Annie Atwood

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Nassau Bay, TX 77058

Cell: 713-***-**** acuymq@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Licensed Masters Degreed Social Worker with a specific emphasis on children, adolescents, and families with emotional and behavior problems. License #53698.

Unique combination of educational, professional and personal experiences in helping families dealing with emotional challenges.

Personal commitment to adoption and foster care issues as evidenced by service as a foster parent and CASA volunteer.

Unique ability to forge strong working relationships in a team environment to overcome difficult problems and achieve noteworthy success.

Successful private entrepreneurship demonstrates a practical approach to find workable solutions to achieve an organization’s stated purposes and goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Children’s Connections, Nassau Bay, TX 2015 – Present

Child & Family Specialist

Responsible for providing counseling, case management to Birth Mothers who are in need of

support during crisis pregnancies. Conduct home visits, needs assessments, home studies,

case management, mentoring, counseling to women and teens who are experiencing crisis pregnancies. Develop Plan of Care, assist with accessing needed community resources, provide childcare education as needed to clients.

Atwood Professional Search, Nassau Bay, TX 2007 - Present

Energy Industry Sr. Recruiter

Responsible for recruiting Sr. level Oil and Gas Engineers, Geoscientists and Legal Professionals for small, medium and large energy clients to meet specific requirements that enable them to achieve their corporate goals. As a direct result of technological innovations brought to this role, APS became the number one recruiter for 3 out of 4 of major clients.

Circles of Care, Houston, TX 2010-2011

Contract Social Worker

Provided Homestudies for prospective Foster and Adoptive parents on a contract basis for the Houston area.

Rio Bend, Sugarland, TX 2010-2011

Board of Directors

Served on the Board of Directors for this non-profit agency serving foster children in Harris County.

Consolidated Technologies, Houston, TX 2000 - 2005

Co-President

Created a successful home-based recruiting firm that provided both a strong financial foundation and flexibility in time commitments to accommodate personal parenting priorities.

Visiting Nurse Association, Houston, TX 1992-1996

Contract Social Worker

Assisted families in dealing with the unique challenges of issues in health care and the elderly. Special emphasis on bringing family members together to find solutions to the stresses inherent in caring for elderly parents and children with special needs.

The Wetcher Clinic, Houston, TX 1990-1991

Sr. Clinical Intern

Responsible for providing quality therapeutic interventions to children, couples, and families struggling with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Received valuable supervision while using play therapy, family therapy and individual therapy for clients in this well-respected, successful outpatient clinic.

DePelchin’s Children Center, Houston, TX 1989-1990

Supervisor, Children’s Inpatient Residential Unit

Hired to transform this problematic children’s residential unit (ages 5-13) with fresh interventions and approaches. Was able to successfully transform the unit from the least effective unit on campus to one of the most effective units in less than one year. Took the unit from having the highest number of monthly seclusions and physical restraints on campus to one of the lowest through effective therapeutic interventions, staff development and training, and establishment of staff cohesion.

Harris County Psychiatric Center, Houston, TX 1988-1989

Clinical Intern

Assigned to the Adult Substance Abuse Unit. Led group therapies, and co-lead psychodramas and other intensive therapeutic interventions to quickly identify personal issues that were impediments to overcoming addictions. Provided case management and aftercare planning.

West Oaks Hospital, Houston, TX 1988-1988

Sr. Counselor

Assigned to the Adult Substance Abuse Unit. Responsible for conducting case management, and individual and group therapies. Designed and presented an Addiction Education class that was evaluated by both patients and staff to be one of the most valuable parts of the hospital’s 30-day treatment program.

The Oaks Treatment Center, Austin, TX 1986-1988

Staff Counselor

Served on the Girl’s Adolescent Unit. This unit provided intensive, long-term (up to 18 months) residential treatment services to adolescent girls with serious emotional and behavioral problems. Typical patients were adolescents with multiple failed prior in-patient hospital stays, were often victims of abuse and neglect. Used unique, specific and intense strategies and interventions that were individually tailored to each patient’s particular needs and disorders. Responsible for case management of individual patients, and development of specific treatment plans for assigned patients. Participated in and led individual and group therapies. Worked in a team environment under the leadership of a multi-disciplinary team of professional psychiatrists, social workers, teachers and counselors. Contributed as a team member resulting in a high success rate of treatment for patients in our care, with successful re-integration of patients to their families and / or communities.

Junior Helping Hand for Children, Austin, TX 1985-1986

Child Care Worker

Served as a childcare worker in this long term (up to two years) residential treatment facility for children ages 4-12 who were victims of abuse and neglect. Developed and used specific interventions as determined by a team of multi-disciplinary professionals. Assisted in preparing residents for placement in permanent foster care or adoptive care after successful accomplishment of treatment plan goals.

EDUCATION

BA, Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 1987

M.S., Social Work, The University of Houston, Houston, TX 1991

RELEVANT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Mother of Samuel, 18, Zoe, 16, and Megan, 12 years old.

Foster mother of LeeAnna from birth to age 3 – at which she was adopted by a family within our church network.

Served as a CASA volunteer in the Harris County Family Court system.

Life-long passion for addressing foster care and adoption to provide struggling children with a sense of permanency through family placement.

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