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JACOBED MELGAREJO

JACOBED MELGAREJO

LCSW
Azusa

Summary

Dynamic mental health provider, currently a school counselor at KIPP SoCal, with expertise in trauma-informed care and creative problem-solving. Successfully implemented data-driven interventions, achieving 90% satisfaction in counseling services. Skilled in crisis intervention and stakeholder collaboration, fostering resilience in at-risk students and families through effective communication and evidence-based practices. Empathetic school counselor, known for high productivity and enhancing program interventions to ensure efficiency. Her passion for bringing hope in hopeless situations, and creating safe environments for people to heal and thrive, drives results for positive outcomes and support.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

School Counselor

Kipp SoCal
01.2019 - Current
  • Utilized data-driven decision-making to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of counseling programs and interventions, as well as create responsive schoolwide interventions to meet the unique needs in the school community.
  • Provide evidence-based individual and group counseling services to lower elementary and middle school students, resulting in 90% satisfactory reports.
  • Conduct risk assessments to ensure student safety, and provide linkages to outside services to support at-risk and high needs students and families.
  • Provided grief check-ins and linkages to grief supports, with 4 out of 5 children and families reporting an increase in mental health improvement.

Residential Clinician

McKinley Children's Center
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Served as the primary clinician for a caseload of 15-18 high-needs, school-based children in the foster system, resulting in 2 clients' transitions back into a family home.
  • Provided assessments, preliminary diagnoses, and mental health services, including individual and family counseling using modalities such as CBT, MI, and elements of exposure therapy, on a weekly basis and as needed.
  • Maintained all required documentation in a timely manner.
  • Conducted risk assessments, provided crisis interventions, and collaborated with an interdisciplinary team.

Library Specialist (Prevention program facilitator)

Children's Bureau
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Created creative, educational, and empowering program curriculum for families and children, to promote social-emotional connections, and literacy, and also provided homework help
  • Networked with agency partners and outside organizations to advance mutual goals and linked them to families as needed
  • Provided opportunities for parents to connect with their children
  • Managed a group of volunteers

Education

Master - Social Work with a Clinical empahsis

AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Azusa, CA
05.2018

Bachelors - Arts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, CA
03.2009

Skills

  • Creative problem-solving
  • Trauma-informed
  • Great interpersonal skills
  • DBT training
  • Certified in Motivational Interviewing
  • Experienced in CBT skills
  • Solid assessment skills
  • Clinical skills
  • Effective communication
  • Critical thinking
  • Leadership
  • Able to multitask effectively
  • Individual counseling
  • Group counseling
  • Risk assessment
  • Crisis intervention
  • Program development
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Documentation management
  • Case management
  • Mental health advocacy
  • Conflict resolution

Certification

  • LCSW
  • PPSC
  • MI Certified

Languages

  • English, Fluent
  • Spanish, Fluent
  • ASL, Basics

Timeline

School Counselor - Kipp SoCal
01.2019 - Current
Residential Clinician - McKinley Children's Center
01.2018 - 01.2019
Library Specialist (Prevention program facilitator) - Children's Bureau
01.2013 - 01.2015
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY - Master, Social Work with a Clinical empahsis
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - Bachelors, Arts

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