Behavioral Health Provider - Carevide
(2024-01)
- Brief, short-term intervention
- Interdisciplinary team approach to manage patient conditions
Social Worker-Emergency Room - John Peter Smith Hospital
(2021-05 - 2024-01)
Full-Time (72 hours)
- Complete initial discharge assessments
- Arrange home health/DME/recommended after-care service
- Identify high utilizers and assists in reduction strategies
- Assess and intervene in crisis events (domestic violence, human trafficking, etc.)
- Provide therapeutic interventions for individuals and families navigating healthcare emergencies
- Provide backup coverage for inpatient hospital units
- Participate in inter-disciplinary team efforts to successfully discharge patients
Contract Therapist- Part Time - Keeping It Together Counseling
(2021-10 - 2025-02)
Individual counseling offered in-person and virtually for teens and adults
- Focus areas include depression, anxiety, grief, parenting, fertility, stress management
Contract Therapist-Part Time - Cluster of Life Changes
(2022-08)
Individual, Couples, and EAP contracted counseling offered in-person and virtually for teens, adults
- Focus areas include depression, anxiety, grief, parenting, fertility, stress management
Contract Home Study Writer- Part-Time - Arrow Child and Family Ministries
(2014-09)
- In-home evaluations and assessments of families for licensing as foster/adoptive
- Individual and family interviews of perspective parents
- Completion of written home evaluation and virtual conference with Arrow team for approval
Case Manager - Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Dallas - Dallas, TX
(2015-12 - 2021-05)
- Actively manage and direct use of resources to achieve the highest quality outcomes and patient experiences
- Coordinate and advocate for the patient during hospitalization, from admission to post-discharge
- Provide individual and family support to navigate healthcare crisis and grief
- Manage information/communication to effectively oversee healthcare delivery and facilitate interdisciplinary plan-of-care decisions
- Monitor the discharge plan implementation while identifying/addressing the patient's psychosocial and support-systems issues
- Oversee the coordination of services and manage issues in the areas of admission/discharge, team conference/interdisciplinary plan-of-care communication, patient/family education, payor relations and total fiscal management
- Ensure cost-effective treatment is provided and patient's-rights regulations are followed
- Served as member on teams including: Employee Advisory Committee, Hand Hygiene, Ambassador Program
- Provided assistance in absence of DCM including discharge calendar management, assignments of case managers, team conference outcomes and addressing concerns/questions
- UTA MSW Field Intern Supervisor since 2016
Healthy Families: Family Support Worker - Family Compass - Dallas, TX
(2014-10 - 2015-12)
- Recruit pregnant/parenting teens for program participation
- Complete initial assessment for qualification of program
- Weekly/bi-weekly home visits focusing on: parent-child interaction, family well-being and child development
- Provide therapeutic interventions for individual parents and families
- Assist in planning/execution of monthly meeting for teen parents
- Community engagement events
Lifestyle Management Specialist II - Health Care Service Corporation - Richardson, TX
(2012-01 - 2014-06)
Telephonic coaching
- Tobacco Cessation
- Weight Management
- Management of chronic conditions (diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia)
Mentor Services Program Manager - CitySquare- TRAC - Dallas, TX
(2010-01 - 2011-12)
- Recruitment, training, and supervision of program mentors
- Matching of mentors to youth aging out of foster care
- Recruitment and supervision of volunteers for agency special events
- Fundraising and execution of special events: Christmas party, Angel Tree, Golf Tournament
- Crisis Management Training for all CitySquare staff
Ambassador Family Specialist - Arrow Child and Family Ministries - Arlington, TX
(2006-06 - 2010-01)
- Case management/supervision of licensed foster homes
- Monthly and bi-weekly home visits offering therapeutic support and interventions children and families
- Behavior and Crisis Management Trainer
