Ruth Hernandez

• Manage a caseload of 100 patients and their families to properly ensure the delivery of services.
• Interview client , families assess situations, limitations and issues and implement services to address needs.
• Help patients and their families identify resources available to them with the goal of addressing both issues with physical medicine and pain management concerns, food insecurity, as well as financial problems that directly affect their health condition. as well as their psychological and emotional well being.

• .Provide intensive behavioral health treatment for 35 seriously emotionally disturbed children, adolescents and their family.
• Provided individual and group therapy sessions to patients suffering from mental health issue
• Developed and implemented intensive individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior and other psychosocial issues. Coordinate services management activities with primary care providers, mental health professional as well as other providers
• Conducted psychosocial assessments and developed

Regularly reviewed services plans and made

• Tracked progress according to goals for interventions.

• Provided individual and group therapy sessions to 35 patients suffering from substance abuse issues.
• Developed and implemented intensive individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior and other psychosocial issues.
• Tracked progress according to goals for interventions.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and deliver treatment plans and patient care.
• Developed and maintained relationships with referral sources to support continuity of care.

• Provided ongoing counseling to help patients living with HIV and their families dealing with chronic medical conditions and processes
• Interviewed clients, families, or groups to assess situations, limitations and issues and implement services to address housing issues
• Developed individual treatment plans and provided counseling to patients.
• Helped clients develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
• Maintained regular contact with clients by calling and visiting clients' homes.

• Provided short-term counseling services to 35 school children and their family members.

Conducted assessments of pre-school children and children at-risk applying a psychosocial approach.

• Devised short term treatment plans, conducted non-directive play therapy sessions, and facilitated loss and bereavement support groups for the children.
• Served as a consultant for staff on-site at various Head-Start Programs