Maresha Cash
Suwanee,GA
Summary
Compassionate Social Worker with experience providing social services to various groups of people to aid with day-to-day issues. Well-versed in assessing client strengths, advocating for client resources and conducting thorough home and community visits. Kind and respectful professional with demonstrated conflict resolution skills and strong decision-making abilities. Dedicated to helping clients change behaviors and access family and community resources to manage mental health.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
License Master Social Worker
Agape Hospice and Palliative Care
05.2023 - Current
- Delivered wide range of psychosocial services to terminally-ill patients and family members
- Facilitated caregiver support group meetings
- Provided education on grief stages and resources, bereavement support, and prolong grief
- Applied special skills and judgment to help resolve social and emotional responses connected with illnesses
- Contributed expertise in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss cases and optimize plans of care
- Assisted family members and patients with making funeral arrangements
- Helped clients obtain non-medical services to meet immediate needs, including financial assistance, housing, and legal aid
- Collaborated closely with patients and families in treatment and decision-making process
- Worked with patients and families using individual, group, and family counseling skills
- Developed strategies for managing chronic stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and other mental health issues.
Case Manager
Saint Vincent De Paul
Chamblee, GA
05.2021 - 05.2023
- Daily interaction and communicate with clients, family, and staff
- Manage case workers by review documentations before submission
- Interviewed clients, families, or groups to assess situations, limitations and issues and implement services to address needs
- Complete assessment with clients and develop intervention to meet their needs
- Utilize the organization and the community-based resources to establish a safe and effective case management plan for client
- Assessed clients' needs, developed service plans and monitored progress towards goals.
- Provided crisis intervention support for clients in emergency situations.
- Perform outbound calls to clients, families, and agencies for assessment and follow-up care.
Master Social Work Internship
Sacred Journey Hospice
Newnan
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Help patients and family navigate resources and plan for end of life
- Provide emotional and social support to patient and caregivers
- Assist with inpatient unit and home care with addressing a patient physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being
- Assist caregivers through the grief transition
- Advocate for families and patients
- Worked with medical teams, patients and families to implement effective treatment plans
- Documented case notes daily and coordinated follow-up for seamless case management
- Coordinated program referrals for community-based resources
- Organized clinical documentation, treatment plans, and referrals
- Completed psychosocial evaluations and needs assessments
- Coordinated individualized discharge plans to manage safe transition back into community and home environments
- Formulate, implement, and evaluates a plan of care in collaboration with patient, family, and other caregivers, and provides case management as appropriate
- Attended Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) meeting, discuss patients and caregivers needs with skilled nurses, CNA, doctor, and Chaplin.
Lead Teacher
Weiuca Day School
Buckhead, GA
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Supervise children during daily schedule of indoor and outdoor activities
- Establish an environment that promotes positive child and youth interactions with peers and adults
- Help children overcome issues of separation from their parents or guardians
- Created and maintained an environment allowing and encouraging children to make discoveries, solve problems, and think independently
- Incorporate special instructions provided by parents such as special dietary needs, physical needs, or other information that may affect the child
- Developed lesson plans that met varied student needs, evaluated, and assessed children's development, and implemented study methodologies to enhance children's progress.
Education
MSW - Social Work
University of Louisville
05.2023
B.S. - Psychology, Clinical/Personality
GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE
12.2019
Skills
- Develop client need assessment
- Office 365
- Develop a healthy professional relationship with patients/clients and families
- Crisis Intervention
- Biopsychosocial Assessments
- Suicide Prevention
- Individual Counseling
- Psychosocial Assessments
Certification
Psychosocial Oncology
Timeline
License Master Social Worker
Agape Hospice and Palliative Care
05.2023 - Current
Master Social Work Internship
Sacred Journey Hospice
08.2022 - 04.2023
Case Manager
Saint Vincent De Paul
05.2021 - 05.2023
Lead Teacher
Weiuca Day School
01.2018 - 01.2021
MSW - Social Work
University of Louisville
B.S. - Psychology, Clinical/Personality
GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE
Psychosocial Oncology
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