Melissa Carr

• Provided individual and group therapy for clients with a range of mental health issues.
• Assisted clients in developing healthy coping skills, setting goals and improving communication.
• Developed individualized treatment plans based on client's needs and preferences.

• Provided individual and group therapy for clients with a range of mental health issues.
• Assisted clients in developing healthy coping skills, setting goals and improving communication.
• Developed individualized treatment plans based on client's needs and preferences.

• Providing individual and family therapy for each youth served by the team
• Providing and coordinating the assessment and reassessment of the recipient’s clinical needs
• Providing clinical expertise and guidance to the IIH team members in the team’s interventions
• Providing the clinical supervision of all members of the team for the provision of this service.

• Respond to community locations to provide an immediate evaluation, triage, and access to acute mental health, developmental disabilities, and/or substance abuse services, treatment, and supports to effect symptom reduction, harm reduction, and/or to safely transition persons in acute crises to appropriate crisis stabilization and detoxification supports/services
• Ensure operations of the mobile crisis management services program are functioning to meet the standards set forth by the agency and the state of North Carolina

• Practices within the strength-based perspective to identify patient and family strengths and assist patients in building on these strengths to empower them to work toward positive change.

• Provides counseling and crisis intervention as an immediate support to families, patients and significant others, coping with difficult situations within the acute care setting, as well as a preventative intervention to assist patients and families in improving functional problem solving.

• Provides and facilitates educational and/or process groups with specific populations in areas of the medical care setting as needed (i.e., newly diagnosed medical illness, coping with grief and loss, life style change)

• Assumes level of "expert" knowledge of community resources and facilitates connecting patient/families with needed services.

• Provide professional social work services to children for whom the department has placement responsibility. Duties include determining the most appropriate plan of reunification, relative placement, or adoption; developing and implementing case plans with parents, relatives, kinship placements, and service providers; ensuring all services are arranged for children and families; testifying in court hearings; documenting cases; and preparing reports.
• Interviewing children, adults, and service providers to determine the validity of allegations; assessing risk and developing case plans to ensure children's safety; testifying in court hearings; documenting cases; and preparing reports.