces• Performed thorough tests of electrical systems, parts, and equipment to check compliance with applicable standards and evaluate malfunctions

Sumner, Wa

I installed cable, phone and internet systems for residential customers.

Associate Of Arts Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services, Graduated

* Group presentation to launch a fictional start-up company: Successfully put a business plan together and launched a food truck business.

Education record