Experience

ESSEX COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Inmate Advocate

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  • Assisting inmates/detainees with a variety of issues; Specifying processes to inmates/detainees, families and attorneys, providing contacts for courts, attorneys and other external resources; DCP&P, Drug Court TASC evaluators, probation offices as well as contacts for other municipalities. • Acts a liaison with Social Services and the Medical Assisted Treatment Program to promote education and rehabilitation programs for inmates. • Grievance Coordination; Reviewing requests and grievances for emergent issues and following up with the appropriate department. Monitoring grievances for timeliness of responses by all departments. • Unresolved grievances • making rounds throughout the buildings speaking to inmate population to address concerns on the housing units,; issues reported during rounds are followed up with the appropriate staff to be further investigated. • Participating in Classification Meetings reviewing all IPC and VPC inmates to follow regulations while continuing to provide safety and protection to the inmates seeking protective custody. Show less



NUTLEY FAMILY SERVICE BUREAU INC

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Therapist (Mental Health Clinician)

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Individual, couples and family counseling.-substance abuse counseling. *Conducting intakes and assessments. Responsible for phone intakes, assessments and provision of diagnosis clients ranging in age and diagnoses. *Prepared treatment and discharge plans and maintained up to date DAP notes for each client. *Worked with community agencies for support and referral purposes. Individual, couples and family counseling.-substance abuse counseling. *Conducting intakes and assessments. Responsible for phone intakes, assessments and provision of diagnosis clients ranging in age and diagnoses. *Prepared treatment and discharge plans and maintained up to date DAP notes for each client. *Worked with community agencies for support and referral purposes.



VA New Jersey Health Care System Home

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Mar 2015 - Jun 2021

  Community Development Program. Working with veterans and businesses in the community to provide gainful employment to the veteran population with Serious Mental Illness or Co-Occurring Disorders. *Intakes, assessments, treatment planning*Developing community relations/contacts for Community Development/client placement*Facilitating groups*Leading instructional classes*Life and Career Skill Development with clients

• • Jun 2003 - May 2015

  academic evaluations of VA rotations, preparing letters of recommendation.*Maintain office documents, timekeeping records (80+timecards) Monitor and perform audits of schedules and timecards (over 125 for the department), and designated audits within other departments. *Support to Employee Relations, Human Resources and Fiscal Service for employee issues-FMLA leave programs, personnel actions, pay and benefits, support to Police and Security for background investigations and ID process.*Initiate and follow-up processing of Personal Identification Verification (federal employee ID). *Perform service education training processing for Medical Service (150+ on staff) Train (6) program assistants.*Respond to correspondence, clinic actions, and order supplies for department, preparation and follow up of travel/training requests and repair requests. Show less

• • Jan 2001 - Jun 2003

  Point of contact for the Office of the Chief of the Medical Administration Service.*Administrative support- correspondence, timekeeping (45+) and managing supplies.*Conducted data management for Medical Care Cost Recovery and rotation of clinic assignments. Veterans Administration Medical Center Wilkes-Barre, PA 05/97-01



The GEO Group, Inc.

• United States
• Security and Investigations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Family Services Coordinator

  • Aug 2018 - Oct 2019

  * Supervising new interns -Assigning cases -Conducting performance reviews and performance improvement plans for interns -Conducting intakes and assessments. *Provision of counseling for individuals ages 18 and older, from diverse backgrounds using a variety of theoretical approaches, specific to client needs. -Couples and family counseling. -Alcohol and drug counseling. *Working with community agencies for support and referral purposes. *Co-facilitation supporting intern preparation of psychoeducational group (Inside Out Dads) *Preparation and facilitation of psychoeducational group (Mentoring Our Moms) *co-facilitating Family Night for the facility. *Administrative responsibilities include working with other departments for security, medical and psychological needs of residents as well as helping residents and administration with other concerns, inquiries; legal, fiscal and facility employment. Implemented yoga, and meditation group to Essex County population, maintained 20+ attendees/week Show less



County of Bergen Intoxicated Driver Resource Center

• Hackensack, New Jersey, United States

• Counselor (per diem)

  • Aug 2015 - May 2019

  * Preparation of files, reviewing driver abstracts and screening of clients for assessment referrals *Issuance of noncompliance warning letters to clients *Preparing communications to court and to Motor Vehicle Commission MVC *Teaching modules during the 12 hour training *Client intakes, assessment referrals and client admission reports * Preparation of files, reviewing driver abstracts and screening of clients for assessment referrals *Issuance of noncompliance warning letters to clients *Preparing communications to court and to Motor Vehicle Commission MVC *Teaching modules during the 12 hour training *Client intakes, assessment referrals and client admission reports



VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Secretary

  • May 1997 - Jan 2001

  Assisted (7) staffing specialists with job announcements and application processes, primarily Medical Residency recruitment program. *Supported Employee Relations with employee disciplinary actions- researched background, collected information from complainant, scheduled face-to-face resolution meetings between parties. *Assisted in Workers Compensation case actions-- gathered background and collected information from injured party and treatment providers. Managed employee leave donation programs. *Direct support to Keystone Job Corps-placed students (15-20/month), for career training provided orientation, maintained attendance, and evaluations. *All administrative support responsibilities-answered phones, greeted visitors, travel arrangements, correspondence, typing and filing. Show less