Brooklyn, New York, United States
LMSW specializing in supportive housing, crisis intervention and individual and group counseling.
Manage a caseload of 30 families who reside in a Rachel’s House Family Transitional Shelter. Complete extensive Biopsychosocial assessments, documenting individual and familial mental health and medical history. Determine supportive housing eligibility based on medical or mental health diagnosis and spoke to clients about the potential of this program. Complete supportive housing application. This includes accessing client’s psychiatric evaluation, writing a Comprehensive Biopsychosocial Assessment, and accessing the CAPS system. Maintain regular communication with housing referral and community agencies for supportive housing linkages, uploading regular documents on behalf of the client. Connect families with mental health, medical, educational, and crises- oriented services. Intervene with families in crisis and determined course of action.
· Manage a caseload of 40 families who reside in a Rachel’s House Family Transitional Shelter. · Complete extensive Biopsychosocial assessments, documenting individual and familial mental health and medical history. · Determine supportive housing eligibility based on medical or mental health diagnosis and speak to clients about the potential of this program. · Complete supportive housing application. This includes accessing client’s psychiatric evaluation, writing a Comprehensive Biopsychosocial Assessment, and using the CAPS system. · Maintain regular communication with housing referral and community agencies for supportive housing linkages, uploading regular documents on behalf of the client. · Connect families with mental health, medical, educational, and crises-oriented services. · Intervene with families during crisis and determine a proper course of action.
· Provided emotional care for children who have psychiatric diagnoses, ages ranging from 13-16, · Worked specifically with transgender youth population within the adolescent unit of the hospital. · Provided emotional support to children throughout their hospital stay. · Completed detailed reports of daily progress of patients.
Conduct weekly forty-five-minute individual therapy sessions with students between ages of six and ten • Lead group therapy sessions for up to twelve students, ages ranging from six to ten years • Apply therapeutic techniques and theory within each clinical session • Assist students in processing their emotional life and school experiences and work on reaching academic and behavioral goals • Assist in mediating when students experience conflict with others
• Conducted weekly forty-five-minute individual therapy sessions with students between ages of six and ten. • Led group therapy sessions for twelve students, once a week for 12 weeks, with ages ranging from six to ten. • Guided students to process individual emotional and familial struggles to reach academic and behavioral goals. • Applied therapeutic techniques and theories within clinical sessions. • Actively mediated conflict between students to prevent crisis.
· Assisted clients in navigating the NYC Housing system and assist in transitioning from homelessness to stable housing. · Completed biopsychosocial assessments. · Applied and checked status of housing applications, including Section 8, NYCHA, and Emergency Housing Vouchers. · Centered Coordination of care services with Community Based Organizations (CBO’s). This agency coordinated between housing, healthcare, and legal service providers. · Provided therapeutic treatment for clients, where intrapersonal and systemic challenges were discussed and addressed. · Used a strength-based approach during client treatment process. · Referred clients to permanent facilities to receive mental health and substance Abuse treatment.