Briana Yancey
Seattle,USA
Summary
Extensive experience working in diverse communities with an emphasis on cultural humility, anti-racism and building effective therapeutic alliances utilizing strength-based and trauma-informed modalities.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Family Medical Leave / Personal Real Estate Projects
Seattle, WA
07.2023 - 12.2024
- Foster Parent/taking care of family/ Focused on acquiring and managing residential properties, including property renovations and market research
Medical Case Manager
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, WA
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Provide HIV/AIDS intake and case management to adult patients served at Harborview Medical Center primary care clinic, Madison Clinic
- Conduct comprehensive assessments of psychosocial, financial, medical support and environmental needs
- Develop individualized case management service plans to assist the hospitalized and ambulatory care patient to obtain needed medical, social, financial, legal and home care services, housing, psychiatric and drug treatment and emotional support
- Proficient in navigating patient records including EPIC electronic healthcare records system to access patient information, document social assessments, coordinate discharge planning, and collaborate with other healthcare team members within the platform
Acute & Long Term Care Discharge Planner
CIRCLE OF LIFE COMMUNITY CARE
Puget Sound, WA
01.2009 - 12.2022
- Discharge Facilitator for Wa
- State Dept of Social and Health Services Long-term Care Demonstration Project
- Conduct a pre-transition consultation and determine viability for clients interested in transitioning from an institutional setting and transition/support needs
- Completion of Individualized Transition Plan
- Facilitated all aspects of client's discharge, transition and stabilization process from various medical institutions into community-based settings to over 300 Medicaid eligible clients
- Serve as a liaison with and among the client, nursing or institutional facility staff, case managers, housing providers, medical personnel, legal representatives, formal caregivers, family members, informal supports and any other involved party
- Provide the client with transition services in a manner consistent with protecting and promoting the client's health and welfare, and appropriate to the client's physical and psychological needs
- Established growing network of referrals from State social workers to include Challenging Behavior Consultation contracts to help stabilize individuals and their caregivers with traumatic brain injury as well as those with a diagnosis of mental illness
- Targeted interventions provided to the client and/or caregiver to decrease aggressive, destructive, socially inappropriate, or other behaviors that compromise a participant's ability to remain in the community
- Provide life skills and stabilization services to clients who are at risk of losing their housing due to behavioral/mental health issues, medical or economic barriers
- Assist clients with budgeting, medication management, nutrition, self-care and resource acquisition necessary to thrive in the community
- Serve as a liaison between client, service-providers, multi systems i.e
- Social Security Admin, Medicaid/Medicare, etc
Board Member
Local Indian Child Welfare Advisory Committee (LICWAC)
Seattle, WA
01.2011 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: King co
- WA State Department of Children and Family Services
- Ensure that Indian children in foster care remain connected to their tribes/tribal customs and relatives especially if they are not returning home
- Review the case of each Indian child receiving services from a Children's Administration (CA) Program or private child placing agency unless the Tribe has accepted jurisdiction or is involved in planning for the case
- Act as part of a multi-disciplinary team for CA and private agency workers in the development of culturally relevant case plans
- Review the CA or private agency social worker's assessment of potential risk factors and make appropriate recommendations to ensure placement permanency and safety is optimized each Indian child
- Ensure that culturally relevant resources are offered to the family to prevent out of home care or expedite reunification efforts when a child must be placed in foster care
- King co
- WA State Department of Children and Family Services
Child and Family Mental Health Professional
Snoqualmie Behavioral Health (SBH)
King Co., WA
01.2006 - 12.2010
- Company Overview: Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
- Provide psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, treatment and case planning for clients referred by Child Protective Services (CPS), Family Treatment Court, and other agencies utilizing DSM-IV/ICD-9 criteria
- Tracked basic demographic and intake information reflecting children served from over 130 different tribal affiliations
- Assist families and relatives with managing family problems such as addictions and substance abuse within a harm reduction framework, parenting skills; suicidal ideation or attempts; stress management; problems with self-esteem; supervised visitations, housing/homelessness; resource acquisition, and issues associated with other mental and emotional health needs
- Supervised case aides and Graduate interns to provide optimal case management outcomes, coordinated case aid services, reviewed case aid progress notes, provided clinical supervision
- Designed and implemented cultural activities including a 9- week summer camp program to enhance the cultural identity and esteem of Indigenous children and families in response to the lack of safe, culturally appropriate alternatives available to our underserved children and families
- Consulted and coordinated with multidisciplinary teams including family and team meetings as required - Worked closely with law enforcement, court personnel and DSHS to keep them informed of family's progress and legal status
- This position also functioned in collaboration with other county departments, outside agencies and service providers
- Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
Program Evaluation Research Coordinator
University of WA School of Social Work
Seattle, WA
01.2000 - 12.2007
- Company Overview: NW Institute for Children and Families
