Lane Cohen

• Engage with potential new clients in a professional and friendly manner to gather information necessary for referrals.
• Build rapport with all clients, family members, and other professionals to promote high customer satisfaction.
• Handle sensitive information with discretion, while maintaining strict confidentiality standards.
• Communicate regularly with two therapists to ensure client needs are met.

• Provide brief supportive counseling to address the social and emotional well-being of campers, parents, and counselors during a week long summer camp for children with physical disabilities.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of professionals to assess needs for campers and staff throughout the week.
• Coordinate and conduct sessions during counselor orientation to promote positive engagement and expectations, develop a sense of empathy, and ultimately to strengthen the bond between camper and counselor pairings.

• Instructed students based on the lesson plan provided by teachers for multiple grade levels and subjects to maintain learning initiatives through teacher absences.
• Collaborated with teachers when needed to encourage student participation in learning.
• Applied a strengths-based approach to motivate positive classroom behavior by implementing positive reinforcement strategies and clear expectations for behavior.
• Maintained flexibility in a continually changing environment.
• Key Achievement: Developed a strong rapport with both teachers and students through the use of social work skills as evidenced by positive praise from numerous teachers and students.

• Administered a variety of assessments with middle and high school students, parents, and teachers.
• Provided cognitive behavioral therapy sessions tailored to students with with Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Behavior Disorders and ADHD.
• Maintained confidentiality of students with integrity.
• Collaborated with psychiatrists to accurately diagnose students, set goals for therapy, and evaluate progress made throughout sessions.
• Key Achievements: Promoted to the next social work classification and became a team leader among my peers.

• Established a warm, friendly, safe, and nurturing environment for the social and emotional growth of students.
• Utilized a lesson plan to meet the educational needs of students and develop a strong base for academic growth.
• Planned and facilitated parent-teacher conferences by using my social work skillset to update parents on the development of their children.
• Promoted positive social interactions among children to ensure the practice of appropriate social norms necessary for developmental growth.
• Encouraged parents to use additional supports for children exhibiting problematic behaviors or development including at-home modifications and referrals to address needs.

ER Social Worker/ Brain Injury Unit Case Manager

• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams of professionals to develop care plans for patient discharge.
• Organized and lead weekly interdisciplinary staff meetings for assigned physician to coordinate treatment plans for brain injury patients.
• Provided emotional support and resources for patients, families, and Touro staff through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
• Key Achievements: Appointed as the sole social services representative for the hospital wide Patient Flow Committee to assess barriers to efficient patient discharges.

• Provided social work services for the Burn Unit and Pediatric ICU.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary groups to support patient and family needs.
• Key Achievements: Only intern allowed to serve as the unit social worker without direct supervision from hospital social worker.

• Assessed students with psychological, medical, and learning disorders to determine eligibility for academic accommodations.
• Advocated for students receiving academic accommodations to be given the opportunity to succeed in the classroom.
• Key Achievements: Planned and conducted a successful campus wide event for Disability Awareness Week.