Resourceful counseling professional with experience in providing individual and group support to help clients suffering from substance abuse issues. Skilled in developing and implementing treatment plans, conducting assessments and providing referrals to external resources. Committed to advocating for client rights and helping build positive coping skills.
Work collaboratively with the clinical team to engage, educate, communicate, and coordinate care with clients, their family, behavioral health, medical and dental providers, community resources and others in ensuring that all services prescribed in the individualized service plan are implemented. You will perform all case management functions associated with caseload including outreach and follow-up, staffings, client transportation, completing assessment and service planning processes and identifying the need for further or specialty evaluations
Provide Face to Face counseling session in a In-prison program. Deliver treatment program services to participants & conduct group and individual sessions utilizing motivational interviewing , a cognitive behavior therapy approach and other therapeutic processes . Manages a caseload of 36 inmiates and evaluates , records and executes treatment progress. Recording visible changes in appearance , behavior and demeanor of program participants. Provides guidence and direction to the appropiate resources and support needed during incarceration and aftercare, not limited to transition housing in the state and county. Works Collaboratively with California Correctional Department of Rehabilitation , Division of Rehabilitative Programs , California Correctional Health Care Services and institution staff .
My position as a SUD Counselor worked Full Time in the DUI Department had many job duties which have taught me many job efficient skills . Some of my daily job duties included conducting Intakes and orientation for individuals referred to our program from Court and California Department of Motor Vehicles. Facilitated individual counseling sessions as well as group session with up to 15 clients each session . Provide educational group sessions with up to 35 clients at a time.
Some of my job duties as Environmental Services at Mee Memorial Hospital were to ensure all trash from all departments were taken out , distributed clean linen and responded to all housekeeping pagers. Checked surgery rooms hourly for any OR rooms needed to be cleaned and setup for next operation. In between trash rounds my duties were to clean main lobby , admitting office , doctors lounge and the cafe as well as the cafeteria. The last round of trash consisted of taking out the trash as well as bio-hazards.