Letoria Bell
Auburn,GA
Summary
Dedicated mental health professional with over 15 years of work in mental health, social services and criminal justice fields. Extensively trained in person centered and CBT approach.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Social Worker
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center
Snellville, GA
08.2023 - Current
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing timely psychosocial assessments and interventions for diverse populations.
- Reduced hospital readmissions by developing comprehensive discharge plans tailored to individual needs.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for improved patient care and outcomes.
- Provided crisis intervention, effectively deescalating tense situations to ensure safety for all parties involved.
- Assisted patients in coping with acute or chronic illnesses by offering emotional support and appropriate referrals when needed.
- Worked with medical teams, patients and families to implement effective treatment plans.
- Advocated for patients to secure necessary resources and services during hospitalization and postdischarge.
Licensed Clinician
Behavior Health Link
Atlanta, GA
07.2022 - Current
- Serve as lead in MCRS response providing clinical expertise to MCRS team.
- Ensure that Individuals provide informed consent when possible or that clinical rationale is clear if such consent is not obtainable.
- Assess immediate needs of Individuals in crisis. This includes determining level of risk and consideration of all available risk factors and resources that may contribute positively or negatively to Individual’s crisis and their ability to develop and follow safety plan or other plan of care.
- Consider all available natural supports and resources in order to develop effective and practical intervention plan for Individuals in crisis.
- Assist in deescalating crisis situations through provision of support to individual.
- Assist Individual and, when present, family/caregivers in identifying precursors to crisis and potential solutions to resolve crisis within setting.
- Assist Individual and, when present, family/caregivers in developing safety plan that provides strategies that can be used in event of future crises.
- Identify and, when possible, link individual to needed community resources, including medical, psychiatric, autism, and other services, including but not limited to DBHDD services required to meet immediate and/or ongoing needs.
- Explore existing crisis or behavior plans (including WRAP). Provide feedback about how plan may be incorporated into self-care or encourage follow-up with provider to revise plan.
- Assess when immediate safety needs of individual require referral to higher level of care than is available through mobile crisis services and facilitate referral.
- Initiate 1013/2013 as needed.
- Arrange for transportation to emergency and crisis facilities (ERs, CSUs, BHCCs, IDD/ASD-specific IDD crisis homes) when indicated based upon needs of Individual.
Therapist
Community Healthcare of Georgia
02.2012 - 06.2022
- Demonstrate knowledge and expertise pertinent psychosocial principles and family dynamic development, substance abuse, skill building and behavior modification
- Refers clients to appropriate treatment modality based on assessment
- Assisted in preparing reports and paperwork for court hearings
- Documented behaviors, interventions and results using BIRP format
- Consulted with and trained highly skilled mental health and medical staff
- Documented client progress in confidential files
- Presented case history material to review and discussion with other staff members
- Developed individual treatment goals based on history and diagnosis
- Provided comprehensive case management services, including creating treatment plans and connecting clients and families to appropriate resources
- Provided counseling and support to clients with drug and alcohol abuse issues
- Administered SASSI assessments to identified substance abuse patients
Therapist
Family 360
12.2020 - 02.2022
- Diagnoses and treats mental health disorders.
- Creates individualized treatment plans according to patient needs and circumstances.
- Meets with patients regularly to provide individual and family counseling, treatment and adjust treatment plans as necessary.
- Complete assessments, reassessments and Individual Recovery Plans.
Behavioral Specialist
Alliance For Change Through Treatment
03.2009 - 02.2012
- Intensive Family Intervention
- Developed an array of services designed to independently increase individual's level of functioning
- Provide substance abuse education and counseling to identify clients
- Encouraged appropriate behavior and provided supportive training through role modeling and skill building activities
- Completed needed documents, applications, and services to secure goal attainment
- Provide substance abuse counseling
- Assessed individual's vocational aptitude, socialization skills, substance abuse, personal adjustment skills
- Ensured development of ISP's and quality coordination of consumer services
- Link consumer to proper community resource (substance abuse, therapy, vocational and educational)
- Coordinated with other Service Providers to provide ultimate services to consumers
- Aided parents in arranging medication evaluations and psychological testing
- Presented case history material to review and discussion with other staff members
Education
Master of Science - Social Work
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI2018
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC2005
Skills
- Assessing Needs
- Case Planning and Management
- Individual Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Behavior health Assessments
- DSM-IV Knowledge
- Addictions Expertise
- Crisis Intervention Techniques
- Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIP)
Certification
Licensed Master Social Worker #MSW010732
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteTimeline
Social Worker
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center
08.2023 - Current
Licensed Clinician
Behavior Health Link
07.2022 - Current
Therapist
Family 360
12.2020 - 02.2022
Therapist
Community Healthcare of Georgia
02.2012 - 06.2022
Behavioral Specialist
Alliance For Change Through Treatment
03.2009 - 02.2012
Master of Science - Social Work
Michigan State University
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
North Carolina Central University
Licensed Master Social Worker #MSW010732
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