- Establish and maintain relationships through longitudinal interviewing with over 100 families to learn from their and their children's experiences with homelessness for the evaluation of Sound Families
- Sound Families is an Initiative providing service-enriched transitional housing for families across Pierce, King and Snohomish Counties
- Facilitate the design, implementation, analysis and dissemination of the evaluation of a state and federal collaborative program that prepares MSW students for public child welfare employment
- Convene and facilitate a Youth Advisory Group and focus groups of foster care alumnae
- Elicit and integrate feedback into the development of the policies and procedures of non-profit organizations, as well as the design of the evaluation of an Independent Living Program
- Collaboratively examine data, write reports and present findings for program evaluation stakeholders and funders using participatory and empowerment research methods
- Submit and obtain Washington State Institutional Review Board (WSIRB) Human Subject's approval for two three-year studies investigating the impact of Family Group Conferences on vulnerable children and youth in group care facilities and who have been in out-of-home care for at least one year
- Build and maintain professional relationships and engage staff from human service programs in reflective practice that clarifies the depth and process of future and current evaluation work
- NW Institute for Children and Families
Volunteer and Graduate Student Intern
King Co. Dependency Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
Seattle, WA
01.2001 - 12.2005
- Investigate and assess factors associated with culturally and economically diverse, at-risk children and their families involved in juvenile court proceedings
- Advocate and recommend decisions that are in the child's best interests to commissioners and judges through court reports and testimony
- Express case-related strengths and concerns at multidisciplinary meetings such as Family Group Conferences and Child Protective Teams in order to help shape future direction
- Provide consultation and training to volunteers regarding their role of advocacy within the child welfare system
- Apply child welfare theories and best-practice models such as Concurrent Planning, attachment theory, infant and child development, and cultural competency trainings such as adherence to Indian Child Welfare
Education
Graduate Certificate - Infant Mental Health
University of Washington School of Nursing
Seattle, WA06.2006
Master Social Work - Children, Youth & Families
University of Washington School of Social Work
Seattle, WA06.2002
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA06.2001
Bachelor of Arts - Social Welfare
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA06.2001
Professional Highlights
•. Over 15 years in tribal /public child welfare and mental health systems throughout Pierce, King and Snohomish Co:
- King Co. Local Indian Child Welfare Committee (LICWAC)| Board Member, 2011-2021.
- Foster-Adoptive Parent, Wa St DSHS , licensed formerly by K'IYA- w/ Snoqualmie Indian Tribe.
- Five years as Mental Health Professional /Child & Family Therapist w/ Snoqualmie Tribe Behavioral Health: providing trauma informed , community based care to families engaged with the local Indian Child Welfare Agency (ICWA) in partnership with Indian Health Services. - over 130 tribal affiliations represented.
- King Co Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program, Graduate student intern and subsequent volunteer, 2001-2007.
- Experience presenting at national and local conferences (i.e. National Indians Child Welfare (NICWA) and National Alliance to End Homelessness) co-authored child welfare and homelessness related publications.
Over 10 years as a lead medical discharge planner for hospital/rehabilitation centers for clients with complex medical care plans and post-discharge planning.
Skilled in Crisis prevention, intervention and conflict management including assessing, evaluating, diffusing and working to resolve conflicts between clients, family members and multidisciplinary teams.
Certified Infant Mental Health “Zero-to-Three” specialist: Extensive experience in maternal mental health/pregnancy-related depression; social - emotional and early childhood development diagnostic screenings and assessments; Providing parent-child interaction- therapy and developmental guidance and intervention as indicated.
Supervisory experience: U of Wa. Social Work Graduate Practicum Instructor/reflective supervision and training to case –aids and CASA volunteers relating to the best interests of children and families.
Seven yrs. experience in program evaluation working with a range of stakeholders across private, public and tribal community-based programs with a focus on child welfare and supportive transitional housing.
Certification
- Indigenous Full spectrum Doula, ZAAGI'IDIWIN, United Indians of All Tribes, Seattle, WA, 06/01/21, Present
- ESA School Social Worker, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 06/01/24, 06/30/25
- CPR Certification
Publications
- Youth Participants Speak About Their Family Group Conference, Angel Dawson, Briana Yancey, American Human FGDM Issues in Brief, 2006, 1-4
- Long Term and Immediate Outcomes of Family Group Conferencing in Washington State, N. Shore, J. Wirth, K. Cahn, Bi. Yancey, K. Gunderson, Restorative Practices E-Forum, 09/10/02
Timeline
Family Medical Leave / Personal Real Estate Projects
07.2023 - 12.2024
Medical Case Manager
Harborview Medical Center
01.2023 - 06.2023
Board Member
Local Indian Child Welfare Advisory Committee (LICWAC)
01.2011 - 02.2020
Acute & Long Term Care Discharge Planner
CIRCLE OF LIFE COMMUNITY CARE
01.2009 - 12.2022
Child and Family Mental Health Professional
Snoqualmie Behavioral Health (SBH)
01.2006 - 12.2010
Volunteer and Graduate Student Intern
King Co. Dependency Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
01.2001 - 12.2005
Program Evaluation Research Coordinator
University of WA School of Social Work
01.2000 - 12.2007
Graduate Certificate - Infant Mental Health
University of Washington School of Nursing
Master Social Work - Children, Youth & Families
University of Washington School of Social Work
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Bachelor of Arts - Social Welfare
University of Washington-Seattle Campus