Stephanie Balog, Lcsw Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

• Integrated clinical skills and Senior Health Insurance Program training into telephonic work with older adults, caregivers, and professionals to address presenting concerns, complete needs assessment, and connect with resources to meet social, financial, and healthcare needs.• Served as team-lead for Information and Assistance team, facilitating monthly training meetings, scheduling of coverage, and training of all new team members and interns. • Developed agency programs, protocols, and deliverables addressing crisis intervention, internship opportunities, data management/input, and various grant-specific needs.• Worked in tandem with community program administrators to reduce barriers to service among the clients we serve -- primarily older adults and people with disabilities.

Greater Chicago Area

• Answered calls and emails from older adults, their family members, caregivers, and professionals and connected callers to appropriate resources in their communities throughout all Suburban Cook County or completed referrals for in-house programs.• Ensured that all client data was handled appropriately, respecting the confidentiality of callers, and entered into client database timely and in a manner congruent with Social Work values. • Created weekly topical briefs sent to all agency staff regarding clinical, cultural, and current policy issues.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed a caseload of 115+ socially isolated older adults by providing by-weekly activities or coordinating social visits by volunteers or program assistants. This required knowing individual social needs, mobility limitations, preferences, and personalities of all program participants. • Planned and executed multiple large-scale events a year including overseeing budget, transportation for older adult attendees, theme, menu, entertainment, enrichment activities, and on-site management.• Supervised program assistants as they provided services for the individuals on my caseload as well as facilitated volunteer interactions with individuals on my caseload. • Served as staff liaison of the Lloyd Walding Brain Fitness Center: an on-site lab equipped with computers and other games and exercises to help older adults engage with technology, continue their learning, and participate in activities informed by evidence-based practice to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Social Work

Activities and Societies: TIF Access Project- student task force

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Social Work

Activities and Societies: Cultural Engagment Team- Student Leadership; Visual Arts Guild BSW earned Spring '10, minor in Sociology