School Social Worker - Broward County Public Schools - Fort Lauderdale, FL
(2023-01)
Assist staff at the schools to help students and families when they encounter barriers that impact a child's academic, emotional, and social development.
- Advocate on behalf of the students and families to help students achieve academic and social-emotional success by linking home, school and community
- Provide mental health counseling, crisis support, and intervention, addressing issues of non-attendance and truancy, psychosocial evaluations, and consultation
- Manage several district-wide programs that directly impact and support the academic achievement and high school graduation of the students
- Connect students with helpful resources and conducting home visits to provide additional support
- Developing and providing crisis intervention strategies to improve student success
Career Coach - Handy Inc. - Fort Lauderdale, FL
(2021-08 - 2022-11)
- Assist youth with obtaining job skills and work experience through internship program
- Assist youth with registering and enrolling in certification programs
- Act as a liaison between youth and collaborative agencies
- Conduct monthly checks of youth's attendance records. Schedule meetings as needed with school personnel and meet regularly with youth's teachers, guidance/BRACE counselors.
Life Coach - Handy Inc. - Fort Lauderdale, FL
(2019-05 - 2021-08)
Plans and conducts appropriate behavioral/mental health interventions to include short-term, solution-focused individual/group/family counseling services for youth ages 14-22 that are in care.
- Facilitate personal, social, emotional, and academic growth setting and attending youth school conferences to address and assist with the youth's educational needs.
- Acts as liaison between families and collaborative agencies with Behavioral Health Agreements, thereby ensuring the effective coordination of school services with those of the support agency as needed.
- Conduct monthly checks of youth's attendance records. Schedule meetings as needed with school personnel and meet regularly with youth's teachers, guidance/BRACE counselors.
- Expose youth within the program to high demand careers based on occupational data trends. Schedule and oversee youth program events, workshops, after school programs, career/job plans, and summer camps.
- Assist High School seniors and juniors with college selection and completing/submitting all necessary documents timely.
Transitional Case Manager - Henderson Behavioral Health - Lauderdale Lakes, FL
(2018-01 - 2019-05)
- Linked the client and family to community-based resources.
- Coordinated services for the client based on the clients' needs.
- Assists with crisis intervention services as part of the crisis support teams; includes conducting short-term crisis counseling, providing staff support, and conducting parent education activities.
- Created a crisis support plan to help the client recognize their triggers and prevent police involvement.
- Assists with the coordination of students entering and exiting behavioral and mental health recovery centers and programs; participates in the effective monitoring of the reintegration process into school-based activities and functions.
Master's Level Intern - Recovery First - Hollywood, FL
(2017-05 - 2017-12)
- Provide substance abuse counseling services in accordance with the state laws, licensing boards, and professional ethical guidelines.
- Maintain a full patient caseload.
- Provide intervention, assessments, treatment planning, and individual/group counseling.
- Initiate and provide family counseling services.
- Provide intervention, assessments, and group counseling.
- Facilitate therapeutic groups as assigned.
- Provide clinical services and assist when needed with patients as assigned by the clinical director.
- Provide clinical services to the outpatient and inpatient adult population.
- Participate in required clinical supervision, training, and staff meetings.
- Work as a larger interdisciplinary team along with other departments to ensure quality of care.
- Assists in monitoring and managing the patient community as a therapeutic milieu.
- Intervenes in crisis situations to deescalate and resolve crises.
Master's Level Intern - Henderson Behavioral Health - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
(2016-10 - 2017-04)
- Conducted intakes for clients who were referred to the counseling center that presented behavioral issues to determine their individual needs.
- Conducted safety plans for those adults who were in risk of harming themselves.
- Assisted clients with group activities and outings.
- Met with clients, and family members and other interested parties to exchange necessary information during the treatment process.
- Counseled clients individually and in group sessions by utilizing age appropriate and culturally sensitive intervention techniques.
- Referred patients, clients, or family members to community resources or to specialists as necessary.
Administrative Assistant - Florida Memorial University - Miami Gardens, FL
(2012-08 - 2016-05)
- Assist the coordinator with the daily operations of the department.
- Assist with fall, spring, and summer registration.
- Assist with organizing and presenting financial aid workshops.
- Assist students with financial aid process
