Donna Jones-Elliott
Certified Substance Abuse Counselor
Suffolk,VA
Summary
Dedicated substance abuse counselor with a decade of experience in addressing family dynamics and addiction issues. Skilled in developing tailored treatment plans that foster recovery and resilience among clients. Focused on utilizing extensive knowledge to contribute positively to community health initiatives.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Substance Use Clinician
Hampton Roads Regional Jail
03.2017 - Current
- Supervises and provides addiction services to individuals diagnosed with an addictive disorder that includes individual and group counseling. Implements evidenced based treatment program to offenders and is responsible for administering treatment, treatment planning, and developing and facilitating addiction programming. Initial needs assessment followed by person-centered treatment plans for clients in need of substance use as well as those identified by behavioral health professionals and in compliance with correctional healthcare directives. Responsible sending monthly stats and reports to corporate. Coordinates treatment and reports to Director of Mental Health.
Program Director
Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center
09.2012 - 02.2017
- Assist in the implementation of a continuum of outpatient chemical dependency care. Oversee and manages all therapeutic activities and staff in the Partial Hospital Program that provides medically managed ambulatory detox and early recovery treatment to substance abusers. Provides assessments to all adult patients; collaborates with collaterals during and post treatment. Conducts individual/family sessions as needed. Facilitates groups daily. Supervises 2 LCSW and a RN. Reports directly to Clinical Director. Ongoing development and launching of a Mental Health Outpatient program for adults.
Coordinator- Turning Point Intensive Outpatient
Maryview Hospital
05.2007 - 09.2012
- Quality care to the IOP CD patient population, specifically delivering effective educational and therapeutic services to include family services for IOP rehabilitation. Job Functions: Facilitates education and group therapy and family conferences to CD patients. Any/all feedback to referral sources as needed. Intakes, screenings, assessments using various tools, case management, submission of all pertinent paperwork to insurance companies, utilization reviews, ongoing monitoring and observation of all patients. Weekly Aftercare group facilitation focuses on relapse prevention. Coordinates discharge planning in various milieus.
Family Service Coordinator/Wraparound Case Manager
Institute for Family Centered Services
01.1993 - 02.2003
- Provide a wide range of services to physically, mentally, emotionally challenged and at-risk children, adults and families impacted by addiction utilizing interview and behavioral observation and a variety of subjective testing. Formulate appropriate treatment and intervention plans according to assessed needs. Provide individual and family counseling with emphasis on utilizing strength-based modality accentuating problem resolution. Identify, link and refer to appropriate community resources and agencies. Monitoring services procured to ensure client’s needs are met and program requirements are satisfied and ensuring that spending plans and other budget constraints are followed. Provide case management to clients and their family systems in an effort to promote self-reliance and increased behavioral functioning upon discharge or to prevent or divert out-of-home placements. Educate, monitor and encourage implementation of behavioral and social skills training; parenting and as appropriate independent living skills. Identify, explore, educate, contract with and develop relationships with vendors in the communities. Troubleshoot, resolve and most importantly prevent issues from arising that negatively impact service delivery. Job Functions: Provided intensive in-home services to children and families. Implemented and facilitated adolescent substance abuse program for children returning to the community from the Department of Juvenile Justice. This psychoeducational program's focus is relapse prevention and incorporates the concerns of the client, parents, family and community while teaching effective coping skills. Located, assessed and identified valuable community resources linking to the needs of clients. Provided comprehensive substance abuse treatment and education to adult felons returning to community to include assessing needs and linking clients to the appropriate community based resources.
Part time detox counselor
Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board
01.1997 - 01.1999
- Monitoring and observing clients for signs and symptoms of withdrawals from various substances in community based detox setting. Intakes, assessments, linking to appropriate community resources for treatment, therapeutic interventions as needed. Dispensed and monitored medication, educated clients on medical model of addiction. Reported to medical and clinical staff.
Education
MS Human Services/Graduate Certificate - Addictions Counseling
Capella University
Bachelor's Degree - Human Services Counseling: Substance Abuse Track, Social Welfare
Old Dominion University
05.2007
Skills
Substance abuse counseling Group facilitation Assessment and evaluation Relapse prevention Family engagement Interpersonal effectiveness Team collaboration
Certification
Certified Substance Abuse Counselor
Timeline
Substance Use Clinician
Hampton Roads Regional Jail
03.2017 - Current
Program Director
Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center
09.2012 - 02.2017
Coordinator- Turning Point Intensive Outpatient
Maryview Hospital
05.2007 - 09.2012
Part time detox counselor
Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board
01.1997 - 01.1999
Family Service Coordinator/Wraparound Case Manager
Institute for Family Centered Services
01.1993 - 02.2003
MS Human Services/Graduate Certificate - Addictions Counseling
Capella University
Bachelor's Degree - Human Services Counseling: Substance Abuse Track, Social Welfare
Old Dominion University