Providing Individual, Child and Family Therapy. Also providing one on one habilitation (psychiatric mentoring) services for children through the CA-PRTF (Community Alternatives to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities) grant. Provding parent training and support through the CA-PRTF grant. Providing crisis intervention services for patients on my case load as needed.

Provides Emergency Therapy to help adults and/or children in mental distress as well as children that are runaways or whose parents are refusing to take them back home. Services provided to adults in hospital emergency rooms or jail cells while children are seen in the hospital, schools, juvenile detention or in their homes. Completes mental health assessments to help determine if psychiatric hospitalization is necessary. If necessary, completes intakes and assessments with local psychiatric hospitals to secure voluntary and involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations.

Individual and Group Therapy with patients that have severe mental illness. Also provided intensive case management services for the same type of patients. Provided crisis intervention services for the Case Team (ACT) on a weekly rotation basis.

Study Coordinator for clinical research studies involving patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, depression or anxiety.

Direct supervisor for eight Assertive Community Treatment team staff serving 130 mentally ill homeless clientsResponsible for evaluating and reporting the program’s documentation timeliness and billable time to the program administratorDeveloped measure to track staff member's weekly and monthly billing productivity, which was used to improve monthly billing for the team by 15% for the last six monthsMember of the Clinical Review, Hospitalization Task Force, Safety, Housing and Incarceration committeesMember of the SHARI Project (Special Help for At Risk Individuals) which was designed to reduce unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations by Medicaid patients24 hour back-up for the emergency crisis line

Lead case manager/mental health rehabilitation specialist for up to 20 clients that were in the top 100 users of psychiatric hospitalization services in San Diego County.Vocational services to appropriate clients, which included job referrals, preparation and coachingDeveloped tracking system with the psychiatrist to improve lab test compliance for the entire team’s case loadCoordination and collaboration with agencies such as the Conservator’s office, Public Defender’s office, Child Protective Services, Probation Office and County Mental HealthProvided 24 hour on-call crisis line services for the team on a rotation basis