Krystal Vest

● Manages and implements best practices/protocols regarding educational programming towards the advancement of mental health and wellness initiatives impacting student-athletes. Provides clinical and performance services and maintains student-athlete mental health records and data. Serves as an liaison between counseling center, student affairs, office of assistance with disabilities, sports medicine, and athletic department.
● Collaboration with senior leadership, coaches, student-athletes, campus partners, and community stakeholders as it relates to student-athlete mental health and wellness.
● Conduct individual assessment of mental health/substance use symptoms and diagnostics, provide psychological individual counseling, group counseling, crisis intervention, educational seminars, mental health screenings, athlete mental performance building, consultation and referrals.
● Provide a safe space and collaborative approach for student-athletes and coaches to be heard and supported while also aligning with mental health and wellness best practices and guidelines.
● Provides supervision to interns and consultation with community
partners.

• Administration and management of operations
• Performs mental health evaluations and assessments
• Provides individual and group counseling, behavioral coaching, athlete mental performance building, and crisis intervention
• Develops individualized treatment plans and provides mental health education
• Conducts workshops, education sessions, and telehealth
• Supervision of interns and residents in counseling
• On call crisis response and collaboration with mental health agencies and Universities

• Works collaboratively with teachers, aides, and support staff to demonstrate best practices, strategies, and techniques to enhance instruction for students with social, behavioral, communication, and learning challenges
• Training staff in the areas of behavior management, substance abuse, mental health, and trauma informed practices
• Conducts functional behavioral assessments and behavior intervention plans
• Supervision of school-based staff working towards QMHP (qualified mental health professional).
• Conducts and coordinates social emotional learning groups
• Provides individual counseling, group counseling, conflict resolution, and life skill training
• Coordination with community partners to implement behavioral health educational training and resources to staff, parents, and students

• Performs evaluations, assessments and documentation of mental health, substance use, intellectual and developmental diagnosis and the needs of individual consumers.
• Develop individual service and treatment plans, provide authorizations for services and continued care authorizations as needed.
• Provide Individual and group counseling, behavioral coaching, education, and crisis intervention as needed.
• Assess and coordinate to link consumer to services, to include case management, medical services, behavioral health services, and other services as needed
• Lead Clinician of Women’s Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient group
• Coordinate services and work closely with probation officers, social services, and court services to support women who are seeking to obtain custody of their children, access parental classes, substance treatment, mental health counseling, and obtain community resources that support children and families who are in active mental health and substance treatment.

• Provides behavioral coaching, emotional support, and psycho-education to children and/or families; focus areas include (but are not limited to) training/skill building in: behavioral management, problem solving, self-management, social interaction, academic education, and independent living/self-care.
• Coordinates services with all providers including the case manager, in-home therapist, private provider, and other professionals, agencies, neighborhood associations, and resources.
• Presents information on observations of child/family behavior and functioning. Identifies family strengths, weaknesses, areas of stability and instability, and progress toward treatment goals.
• Conducts Comprehensive Needs Assessments and authorizations.
• Provides oversight of authorizations at school-based sites

• Provided child and adult individual counseling, intake assessments, assessed needs and services to make referral to community supports, coordination of services with community partners.
• Provided follow up instruction, education, behavioral coaching, anger management and family supports while advocating for consumers in response to their changing needs.
• Established individual service plans and treatment goals with consumers and parents
• Provided School-based Counseling/Behavioral Coaching at school sites

• Assessing needs and services to include developing an individualized service plan (ISP) for children and adults treatment planning
• Assist individuals directly to locate, develop or obtain needed services while monitoring service deliver through contacts with consumers, service providers, and periodic site and home visits
• Provide follow up instruction, education, behavioral coaching, and counseling that supports the individualized service plan while advocating for consumers in response to their changing needs
• Knowing and monitoring the consumers health status, medical conditions, and medications of potential side effects, and assisting the individual in accessing primary care.
• Coordinate of services with community providers for residential mental health placement and alternate school placement.

• Work with families and children with developmental delays from birth to 3 years old.
• Provide intake screening, educational resources, counseling, and coordination of services in the areas of autism, down syndrome, failure to thrive, substance exposure, speech delays, sensory, cognitive development, physical impairments, and behavioral concerns.
• Conduct assessments, individualized family service plans, interviews, in-home services, discharge planning and case management.

• Specialize in the assessment and investigation of abuse, neglect, mental health, and family stabilization for children and parent
• Provide casework for agency clients of diverse cultural and economic backgrounds with personal, social, health, and economic needs
• Determine the urgency and appropriateness of referrals; investigate referrals, interview family members and others, make assessment of the strengths and needs to determine and provide the most appropriate services to children and families.
• Work and counsel clients, conduct home studies and prepare related documentation, case records and assess situation and/or progress.
• Perform work with ancillary agencies such as juvenile and domestic relations court and coordinate services with community mental health services, substance abuse services, domestic violence services, early intervention, and pediatricians.