Services Mental Health
Resume:
Paul "Bear" Valdez
**** *. ****** ***. ****, AZ *5202
Home 480-***-****
Cell 480-***-****
E-Mail: ***.****@****.***
Experience:
Current Position: (Self employed) All Trades Handyman Services
Primary focus - light remodeling projects and repair: electrical -plumbing
-carpentry -concrete -stucco
FEB 2010 - JULY 2011 CRN-INC. -Crisis Specialist
Primary focus: Receiving incoming calls for crisis services from clients
experiencing suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, or both. Triages
client to determine risk level; Processing with client until restored pre-
crisis level of functioning or if unable to stabilize dispatching mobile
team for face to face intervention. Fielding a variety of general mental
health calls in areas of but not limited to family issues, substance abuse,
chemical dependency, and domestic violence. Making referrals as needed to
appropriate agencies for clients. Receiving transferred calls from 911
operators and assessing crisis situation and appropriate response. Large
volume of calls from case managed clients having medication related issues
and or non-medication compliant and same said clients having poor to
marginal insight to their own condition. Documenting calls and making
communications with case managers or service agencies. Program focus
resolution based.
DEC 2007 - FEB 2010 UPC-Magellan / ConnectionsAZ -Lead Crisis BHT
Primary focus: To partner with the UPC Clinical team in the assessment
area and the 23-hour observation and inpatient units: Physician, Nurse and
Crisis BHT coordinating and identifying precipitating factors leading up to
the current crisis with a heavy emphasis on suicidal / homicidal ideations
and psychosis. Coordinate care and discharge planning with the patient,
family members, clinics, local providers, and/or other referrals sources:
Triage in-coming patients; Provide brief intervention counseling and
educate them on Mental Health and Substance Abuse matters; Redirect
inappropriate patient behavior. Participates in CPI, seclusion and
restraints if necessary to insure patient and staffs safety. Conducts
follow-up telephone calls to outpatient site clinical team members,
identify family members, providers and community service agencies to ensure
post discharge treatment. Document all billable services in UPC MIS
systems, all patient activities regarding interventions, coordination of
care, treatment and discharge planning.
MAY 2003 - NOV. 2007 Crisis Intervention Worker: Salt River Pima - Maricopa
Indian Community (SRPMIC) BHS Specialty Services
Primary focus: Provide crisis intervention to SRPMIC Community members to
facilitate immediate stabilization for persons (individuals and families)
experiencing emotional, mental or behavioral crisis situations. Assessing
the need for additional services and providing referrals to appropriate
providers. Focus of care with the seriously mentally ill (SMI), children /
adolescents and includes suicide and family interventions where a traumatic
event had recently occurred. Provide emergency psychological status
assessments and care to crisis clients for behavioral health, violent crime
and Domestic Violence issues encountered by SRPD by making face to face
contact in the community and or at the SRPD DOC. Develop short term crisis
management plans. Ensure plan is monitored and coordinated with appropriate
staff when client is referred for services or in case of emergency
psychiatric hospitalization. Prepared reports in an accurate and timely
manner. Ensuring that reports be delivered SRPMIC Tribal courts, Office of
the Prosecutor and the Evaluating Psychiatrist, where the crisis
intervention worker requested an Emergency Apprehension by SRPD.
SEPT. 1997 - MAY 2003 (Self employed) All Trades Handyman Services
Primary focus - light remodeling projects and repair: electrical -plumbing
-carpentry -concrete -stucco
MAY 1994 - AUG. 1997 Crisis Specialist: ComCare, RHBA Maricopa County.
Primary focus: Receiving incoming calls for crisis services from clients
experiencing suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, or both. Processing
with client until restored pre-crisis level of functioning or if unable to
stabilize dispatching mobile team for face to face intervention. Fielding a
variety of general mental health calls in areas of but not limited to
family issues, substance abuse, chemical dependency, and domestic violence.
Making referrals as needed to appropriate agencies for clients. Receiving
transferred calls from 911 operators and assessing crisis situation and
appropriate response. Large volume of calls from case managed clients
having medication related issues and or non-medication compliant and same
said clients having poor to marginal insight to their own condition.
Documenting calls and making communications with case managers as needed.
Program focus resolution based.
SKILLS AND AREAS OF STUDY: Crisis intervention techniques,
psychopharmacology, suicide, crisis debriefing, death, grief, and loss,
sexual abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, mental illness, substance
abuse/chemical dependency, acute psychiatric emergencies.
References: Excellent personal and professional references available upon
request.
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