Rae Reed

◊ Provide reflective supervision for up to 9 bachelor's level home visiting staff working with refugee and asylum seeking parents and their children ages zero to three, providing support and insight regarding early childhood development.

◊ Run operations for a home visiting program with a client load of 120, which includes setting and reviewing expectations around paperwork, quality care, supply distribution, training compliance, partner organization collaboration and inter-agency communication.

◊ Work with grant funders to stay in compliance with funding expectation, and coordinate quality control measures throughout the agency for regular and consistent compliance auditing.

◊ Complete forensic psychological reports which includes coordination with local law firms and agencies, conducting a psychological interview with asylum seekers and writing an extensive report of my findings.

◊ Conduct individual psychotherapy and teletherapy with adult clients, particularly those from the LGBTQ community.

◊ Conduct psychological immigration evaluations for forensic psychological interviews and letters of extreme hardship.

◊ Create the curriculum for and facilitate a virtual storytelling therapy group.

◊ Complete necessary documentation on an online database.

◊ Communicate with interested parties and maintain a presence on Psychology Today.

◊ Adapted trauma-informed work with refugees and immigrants presentation to fit educators.

◊ Researched effective strategies that could be applied in the classroom.

◊ Coordinated logistics and managed time effectively during presentations, collaborating with co-presenters on audiovisual aids throughout the presentation.

◊ Presented researched materials, providing examples and interactive activities to help illustrate the material.

◊ Research various libraries of literature on trauma-informed tactics used in the classroom for immigrant and refugee youth.

◊ Collaborate with co-presenters in compiling this material for presentation.

◊ Co-present this literature to infant mental health professionals at a virtual Infant Mental Health conference.

◊ Supervise interns and therapists sitting for licensure. Make clinical decisions regarding challenging cases.

◊ Conduct administrative tasks such as assuring documentation is completed and correct. Assign cases to staff and interns.

◊ Train new staff and interns in running groups, taking clients and completing documentation.

◊ Approve time cards and time off, help provide feedback for yearly reviews.

◊ Manage a caseload of adolescent clients, maintaining communication with their outpatient providers and families, providing direction for each client’s next steps of treatment.

◊ Run daily psychotherapy groups in topics such as narrative therapy, DBT, ACT, CBT, process and RO-DBT.

◊ Provide bilingual group and individual psychotherapy to adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 in a residential setting for international youth.

◊ Complete all necessary paperwork including initial assessments, goal setting, discharge paperwork and ongoing case notes.

◊ Provide intervention to crises that occur throughout the building and facilitate conflict resolution.

◊ Provide training and supervision to new staff and interns participating in task oriented case management.

◊ Compile curricula of group therapy sessions conducted with immigrant youth.

◊ Provide an experiential-based group instruction to conference attendees.

◊ Research and present literature regarding services to immigrant youth and effective interventions used.

◊ Create an abstract, handouts and poster regarding group peace-building social work for presentation at the International Group Work conference.

◊ Conduct a literature review of group peace-building interventions and use best practices to advise a potential intervention for genocide survivors in Zimbabwe.

◊ Answer questions regarding this project to conference attendees.

◊ Provide weekly psychotherapy sessions to a caseload of refugees to South Africa.

◊ Administer initial assessment of clients to ascertain need for future mental health services.

◊ Advocate for clients to governmental and international agencies such as the UNHCR and local police.

◊ Designed incentive system for a community micro-finance program.

◊ Compiled a curriculum for regular accountability group sessions for program participants.

◊ Conducted a research study of the impact of the community micro-finance program and presented results to clients and staff.

◊ Researched group insurance options for small business owners.