MORGAN HILL
The Bronx,NY
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Project Director
The Bronx Defenders
12.2021 - Current
- Provide regular support for Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies project team of 4 through case conferencing, individual development, and data tracking
- Establish new and existing partners, serve on committees, and give presentations to advance project mission
- Collaborate and communicate with staff and supervisors in all practices to coordinate emergency coverage and client needs assessment to ensure that clients receive seamless access to services to meet their legal and non-legal needs
- Increase equitable, culturally conscious supervision and support staff pushed to margins in navigating experiences of oppression in their work
- Collaborate with practice supervisory team to coordinate emergency conference and case coverage
- Responsible for fund-based data tracking, data organization, and reporting to funder
- Provide training internal and external trainings
- Orchestrated wide range of projects, improvement strategies, changes implementation, new revenue stream establishment and involved in social media campaigns
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Social Worker
The Bronx Defenders
10.2015 - 11.2021
- Offered support, advocacy, service referrals, and psycho-education to individuals whose lives are impacted by family regulation system
- Connected pregnant people and parents of newborns to evidence-based community organizations that provide prenatal care, health services, doula support, evidence-based family strengthening programs, and attachment-focused mental health care for parents and babies
- Attended procedural family regulation system meetings, program intake and health appointments, court dates, housing/benefits appointments, and otherwise, alongside clients
- Created and facilitated educational, prenatal and postpartum workshops held during weekly pregnancy and postpartum support circle
- Worked alongside attorneys and other advocates as part of legal team, formulating and informing support of individual and strategy of case
- Responsible for fund-based data tracking for all clients in caseload
Criminalized Survivors Social Work Intern
STEPS to End Family Violence
09.2013 - 05.2015
- Led clinical one-on-one and group counseling with survivors of gender-based violence and other significant trauma who have been charged with felony-level crimes
- Engaged in proposal development work with Chief External Affairs Officer researching potential funders and preparing requests for proposals (RFP)
- Offered legal advocacy by corresponding with defense attorneys, attending court, providing letters and reports, and producing narratives alongside individuals to be presented in court case.
- Performed client screenings and accurately recorded data in case files to facilitate clinical case coordination services and case management duties
Social Work Intern
The Hebrew Home at Riverdale
09.2013 - 05.2014
- Procured caseload of clients engaging in long-term clinical counseling
- Facilitated and led weekly group counseling sessions, fostering residents' social engagement
- Developed skills in crisis intervention, family work, and assessment
- Participated in and attended department meetings, trainings, and conferences
Undergraduate Intern
North Country Regional TBI Center
08.2012 - 05.2013
- Observed Independent Living Skills Training one-on-one in-home sessions
- Generated contact notes for participants, facilitated a written re-assessment of individual goals for participant, and provided guidance for group participants to attain goals
- Educated on paperwork (i.e., Individual Service Plans, goal plans, Medicaid, Medicare).
Research Assistant
Psychology Department
08.2011 - 05.2013
- Assisted in research in social influence including injunctive and descriptive norms and foot-in-the-door technique, as some examples, in studies observing cigarette disposal, voter turnout, water usage, and recycling behavior
- Collected data, proposed ideas for research questions, formulated written sections for research, created survey items, and entered and analyzed data using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).
Project Coordinator
Safe Space Project
03.2011 - 05.2013
- Created formal project proposal with input from administrators and students
- Organized training sessions and implemented campus-wide program centered around the experiences of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
Nexus Volunteer
SUNY Plattsburgh
01.2012 - 05.2012
- Worked one-on-one with child, in a Social Understanding Program for children with Asperger's Syndrome, on acquiring social skills, expression and understanding of emotions, counseling, and completing interactive group activities and tasks
- Completed contact notes for each session and recorded progress for goal/behavior plan.
Education
Master of Science - Advanced Generalist Practice And Programming
Columbia University School of Social Work
New York, NY05.2015
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
SUNY College At Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, NY05.2013
Skills
- Materials Procurement
- Progress Tracking
- Schedule Management
- Project Scheduling
- Client Relations
- Project Management
- Team Collaboration
- Documentation and Reporting
- Team Leadership
- Creative Thinking
- Scope Development
- Quality Assurance
Websites
Certification
- Licensed Master Social Worker, 098085-1
- Trained Birth and Postpartum Doula
- Seminar in Field Instruction Certified
Affiliations
- NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, 2022, 2023
- National Association of Social Workers, 09/2013, Present
- Omicron Delta Kappa, Fall 2012
- Psi Chi, Spring 2011
Conference Presentations
- 2023, Mamas of color and mental health: The harm of state intervention via the family regulation system, Postpartum Support International Conference, Kansas City, MO.
- 2019, Mamas of color and mental health: The harm of state intervention via the child protection system, Ancient Song's Decolonize Birth Conference, Brooklyn, NY
- 2018, Advocacy for parents who've experienced foster care as children, National Interdisciplinary Parent Representation Conference, Chicago, IL
- 2017, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: A best-practice preventive approach to working with pregnant women and child-welfare-involved families, International Attachment Conference, London, UK
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Project Director
The Bronx Defenders
12.2021 - Current
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Social Worker
The Bronx Defenders
10.2015 - 11.2021
Criminalized Survivors Social Work Intern
STEPS to End Family Violence
09.2013 - 05.2015
Social Work Intern
The Hebrew Home at Riverdale
09.2013 - 05.2014
Undergraduate Intern
North Country Regional TBI Center
08.2012 - 05.2013
Nexus Volunteer
SUNY Plattsburgh
01.2012 - 05.2012
Research Assistant
Psychology Department
08.2011 - 05.2013
Project Coordinator
Safe Space Project
03.2011 - 05.2013
Master of Science - Advanced Generalist Practice And Programming
Columbia University School of Social Work
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
SUNY College At Plattsburgh
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