Krysta Broeker
Solvay,NY
Summary
Engaging and patient professional committed to promoting safe learning environment for all. Detail-oriented and compassionate with extensive knowledge in various subjects. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Suicide Safety in Schools- Mental Health Educator
Contact Community Services
Syracuse, NY
08.2022 - Current
- Schedules and delivers ASIST, Safe TALK, Helping Students at Risk for Suicide, Suicide Safety for Teachers, More than Sad, Seize the Awkward, QPR, Crisis Team Building, and other evidence based Suicide Prevention and Mental Health workshops
- Develops and delivers mental health education and promotion programs, including training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations to fit the need of the intended audience
- Develops and supports partnerships with school districts, agencies, and organizations interested in suicide prevention and mental health care
- Prepares and distributes mental health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address suicide prevention and other mental health concerns, as well as community resources available
- Empower school districts, parents/caregivers/ and other community-based providers to implement Suicide Prevention and Mental Health strategies to children in home and community based settings
- Documents activities and records information, such as trainings completed, presentations conducted, and persons aided
- Documents workshop participant satisfaction through notes, feedback, data collection/entry, and analysis, creating charts, graphs, and reports.
- Tracks training outcomes, including completion rate, competence, and confidence. Uses participant feedback to influence future trainings and workshops.
Hutchings Psychiatric Center Integrative Transition Team- Counselor I
Helio Health
Syracuse, NY
- Aided in the identification and help to move long stay State Psychiatric program participants, which have experienced difficulty or barriers with integrating into the community
- Supported and encouraged clients to move into residential/housing settings with supports that reduce or eliminate those barriers and facilitate successful community living
- Provided expertise in supporting, educating and collaborating with residential staff and other providers assisting the program participants in their clients’ integration to community living
- Worked in partnership within the Helio Health agency structure, as well as in direct partnership with Hutchings Psychiatric Center for the expressed purpose of transitioning long state psychiatric consumers into community settings
- This involved regular communication with Hutchings administration and service providers for planning, coordination of services, reporting, decision making/strategizing, crisis management & response and other interactions that promote a positive working relationship that promotes successful integration and recovery.
“Know the Signs” Suicide Prevention Project Coordinator
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Niagara Falls, NY
- Implemented communication efforts designed to prevent suicide by changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in mental health and suicide
- Increased the knowledge of the warning signs of suicide and promoted ways in which to connect individuals in crisis to care
- Organized a series of local workshops to provide 90 minute QPR courses to community health workers, block club members, public housing teams, Health Home care managers, members of religious organizations, police and fire representatives, and many others who were likely to come in contact with individuals needing help and suicide prevention assistance
- Trained over 350 local gatekeepers and community members in QPR for suicide prevention
- Distributed educational materials using all available media formats
- Organized and led steering committee meetings composed of individuals standing for a cross section of the Niagara Falls community in order to ensure the success of the project and assist in spreading the word about suicide prevention
- Designed posters and postcards and coordinated with local mailing house in order to spread the word on suicide prevention as well as promote local workshops
- Completed data entry for completed workshops and individuals that completed the QPR Gatekeeper Training
- Led NFMMC Continuing Day Treatment groups for individuals enrolled in the Wellness Connection Center
- Completed HML assessments and proper documentation on behalf of care managers working for the NFMMC Health Home.
Community Healthcare Worker and March of Dimes IMPLICIT Grant
P3 Center for Teens, Moms, and Kids- NFMMC
Niagara Falls, NY
- Met with postpartum women on the labor and delivery floor prior to discharge to introduce the program and complete the initial screening
- Educated on the importance of follow up appointments and aided with scheduling said appointments
- Provided assistance and/or referrals to obtain other essential support services such as housing, financial aid, food stamps, emergency food, clothing, transportation, translation, and childcare
- Conducted basic health assessments and the IMPLICIT screen, aided families to identify needs, provide basic health information, and make appropriate referrals through monthly home visits and phone calls in accordance with COVID-19 regulations
- Aided in designing, organizing, and facilitating educational activities
- Collected data on appointment attendance, depression screenings, IMPLICIT screenings, family planning services and tobacco usage
- Participated in team meetings and case review sessions
- Organized and hosted educational sessions on IMPLICIT program goals.
HOPE Team- Lead Outreach Resource Navigator
Restoration Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
- Completed outreach in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, libraries, mental health and/or drug courts, hospitals, outpatient behavioral health agencies, substance abuse/chemical dependency agencies, crisis and jail diversion programs, etc
- Used intensive engagement strategies to build rapport and help clients in distress
- Coordinated and conducted intakes for Home and Community Based Services along with any assessments needed
- Education: Explained terms, options, benefits of HARP and BH HCBS Services; aided with planning, ensuring the person has the resources and support to utilize the linkage successfully and meaningfully to reduce lack of follow-through
- Education to members and Care Managers on agency resources available to the community
- Acted as a linkage liaison and completed follow-up work with the individual and provider to support the linkage
- Modified support levels according to need and addressed barriers which may arise
- Monitored the individual’s success and satisfaction of the BH HCBS services relative to their needs, desires and goals
- Advocated, promoted and supported self-advocacy within clients to ensure services met their needs on their terms
- Acted in a swift manner to ensure eligible members are successfully walked-through the process to link to BH HCBS services within the designated period requirements
- If clients were not eligible for services, linkages to appropriate programs/agencies were made
- Worked flexible hours to meet the needs of the client and to attend outreach events and opportunities, such as Code Blue during the winter months
- Assisted manager with monthly reports to those funding the grant, as well as actively taking part in conference calls about setbacks and barriers within program and creating possible solutions to said challenges
- Listened in on different funding opportunities and worked in team settings to draw up proposals on different grants that could help the agency to grow and support the wellness of staff as well as clients
- Created new brochures and flyers for each program within Restoration Society in a small team of two, gaining information and feedback from program managers in order to meet specific needs of each population targeted
- Assisted Director of HCBS with admissions, authorizations, concurrent authorizations, data entry, and filing for new and current clients
- Functioned as stand-in for these services while the director was out on leave.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Social Work
Niagara University
Niagara Falls, NY05-2019
Skills
- Active Listening
- Verbal Communication
- Written Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Technology
- Data collection and analysis
Certification
- New York State Certified Peer Specialist
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer Certified
- QPR for Suicide Prevention Trainer Certified
- ASIST Trainer Certified
- Safe TALK Trainer Certified
- SPCNY Programming (HSARS, SST, CSSS) Trainer Certified
- AFSP Programming (More than Sad, It’s Real: Teens and Mental Health, Gizmo, Talk Saves Lives) Trainer Certified
Timeline
Suicide Safety in Schools- Mental Health Educator
Contact Community Services
08.2022 - Current
Hutchings Psychiatric Center Integrative Transition Team- Counselor I
Helio Health
“Know the Signs” Suicide Prevention Project Coordinator
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Community Healthcare Worker and March of Dimes IMPLICIT Grant
P3 Center for Teens, Moms, and Kids- NFMMC
HOPE Team- Lead Outreach Resource Navigator
Restoration Society, Inc.
Bachelor of Science - Social Work
Niagara University
- New York State Certified Peer Specialist
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer Certified
- QPR for Suicide Prevention Trainer Certified
- ASIST Trainer Certified
- Safe TALK Trainer Certified
- SPCNY Programming (HSARS, SST, CSSS) Trainer Certified
- AFSP Programming (More than Sad, It’s Real: Teens and Mental Health, Gizmo, Talk Saves Lives) Trainer Certified
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