Mariah Gonzales
Owyhee,NV
Summary
I'm a Community Mental Health Responder, who assists clients with various healthcare needs, under the direct supervision of a licensed behavioral health provider. I use all the skills and training to provide my clients with quality care. being an active listener to help my clients accomplish their personal health goals, and advocating for them with local agencies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Community Mental Health Responder
Owyhee Community Health Facility
Owyhee, NV
10.2024 - Current
- Provide clients transportation to local agencies and behavioral health appointments at Owyhee Community Health.
- Support the client in practicing coping skills, de-escalation techniques, and reviewing safety plans.
- Advocates for clients with community agencies and supports clients in utilizing community resources.
- Observe for changes in health status, including signs and symptoms or deviations from normal health status, considering age-specific needs.
- Identify and report abnormal findings, safety risks, and hazards to a licensed behavioral health provider.
- Maintain strict patient confidentiality at all times.
- Document client encounters and interviews within the CMHR scope of practice.
- Seek guidance from a licensed behavioral health clinician, as necessary, to complete patient assignments.
- Works effectively as a team member in care delivery and assists with the orientation of new staff, as directed.
- Maintain good working relations among all clinic personnel and other facility employees through appropriate communications.
- Responds promptly to phone calls, emails, and other communications.
- Completes Travel Authorizations and arranges for a GSA, as directed by a supervisor, for crisis transports and out-of-town transports.
- Comply with department's policy and procedures.
Cashier/Housekeeper
Duck Valley Motel, Family Owned
Owyhee , NV
02.2020 - 05.2024
- Operated cash register efficiently and accurately, processed payments by cash, check, credit card, gift card or automatic debit.
- Counted money in cash drawer at the beginning of shift to ensure that amounts were correct and have sufficient change.
- Stocked shelves with merchandise when needed.
- Maintained cleanliness of checkout area including countertops, registers, windowsills and floors.
- Assisted customers over the phone with booking rooms, taking card information.
- Check customers in rooms, ensuring all paperwork is complete and payment has been made.
- Clean motel rooms after check-out hours, or if customers needed supplies replaced.
- Wash all used bedding and towels from checked-out rooms, fold, and replace supplies on maid cart.
COVID-19 Contact Tracer/Disease Investigator
Shoshone-paiute Tribes
Owyhee, NV
04.2020 - 10.2023
- Conducted interviews with individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 to determine the scope of exposure and risk factors.
- Identified close contacts of infected individuals and provided guidance on quarantine procedures.
- Maintained confidential records of contact tracing activities in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
- Collaborated with public health officials and healthcare providers to ensure accurate information was shared regarding COVID-19 cases.
- Compiled daily reports summarizing contact tracing activities for review by supervisors.
- Monitored trends in the spread of COVID-19 by analyzing data from contact tracing efforts.
- Responded quickly to inquiries from community members about potential exposures or symptoms associated with COVID-19.
- Educated the public on preventative measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing..
- Worked closely with other departments within the organization to coordinate contact tracing initiatives.
- Walk through the entire quarantine and infection period with contacts and PUIs, with daily check-ins.
- Coordinate with the logistics team to get PUIs and contacts with supplies needed while in quarantine and isolation.
Youth Outreach Specialist
University Of Nevada Cooperative Extensions Native
Owyhee, NV
06.2018 - 10.2018
- Developed and implemented comprehensive outreach strategies to engage target audiences.
- Partnered with community organizations to develop collaborative outreach efforts.
- Helped build hoop houses all over the community for members to plant and harvest vegetables.
- To upkeep community hoop houses, weeding, fertilizing, and tilling up the ground to plant vegetables.
- Organized cultural trips, where elders educate the youth on traditional pine nuts and berry harvests.
- Coordinate farmer's markets for local growers to sell their products
Cashier/Grocery Stocker
Our Grocery Store
Owyhee, NV
03.2018 - 06.2018
- Greeted customers and answered any questions they had about the store's products and services.
- Operated cash register efficiently and accurately, processed payments by cash, check, credit card, gift card or automatic debit.
- Counted money in cash drawer at the beginning of shift to ensure that amounts were correct and have sufficient change.
- Issued receipts, refunds, credits or change due to customers.
- Stocked shelves with merchandise when needed.
- Balanced daily transactions on a computerized point-of-sale system.
- Maintained cleanliness of checkout area including countertops, registers, windowsills and floors.
- Trained new team members in cash register operation, stock procedures, and customer services.
- Maintained clean and orderly checkout areas by sanitizing register belts, emptying trash cans and organizing candy racks.
- Open and close the store, entering end-of-day information.
- Trained and mentored new cashiers to maximize performance with skilled, efficient and knowledgeable team members.
Supervisor
Birds of Prey, Boise ID
Owyhee, NV
01.2017 - 07.2017
- Monitored employee productivity levels on a regular basis to identify areas of improvement.
- Provided guidance and direction to subordinates regarding job duties and responsibilities.
- Supervised the productivity and actions of a small group of students/employees.
- Training employees on the irrigation systems, weeding, transplanting sagebrush, and other forbs.
- Organized trips to reclamation sites to plant forbs and sagebrush. Our greenhouse grew.
- Review and sign employee time sheets, and turn in daily duty slips.
Student Manager /Greenhouse Worker
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes
Owyhee , NV
08.2014 - 07.2017
- Managed high school students by planning and evaluating activities.
- Recruiting new students to participate in the greenhouse program.
- Maintain indoor and outdoor gardens by planting, weeding, and nurturing every day.
- Measure the right amount of fertilizer to mix into the irrigation systems for the sagebrush.
