KAREN MORALES
Boston,MA
Summary
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience in service coordination and multidisciplinary team collaboration. Skilled in communication, planning, and conflict resolution, with a strong focus on counseling and support for individuals and families. Committed to enhancing team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Driven to advance and excel within a medical environment.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER LICSW
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
03.2021 - Current
- Provide clinical psychosocial assessments and interventions to patients and families.
- Collaborate with the medical team to achieve optimal patient care plan through identification of, and intervention on, psychosocial needs and barriers.
- Develop project plans to address patient-level and systems-level psychosocial care gaps and actively participates in program meetings with commitment to continuous quality improvement.
- Develop, and implements projects, conferences, trainings, educational resources, groups, or other forums that address goals and expectations of the program stakeholders.
- Launched redcap database to collect metrics for tobacco cessation program.
- Respond to distress screens for adult patients meeting established criteria
- Provide formal MD/staff and patient education related to adult psychosocial oncology and oncology social work.
- Provide cancer related and community resources to patients and families.
Clinical Case Manager
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children
01.2020 - 09.2024
- Provide intensive case management to clients and their children.
- Complete comprehensive intakes and assessment with clients.
- Collaborate with team members to assist in development of individualize treatment plans.
- Provide life skills counseling, educational and vocational counseling.
- Coordinate any referrals and discharge planning for clients and their children.
- Supervisor for Master of Social Work Students.
Passageway MSW Advocate
Brigham and Women's Hospital Passageway Program
09.2017 - 09.2024
- Provide crisis intervention, ongoing counseling, advocacy, and empowerment-based services to survivors of intimate partner violence seen in the healthcare setting.
- Complete comprehensive intakes with clients including risk assessment and safety planning to inform service delivery.
- Participate in care coordination for clients in consultation with medical social workers, medical team providers, and other collateral contacts as appropriate.
- Consult with multidisciplinary health care professionals on the issue of intimate partner abuse.
Public Health Advocate
Boston Public Health Commission PAATHS Program
09.2016 - 09.2024
- Assisted clients in connecting to services within the community.
- Facilitate access to treatment programs (including detox, CSS/TSS programs, medication assisted treatment and outpatient treatment programs).
- Connect clients to overdose prevention and risk reduction services Dana-Farber Workforce Development Training Program.
Leave Administrator Associate
Dana -Farber Cancer Institute
05.2014 - 09.2024
- Comprehension of relevant law that support clients such as FMLA and MPLA.
- Conduct client intakes and provide clients with third party resources.
- Assist the Leave Administrator with processing leaves and assembling files.
- Case Management for each leave of absence.
Education
Master's - Social Work
Boston University
BostonBachelor's - Social Work
Wheelock College
Boston06.2017
Skills
- Counseling
- Data Collection
- Conducting required program assessment
- Case Management
- Treatment planning
- Life skills counseling
- Massachusetts Licensed LICSW
- Native Spanish speaker
- Confidential case documentation
- Multitasking abilities
- Microsoft Office
- Goal Setting
- Flexible & Adaptable
- Tobacco Cessation Counselor
Certification
- Clinical Social Worker
- Social Work License
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER LICSW
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
03.2021 - Current
Clinical Case Manager
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children
01.2020 - 09.2024
Passageway MSW Advocate
Brigham and Women's Hospital Passageway Program
09.2017 - 09.2024
Public Health Advocate
Boston Public Health Commission PAATHS Program
09.2016 - 09.2024
Leave Administrator Associate
Dana -Farber Cancer Institute
05.2014 - 09.2024
Bachelor's - Social Work
Wheelock College
Master's - Social Work
Boston University