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Katherine Donohoe

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Mental Health Discharge Planner

Wellpath
Santa Rosa, CA
05.2021 - Current
  • Responsible for discharge planning for patients receiving mental health services, particularly patients diagnosed with a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI), Mental Retardation (MR), or patients with a serious medical illness, in accordance with the policy and procedures.
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with community agencies providing services to persons with mental illness or serious medical conditions.
  • Facilitate applications of eligibility for SSDI, SSI, or other available forms of financial assistance, as well as resumption of benefits for patients awaiting release from the Facility.
  • Maintain effective working relationships with Facility Staff, Institutional Parole Officer, and appropriate parole, mental health and medical staff.
  • Responsible to abide by security regulations, including limits of confidentiality of patient information requirements of the Facility.

Housing Case Manager

Ritter Center
12.2020 - Current
  • Conduct regular home visits, at least twice a month, to all tenants in the agency's housing programs and record data from each visit
  • Actively participate in Home Visit team meetings, helping to update treatment plans for housing clients
  • Assess client needs and work with all staff to provide a seamless, effective service plan; make appropriate referrals to other service providers when necessary
  • Assist clients in independent living skills and realistic goal setting; provide support needed to access agencies (bus tickets, identification cards, etc)
  • Collaborate with Social Service agencies to ensure appropriate support for clients, advocating for clients as needed; follow-up with clients and other agencies regarding transition of clients into other programs and record outcomes
  • Maintain accurate records of referrals and client advocacy
  • Attend assigned case management meetings

Human Trafficking Victim Advocate

Verity
06.2019 - 12.2020
  • Direct advocacy, case management, crisis counseling and intervention, community referrals to individuals impacted by human trafficking
  • Provide accompaniment to law enforcement interviews, medical/forensic exams, court appointments/dates
  • Work with local and federal agencies including local law enforcement, Homeland Security, and the FBI to assist in locating and providing services to victims
  • Provide referrals to community partners and work closely with partners to coordinate services
  • Serve on the Human Trafficking Task Force, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) committee and Runaway Roundtable committee
  • Provide community education including but not limited to: trainings to organizations, sitting on community panels, presenting to community partners and agencies, outreach at local hotels, shelters, salons, bars and restaurants to raise awareness
  • Support clients throughout the investigative and criminal justice systems by providing case status information, explaining investigative and prosecution processes, and accompanying clients to interviews, pre-text phone calls, medical exams, court and hearings
  • Follow up and ongoing advocacy services through case management as delineated in case notes/client plan
  • Collaborating with the local emergency youth foster shelter, Social Workers, and Child advocacy Center to provide support and services to youth being trafficked or at risk of being trafficked

Sexual Assault Victim Outreach Advocate

Verity
01.2018 - 06.2019
  • Provide outreach services victims of sexual assault to individuals that are homeless, or at-risk of becoming homeless
  • Outreach sites include jail, day centers, county social services, clinics, hospitals/emergency rooms, Family Justice Center Sonoma County, open area such as bridges/overpasses, homeless encampments, and others
  • Coordinate with other agencies to ensure broad outreach without duplication of efforts
  • Screen outreach clients with Vulnerability Index Service Priority Decision Assistance Tool
  • Coordinate with outside agencies to assist homeless clients with obtaining emergency shelter and transitional housing
  • Provide follow up & ongoing advocacy services and referrals via phone and in person to victims via case management as delineated in case notes/client plan
  • Provide accompaniment to law enforcement interviews, medical/forensic exams, court appointments/dates
  • Coordinate with the Verity team and other partners to ensure adequate service delivery and follow through
  • Present at community meetings on homeless who are victimized by sexual assault

Residential Counselor

Victor Treatment Center
04.2016 - 01.2018
  • Supervise youth in home-like environment with the completion of daily tasks while connecting them with the larger community and implementing the Victor Residential Program
  • Implement individualized treatment plans in collaboration with clinical and school teams
  • Participate in staff meetings, trainings, and communicate professionally with all treatment team members and outside stakeholders
  • Ensure that the physical needs of the residents are met, distribute and documents the use of medications,
  • Identify, report, and document youth's needs, behavior, and progress
  • Engage youth in all aspects of daily living, builds professional and mutually respectful relationships with the youth while modeling positive adult behavior and citizenship.
  • Able to implement effective interventions and excellent crisis management skills

Legal Clerical

Scheer Law Group LLP
08.2015 - 03.2016
  • Evaluate new case submissions
  • Maintain database of case information
  • Answer and direct phone calls
  • Assist attorneys with daily needs (indexing documents, scanning, data entry, mailing letters to the courts)
  • Train new employees
  • Assist paralegals with case work

Education

Masters - Clinical Social Work

Boston University
Boston, MA
01-2025

Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice

Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA
05.2015

Skills

  • Community outreach
  • Homeless and dual diagnosed populations
  • Confidential documentation and recordkeeping
  • Strong communicator
  • Community referrals
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Detail-oriented
  • Trauma-Informed care
  • Crisis Counseling
  • Client advocacy
  • Impact of trauma on youth and young adults
  • Trauma experience and trauma management
  • Child advocacy
  • Multidisciplinary team collaboration
  • Client-focused
  • Crisis intervention and management
  • Case Management
  • Experience with acute mental health in a forensic setting

Certifications and Training

  • Girls Circle Facilitator: December 2018
  • Sexual Assault Victim Advocate and Counselor: January 2018
  • CPR and First Aid Certified
  • CSEC 101: Identifying Commercially Exploited Kids
  • CSEC 102: Engagement Strategies for Commercially Exploited Kids and Transitional Aged Youth
  • Freedom Network: Growing and Grounding Human Trafficking Conference
  • Uncovering Sexual Assault in Domestic Violence Calls
  • San Francisco Collaborative against Human Trafficking
  • Alliance for Hope: Hope Theory Training
  • Applying Harm Reduction Principles with Commercially Sexually Exploited Children

Timeline

Mental Health Discharge Planner

Wellpath
05.2021 - Current

Housing Case Manager

Ritter Center
12.2020 - Current

Human Trafficking Victim Advocate

Verity
06.2019 - 12.2020

Sexual Assault Victim Outreach Advocate

Verity
01.2018 - 06.2019

Residential Counselor

Victor Treatment Center
04.2016 - 01.2018

Legal Clerical

Scheer Law Group LLP
08.2015 - 03.2016

Masters - Clinical Social Work

Boston University

Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice

Sonoma State University

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