Katara L. Berry LBSW
Bartlett,TN
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Case Manager III
TN Department of Children's Services
Memphis, TN
01.2019 - Current
- Working various child abuse allegation cases
- Conduct interviews with children, families, and collaterals
- Prepare assessment determinations to be used in allocating appropriate services
- Conducting background research
- Maintaining timely and accurate case documentation
- Attend regular team and department meetings and trainings.
Call Center Specialist
Universal Health Services/Lakeside Behavioral Health
Memphis, TN
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Assist referral sources with request for patient's admission into the hospital
- Contact on-call psychiatrist to review patient cases
- Maintain hard-copy and electronic detailed notes of all calls
- Compile, detail, and maintain confidential patient files
- Provide treatment and program information to callers
- Adhere to federal HIPAA and confidentiality laws and guidelines at all times.
Intake Assessment Specialist
Shelby County Government
Memphis, TN
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Conduct initial and follow up functional and social assessments
- Counsel with potential enrollees, and family members
- Facilitate the Medicaid application during intake
- Prepare initial documents and charts
- Maintain individual caseloads
- Give weekly updates to management.
Team Leader
Benchmark Human Services
Cordova, TN
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Managed a team of six direct staff employees, working in the home of a mental health client
- Helped develop and manage staffing schedules
- Assisted in monitoring client's health care needs
- Completed home observations
- Ensured monthly safety drills were conducted, and documented.
Case Manager
Case Management Inc.
Memphis, TN
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Assisted clients who suffered with mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, with a plethora of specific issues
- Including counseling referrals, scheduling clinic appointments, medication review assistance, utility and rental assistance referrals, assisting with applications for medical insurance, assisted with applications for government assistance, completed forms for disability payment claims
- Scheduled and followed through with weekly in-home meetings with clients
- Documented, organized, and detailed daily activity reports
- Updated client files with necessary forms
- Attended weekly staff meetings with my supervisor and team.
Education
MSW -
Walden University
01.2018
B.S.W. -
University of Memphis
01.2009
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- PowerPoint
- Research
- Data Entry
- Needs Assessment
- Cross-Functional collaboration
- Documentation proficiency
- Excellent typing skills
- Excellent computer, written, and verbal communication skills Highly motivated professional Exceptional client relations skills Organized and detailed Strong interpersonal skills Excellent documentation, and data entry skills Effective listening, and deductive reasoning
Abilities Summary
Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker with ten plus years of experience providing quality and efficient community service support for a diverse population group of clients. Specialized knowledge and skills have been acquired in the areas of conflict resolution, leadership, time management, effective communication, and problem solving. In addition, the abilities that I possess which exemplify my professional sustainability include: strong inter-personal skills, versatility, dependable and reliable employee, punctual, competent, team oriented and independent, dedicated, accompanied with the mastery of building worker/client rapport expeditiously. Extensive time has been dedicated to completing child welfare assessments, creating care plans for the developmentally delayed, geriatric, and economically challenged population groups.
Accomplishments
- Deans List student recipient
- Deans List graduate
Related Courses
- Social Work: An Empowering Profession
- Social Policy
- Social Programs I & II
- Social Work Practice I, II & III
- Human Behavior and the Social Environment
- Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Spanish 2010 &2020
- Holocaust Studies
Activities
- President, Student Social Work Organization, The University of Memphis, 2006-2008.
- Student body representative- Social Work Legislative Conference, Nashville, TN, April 2007.
Certification
Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker, State of Tennessee Board of Health, 2011-03-30
Languages
Intermediate Spanish
Volunteer Experience
- YMCA Youth Community Action Program (YCAP), Memphis, TN, 2006-2007.
- Riverdale Estates, 2006.
- The Union Mission 2006, 2007.
- The Food Bank 2007.
- CVC Community Health and Resource Fair, 2008.
- Memphis Crisis Center, 2011.
Timeline
Case Manager III
TN Department of Children's Services
01.2019 - Current
Call Center Specialist
Universal Health Services/Lakeside Behavioral Health
01.2018 - 01.2019
Intake Assessment Specialist
Shelby County Government
01.2013 - 01.2016
Team Leader
Benchmark Human Services
01.2012 - 01.2013
Case Manager
Case Management Inc.
01.2010 - 01.2011
MSW -
Walden University
B.S.W. -
University of Memphis
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