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Michelle M. Long
Peetz,CO
Summary
I will utilize my vast experience and knowledge to supervise, support and assist the Parole Behavioral Health Team as they work to provide efficient and effective services to clients on parole as well as clients preparing to parole who are in need of various services and supports. I am a Mental health professional with a comprehensive background in therapeutic care and client support. I have proven ability to implement effective treatment plans and facilitate positive outcomes. I am known for collaborative teamwork and adaptability to meet evolving client needs. I have expertise in therapeutic techniques and client assessment, valued for empathy and reliability. I have shown diligence as a Parole Behavioral Health Specialist with a solid foundation in mental health care. I am skilled in providing therapeutic interventions and supporting clients through various mental health challenges. I have demonstrated abilities in crisis management and client assessment. I am dedicated to the ongoing supervision, monitoring and improvement of quality services provided by the Parole Behavioral Health Team. I will work collaboratively with all entities and community partners to ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, ethical and professional mental health services.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Parole Mental Health Clinician
Colorado Department Of Corrections
09.2022 - Current
- Provide clinical mental health skills as the mental health consultant and clinician in a designated parole region
- Identify offenders with mental illness who are releasing to the community through participation in the Transition/Parole Preparation staffing held monthly in each RTP program
- Ensure medications and psychiatric appointments are in place
- Provide information and referral services to link community-based offenders to needed services in the community, e.g., mental health, substance abuse and other specialized treatment services. Identify resources in each region for offender needs
- Monitor treatment compliance and efficacy for high-needs offenders
- Ensure continuity of care with multi-disciplinary consultations. Coordinate and consult regarding offender placement to a skilled healthcare facility, e.g., nursing home, detox, psychiatric hospital, rehabilitation
- Promote offender success on parole through collaboration and coordination starting in CDOC facilities through the transition to parole supervision to ensure engagement with behavioral health resources in the assigned region
- Ensure that community-based offenders in psychiatric crisis receive assessment and intervention, in consultation with community parole officers
- Support and assist community parole officers and consult with re-entry specialists to facilitate successful parole for offenders with mental illness
- Contribute to service coordination through participation in community organizations relevant to transition services
- Provide consultation and assistance to community parole officers regarding the integration and behavioral health services needed for community-based offenders with mental illness
- Address emergent situations regarding offender mental health crises while on parole supervision
- Facilitate involuntary psychiatric assessment and/or hospitalization for offenders when clinically indicated
- Provide guided treatment engagement services for high-needs offenders with the designated approved treatment provider(s) (ATP's) or other service provider
- Apply knowledge of evidence -based practices and report any deviation from evidence-based practices to the Parole Mental Health Coordinator
- Provide risk assessments throughout a continuum of care
- Produce a monthly reports that tracks services provided and update resource information in resource guide. Report service gaps to the Parole Mental Health Coordinator
- Document service provision in applicable electronic system such as CWISE and/or DCIS/PCDCIS
- Identify and track high risk offenders to promote treatment compliance and community safety
- Responsible for maintaining standards of the program or work unit through compliance with all applicable mental health, departmental, organizational and unit standards
- Work within professional standards, ethics, and guidelines set forth by the appropriate licensing board, certification board, and professional associations
- Promote collaborative multi-disciplinary services and resource utilization to increase offender success in geographically diverse parole regions
- Application of organizational and communication skills promote cohesion and may include use of technology for increased communication
- Consult with community parole officers regarding service coordination, treatment compliance, and supervision of offenders with mental illness
SEL Learning Specialist
RE-1 Valley School District
08.2017 - Current
- Collaborate with administration, staff, students and parents to identify needs and implement interventions
- Provide universal, targeted and individual social/emotions supports to ensure student success
- Complete Suicide Risk Assessments and Threat Assessments for the district as needed
- Develop and implement universal programming for students at risk
- Ensure accurate reporting/documentation
- Assure continuity of care for clients by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation
- Communicate to advise, counsel, and/or guide students and parents to ensure continuity and direction of mental health care
