Abigail Beljean, LCSW

• Conduct individual and group therapy sessions for clients from childhood to adulthood with various mental health concerns and maintain caseload of 21 clients
• Create personalized treatment plans based on client needs and goals, utilizing evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as cognitive-behavioral and trauma-informed therapy
• Provide support to clients experiencing mental health crises while receiving services including but not limited to deescalating, referring, and supporting clients connecting to more intense services
• Maintain accurate and confidential client documentation, including progress notes, treatment plans, and assessments for clients with Medicaid insurance

• Facilitate individualandgroupcounselingforstudents with social/emotional needs including 13+ students with IEPs
• Provide crisis interventiontostudents, develop and monitor appropriate safety plans, direct and consult staff
• Teach Guidance classes on subjects including highschool admissions, health/wellness, sexual health, etc.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Provide staff training and professional development centered on supporting student social and emotional wellness
• Supervise, train, and direct MSW interns.

• Served as liaisons between students, homes, schools, family services, Child Welfare agencies, service providers, and other contacts, to help coordinate care and services to students

Facilitated individual and group counseling for students as preventative/restorative measure to decrease out of school suspensions

• Developed/monitored behavioral and safety plans for students in crisis or exhibiting severe behavioral issues

• Consulted with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of problems such as truancy and misbehavior, and to implement solutions.

• Supervised team Case Manager.

• Supervised 5 SocialWorkers/Counselor across 6 schools within charter network serving over 4,500 students in grades PreK-12th

• Served as liaison between charter management organization and partner agencies (behavioral health, uniform providers, etc.)

• Created policies and procedures for clinical services within schools across charter organization

• Conducted biopsychosocial assessments for use in Special Education evaluations

• Collected information pertinent to students' appraisal for services (medical/behavioral health records)

• Provided clinical services for 700+ students in elementary school grades PreK-8th

• Coordinated partnerships with outside agencies to provide services to students including comprehensive Sexual Education, mindfulness lessons, additional clinical services, student rewards from businesses (e.g., Raising Canes) etc.

• Supervised 8+ SocialWork/Counseling interns over3+ years

• Created/implementedAttendance/Truancy policyfor school

• Developed and implemented pilot Social/Emotional curriculum to students in grades 3-8

• Served as chair person for Student Assistance Team(SAT) handling RTI, referrals for Special Education services/504, Gifted/Talented 

• Managed special cases of enrollment in the Office of Student Enrollment (OSE) including but not limited to admission refusals, illegitimate expulsions, etc

• Investigated enrollment violations and developed action plans for schools upon notification of violation

• Led committee to create transition plan for students returning from expulsion/incarceration into the school district

• Developed data tracking system for specialized enrollment cases

• Providedclinicalsupporttoincarceratedclients,serving caseload of 150+ at a time

• Identified/connected incarcerated clients with community resources as alternatives to incarceration or post incarceration

• Compiled biopsychosocial assessments of clients for use by attorneys in advocacy and determination of competency to stand trial

• Supervised Social Work interns and Client Advocates in Social Services division

• Developed partnership with outside agencies to provide wraparound services for clients