School Social Worker - Southwestern City School District, Education Service Center
(2022-08)
- Provides social work case management for students and families.
- Collaborates with school staff and other school system personnel in implementing strategies to promote student learning.
- Serves on both school-based and system-wide committees to address educational issues, adjustment problems, safety issues, and program development for students.
- Provides crisis intervention services.
- Conducts staff development on issues related to social, emotional, environmental factors that impact learning.
- Conducts home visits related to establishing communication and positive connections.
- Assists the staff in organizing and coordinating with community resources.
- Works with staff to address social, emotional, and behavioral issues that interfere with student achievement.
- Conducts assessments to determine student needs and develop a plan of interventions.
- Serves on RTI and IEP teams that request social work services or consultation.
- Provides therapeutic intervention services to individuals, groups, and families.
- Provides mental health consultation.
- Develops programs to address the needs of students.
- Provides consultation regarding home/community factors impacting student achievement.
- Serves as school/home/community liaison.
- Provides parents and families with needed information regarding social services and assists them in obtaining such services.
- Provides family support and education.
- Attends program meetings, in-service training, and professional workshops and/or conferences.
- Crisis intervention and follow-up with support services to students, staff, and families.
Licensed Behavioral Health Professional - Armor Health
(2025-02)
Provides the above in a correctional facility as part of an established multidisciplinary treatment team and behavioral health program
- Provides psychosocial assessments and preliminary diagnostic impression
- Provides counseling therapy
- Provides crisis intervention
- Provides case management services to patients
- Collects supporting information about patients through interview, case history, psychological tests, and/or observational techniques
- Evaluates data to identify causes of problems and determines proper therapeutic approach or referral to other specialists
- Provides crisis management counseling, and/or short term therapy to patients as appropriate
- Prepares treatment and follow-up care programs
- Provides therapeutic crisis intervention and emergency services as required
- Demonstrates knowledge of DSM-5/TR criteria and appropriate intervention for each entity
- Consults with other behavioral health practitioners and related staff, as appropriate, in the performance of therapeutic and/or casework
School Based Therapist - The Buckeye Ranch
(2021-10 - 2022-08)
- Develops, revises, and implements treatment plans based on diagnosis of client, family circumstances, and input from the school and treatment team when available.
- Consults with family and teachers to ensure client is getting the individual care they need.
- Schedules and conducts therapeutic counseling sessions with children youth families utilizing the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Model to clients in school, in their homes, and in the community.
- Manages crisis situations with youth and families utilizing methods such as verbal de escalation.
- Completes documentation in a timely manner.
- Identifies indicators of age-appropriate development in all domains for children and youth.
- Assesses and implements interventions developmentally appropriate for children, youth, and their caregivers based on each individual needs.
- Advocates for children, youth, and family based on their developmental needs.
- Completes comprehensive diagnostic assessments.
- Completes NOMS, DERS, and DLA 20 by due dates.
- Helps build and create orientation binder for new clinicians.
- Helps train new clinicians and graduate interns.
- Trained and certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
Clinical Therapist- Foster Care - The Village Network
(2021-06 - 2021-10)
- Assesses client's therapeutic needs/strengths and establishes a therapeutic relationship while utilizing interventions.
- Meets productivity standards for documentation, assessments, notes, and service plans.
- Serves as the contact person for families, agencies, and the court system while engaging in correspondence and communication.
- Clinical lead for cases by designing, writing, and coordination individual treatment plans.
- Reads and analyzes material and reports from outside organizations.
- Monitors youth and family compliance with service plans.
- Implements clinical models.
- Manages crisis situations utilizing verbal de-escalation and CPI as needed.
- Completes sessions with clients and families.