- Provide clinical supervision and oversight to supervisees in accordance with the scope of practice guidelines
- Conducts weekly meetings with staff to review/implement guidelines and practices, discuss quality of care and level of services to be provided
- Provides Clinical Supervision and evaluations for licensed and registered staff and all interns
- Confers with higher management regarding work issues in regard to policies and proc
- Developed mission and vision statement for the Student Support Services Team
- Developed the practice guidelines manual for the Student Support Services Team
- Provide training to new Student Support Services staff with formal orientation covering general practices and procedures regarding the purpose, goals, policies and procedures of the district
- Assisted with Grant acquisition and management for the Student Support Services Team
Therapist/Owner
Michelle M. Long Counseling Services, LLC
10.2012 - Current
- Provide professional mental health services to children and adolescents to include formal and informal mental health evaluations, diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, life skills other clinical interventions
- Ensure accurate reporting/documentation of mental health needs
- Assure continuity of care for clients by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation
- Communicate to advise, counsel, and/or guide parents to ensure continuity and direction of mental health care
- Maintained timely clinical records
- Provide consultation services to nurses working with children with developmental disabilities at the Family Recess Day hosted by the Northeastern Colorado Health Department
- Provide clinical supervision to graduate students
- Responsible for hiring, pay, status and tenure of one Master's level employee
- Provide training, supervision and evaluations for one Master's level employee who assists with the mentoring program and social skills groups
Mental Health Supervisor SW/C IV
CDOC- Sterling Correctional Facility
11.2021 - 10.2022
- Promote offender success on parole through collaboration and coordination starting in CDOC facilities through the transition to parole supervision;
- Ensure that community-based offenders in psychiatric crisis receive assessment and intervention, in consultation with community parole officers;
- Support and assist community parole officers and consult with re-entry specialists to facilitate successful parole for offenders with mental illness;
- Contribute to service coordination through participation in community organizations relevant to transition services;
- Provide consultation and assistance to community parole officers regarding the integration and behavioral health services needed for community-based offenders with mental illness;
- Address emergent situations regarding offender mental health crises while on parole supervision;
- Facilitate involuntary psychiatric assessment and/or hospitalization for offenders when clinically indicated;
- Provide guided treatment engagement services for high-needs offenders;
- Apply knowledge of evidence-based practices and report any deviation from evidence-based practices to the Parole Mental Health Coordinator;
- Ensure medications and psychiatric appointments are in place
- Identify resources in each region for offender needs;
- Monitor treatment compliance and efficacy for high-needs offenders;
- Promote offender success in the community by providing family preparation classes and family psycho-educational groups;
- Produce a monthly report that tracks offender status and services provided;
- Update resource information in resource guide:
- Document service provision in applicable electronic system;
- Responsible for maintaining standards of the program or work unit through compliance with all applicable mental health, departmental, organizational and unit standards;
- Promote collaborative multi-disciplinary services and resource utilization to increase offender success in geographically diverse parole regions
Mental Health Supervisor SW/C IV
CDOC- Sterling Correctional Facility
11.2021 - 10.2022
- Planning, directing, and maintaining delivery of mental health services, assuring compliance with mental health guidelines, and managing appropriate use of resources
- Coordinating with facility administration and staff, as well as with other clinical administrators, regarding the mental health needs of offenders; establishes treatment plans for the treatment and management of offenders with mental illness or mental problems, or other special needs populations
- Provide training regarding mental health needs and issues; direct the management of psychiatric crises and or emergencies
- Supervise, organize, review, and evaluate the work of staff for competency and efficiency; recommend hiring and corrective action of assigned staff with accurate, timely, and appropriate documentation
- Maintain the standard of care compliance with all applicable mental health standards; interface between the mental health clinical program/unit and Clinical Services administration, other CDOC departments/facilities, and outside agencies
- Facilitate communication to assure staff receive clear, accurate and congruent information on a consistent basis; facilitates team building within the unit and between the clinical program or unit and other CDOC departments
- Responsible for payroll entry and solving problems for day to day mental health operations of assigned units or programs
