Ryan Marie LLafferty

• Provided personalized support to individuals with disabilities, enhancing daily living skills and promoting independence.
• Developed and implemented individualized care plans, ensuring alignment with clients' needs and goals.
• Monitored client progress and adjusted strategies to optimize outcomes in behavior management.
• Conducted regular assessments of client environments to ensure safety and compliance with regulations.
• Maintained clean, safe, and well-organized patient environment.
• Documented progress notes thoroughly to track client achievements, concerns, or changes in behavior patterns that may need attention from the interdisciplinary team.
• Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
• Assisted with crisis intervention to de-escalate challenging behavior and maintain peaceful encounters.
• Enhanced quality of life for individuals with disabilities by providing compassionate and consistent direct support.
• Supported clients with personal care tasks, ensuring their dignity and privacy were maintained at all times.
• Assisted clients in achieving personal goals through tailored care plans and daily skill-building activities.
• Assisted disabled clients to support independence and well-being.
• Maintained a safe and inclusive environment by addressing behavioral challenges with patience and understanding.
• Encouraged and supported clients to participate in recreational and leisure activities to promote social interactions and reduce loneliness.

• Conduct effective crisis assessments, triage and stabilization.
• Provide clinical level-of-care evaluations.
• Conduct telephone crisis counseling to determine appropriate interventions.
• Participate in mobile outreach in a variety of community settings.
• Conduct appropriate aftercare follow-up contacts.
• Collaborate with community partners.
• Provide service referrals and linkage as clinically appropriate.
• Maintain quality documentation of clinical service delivery.
• Provide timely supporting documentation for all clinical services provided.

Executed risk assessments and crisis interventions through telephonic and in-person interactions.

Initiated contact with referral sources and prospective patients to streamline intake.

Oversaw coordination of the referral process, ensuring efficient admissions.

Assessed levels of care while facilitating admissions and liaising with families, staff, and referral sources.

Handled phone management effectively to complete admissions in a timely manner.

Secured insurance authorizations for patient services promptly.

• Interviews clients.
• Completes assessment and treatment plans.
• Crisis intervention.
• Follows referrals throughout the admissions process.
• Facilitates referrals.
• Outreaches as required.
• Answers a 24-hour hotline.

• Facilitate the admission process, provides information and referrals and makes appointments for the treatment of psychiatric related problems.
• Intake & linkage of RWJBarnabas Health Care System employees & their dependents to RWJBarnabas Behavioral Health Network EAP Affiliates/Provider Network.
• Assess crisis calls.
• Process intake for the Eating Disorder Program at RWJ Somerset and ECT at Clara Mass.
• External EAP accounts(total membership approx 150k).
• Data inquiry, data entry & record-keeping.
• Shift Charge

• Case Manage adult males who live in a MICA group home.
• Coordinate with consumer’s doctors and program.
• Medication education
• Assisting consumers with daily living skills.
• Assisting consumers in going to AA and NA meetings.
• Assisting consumers in maintaining a sober lifestyle.

• Assist clients with daily activities- such as showering, eating, and homework.
• Interact with clients- such as helping them re-socialize.
• Facilitate clients to live independently as possible.
• Supervise different outings.

• Assess students with norm-referenced tests within a variety of disability categories and age groups.
• Compose initial, re-evaluation and triennial reports.
• Compose IEP’s using TieNet.
• Reaching out/coordinating with parents, school resources and community agencies.
• Participate in meetings.
• Collaborate with teachers and administrative staff.
• Conduct social skills group for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students once a week.
• Filing and reviewing of records.
• Assisting CST with daily activities.

• Observed and interacted with the school psychologist once a week.
• Administered intelligence tests.
• Compose initial, re-evaluation and triennial reports.
• Observe students.
• Participate in meetings.
• Collaborate for pre-intervention strategies.

• Assist clients with daily activities- such as showering, eating, and homework.
• Interact with clients- such as helping them re-socialize.
• Facilitate clients to live independently as possible.
• Supervise different outings.