Experience

FFT Partners, LLC

• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• FFT Consultant

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Oversees and monitor the implementation of FFT and adaptation for assigned teams/sites • Ensures ongoing programmatic excellence, quality management, infrastructure to support and advance the services needed to meet families and programs need. • Provides clinical training, weekly consultation calls with assigned teams • Maintains additional communication with multiple layers within the organization • Prepares and facilitates Site visits • Monitors and follows the Care4 protocol for quality assurance • Builds knowledge and participates in developing specialties in FFT adaptations • Maintains communication with the assigned leadership regarding all program/site operations (client/staff concern, staffing, assessments, needs, interventions, and deliverables) • Conducts Continuous Quality Improvement meetings and completes Program Quality/Monitoring plan and track on Key Performance Indicators and deliverables. • Ensures all families served by the sites/team are receiving model adherent treatment and alignment with regulatory context/system in which it is been delivered (i.e. ACS, OMH, and on) • Coordinates all staff/teams related concerns with the manager level of assigned sites and/or Administration staff. • Monitors training needs, competencies of Staff/teams, and development needs. • Management level check-in meeting(s) on model fidelity, certification tracking and monitoring to help remove barriers by conducting fit assessments on advances and barriers Show less



The New York Foundling

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Model Trainer and Consultant

  • Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Oversees and monitor the implementation of FFT and adaptation for assigned teams/sites • Ensures ongoing programmatic excellence, quality management, infrastructure to support and advance the services needed to meet families and programs need. • Provides clinical training, weekly consultation calls with assigned teams• Maintains additional communication with multiple layers within the organization • Prepares and facilitates Site visits • Monitors and follows the Care4 protocol for quality assurance • Builds knowledge and participates in developing specialties in FFT adaptations • Maintains communication with the assigned leadership regarding all program/site operations (client/staff concern, staffing, assessments, needs, interventions, and deliverables) • Conducts Continuous Quality Improvement meetings and completes Program Quality/Monitoring plan and track on Key Performance Indicators and deliverables. • Ensures all families served by the sites/team are receiving model adherent treatment and alignment with regulatory context/system in which it is been delivered (i.e. ACS, OMH, and on) • Coordinates all staff/teams related concerns with the manager level of assigned sites and/or Administration staff. • Monitors training needs, competencies of Staff/teams, and development needs. • Management level check-in meeting(s) on model fidelity, certification tracking and monitoring to help remove barriers by conducting fit assessments on advances and barriers Show less

• Clinical Supervisor

  • Mar 2016 - Oct 2020

  Effectively supervise a team of 4 Clinicians that were LMSW, LP-MHC, or LMHC practitioners to ensurecompliance of model fidelity, documentation requirements, ACS and OMH standardsEffectively manage clinical oversight for a maximum of 30 clients Sustained employee retention on team for over a year by maintaining a level of staff morale andprofessionalismProvide group Clinical supervision which entails staffing and reviewing team cases on a weekly basis Provide Individual Coaching with team to target professional development on a monthly basisMonitor and develop team's knowledge of specific model and core clinical skillsAnalyze teams' data to maintain and improve clinical practices, documentation quality, and policyrequirements on a monthly basis Understand and Implement practices that abide by the policy and regulations of four different key stake holders (Administration for Children Services(ACS), NY Foundling Agency, OMH (Office of Mental Health and Family Functional Therapy) Analyze audits and quarterly report with team, agency higher ups, and FFT consultant to discuss strengthsand problem solve barriers Provide home-based clinical treatment to families as a Family Functional Therapist (FFT) Successfully completed several Administration for Children Services (ACS) audits Collaborate and participate in ongoing meetings with Key Stack Holders (ACS, FFT Consultants, Finance department, HR, PQM) to ensure quality work Facilitated a licensure group for LP-MHC to complete licensure hours, enhance clinical and professional practice which entails discussing clients, understanding and learning DSM-5, work life balance, and navigating the workplace Show less

• Lead Family Functional Therapist

  • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

  Participated and successfully completed Externship with National FFT ConsultantsGuided, taught, and assisted new Therapist with documentation and FFT Model requirements Corroborated with the Clinical Supervisor on requested tasksProvide home-based clinical treatment to families as a Family Functional Therapist (FFT)

• Family Therapist

  • Aug 2012 - Jan 2016

  Conduct assessment including review of referral information, identifying risk protective factors, reviewingbackground history of family.Provide home-based clinical treatment.Identify and engage key participants to overcome barriers of engagement and to ensure their buy-in andcooperation throughout FFT treatment.Identify risk and protective factors of internal/external factors to evaluate family adaptive/maladaptivecoping mechanisms.Implement a tailored treatment plan that matches families’ relational functions and referral behavioral issueswith adolescent.Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with FFT principles and practices.Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts using CSS and Quick base system.Collaborate with all relevant systems that are involved in treatment such as Psychiatrists, Social Workers,ACS workers.Participate in all annual booster training, supervision, and consultation activities.Successfully participated and completed model training in Family Functional Therapy (FFT) Show less

• Youth Development Specialist

  • Feb 2011 - Aug 2012

  Prepared youth for adulthood by providing independent living services for youth 14-21 in foster care.Collaborated with therapist, social workers and other key players to provide services eligible youth inassigned Queens region.Assisted case planners in making sure that all required Youth Development Assessments are completed.Facilitated bi-monthly workshops on independent living.Counseled adolescents ages 14-21 by providing support and assistance with life transitions, academicplanning and interpersonal difficulties.Coordinated specialized events including college tours career fairs for foster care youth Coordinatedrecreational, educational, and social activities for foster care youth.Actively participated in service planning and attend dispositional and SPR, FTC, 6-month dischargemeetings.Developed contacts with outside resources offering YD-related services. Show less