- Act as a consultant and provide training to facility, community, and state service providers on issues related to treating incarcerated offenders diagnosed with mental illness, or other special needs populations
- Participate in formal and informal mental health evaluations, assess Psychiatric and Developmental Disability levels; group, brief, and individual therapy, and crisis intervention to include participation in 24 hour Mental Health On-Call rotation
- Maintain required credentials to include licensure
Mental Health Professional III
Centennial Mental Health Center
08.2016 - 09.2019
- Provide professional mental health services to children and adolescents to include formal and informal mental health evaluations, clinical assessments, treatment planning, individual therapy and group therapy
- Ensure accurate reporting/documentation of mental health needs
- Assure continuity of care for clients by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation
- Communicate to advise, counsel, and/or guide parents to ensure continuity and direction of mental health care
- Maintained timely clinical records
- Provide clinical supervision to graduate students
Social Worker/Counselor III
CDOC - Sterling Correctional Facility
09.2014 - 08.2016
- Provide professional mental health services to approximately 120 medium and close custody offenders to include formal and informal mental health evaluations, diagnostic assessments and clinical interventions
- Serve as consultant for unit staff regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning
- Ensure accurate reporting/documentation of mental health needs levels, including psychiatric and developmental disability needs level codes
- Provide group, brief, and individual therapy
- Provide crisis intervention to include participation in 24-hour Mental Health On-Call Rotation
- Assure both emergency and non-emergency transfer for offenders experiencing acute mental health needs
- Assure continuity of care for offenders by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for receiving units, facilities, and/or agencies
- Document in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive offender mental health records
- Inform offenders regarding mental health care, to include: consequences of maladaptive behavior, desired and undesirable effects or prescribed mental health medication
- Listen to offender concerns and provide counseling and direction
- Communicate to advise, counsel, and/or guide staff within the clinical unit, the facility, and outside agencies to ensure continuity and direction of mental health care
- Promote and be accountable for the safety and security of the clinical and correctional environment through conscientious observations and sensitive item control
- Oversee the tracking of High Risk High Needs Offenders who are dually diagnosed to ensure mental health, SOTMP and Drug and Alcohol transition forms are completed
- Attend monthly multi-disciplinary meetings with case management, medical and Parole Mental Health to ensure continuity of care for offenders as they transition to their community placements
- SCF MH Field Trainer: Provide new mental health clinicians with formal orientation covering general practices and procedures for the facility to include the following: Orientation to the purpose, goals, policies and procedures of the facility, DOC employee rights and responsibilities and an overview of the correctional field, Facility specific security and contraband regulations/responsibilities included key control, Facility specific fire and emergency procedures to include the emergency plan, Safety procedures include universal precautions, occupational exposure, personal protective equipment and bio-hazardous waste disposal, Interpersonal relations/appropriate conduct with offenders, Preparatory instruction related to the mental health position
- SCF CORE Trainer: Provide CORE training to SCF Staff on a monthly basis
- SCF Clinical Services Liaison: Provide assistance to the Interim HSA by attending morning roll calls, manager's meetings, OS tele-conferences and SDO Changeovers
- Communicate any issues/concerns regarding processes or changes at SCF Clinical Services and assist in remedying those issues/concerns
Health Professional II
CDOC - Sterling Correctional Facility
12.2010 - 01.2014
- Provide professional mental health services to approximately 120 medium and close custody offenders to include formal and informal mental health evaluations, diagnostic assessments and clinical interventions
- Serve as consultant for unit staff regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning
- Ensure accurate reporting/documentation of mental health needs levels, including psychiatric and developmental disability needs level codes
- Provide group, brief, and individual therapy
- Provide crisis intervention to include participation in 24-hour Mental Health On-Call Rotation
- Assure both emergency and non-emergency transfer for offenders experiencing acute mental health needs
- Assure continuity of care for offenders by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for receiving units, facilities, and/or agencies
- Document in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive offender mental health records
- Inform offenders regarding mental health care, to include: consequences of maladaptive behavior; desired and undesirable effects or prescribed mental health medication
- Listen to offender concerns and provide counseling and direction
