Tanisha Crawford

• Manage practice by onboarding and training new therapists while providing supervision to ensuring effective therapeutic relationships with all clients.
• Enhance patient well-being by utilizing evidence-based therapeutic approaches in individual and groups sessions.
• Provide therapy to clients to cope with various challenges including stress, anxiety, anger, grief and depression.
• Provide therapy to clients to strategize and address conflicts within their peer, work, family and romantic relationships.
• Provide therapy to clients to overcome substance and other abusive behaviors.

• Provide counseling to scholars in need of intense socio-emotional support and connect to outside resources where necessary.
• Maintained compliance with standards relating to child protection, client confidentiality, risk assessment and reporting.
• Provided case management services, counseling, education and life-skills training to diverse, at-risk student population.
• Collaborated with teachers and administrators to develop intervention strategies for students in need of additional support.
• Served as a liaison between the school, family, and community agencies to ensure effective communication and collaboration around student needs.
• Responsible for coordinating parent conferences, completing home visits, filing PINS petitions and creating attendance incentives to ensure to minimize truancy.
• Required to mediate peer conflicts and provide crisis intervention.
• Building Coordinator of Dignity of All Students Act (DASA) and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
• Instructional Support Team Chairperson; creating interventions to improve student academic performance.
• District Trauma Informed Liaison – embed practices that prioritize the health, wellness and resiliency of staff and students.
• Royal Warrior Leadership Program – District Wide Coordinator to mentor students towards leadership
• Class Advisor for Class of 2019 and 2026 – Freshman through Senior years.
• Student Executive Council Advisor – required to plan and execute various programs, events and assemblies each school year.
• Required to train and provide direction for new School Social Worker.
• Required to recruit, interview, assign, train and provide direction for district-wide Social Work Interns.

• Implemented marketing strategies to increase brand awareness and attract new customers.
• Enhanced operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts, and costs.
• Implemented business strategies, increasing revenue, and effectively targeting new markets.
• Monitored market conditions to set accurate product pricing and take advantage of emerging trends.
• Managed purchasing, sales, marketing and customer account operations efficiently.
• Coordinated with maintenance staff to ensure timely completion of repairs, minimizing downtime for tenants and maintaining property aesthetics.
• Implemented comprehensive safety protocols to minimize potential risks and ensure the well-being of all residents within the property.

***Lakehouse sold in 2023 as a result of changing Pennsylvania laws prohibiting short term rentals.

• Provide in-home Applied Behavior Analysis services to elementary school-age child with Autism.
• Required to assess need for behavior modification and create appropriate plan to decrease and replace maladaptive behaviors with socially acceptable behavior.
• Required to assist child in integrating into the general education classroom as well as the community.
• Responsible for timely reporting qualitative and quantitative data to school district on a monthly basis.

• Manage day habilitation program which provides services for 53 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Coordinated, supervised and evaluated work of subordinates and reallocated staff and resources to meet performance requirements.
• Assumed responsibility and oversight for hiring, onboarding and mentoring new staff members.
• Instructor for annual In-Service training as required by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
• Planned, prepared and implemented therapeutic activities both on site and in the community.
• Required to work closely with various school district personnel, parents and Medicaid Service Coordinators to screen graduating students for admission to the day habilitation program.

• Managed 7 bed group home for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Provided directives to and managed services provided by residential RN and ABSS
• Supervised, trained and provided direction to 11 staff members
• Administered medication to individuals under the scope of AMAP certification
• Managed financially system including payroll, accounts payable and individuals’ cash as well as program’s petty cash funds

• Met with and counseled students on a weekly basis to assist them with coping skills, homework assignments, job preparation and placement.
• Provided crisis intervention and tools to students for preventing altercations.
• Required to mediate altercations between students and report to parents/guardians where necessary.
• Coordinated various youth groups.

• Required to meet with clients at initial interview stage to determine a suitable placement for treatment.
• Incorporated motivational interviewing techniques into counseling sessions to empower clients towards positive behavioral changes that support long-term sobriety.
• Conducted individual therapy to assist clients in identifying and avoiding triggers as well as overcoming times of emotional hardship.
• Responsible for multiple caseloads while working in juvenile detention facility for girls, Division for Youth.
• Coordinated with court liaison officers and probation departments when necessary, promoting successful completion of mandated substance abuse counseling requirements for clients involved with the legal system.