Northern Area Coordinator Resume
Durham, NC
SUMMARY:
Caring Human Services professional with eighteen years of mental health and substance abuse disorders experience working with diverse populations to include adults and children with behavioral issues, mental and/or developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, criminal justice involvement and substance misuse disorders.
SKILLS INCLUDE:
- Developing Person Centered Treatment Plans Assessments and Intakes
- Crisis Counseling Moral Reconation Therapy
- Treatment Evaluation and Documentation Facilitating Psychoeducational Groups
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Northern Area Coordinator
Confidential, Durham, NC
Responsibilities:
- Perform Supervisor and administrative work in directing programmatic activities of the Treatment Accountability to Safer Communities ( Confidential ) and Regional Coordinating Entity.
- Supervise Confidential Care Manager staff of nonclinical issues throughout the region.
- Assist staff with day to day operations.
- Participate in the Regional Management Team in conjunction with the Clinical Coordinator and Regional Director
Care Manager
Confidential, Raleigh, NC
Responsibilities:
- Perform professional case management duties in the Treatment Accountability for Confidential .
- Perform intake assessments, referral and evaluative duties for the offender.
- Intervene and assist clients with substance abuse problems and/or other problems.
Qualified Mental Health Professional
Confidential, Belle Haven, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Provided individualized counseling and life skills training to adults who, due to mental illness or substance abuse, would otherwise have trouble maintaining stability and independence.
- Provided intensive in - home counseling service to children and their families. In addition, provided assistance to the family in locating educational, economic, vocational, medical, legal, and social services.
Life Triage Consultant
Confidential, Chesapeake, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Provided a brief initial screen for military members and their families to discern risk and/or immediate intervention and triaged callers as needed to the appropriate resource.
- Provided direct assistance to military members and their families requesting information about EAP services, including eligibility and scope of service.
- Conducted assessment of the caller’s need for core EAP and work/life services and links to appropriate resources.
EAP Counselor
Confidential, Raleigh, North Carolina
Responsibilities:
- Provided intake and referral services consisting of telephonic psychosocial assessment, triage, critical incident response, crisis management and work-life needs.
- Delivered telephonic and on-line counseling services in a responsive, efficient, ethical and professional manner.
- Assisted clients in the United States and globally with various counseling and work-life needs.
Qualified Mental Health Professional
Confidential, Selma, North Carolina
Responsibilities:
- Provided critically needed Intensive In-Home Services to assist children with mental illnesses and their families.
- Provided parenting skills training to help families build skills for coping with their youth’s mental health disorder.
- Worked with caregivers in the implementation of home-based behavioral supports by providing intensive case management, crisis management, individual and/or family therapy, skill building training, and other rehabilitative supports to prevent the need for out-of-home placement of the youth.
Substance Abuse Counselor
Confidential, Durham, North Carolina
Responsibilities:
- Provided case management services to a caseload of 50+ clients with opiate dependence.
- Conducted intakes, assessments and provided individual counseling to clients.
- Facilitated psychoeducational groups in addition to co-facilitating a weekly gender specific support group.
Case Manager
Confidential, Raleigh, North Carolina
Responsibilities:
- Assisted families affected by substance abuse with becoming self-sufficient through case management services.
- Managed mothers and children services to include employment, daycare, therapy, medical care and educational training.
- Facilitated weekly treatment meetings to assess client’s progress.