Experience

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  RHA Health Services, LLC

  • Community Support Team Leader

    • Jan 2016 - Aug 2017

    As the primary contact for the Community Support Team and coordinator of services supporting individuals with Mental Health and or Substance Abuse Issues in residential, school, workplace and community settings, the team leader is responsible for coordinating and monitoring the array of services and supports identified in each client’s Person Centered Plan. Interventions are strength-based and focused on promoting recovery, symptom reduction, increased coping skills, and achievement of the highest level of functioning in the community. I supervise and direct the work of others to provide quality services. Responsible for providing team employees with individual-specific training and training in the knowledge, skills, and abilities required by the population and age we serve. Engage in career/professional development. Ensure staff compliance with training requirements. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and applying corrective action to employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.As Team leader, I support 45 clients through individual therapy in the development of various Skill Building Activities, including: Daily and Community Living Skills, Socialization Skills, Adaptation Skills, Development of Leisure Time, Interests/Activities, Symptom Management Skills, Wellness Education, Education substance abuse, Work readiness, Behavior and anger management. Monitors and ensures interventions are evidence based and performed face-to-face outside the facility, and that each person supported receives required number of contacts per service definition.

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  UnitedHealth Group

  • Volusia/Flagler Counties

  • Social Worker Field Care Coordinator

    • Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
    • Volusia/Flagler Counties

    Community & State Southeast Health Plan- Responsible for facilitating, promoting and advocating for the enrollees' ongoing self-sufficiency and independence. This position is responsible for biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment and planning for an identified group of patients. Additionally, the care coordinator is responsible for assessing the availability of natural supports such as the enrollee's representative or family members to ensure the ongoing mental and physical health of those natural supports. The Care Coordinator collaborates with the Interdisciplinary Team to coordinate the delivery of comprehensive, efficient, cost effective patient care. The Care Coordinator works with program enrollees in the home and community setting, concentrating on providing holistic case management services to enrollees who need these. The Care Coordinator will be traveling into enrollees’ homes, nursing facilities, and Adult Living Facilities (ALF) to conduct in-depth assessments and develop the plan of care. The Care Coordinator actively assists enrollees with care transitions in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team and the acute or skilled facility staff, and the enrollees and/or the enrollees’ representatives. Care Coordinators act as liaison between the Health Plan, the Agency, enrollees, and their families.

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  Children's Grief Center

  • Daytona Beach, Florida Area

  • Volunteer Group Facilitator

    • May 2011 - Aug 2015
    • Daytona Beach, Florida Area

    Facilitate several bereavement support groups to help participants during the grief process. Groups include adults, adolescents, teens, parents who have lost a loved one by natural death and survivors of a traumatic loss. Serve as a cabin grief counselor at Camp Begin Again each May and November.

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  No One Dies Alone Program (NODA)

  • Daytona Beach, Florida Area

  • Volunteer

    • May 2011 - Nov 2014
    • Daytona Beach, Florida Area

    NODA is a national volunteer-centered program coordinated locally by Halifax Hospice of Volusia/Flagler. The goal is to provide companionship and support for imminently dying people so that no patient is alone at the time of death. We volunteer companions are notified when a patient in hospice care is actively dying and expected to die within the next 72 hours. Acting as compassionate companions, we stay with the patient through rotating 3-4 hour shifts until death. During the vigil, the companions may talk to the patient, hold his/her hand, or just sit as a loving compassionate presence in the room.

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  Halifax Hospice of Volusia/Flagler

  • Clinical Social Work Intern

    • Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

    Learning and practicing all aspects of Hospice social work to include acute care centers, assisted living facilities and private homes. Also, working with clients in the Traumatic Loss area of Bereavement. Group facilitator for the 10 week Restorative Retelling program and other grief support groups.

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  Stewart-Marchman-Act Behavioral Healthcare

  • Crisis/Access Center

  • Crisis/ Suicide Intervention Counselor

    • May 2012 - Aug 2014
    • Crisis/Access Center

    This is a clinical position specializing in direct service work by telephone to individuals requiring behavioral healthcare services including, but not limited to, crisis counseling (both on the telephone and on the internet), Suicide intervention, information and referral, and admission and referral to all SMA Behavioral programs and services. Individuals requesting services may have serious mental, emotional, psychological illnesses, be dually diagnosed, be addicted to narcotics, and/or have developmental disabilities.

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  Volusia Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery

  • Family Service Counselor

    • Apr 2003 - 2006

    Served at least 2,200 families, helping them make funeral and cemetery arrangements. Most meetings were with at need clients who had just experienced a death. Helped clients make both imminent and long term pre-need funeral plans. Duties included consoling people after their loss, helping them navigate through a process of funeral planning, casket or urn selection, choosing and purchasing cemetery property and designing grave markers. Home follow up visits for client wellbeing assessment and referral to bereavement services after the funeral was also an important part of this position.

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  United States Air Force

  • Worldwide Deployment

  • Fighter Operations Specialist- NATO Secret Security Clearance

    • Oct 1981 - Jan 1987
    • Worldwide Deployment

    Fighter mission planning, briefing, tracking, and debriefing. Tactical Air Command, Rapid Deployment Forces, F4E Phantom II. U.S. Air Forces Europe, A-10 Thunderbolt II. Outstanding Unit Award, Airman of the Quarter Award. Honorable Discharge.