Experience

SYNERGY WELLNESS CENTER

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Emotional Wellness

  • Jun 2019 - Present



Wayside Youth & Family Support Network

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Campus Clinical Director

  • Nov 2002 - Jul 2019

  • Clinical leadership to a 76 bed residential and 80 day partial and school program campus , ensuring high quality clinical intervention and program development. • Oversee the overall operations of the clinical department. • Conduct community consultation and training as a member of Waysides Speakers Bureau. • Campus consultation and training • Supervision to clinical supervisors. • Provide and oversee on-call clinical emergency coverage as assigned. • Oversee the training and monitoring of documentation compliance by all clinical staff. • Fulfill all record keeping requirements of the Agency • Oversee third party billing process for all clinical staff • Oversee component determined benchmarks for clinical productivity for each clinician on weekly basis • Coordinates clinical care with external agencies as needed • Run clinical team meetings and clinical rounds to ensure consistency, good communication and focus on quality. • Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations as they apply to the delivery of clinical services. • Responsible for hiring all clinical employees. • Perform Utilization reviews throughout the Agency. • Participate on Agency Risk Committee • Participate on Agency Clinical Compliance Committee • Participate on Agency Risk Committee • Participate on Agency Clinical Compliance Committee • Conduct intakes, assessment and individual, family, and group counseling services as appropriate and within the context of available time. Show less



State of Massachusetts

• Massachusetts

• Teen Parent Assessor

  • 1995 - 2003

  • Private contract to assess adolescent mothers and their children that are in need of shelter. • Provide resources to adolescents and their parents. • Collaborate with DSS and DTA. • Maintain budget and do billing related to contract work. • Private contract to assess adolescent mothers and their children that are in need of shelter. • Provide resources to adolescents and their parents. • Collaborate with DSS and DTA. • Maintain budget and do billing related to contract work.



Family Services Of Greater Boston

• Boston Ma

• Sr. Clinician/Intern Supervisor

  • 1993 - 2002

  • Oversee and support graduate interns during their placement of the agency. • Provide clinical consultation and train program interns. • Led bi-weekly support group for agency wide interns. Home base Family and Child Therapist- Senior Clinician • Train newly hired staff. • Provide intensive crisis intervention and ongoing treatment to individual and families living in Boston’s inner city. • Conduct comprehensive evaluation/assessments for families, DSS and Managed Care, including risk and safety factors and implement appropriate safety measures as clinically indicated. • Formulate and implement treatment goals and objectives that reflect individual and family client needs, goal of program, managed care approach to treatment and targeted program outcomes. • Educate clients and advocate with legal, public health, and educational systems. • Devised and implemented a safety assessment tool used by the program • Advocate and coordinate work with outside agencies (DSS, schools, hospitals, courts). Show less



Metropolitan Indochinese Children and Adolescent Services

• Dorchester Ma

• Psychiatric Social Worker/Supervisor

  • 1991 - 1993

  • Trained and supervised Cambodian and Vietnamese caseworkers regarding clinical and case management issues. • Member of a team that developed a Revere High School program providing staff consultation and assessment and ongoing treatment to students and their families. • Outreach therapist servicing Cambodian and Vietnamese children, adolescents and their families. • Clinical services included crisis intervention, diagnostic evaluations, individual and family therapy and case management. • Consultation to outside agencies (DSS, health centers, hospitals, courts and schools). Show less



Newton-Wellesley Hospital

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Medical Social Work Intern

  • 1990 - 1991

  • Responsible for Outpatient Obstetrical, Maternity, Special Care Nursery, and Pediatric units, and crisis intervention. • Developed a resource manual for social work staff. • Participated in a multi-disciplinary team approach to patient care. • Wrote intake evaluations, psychosocial assessments and treatment of patients with ongoing medical concerns. • Planned patient’s discharges and referrals. • Responsible for Outpatient Obstetrical, Maternity, Special Care Nursery, and Pediatric units, and crisis intervention. • Developed a resource manual for social work staff. • Participated in a multi-disciplinary team approach to patient care. • Wrote intake evaluations, psychosocial assessments and treatment of patients with ongoing medical concerns. • Planned patient’s discharges and referrals.



Italian Home for Children

• Jamaica Plain MA

• Social Woker (Intern and then staff)

  • 1989 - 1990

  • Provided individual, dyadic, group and family therapy for emotionally and behaviorally challenged children (ages 5-13) in residential treatment. • Developed initial treatment plans, attended case conferences, and wrote discharge summaries. • Provide weekly consulting sessions with teachers and residential staff. • Hired on for the summer following internship. • Provided individual, dyadic, group and family therapy for emotionally and behaviorally challenged children (ages 5-13) in residential treatment. • Developed initial treatment plans, attended case conferences, and wrote discharge summaries. • Provide weekly consulting sessions with teachers and residential staff. • Hired on for the summer following internship.



Department of Social Services (DSS)

• Australia
• Public Policy Offices
• 700 & Above Employee

• Social Worker III

  • 1986 - 1989

  • Served multi-problem inner city families of various cultures,religions and ethnicities. • Oversaw safety and family functioning. • Provided crisis intervention, recommendations and coordinated services. • Conducted family assessments. • Developed and implemented service plans • Consulted and worked extensively with the legal system (providing court testimony and client advocacy), the educational system (public, private and residential schools) and the public health system (individual providers and general hospitals). Show less