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Qualifications Summary * Extensive experience working in the field of counseling & mental health (25 yrs) * Compassionate, client-centered and trauma sensitive therapeutic interventions * Case management experience with underserved populations * Both independently driven and excellent team skills * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Experience working with children and their families * Experience with frail and elderly, severe mental illness, chronic and end-life medical conditions * Discharge planning, care coordination, community referral and housing assistance * Experience working with Medi-cal & Medicare and with numerous social service agencies in San Diego * Supervision of Master level students from USC and Argosy University in social work, Marriage and Family & Clinical Social Work Care1st Health Plan, San Diego -CA Clinical Social Worker April 2011 - Present Clinical case management for a Medi-cal & Medicare managed care health plan. Clinical interventions across all settings including hospital, skilled nursing facilities, home environment for high risk, weak and elderly, low income, behavioral health with chronic and severe mental and physical health issues. Care coordination with social workers, nurses, case managers, families, and doctors for the purpose of providing social supports, assessing family dynamics & ensuring continuity of care. INTERVENTIONS: Developing care plan /ICT psychosocial assessment, mental health/substance abuse assessment and referral, inpatient/outpatient referrals, home safety evaluations, outsourcing with various community supports for housing, mental health treatment & rehabilitation, long-term care planning, while using a multi-disciplinary modalities and & person-centered, strengths based techniques for decreasing hospitalization & providing social supports in the community. RAMONA ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE, Ramona-CA Clinical Social Worker September 2011 - March 2012 Coordinated health care with multi-disciplinary team, families and outside agencies for adults struggling with mental health, health concerns, developmental and neurological conditions. Clinical social work duties: individual, family and group counseling, psychiatric coordination, mental health assessments, concise documentation (individual plan of care, mental health quarterlies, treatment plans). Care coordination with outside agencies (San Diego Regional Center and Veterans Assistance). Supervision on Master in Social work student USC- 1 yr
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