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• Develop assessments and the design of treatment plans to assist children aged 0-18, and families in foster care. • Provide immediate, short-term interventions until linkages are made with other appropriate services during a crisis. • Trained by NY State to provide skill building, family care giver supports, respite care, and education to caretaker and children around mental health issues and parenting skills. • Shares observations and concerns regarding families living conditions with interdisciplinary team and helped to identify changing services; while providing advocacy, socialization, education, and support to families.• Collaborated and participated in staff and parent meetings, addressing issues including family relations, mental health treatment, and community support services. • Maintained children health and disabilities records in accordance with Medicaid, and ACS policies and procedures.

• Completes psychosocial assessments, develops treatment and discharge plans for all referred patients.• Provides individual, family, group counseling, and crisis intervention to enhance coping skills as needed. • Demonstrated knowledge in providing comprehensive clinical case management services for complex discharge plans, and referrals to acute, sub-acute rehabilitation, long term care, hospice care, dialysis, and community based services. • Recognizes, evaluates and develops interventions to address signs of abuse, neglect and domestic violence for all ages then takes the appropriate actions including reporting incidents to the proper authorities. • Participates in daily discharge rounds, program development, performance improvement, special projects and provides consultation to other departments and staff.• Documents all patient activity in Medical Information Technology Inc. (MEDITECH), completes all discharges online in Edischarge.

• Responsibilities included supervising a staff of 20, conducting individual supervisory meetings with Assistant Program Directors, and Program Coordinators. • Facilitate weekly team meetings to discuss discharge planning and barriers to obtaining permanent housing. • Maintain open communication with service providers; monitor 4 departments at the residence: Case management, housing, recreation and childcare. • Comply with the mandates of DHS, complete weekly and monthly statistical reports, and ensure that clients are moved into safe affordable permanent housing. • Prepare monthly reports to Department of Homeless Services on occupancy rates and progress towards permanent housing.• Conducted Conferences, unit visits while fostering the belief in residents that residents and their families can obtain and maintain permanent housing.

• Collaborated with the NYC Dept. of Education to design a transfer school for overage and under credited youth ages 16 – 21 • Provide direct supervision to advisors, attendance monitors, internship specialist, and college exploration specialist. • Coordinated and facilitated information sessions, and open houses for parents, youth, and community members to provide the purpose and mission of the school.• Conducted interviews with applicants and parent in order to select 150 students to start the school year 2008-2009 school year. • Supervised and affectively trained staff to develop academic schedules for students that would lead to credit recovery and graduation. • Effectively increased student and parent involvement in the education processes and planning beyond high school. • Represent the school and its student body at community board meetings and conferences with services providers, Dept. of Education, and donors,• Facilitate team meetings with CBO staff as well as DOE staff; monitor the administrative tasks such as case assignment, submission of statistical data, and the recruitment and retention of staff• Assessed reading ability of students through informal and formal reading sessions.• Participated in instructions by developing and implementing lesson plans• Collaborated on a team based approach with classroom teachers, and principal to ensure learning goals were met.

• Supervising a staff of 20, monitor contractual demands, and guidelines for service under Administration for Children Services guidelines, policy and procedures. • Facilitate high risk conferences for families at risk of placement, and parenting skills classes (Parenting Journey).• Held sessions regularly with staff to assess their awareness and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the children and families that the program served, and staff meetings, and trainings.• Conduct individual supervisory meetings with Assistant Program Directors, and Program Coordinators.• Attended conferences with ACS, plan and execute recreational and educational events to support contractual agreement with contract agency. • Monitor program budget of 2.5 million dollars with the assistance of agency fiscal officers. • Monitor the administrative tasks such as case assignment, submission of statistical data, and the recruitment and retention of staff.