Experience

SOUTHWEST FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER & INSTITUTE

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Clinical Social Work Intern

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Provide bilingual outpatient clinical therapy to children, adults, and families from a trauma-informed framework and complete crisis assessments for youth experiencing suicidality referred by local schools. Provide bilingual outpatient clinical therapy to children, adults, and families from a trauma-informed framework and complete crisis assessments for youth experiencing suicidality referred by local schools.



New Mexico State University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Social Work Graduate Assistant - NMSU Center of Innovation

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Collaborate with the Children, Youth, and Families Department Support New Mexico's Behavioral Health System of Care as the Children’s Mobile Response & Stabilization Services liasion for the Center of Innovation for Behavioral Health and Wellbeing. Additional assist in planning the annual Children's Law Institute conference and designing behavioral health curriculum for the New Mexico Crisis and Access Line (988) call-takers and New Mexico Family Peer Support Workers.

• Public Health Research Assistant

  • Oct 2021 - Jul 2022

  Bilingual Data Collection Coordinator for a clinical trial to support Hispanic mothers and their children learning to cope with cancer. Conducted phone interviews in Spanish, inputted data in Qualitrics, and designed monthly newsletter.



Center of Innovation for Behavioral Health and Wellbeing

• Public Health Intern

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Collaborated with the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, national experts, and the Center of Innovation to design a pilot phase of NM’s Children’s Mobile Response, a behavioral health crisis intervention service. Collaborated with the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, national experts, and the Center of Innovation to design a pilot phase of NM’s Children’s Mobile Response, a behavioral health crisis intervention service.



Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Medical Social Work Intern

  • Jul 2021 - May 2022

  Bilingual case manager and patient advocate on a palliative care team. Conducted hospital and home visits, connected patients to resources, supported family of palliative care patients through the end-of-life process. Bilingual case manager and patient advocate on a palliative care team. Conducted hospital and home visits, connected patients to resources, supported family of palliative care patients through the end-of-life process.



Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Health Educator and Grant Writer

  • May 2021 - Oct 2021

  Provided Diabetes Health Education to Migrant Farmworkers and supported grant-writing. Provided Diabetes Health Education to Migrant Farmworkers and supported grant-writing.



Peace Corps

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Peace Corps Volunteer, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

  • Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

  Provided English instruction in San Juan Nepomuceno, CO, and led projects in youth development, health promotion, and technology skills training. Managed a grant project of $10,000 for a school bilingual lab. Received John F. Kennedy Volunteer Excellence Award in 2019 for demonstrating exceptional service and leadership. Provided English instruction in San Juan Nepomuceno, CO, and led projects in youth development, health promotion, and technology skills training. Managed a grant project of $10,000 for a school bilingual lab. Received John F. Kennedy Volunteer Excellence Award in 2019 for demonstrating exceptional service and leadership.



Southwest Key Programs

• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bilingual Case Manager

  • Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

  Under supervision of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, supported unaccompanied migrant youth seeking asylum by ensuring a safe and timely reunification with their sponsors/family members in the U.S. Under supervision of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, supported unaccompanied migrant youth seeking asylum by ensuring a safe and timely reunification with their sponsors/family members in the U.S.



OASIS: Services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault

• Bilingual Adovcate for Survivors

  • Jul 2015 - Jul 2016

  Provided crisis support, advocacy, and case management to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Provided crisis support, advocacy, and case management to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.