- Grew sagebrush and other native forbs for reclamation areas, such as mining and burned areas.
- Package products and deliver them to agencies that purchased the products.
- Maintain the greenhouse systems for 3 greenhouses.
- Grow vegetables to deliver to the Local Senior Citizen Center and sell at our local farmers markets.
- Weekly meeting with SPT project manager and team on ways to improve productivity.
Youth Worker
SYLAP, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
06.2013 - 08.2013
- Attended Shoshone language classes, took notes, and took quizzes.
- Train first years in working with the recording equipment, computers, and uploading files to the Shoshone talking book.
- Review disks, audio, and fix decibels for each CD.
- Assist elders get to and from classes with the SYLAP Teacher.
- Assist first years with their Shoshone language children's books. writing out words, getting supplies.
- Help RAs with taking students to their weekend activities.
- Assist RAs and teachers with Shoshone-only traditional dinners.
- Participate in a traditional storytelling play at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Youth Worker
SYLAP, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
06.2012 - 08.2012
- Worked as a team with other participants and created a Shoshone children's book, using the Shoshone language and translating it into English.
- Record elder of the week, and upload recordings and edit the audio for the Shoshone talk book.
- Attend Shoshone language classes, taking notes and tests.
- Traveled to local tribes to recruit students to participate in SYLAP.
- Help build a traditional sagebrush house at the Red Butte Garden.
- Graduated from SYLAP
Education
High School Diploma -
Owyhee High School
Owyhee, NV06-2016
Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Care Coordination
- CPR/AED
- Communication
- Professionalism
- Computer Literacy
- Teamwork
- Reliability
Certification
- Drivers License
- Community Health Representative, Advanced CHR Course.
- 2024 Summer (6501-1) Community Health Worker/Representative Training Core Competencies- Web Hybrid (NPAIHB)
- Basic Life Support
- First Aid CPR & AED certification
- Passenger Assistance Safety and Sensitivity (PASS) 7.0 Two-Day Driver certification program, Including Sensitivity Training, Lift Operating Procedures, Wheelchair and Occupant Securement
- Passenger Assistance Safety and Sensitivity (PASS) 7.0 Basic Online Training Program
- ISU, FY24 Online (6555-1) Motivational Interviewing (HSM)
- ISU, FY24 Online (6524-1) Opioid Addiction and Treatment (HSM)
- ISU, FY24 Online (6509-1) Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse (HSM)
- ISU, FY24 Online (6516-1) Traumatic Brain Injury (HSM)
- ISU, FY24 Online (6510-1) Heart Failure (HSM)
- ASIST Training 2024
- ASIST Training 2023
- 2024 Fire Extinguisher Operation Sho-Pai Fire Department
- Grant Management Essentials
- Federal Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Laws
- Drivers Safety
- The Grief of Sudden and Unexpected Death
- Community Resiliency Model CRM Skills Training
- IS-00029.a: Public Information Officer Awareness
- IS-00100.c: Introduction to Incident Command System, ICS-100
- IS-00200.c: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response ICS-200
- IS-00230.e: Fundamentals of Emergency Management
- IS-00235.c: Emergency Planning
- IS-00240.c: Leadership and Influence
- IS-00241.c: Decision-Making and Problem-Solving
- IS-00242.c: Effective Communication
- IS-00244.b: Developing and Managing Volunteers
- IS-00315.a: CERT and the Incident Command System (ICS)
- IS-00317.a: Introduction to Community Emergency Response Team (CERTs)
- IS-00700.b: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System
- IS-00800.d: National Response Framework, An Introduction
- IS-00906: Workplace Security Awareness
- IS-00909: Community Preparedness: Implementing Simple Activities for Everyone
- IS-02200: Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions
- OCHF Infection Control
- SO/GI Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
- Initial & Annual TB Education for OCHF
- OCHF Emergency Codes
- OCHF Fire Extinguisher Training
- OCHF Emergency Response Plans
- 2024 Bloodborne Pathogens and Exposure Control Plan 4.0
- 2024 Workplace Safety- How Employees Can Ensure a Drug-Free Workplace 3.0
- Healthicity 2024 OSHA Compliance
- 2024 Why Emergency Action Plans Matter for Healthcare 4.0
- 2024 Basics of HIPPA Privacy and Security and HITECH
- 2024 Steps to Minimize Workplace-Related Injuries in Healthcare 3.0
- 2024 Workplace/Sexual Harassment
- 2024 Medicare Training: Combating Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
- 2024 Annual Healthcare Compliance Refresher 4.0
- 2024 Fire Safety in Healthcare Facilities
- N-95 Fit Testing
- Information Systems Security Awareness Training
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Training
- Privacy Act Basics Training
- Immunization: You Call the Shots -Module Ten-Storage and Handling
Timeline
Community Mental Health Responder
Owyhee Community Health Facility
10.2024 - Current
COVID-19 Contact Tracer/Disease Investigator
Shoshone-paiute Tribes
04.2020 - 10.2023
Cashier/Housekeeper
Duck Valley Motel, Family Owned
02.2020 - 05.2024
Youth Outreach Specialist
University Of Nevada Cooperative Extensions Native
06.2018 - 10.2018
Cashier/Grocery Stocker
Our Grocery Store
03.2018 - 06.2018
Supervisor
Birds of Prey, Boise ID
01.2017 - 07.2017
Student Manager /Greenhouse Worker
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes
08.2014 - 07.2017
Youth Worker
SYLAP, University of Utah
06.2013 - 08.2013
Youth Worker
SYLAP, University of Utah
06.2012 - 08.2012
High School Diploma -
Owyhee High School
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