- Communicate to advise, counsel, and/or guide staff within the clinical unit, the facility, and outside agencies to ensure continuity and direction of mental health care
- Promote and be accountable for the safety and security of the clinical and correctional environment through conscientious observations and sensitive item control
Executive Director
High Plains Sexual Assault Center
08.2007 - 12.2010
- Administered the Agency's planning and community action
- Provided program development and planning to include oversight of existing programs (Crisis Response, Victim Advocacy, Referrals for Counseling and Community Outreach) as well as the development, formulation and oversight of new programs to include the Forensic Interviewing Program
- Public and governmental relations
- Facility planning and control
- Fiscal planning
- Grant acquisition and management
- Development and implementation of all fundraising
- Responsible for hiring, pay, status and tenure of employees
- Provided training, supervision and evaluations for staff to include Forensic Interviewers and Victim Advocates
- Served in an advisory capacity to a Board of Directors and recommended policies
- Responsible for the execution of Board adopted policies
- Participated on multidisciplinary boards to include Adult Protection/Child Protection Teams
Crisis Response Specialist
Centennial Mental Health Center
12.2008 - 04.2010
- Provided assessment and intervention services to individuals experiencing behavioral health emergencies/crises
- Worked with individuals, families, law enforcement and other agencies to coordinate appropriate level of care in crisis and emergency situations
- Completed paperwork for involuntary hospitalizations and arranged transport to in-patient settings
- Deemed as an Expert Witness in the Logan County Courts and provided testimony during trial
- Assisted in discharge planning
Mental Health Professional I
Centennial Mental Health Center
02.2006 - 08.2007
- Provided case management services for adolescents and adults
- Developed treatment plans
- Facilitated mental health group sessions
- Provided services to emergent mental health and substance abuse situations
- Provided mentoring services to children and adolescents
- Maintained timely clinical records
Security Care Provider
Eastern Colorado Services
02.2003 - 08.2007
- Provided care and support of registered sex offenders and other persons with problematic sexualized behaviors in a therapeutic setting
- Ensured the safety of consumers and the community
- Completed consumer behavioral plans and consumer logs
- Monitored program compliance
Case Manager
Centennial Mental Health Center
08.2001 - 02.2003
- Provided case management services for chronically mentally ill consumers
- Developed treatment plans
- Facilitated psycho-educational mental health group sessions
- Facilitated life skills groups and basic computer skills groups
- Maintained timely clinical records
Education
Licensed Professional Counselor -
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
01.2014
Registered Psychotherapist -
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
01.2012
M.A. - Community Counseling
Adams State University
Alamosa, CO01.2012
B.S.W. -
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Denver, CO01.2006
Completion of credits toward an Associates of Art degree -
NJC
Sterling, CO01.2001
High School Diploma -
Peetz High School
Peetz, CO01.1999
Skills
- Therapeutic intervention
- Relapse prevention planning
- Multicultural competence
- Case management
- Client advocacy
- Suicide risk assessment
- Crisis management
- Conflict resolution
- Self-care promotion
- Clinical documentation
- Attention to detail
Hobbies and Interests
- Youth Cheer Coach
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church Member
- Volunteer for the Peetz Youth Club
- Peetz Athletic Booster Club
- Crafting
- Music
- Farming
References
- Dr. Dianna Haas, UC Health - Integrated Behavioral Health, (970) 520-9697
- Carly Haggett, Former Parole Mental Health Clinician, (563) 542-5372
- Robert Hall, Retired Sterling Middle School Principal, (970) 580-3763
Interests
Timeline
Parole Mental Health Clinician
Colorado Department Of Corrections
09.2022 - Current
Mental Health Supervisor SW/C IV
CDOC- Sterling Correctional Facility
11.2021 - 10.2022
Mental Health Supervisor SW/C IV
CDOC- Sterling Correctional Facility
11.2021 - 10.2022
SEL Learning Specialist
RE-1 Valley School District
08.2017 - Current
Mental Health Professional III
Centennial Mental Health Center
08.2016 - 09.2019
Social Worker/Counselor III
CDOC - Sterling Correctional Facility
09.2014 - 08.2016
Therapist/Owner
Michelle M. Long Counseling Services, LLC
10.2012 - Current
Health Professional II
CDOC - Sterling Correctional Facility
12.2010 - 01.2014
Crisis Response Specialist
Centennial Mental Health Center
12.2008 - 04.2010
Executive Director
High Plains Sexual Assault Center
08.2007 - 12.2010
Mental Health Professional I
Centennial Mental Health Center
02.2006 - 08.2007
Security Care Provider
Eastern Colorado Services
02.2003 - 08.2007
Case Manager
Centennial Mental Health Center
08.2001 - 02.2003
Completion of credits toward an Associates of Art degree -
NJC
High School Diploma -
Peetz High School
Licensed Professional Counselor -
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
Registered Psychotherapist -
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
M.A. - Community Counseling
Adams State University
B.S.W. -
Metropolitan State College of Denver
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