SUMMARY:

Over twenty - four years of public health administrative experience. Florida state Registered Clinical Social Work Intern since December 2016. Strong background in clinical social work, and maternal, infant, child, adolescent, and family health. Cultivated with a “can do” attitude, high energy, enthusiasm, and a self-starter mentality. Accustomed to working as part of a multidisciplinary team and working effectively with persons from diverse cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.

HEALTH SKILLS:

• Biopsychosocial assessment/screening
• Individualized service/treatment plan
• Group, family and individual psychotherapy
• Case management
• School social work
• Social policy advocacy
• Public health/social work research
• Grant writing and budget development
• Contract monitoring and budget management
• Program planning, implementation and evaluation
• Health policy research, monitor and analysis
• Public information/media campaign development
• Community engagement
• Conference and meeting management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Social Work Case Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conduct psychosocial assessments for complex case management and discharge planning purposes for the maternal, infant-child, and adult population.
• Coordinate identifying and arranging for appropriate services and resources to help patients and their families during and after their hospital stay.
• Collaborate with physicians, nursing, and other members of the multidisciplinary team to promote care coordination by attending multidisciplinary rounds daily and advocating in the best interest of the patient for medical, resource and judicial related needs.

Confidential, Ocala, FL

Responsibilities:

• Conducted client assessments and establish therapy treatment goals.
• Administered individual and group behavioral health counseling services using evidence-based treatment models.
• Maintained thorough and confidential records using a secure database.
• Evaluated progress and effectiveness of therapy interventions.
• Provided client and the family with information regarding resources and therapeutic activities available in the community.
• Made home visits as required by each case.

Child Advocate Manager

Confidential, Inverness, FL

Responsibilities:

• Managed and assigned tasks to 26 volunteer Guardian ad Litums to expedite 50+ cases and promote timely permanency objectives for children in dependency.
• Provided case management and advocacy services in the best interests of abused, neglected and abandoned children, children involved in a dissolution of marriage, and children who are victims of or witnesses to criminal acts.
• Gathered collateral information related to individual cases, give recommendations by writing reports regarding the child's best interests to the court.
• Collaborated with staff attorneys as needed for permanency planning and other issues.
• Represented children in dependency court hearings, depositions, case plan conferences, dependency mediations, staffing's and other meetings with the Confidential, school officials, and other social service agencies to advocate for the best interest of dependent children.
• Made home visits as required by each case.

Substitute Teacher

Confidential, Ocala, FL

Responsibilities:

• Provide general on topics such as math, science, language arts, social studies, art, and Science, Technology Engineering and Math ( Confidential ) to elementary, middle, and high school students in accordance with Confidential philosophy, goals, and objectives. Plan, prepare and modify instructional lesson plans, materials, and activities to meet students' learning styles, background, and special needs.
• Assess and evaluate student progress, development and security in the learning environment.

Social Work Intern

Confidential, Gainesville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Provided home and clinic based individual, couples and family psychosocial counseling to pregnant and parenting women who were enrolled in the Confidential .
• Conducted intake psychosocial assessments.
• Developed formal treatment plans (goals, objectives, therapeutic methods, etc).
• Provided advocacy and referral services, when appropriate.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team to coordinate other Confidential .
• Made home visits as required by each case.

Social Work Intern

Confidential, Ocala, FL

Responsibilities:

• Co-assisted in the administration of social-emotional development and adaptive functioning assessments, and the documentation of social/al histories for Exceptional Student ( Confidential ) evaluations. Co-facilitated pro-social counseling group sessions for elementary, middle, and high school students.
• Participated in home visits to inquire with and deliver services and resources to students and parents.
• Participated in parent/child focused meetings to address non-attendance and truancy issues; Individual al Plans (IEPs); and academic determinations.
• Assisted parents participate actively and constructively in school-child related activities to obtain services and resources for their child.
• Initiated countywide Attendance Work Campaign to improve child/adolescent school attendance rates.

Volunteer

Confidential, Ocala, FL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting consumers with enrollment into the Health Insurance Marketplace under the Affordable Care Act ( Confidential ).
• Participate in multi-agency health fairs, meetings and community engagement opportunities to promote and educate public on public health topics, Confidential federally qualified health care centers' adult and pediatric medical, dental and vision care, and the Confidential .

Confidential, Ocala, FL

Responsibilities:

• Administered 25 parent surveys and mental health and substance abuse assessments weekly that collected data in categorical domains such as: mental health, substance abuse,, medical history, physical/sexual abuse and neglect, social relationships, and family life for youth age 8 - 18-years-old who are referred by the Confidential while they are in detention and/or on probation.
• Wrote Substance Confidential reports and submitted treatment recommendations to Juvenile Probation Officers.

Research Coordinator

Confidential, Gainesville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and implemented procedures for the assessment, interpretation and administration of policies and procedures related to health plan quality improvement programs and performance improvement projects for Medicaid managed care health plans.
• Contributed to the development of quality improvement strategies for state Medicaid programs and participating managed care health plans.

Program Specialist

Confidential, Riverside, CA

Responsibilities:

• Monitored public health and community-based funded agencies (budgets totaling $8,000,000.00) through periodic site visits.
• Evaluated grantee compliance though monthly and quarterly progress report requirements as defined by Commission approved scopes of work, contracts, and budgets.
• Managed the development of the Growing Healthy Minds mental health contract and multi-media health campaign.
• Wrote request for proposals (RFPs), and requests for qualifications (RFQs).
• Negotiated contracts and budgets between agency ( Confidential Riverside) and grantees.