Mareo H. Hood, LCSW

• Provide telehealth mental health therapeutic treatment to individuals and couples of various backgrounds, ages, cultures, and religions
• Comply with telehealth HIPPA guidelines.

• Provide intensive weekly individual and group therapy to students with emotional and behavioral disorders within an educational center
• Developed therapeutic and educational plans, along with assisting students towards achieve individual goals
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team, along with implementing therapeutic trainings to staff.

Provided professional crisis response services to various clientele in community based situations. Worked on site in collaboration with law enforcement to initiate clinical assessments and crisis interventions. Rendered appropriate diagnosis and action plan from assessment formulation. Provided education, advocacy, and support for clients in collaboration with courts and other constituent organizations. Submitted timely documents via electronic health records system.

• Perform integrated clinical assessments for individuals presenting for evaluation due to possible substance abuse and/ or mental health concerns
• Provide recommendations based on patients current level of functioning
• Verify funding/ insurance information to coordinate appropriate interventions
• Initiate admission process and complete prior authorizations for inpatient hospitalization
• Coordinate transfers to appropriate facilities based on patient needs.

• Liaison between Early Intervention team member, community agencies, school personnel and parents
• Assist in the prevention, intervention, and remediation of problems of behavior, adjustment, and learning, along with social/ emotional functioning
• Develop bio psychosocial assessments and case studies for challenging students and families
• Develop and implement in-service training programs for staff
• Supervise Parent Educators, ensuring appropriate services and guidelines meeting Federal requirements.

• Administer initial clinical assessment evaluating children’s emotional and behavioral levels of functioning, initially following removal from home setting due to allegations of detrimental circumstances
• Utilized Traumatic Symptoms Checklist of Children to further determine effects of crisis, while assessing client needs and recommending pertinent services
• Developed crisis action plans providing weekly-individualized short-term therapeutic support.

• Create a strong school culture promoting and supporting all students’ academic, emotional, and social potential through group and individual researched based interventions
• Conduct quality assessments and offer appropriate recommendations and interventions congruent with student needs
• Utilize data in assessing needs of, and planning prevention and social/emotional programming for grade level/school wide programming
• Demonstrate high level of skill and ability in crisis intervention, along with assessing level of crisis and plan appropriate response
• Collaborate with campus staff, parents/guardians, and community partners in a multi-disciplinary approach to identify and reduce barriers to student achievement and persistence.

• Administer initial clinical assessment evaluating children’s emotional and behavioral levels of functioning, initially following removal from home setting due to allegations of detrimental circumstances
• Utilized Traumatic Symptoms Checklist of Children to further determine effects of crisis, while assessing client needs and recommending pertinent services
• Developed crisis action plans providing weekly-individualized short-term therapeutic support.

• Provide intensive weekly individual and group therapy to severely emotionally disturbed students within an educational center placement
• Developed therapeutic and educational plans, assisting students in transitional planning to achieve post graduate goals
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team, along with implementing therapeutic trainings to staff and parents
• Served as mainstream coordinator, facilitating the matriculation process.

• Provide intensive therapeutic services to emotionally disturbed children and their families
• Coordinate psychiatric and case management services based on client needs
• Participate in treatment team meetings, including the development of treatment plans, intakes, and psychosocial assessments
• Maintained clients charts based on Medicaid requirements.

• Provide support, therapeutic strategies, and interventions to assist exceptional students in attaining academic, emotional, and social success
• Assist parents in the implementation of behavior modification strategies to provide structure within the home
• Engaged students in counseling sessions focusing on improving communication, coping, and social/emotional skills through play, talk, and art therapy
• Involved in the development of students individual educational plan, functional behavior assessment, and behavior intervention plan.

• Implemented innovative educational/therapeutic program promoting responsible fathering skills to young fathers
• Worked with the National Fatherhood Initiative, along with national and local fathering skills specialist
• Responsible for developing effective fathering skills trainings, managing monthly budget, coordinating guest speakers/agencies, and follow-up services for active participants of the program.

• Responsible for crisis intervention of mentally ill adult individuals
• Administered extensive assessments to determine the client’s ability to function and pre-admission screening for possible voluntary or involuntary inpatient treatment
• Assessed substance abuse and dually diagnosed clients for admission into detoxification unit and/or residential substance abuse programs
• Conducted insurance verification and referrals to outside agencies.