- Completes comprehensive diagnostic assessments
Social Work Care Coordinator - Partners for Kids-Nationwide Children's Hospital
(2020-06 - 2021-06)
Plus the continuation of job duties of the medical social worker position (total time at Partners for Kids Nationwide Children's Services was from November 2017 until June 2021)
- Screening and identification of patients
- Completes comprehensive Health Risk Assessment
- Develops family-centered plan of care
- Facilitates communication and collaboration amongst the healthcare team
- Develops patient's/family self-management skills through education and resource provision Manages transitions between settings, caregivers and providers
- Provides monitoring and follow-up across the continuum of care
- Provides consultation, education, and training to staff regarding psychosocial issues that impact the delivery of optimal health care services
- Participates in orientation and continuing education of staff and students as appropriate
Medical Social Worker - Partners for Kids- Nationwide Children's Hospital
(2017-11 - 2020-06)
- Provides care coordination services to complex medical/behavioral pediatric patients and their families
- Outreaches to primary care physicians, specialty physicians, and other service providers to identify patients in need of care coordination
- Works closely with families to guide them through the healthcare system to optimize their care and services they receive to improve child health, decrease costs, and improve satisfaction with care
- Functions as a resource to discharge planners in an inpatient setting as requested
- Travels within a 34-county area including home visiting, participation in primary and specialty care office visits, and collaborative meetings with community agencies including schools and county boards
- Facilitates transitions between settings and caregivers
- Maintains accurate documentation in the medical record
- Develops patient and caregiver skills, knowledge and abilities to self-manage their own healthcare
- Refers, connects, and collaborates with community agencies and resources to meet patient needs
- Demonstrates understanding of the principles of palliative care and incorporates those principles in care coordination activities
- Facilitates and coordinates quality patient care in a timely manner and cost-effective manner while promoting interdisciplinary collaboration between all members of the health care team
- Assesses readiness to change
- Establishes and adjusts goals, interventions, and care accordingly
- Serves as a patient/family advocate in meeting patient and family needs
- Serves on the motivational interviewing committee and taught some of the motivational interviewing onboarding training to the new employees
Intern - The Huckleberry House
(2019-01 - 2020-05)
- Completed intake services when youth first came to the shelter
- Assisted in making decisions if youth were appropriate for the program and the services at Huckleberry House
- Completed biopsychosocial assessments with clients
- Gave diagnosis to youth, under supervision, after reviewing charts and all documentation
- Provided therapy sessions with youth
- Completed office tasks
- Collaborated with children services, hospitals, and other providers in the community
- Interacted with youth and provided informal supports
- Completed duties such as watching the youth and assisting them with their needs
- Reviewed charts and assisted youth as needed
- Completed masters of social work tasks specific to competencies
Child Welfare Case Worker 1-2 - Franklin County Children Services
(2015-10 - 2017-11)
- Initiated cases through phone contact and home visits
- Conducted interviews with families at their homes and in the office
- Assessed the safety of children
- Linked clients with resources
- Contacted law enforcement if needed
- Contacted Collaterals; ie doctors, schools, counselors, and treatment centers
- Utilized strong written and verbal communication skills to complete paperwork according to state guidelines.
- Strengthened families by determining their needs
- Conducted Criminal background checks
- Utilized strong written and verbal communication skills to complete paperwork according to state guidelines for case evaluation and maintain compliance.
- Closed cases or escalate case to long term support
Intern - Butler County Probate Court
(2015-05 - 2015-08)
- Conducted interviews during site visits with guardians and those being served under guardianship
- Served notices of hearings to wards
- Looked at files and filled out paperwork for cases
- Completed paperwork for final adoption hearings
- Served as backup for the adoption worker as needed
- Tracked and scanned adoption documents
- Processed new adoption intakes from beginning to end
- Set and scheduled pretrial and final hearings for adoption cases
- Sent adoption paperwork to attorneys and agencies through certified mail
- Aided in on guardianship, mental health, and adoption hearings
- Pulled files and prepared them for hearings
Intern - The Center for Family Solutions
(2014-05 - 2014-06)
- Met with clients and assisted them in filling out Civil Protection Order paperwork
- Victim Advocate for clients during Civil Protection Order court hearings
- Facilitated groups for victims of domestic violence
- Facilitated a group for children who were a part of families who experienced domestic violence
- Facilitated a group of children to teach them about life and how to interact with others
- Helped plan the annual fundraising event
- Wrote grants for the agency
