Lisa Pinkerton
Obetz,OH
Summary
To facilitate change and improvement in individuals' and groups' mental health environments. To foster change in individual, family, and community relationships.
Professional with strong background in care coordination. Skilled in patient advocacy, healthcare planning, and resource management. Known for effective team collaboration and achieving measurable results. Adaptable to changing needs with robust communication and organizational skills. Reliable and focused on delivering high-quality care outcomes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Care Coordinator Supervisor Manager
OhioRise: I Am Boundless
07.2025 - Current
- Manages staff development/training on funding, system navigation, treatment options, changes within the Ohio funding system, etc.
- Supports the clinical supervisor in conducting staff development on issues related to socialemotional-environmental factors that impact treatment.
- Monitors supervision for all care coordinators in individual and group settings virtually and in the community and participation in all Aetna and ODM staff meetings.
- Supports the Operations Manager in the auditing of all required electronic health records (EHR) and the submission of appropriate documents for statistical reports with adherence to program standards in OhioRISE and with Aetna and ODM.
- Serves as a liaison between stakeholders, providers and families to positively promote collaborative relationships.
Therapist
A & R Behavioral Health
08.2023 - Current
- Individual Counseling
- Trauma-informed
- Treatment planning and implementation
- Crisis Intervention and Risk Assessment
- Employee Health Records
Care Coordinator Supervisor
OhioRise: I Am Boundless
09.2024 - 07.2025
- Supervision of needs assessments, service, and resource linkage
- Ensuring team members are trained and following all required standards, guidelines, policies, and regulations.
- Ensure team members meet all expected timelines and outcomes.
- Participate and monitor the development, review, and update crisis safety plans according to required timelines.
- Supervise and monitor discharge planning activities for youth transition between the facility and community-based settings.
- Conduct ongoing community development to identify formal and informal resources in the communities served, paying particular attention to the availability of cultural response resources.
Clinical Medical Social Worker
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Linden Primary Care
08.2023 - 09.2024
- Functions as an interdisciplinary team member and provides clinical medical social work services to patients and their families to improve or maintain social, emotional, functional, and physical health on an ongoing basis.
- Uses evidence-based screening tools, psychosocial and risk assessments, and treatment planning.
- Supports patients and families through acute stress.
- Assists with safety planning and crisis intervention.
- Supportive counseling, brief interventions, and anticipatory guidance related to emotional, behavioral, educational, psychological, or social concerns are provided.
- Connects families to resources within the community.
- Advocates for families, support, and resources within the community.
- Promotes resilience and self-efficacy in patients and families.
Prevention supervisor, Therapist
OhioGuidestone
02.2017 - 08.2023
- Coordinate staff placement in schools to implement social-emotional learning in schools.
- Monitor the delivery of services in the schools and community.
- Establish and maintain positive support relationships with the school administration, school staff, students, and within the community.
- Provide and create training opportunities for staff and interns.
- Support and supervise staff.
- Facilitate professional development training in schools
- Social-emotional learning curriculum creation and facilitation in schools
- Individual student intervention
- Crisis intervention
- Suicide Prevention Training
- Provide trauma-informed education to school staff.
- Coordinate summer camp programming within the community Therapist
- Diagnostic Assessments
- Treatment Planning
- Therapy Services
- Support Services
Education
Master of Social Work -
The Ohio State University
05.2023
Bachelors of Social Work - undefined
The Ohio State University
05.2021
Skills
- License of Social Work
- Trauma-Informed Care Training
- Suicide Prevention Certification
- Incredible Years Teaching Early Childhood Certification
- Parent Project Facilitator
- Nurturing Parent Group Facilitator
- Organizational skills
- Patient education
- Documentation
- Patient advocacy
Internship Experience
- The Center for Family Safety and Healing Nationwide Children's Hospital/Healthy Families of America, Help Me Grow May 10th, 2022- April 24th, 2023.
- Home Visitor: Shadowed home visitors and co-visited shared families, implementing guidance and support using the Healthy Families of America Model
- Outreach Specialist:
- Contacted and confirmed parents' interest in participating in the Help Me Grow Program
- Assisted in maintaining up-to-date information on the HFA referral log.
- OhioGuidestone Clinical Internship August 14, 2020- April 30, 2021
- Client Case Management
- Therapeutic Behavioral Services
- Research
- Group co-facilitation
Timeline
Care Coordinator Supervisor Manager
OhioRise: I Am Boundless
07.2025 - Current
Care Coordinator Supervisor
OhioRise: I Am Boundless
09.2024 - 07.2025
Therapist
A & R Behavioral Health
08.2023 - Current
Clinical Medical Social Worker
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Linden Primary Care
08.2023 - 09.2024
Prevention supervisor, Therapist
OhioGuidestone
02.2017 - 08.2023
Bachelors of Social Work - undefined
The Ohio State University
Master of Social Work -
The Ohio State University