Adult/Child Clinician and Rape Crisis & Domestic Violence Counselor

• May 2021 - Present

Residential Director

• Mar 2020 - Apr 2021

Director of a residential home on the island of Martha's Vineyard that provides care to several individuals with disabilities. Director of a residential home on the island of Martha's Vineyard that provides care to several individuals with disabilities.

Clinical Coordinator

• Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

⦁ Worked collaboratively with Senior Director as part of a two-person team to launch a pilot program designed to provide integrative, transitional care to Medicaid clients following an acute psychiatric hospitalization. ⦁ Directly involved in outreach and coordination with psychiatric units at four Bronx regional hospitals. ⦁ Provided clinical therapy and case management to patients while on the unit and for 30 days pursuant to discharge with the objective of facilitating the discharge process and linking clients successfully to outpatient resource. ⦁ Collected and presented data on successful linkages to care. As a result of these efforts, data revealed a reduced rate of recidivism for chronically ill, at-risk clients. Show less

Clinician

• Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

•Oversaw a caseload of 42 clients who are seen for both individual and family sessions on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. •Specialty in mindfulness, trauma, and attachment-informed modalities when working with youth and families. •Concurrent documentation of all session notes, Treatment Planning, and all other contacts in a timely manner (within 48 hours) that is up to standards of insurance, ACS, OCFS, and agency policy. •Crisis response/management and coordination of care of High Risk clients as needed. Show less

Social Worker

• Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

•Managed case load of 16 youth (young women ages 14 to 21) who are residents of the PCS campus. •Provided clinical group and individual therapy to the youth and their families. •Executed all case planning aspects of the youth in accordance with ACS, OCFS, and agency policy. •Coordinated services with outside providers as well as the educational entities that serve the youth. •Organized programming for the girls’ side of campus with a small team of other appointed clinicians from the team. Show less

Special Needs Coordinator

• Feb 2016 - Oct 2016

-Bilingual (Spanish-speaking) birth parent counselor, providing options counseling towards permanency planning, including individual counseling, writing psychosocial histories, and visiting clients in hospitals and the community. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, discharging babies from hospitals, facilitating selection of and meetings with adoptive parents, assisting in placement and/or return of infants, providing referrals to community support services and doing outreach at hospitals and social service agencies. Show less

Outreach Program Coordinator

• Jun 2015 - Mar 2016

- Managed and promptly responded to all prospective adoptive family inquiries by providingcompassionate and empathetic customer service for phone and email adoption inquiries.- Maintained client databases to ensure proper collection of information and follow up forinquiring clients.- Provided administrative support for outreach team.- Assisted with webinar and in-person presentations.