BRIDGET LASHEA MCLAUGHLIN

• Works closely with the administrative team as well as the counseling team to coordinate, facilitate, and implement mental health support services.
• Maintains a caseload of more than 25 children in the school setting.
• Uses appropriate counseling skills and evidence-based practices to meet the individual needs of the students.
• Provides therapeutic activities to children in the school setting to support emotional expression and build connection.
• Worked collaboratively with other mental health professionals to provide consistent care and minimize diversion.

Worked with staff, students and parents to ensure a safe and orderly learning environment .

Assisted in developing and implementing the school's crisis intervention plan.

Counseled individual students and made appropriate referrals for testing, guidance, or psychological services.

Resolved discipline problems in a fair and just manner.

Maintained appropriate discipline records.

Established and maintained a positive collaborative relationship with the students' families to increase student achievement.

• Assist school administrators and educators with planning and carrying out school-related programs and events.
• Analyze student performance in the classroom to provide guidance and identify potential problems.
• Facilitate crisis intervention and prevention programs.
• Communicate with teachers, parents, and administrators on an ongoing basis about behavioral and academic problems.

• Conducts assessments for clients through face-to-face contact to determine treatment needs.
• Provides in-home community-based services which includes individual, group, and family counseling to children and their families to prevent out of home placement and crisis stabilization admissions.
• Determines appropriate service provider based on clinical, demographic, and payer requirements.
• Serves as client and center advocate, consultant, and liaison with a wide variety of community agencies to ensure client continuity of care.
• Facilitates continuity of services within the agency and community for clients seen in Emergency Screening.

• Conducts assessments for clients through telephone and face-to-face contact to determine treatment needs.
• Determines appropriate service provider based on clinical, demographic, and payer requirements.
• Serves as client and center advocate, consultant, and liaison with a wide variety of community agencies to ensure client continuity of care.
• Facilitates continuity of services within the agency and community for clients seen in Emergency Screening.

• Development and oversight of the individual service plan for inmates receiving inpatient services.
• Facilitated psychotherapeutic groups for inmates receiving inpatient services as well as individual counseling sessions.
• Chaired the multidisciplinary team meeting which assessed the therapeutic needs of the inmates receiving inpatient services.

• Coordinates the development of individualized Service Implementation Plans (SIP) for persons residing in a state mental health facility, including admission and annual SIPs.
• Prepares and publishes SIPs in accordance with prescribed timeframes and with prescribed content.
• Chairs service team meetings, summarize relevant meeting discussions, and serves as liaison among all disciplines involved with service provision.
• Ensures that plans are developed, and meetings are held in accordance with the published quarterly schedules.
• Documents inclusion of resident in all planning and meeting activities.
• Requests, receives, and reviews all necessary assessments and comprehensive evaluations from service providers to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timelines, to be used in preparing service plans or revisions to same.
• Collects and submits data on assessment completion to appropriate managers.
• Conducts scheduled reviews of SIP progress, both monthly and annually, and updates SIP forms as required.
• Completes and publishes Service Team Meeting Summaries for all service review meetings held according to prescribed timeframes.
• Ensures that meetings are conducted within the scheduled timeframes.
• Ensures that meetings are not cancelled and re-scheduled, without approval of supervisor.
• Reviews, monitors, and evaluates service provision data and records to determine individual’s progress toward meeting plan goals and objectives.
• Makes recommendations to service providers to service providers regarding additions, deletions, or modifications to the services provided.
• Documents all changes made in SIP.
• Conducts and publishes PASIGs on all assigned residents to assess personal interests, strengths, and life goals.
• Reviews findings with residents, and documents same.
• Uses PASIG information in service plan development, especially in the selection of treatment/service venues.
• Conducts discharge planning meetings as needed.
• Ensures that all relevant parties are in attendance and participate in meeting.
• Assist with pre-discharge activities and escort/transport individuals to community site visits that facilitate discharge.
• Participates in quality improvement activities as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Completed the daily census on inmates for the State of Florida.
• Prepared behavioral risk assessments on inmates.
• Assisted with filing documents, answering phones, and other clerical duties.
• Lead activity groups with inmates.
• Assisted with providing aftercare services to inmates that are approaching their end of sentence.
• Ensured that inmates who are receiving mental health services are scheduled for mental health appointments with the local community health facility in their release area.
• Maintained case managements logs that informs mental health specialists of due dates and time frames for treatment summaries and discharges.

• Linked the client and family to resources identified in the treatment plan.
• Maintained contact with staff/agencies providing services for the purpose of monitoring client’s progress and assessing appropriateness of services.
• Served as an advocate for the client/family with a wide variety of community.
• Provided resources for financial assistance to address crises or other needs.
• Prepared and maintains client records and insures quality of documentation of medical records.

• Completed the daily census on inmates for the State of Florida.
• Prepared behavioral risk assessments on inmates.
• Assisted with filing documents, answering phones, and other clerical duties.
• Lead activity groups with inmates.
• Assisted with providing aftercare services to inmates that are approaching their end of sentence.
• Ensured that inmates who are receiving mental health services are scheduled for mental health appointments with the local community health facility in their release area.
• Maintained case managements logs that informs mental health specialists of due dates and time frames for treatment summaries and discharges.

• Provided case management services to families who are dealing with issues of child abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
• Counseled clients to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes.
• Assessed family and client strengths and needs.
• Referred clients or families to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness.
• Prepared court documents and attend hearings/trials and provided testimony as to safety factors impacting risk to the children in their home environments.

• Inspected and licensed child care facilities and family day care homes.
• Responded to and investigated child care complaints.
• Ensured that all facilities and day care homes meet the Florida Statute and Administrative Code guidelines and procedures.
• Provided educational information regarding child care training courses.
• Prepared and imposed administrative fines to facilities and child care homes that do not meet the guidelines of the Florida Statute and Administrative Code.
• Attended hearings/trials and provided testimonies as to the safety factors impacting risk to the children attending the child care facilities and homes.

• Responded to and investigated allegations of child abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
• Counseled clients to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes.
• Assessed family and client strengths and needs.
• Referred clients or families to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness.
• Prepared court documents and attended hearings/trials and provided testimony as to safety factors impacting risk to the children in their home environments.

• Provided access to mental health services to dependent children as well as community children.
• Assisted in the development of treatment services to children/adolescents in the states target populations.
• Worked closely with community agencies, service providers, families, and other partners to ensure services to children and their families are coordinated, integrated and unduplicated.
• Worked in conjunction with the contract manager and budget specialist to ensure allocations of funding are fluid and available to serve all residential levels of care, the wraparound service process, the Behavioral Network (BNET), Purchase of Therapeutic Services Funding, etc.
• Chaired the children’s mental health multidisciplinary team which assessed the therapeutic needs of children.
• Worked closely with the Agency for Health Care Administration to ensure that providers were meeting the federal Medicaid standards and procedures.
• Removed barriers to service delivery and maintained a waiting list for residential programs, specialized therapeutic foster care, and therapeutic group home care.
• Developed and initiated discharge plans for children being discharged from residential facilities.

• Responded to and investigated allegations of child abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
• Counseled clients to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes.
• Assessed family and client strengths and needs.
• Referred clients or families to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness.
• Prepared court documents and attended hearings/trials and provided testimony as to safety factors impacting risk to the children in their home environments.