Vanessa Garcia, Msw, Lcsw Email & Phone Number

Covina, California, United States

Oversight of administrative duties, monitor program compliance, Medi-Cal billing/documentation, approve mental health assessments, provide clinical training, counseling, and guidance to non-clinical staff to assist with mental health/behavioral concerns and behavioral support to ensure quality service delivery.

Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States

Provides clinical expertise, clinical leadership, and clinical oversight in various ways within the Enhanced Care Management program and Behavioral Health Care Management departments at IEHP. In addition to working collaboratively with the designated health care organization (HCO) medical team and community partners, direct treatment includes crisis prevention/early intervention, safety planning, brief therapeutic intervention, psychoeducation, counseling, comprehensive case management, intensive care coordination services for at-risk children and their families to help improve their mental, emotional, behavioral and social determinants of health.

A trauma-focused professional who provides rehabilitative and socialization services to children, families, and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses and/or to those with co-occurring substance abuse/use disorders to maintain the best possible functional level of the patient. Treatment includes intake assessments, diagnostic evaluation, care plans, clinical consultation, medication management, and providing Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) audits. Direct treatment services to inpatients/outpatients, implemented crisis intervention, social/emotional coping skills, individual, family, and psychotherapeutic group treatment.

A trauma-informed professional that provided clinic-based mental health services to "at-risk" children, youth, and families to strengthen their functioning domains and improve their physical and emotional well-being. Through various positions, I have provided a broad range of strengths-based and outcome-oriented services such as advocacy, intensive care coordination, case management, skill-building, behavior modification, therapeutic behavioral services (TBS), individual, group, and family therapy.

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Clinical/Medical Social Work, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Love Thy Neighbor, and NASW member.

Bachelor'S Of Criminal Justice, 3.8