Sylvan Gilreath

School Social Worker for the Santa Maria Bonita School District.

• Collaborate and Navigate Licensed Psychiatric Technicians, who screen students K-12 presenting in crisis and in need of evaluation for immediate support.
• Mental health assessments with students and families to obtain detailed background, current outpatient services, and effective strengths and supports to collaborate Safety Plans with school's Crisis Response Teams.
• Assess students via discharge planning from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, and collaborate with with school's Crisis Response Teams to develop effect re-entry plans.
• Join in Coordination of Services Team, Social Emotion Learning, and Multi Tiered System of Supports meetings in order to coordinate care.
• Collaborate along with LCSW and Supervisor Universal Screening Tool (Currently in development) Student Risk Screening Scale - Internalizing and Externalizing (SRSS-IE). Purpose to screen lower level cues and potential at-risk students prior to crisis.

• Therapeutic Behavioral Services:
• Facilitate and monitor specialized intensive mental health behavior modification for at-risk patients in home ages 3 to 21.
• Provide crisis support, safety planning, and emergency intervention contacts for patients and their caregivers.
• Complete behavioral health assessments to determine individualized treatment planning.
• Collaborate with patients and caregivers to determine desired outcome treatment goal, based on behavioral health assessment.
• Guide clients in development of skills and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
• Establish appropriate course of treatment and implement interventions.
• Provide tools for clients and families to communicate better and negotiate issues for improved family relationships.
• Track progress according to treatment goals and their response to planned interventions.
• Increase referral rates by collaborating with caregivers and ensure connection to additional resources and supports within their community.
• Consult with primary specialty mental health providers and outpatient psychiatry to devise and manage ongoing care plans for at-risk patients.
• Manage support services and foster communication among social workers, specialty mental health providers, inpatient psychiatric hospital staff for discharge planning, and patients.
• Facilitate and monitor intensive in-home behavioral modification coaching services, in collaboration with outpatient psychiatry, for purpose of helping to prevent children requiring inpatient hospitalization or need of higher level of care such as residential placement.
• Monitored clients' progress and tracked client services to provide crisis interventions
• Developed and implemented safety plans for clients at risk of harm and coordinated care with primary therapist.
• Referred clients to appropriate team members, community agencies and organizations to meet treatment needs.

• New Alternatives, Inc.
• Collaborated with inpatient psychiatric hospitals, emergency screening units, psychiatric emergency response team to achieve expedited safety planning and specialty in-home mental health treatment to for at-risk patients, ages 4-21.
• Treatment planning for at risk youth including short term intensive individual therapy and family therapy, to raise insight into triggers for symptoms and to develop action plan to help prevent at-risk children requiring inpatient hospitalization or need of higher level.
• Developed and implemented intensive individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, communication barriers, or any ongoing triggers for symptoms in the home.
• Provided comprehensive case management services, created treatment plans and connected clients and families to appropriate resources to ensure connection within their community.
• Displayed sensitivity to cultural and linguistic needs of clients and families served.
• Developed and implemented transition services plan to ensure coordination of care, including longer term outpatient mental health services of therapy and psychiatry as needed.
• Followed informed consent processes and maintained records
• Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others

• New Alternatives, Inc.
• Established appropriate course of individualized treatment with patients in short term residential placement ages 5-17, in collaboration with their permanency plan and lower level of care, including individual therapy.
• Teamed with other specialty mental health care providers, social workers, treatment team members, and caregivers, to provide well-rounded care for complex cases.
• Addressed behavioral and emotional needs of residents through activities and interventions in a culturally sensitive environment, increasing resident socialization, interpersonal and social skills.
• Developed and implemented goal-oriented psychoeducational and group therapy sessions to improve clients' level of functioning, social skills, and reduce triggering symptoms.

• Assess patients age 5-17 residing in short term residential care via behavioral health assessment for symptoms.
• Established appropriate course of individualized treatment, as per their their permanency placement plan and implement interventions including Cognitive Behavioral based individual therapy.
• Thorough collaboration with treatment team members including other specialty mental health care providers, social workers, residential case managers, and caregivers, to provide well-rounded care for patients.
• Developed and implemented strength based and goal-oriented psychoeducational and group therapy sessions to improve clients social skills, and reduce frequency and intensity of verbal aggression and hostility.