Susan Black

• Established positive rapport with clients to foster trust and promote engagement in their treatment process.
• Educated clients about side effects, safety and benefits of using psychotropic drugs to treat mental illness,
• Teach about common mental health and substance abuse disorders to facilitate understanding of treatment options.
• Maintained strict confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA guidelines, ensuring client privacy and fostering trust throughout the therapeutic process.
• Create and update Crisis plans for and with clients as well as treatment plans in order to address their goals using a strength based and client driven approach.
• Connected clients with needed services and available activities in the community in order to enhance their goals.
• Help identify and remove barriers to treatment.

Taught "Nurturing Parenting" classes; on line and in person.

• Worked with children and families to conduct intensive parenting sessions to measure parenting skills to parents that were in the reunification process.
• Administering and assessing AAPI screenings to measure skills that were gained during services
• Conducted Ages and Stages screenings on children 3-48 months old to measure development in all 5 domains.
• Conducted home visits with parents and children to teach parents parenting skills developmentally appropriate approached to parenting their children in effective ways.
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