Substance Abuse Health

ELLEN A. TRAPPEY, M.ED, LPC, LCPC

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Washington, DC 20009 601-***-****

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EDUCATION

Masters of Education in Community Counseling; CACREP accredited program; May 2004

Lynchburg College; Lynchburg, VA

Bachelor of Art in Classical Studies; Magna Cum Laude; May 2002

Millsaps College; Jackson, MS

EXPERIENCE

Associate Director, March 2009-August 2010

Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives,

University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA

• Develop and implement substance abuse harm reduction and educational programming

• Collaborate with the Data Analyst to evaluate programming efforts

• Foster collaborative relationships between and within the Division of University Life,

College Housing, Student Health Services and Academic Services to ensure that students

receive comprehensive services

• Serve as Co-Chair of the University’s Alcohol, Other Drug & Violence Prevention Task

Force

• Provide ongoing substance abuse counseling for students trying to maintain positive

behavior changes around alcohol and other drugs

Program Director & Substance Abuse Counselor, June 2008-March 2009

Office for the Prevention & Intervention of Substance Abuse,

Saint Joseph's University; Philadelphia, PA

• Responsible for the leadership, supervision and oversight to the day-to-day operations and

fiscal management of the university’s substance abuse prevention and intervention

program

• Developed, oversaw, and implemented harm reduction presentations and educational

activities for high-risk groups such as first year students, varsity athletes, and fraternity and

sorority members

• Acted as chair of the St. Joseph’s University Council on Alcohol and Student Health

• Provided training for and supervision of graduate assistant

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Trappey

• •

Worked with other campus Assisted the Counseling Center

administrators to produce the staff with crisis intervention

•

federally mandated Biennial Served as emergency on-call

Report counselor

• Assessed and evaluated the

student body’s alcohol and drug Coordinator of Wellness

use on a semi-annual basis Education & Leadership Development,

• September 2004-July 2006

Provided individual counseling

Division of Student Life,

for students struggling with

Millsaps College, Jackson, MS

substance abuse and

• Presented psychosocial

dependence

• educational programs for

Helped to recruit, train, and

students, faculty, and staff on

oversee Hawk2Hawk, the peer

such issues as eating disorders,

health mentor team

suicide prevention, sexual

assault risk reduction, mental

health awareness, and alcohol

and other drug education

• Designed and implemented a

Counselor & Prevention web-based survey that assesses

Specialist, July 2006- June 2008 students’ substance use and

Counseling Center, perception of alcohol and drug

Saint Joseph’s University; use on campus

• Created and implemented a

Philadelphia, PA

• Administered and evaluated social norms media campaign in

population-level educational an attempt to reduce negative

programs for high risk groups consequences experienced by

• Facilitated the weekly Alcohol college students as a result of

substance use

Skills Training Program for

•

judicially mandated students Served as on-call

• Acted as chair of community professional in order to provide

emergency response in crisis

coalition sub-group of the St.

situations

Joseph’s Advisory Council on

•

Substance Abuse and Student Oversaw the recognition

Health and compliance of 82 student

• Delivered evidenced-based organizations on campus, as

well as maintained the

substance abuse interventions

division’s computer database for

(BASICS) to individual students

• Advised the peer-education these organizations

• Responsible for the

group Holding Hawks

conception, coordination, and

Responsible

• Collaborated with Residence implementation of the Student

Life Awards Ceremony

Life, Student Activities, and

• Provided support to

First Year Orientation

students in establishing an

departments to provide harm-

Active Minds Chapter on

reduction based educational

campus

presentations for the campus

community

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Victim Services Coordinator,

October 2003-September 2004 Community Education Specialist,

Crisis Line of Central Virginia’s June 2003-October 2003

Sexual Assault Response Program; Crisis Line of Central Virginia’s

Lynchburg, VA Sexual Assault Response Program;

• Lynchburg, VA

Provided 24-hour

•

hotline and face-to-face crisis Coordinated and

mental health counseling to presented school and

sexual assault survivors, their community education programs

family and friends throughout the city of

• Lynchburg and the outlying

Coordinated with

counties

forensic nurse examiners and

•

emergency department nurses Revamped the Youth

and physicians in order to Violence Prevention

determine appropriate medical Curriculum, which is presented

treatment for sexual assault to students in grades 6-12, so

survivors that the lesson plans not only

• further complied with the

Accompanied sexual

Virginia Standards of Learning,

assault victims throughout the

but also better educated students

physical evidence recovery

about the dangers of unhealthy

process, as well as provided

relationships and sexual assault

support for the duration of the

•

criminal investigation and court Responsible for

process compiling agency statistics and

• for writing quarterly reports for

Initiated support

grants which were funded by

services for sexual assault

the Virginia Department of

survivors with other community

Health

agencies

• Served as agency’s

Counseling Practicum, Spring-

primary psychotherapist by

Summer 2003

providing counseling for both

Courtland Center, Central Virginia

survivors and secondary victims

Community Services; Lynchburg,

of sexual assault and sexual

VA

harassment

•

• Worked with agency

Facilitated all adult,

therapists to provide substance

child, and adolescent survivor

abuse and mental health

psycho-educational therapy

services

groups

•

• Helped therapist with

Planned and carried out

intensive outpatient group

30-hour volunteer training so

therapy sessions

that companions received the

• Assisted therapist in

education and skills necessary

developing treatment plans for

to handle hotline calls and to

clients

provide emergency room

accompaniment

• Answered and

CERTIFICATIONS

responded to telephone calls at

Crisis Line, a 1-800-Suicide

certified call center

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Trappey

Licensed Professional Personnel Advisor for Chi

Counselor; District of Columbia, August 2010- Omega Chapter at Villanova University, Fall 2006-

Present Spring 2008

Licensed Clinical Completed New Orleans

Professional Counselor; Maryland, October 2010 Marathon, Spring 2006

Certified Addictions Jackson Rape Crisis

Counselor Diplomate; Pennsylvania, March 2009- Center, Volunteer, Spring 2005-Summer 2006

Present Weight Watchers, Group

Leader, Spring 2005-Summer 2006

Chi Sigma Iota

INVOLVEMENT, AFFILIATIONS Counseling Honorary, Member, Spring 2004-Present

Virginia Counselors

& PRESENTATIONS Association, Member, Fall 2003-Fall 2004

Lynchburg Area

Counselors Association, Member, Fall 2003-Fall 2004

Co-Presenter, National

Community-Wide Youth

Association of Student Affairs Professionals’ Alcohol

Collaborative, Mental Health Committee Chair, Fall

and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Conference, Spring

2003

2010

Camp Wesley Pines,

Co-Presenter, Mid-

Camp Director, Summer 2002

Atlantic College Health Association, Fall 2009

Millsaps College Campus

Completed Baton Rouge

Activities Board, Chair, 2001-2002

Marathon, Winter 2009

Camp Wesley Pines,

Anti-Violence Advocate,

Summer Program Director, 2001

University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2009-present

American Counseling

enn.ed

Association, Spring 2009-present

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REFERENCES

Highlighted in Dr. George

Dowdall’s book, College Drinking: Reframing a

Social Problem.

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Guest Speaker, Alcohol Julie Bever

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Inquirer article on college drinking, Fall 2007 Penns Joseph

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Marathon, Fall 2007 a Unive

Guest Lecturer, Alcoh rsity

Psychology Department, Bryn Mawr College, Spring ol & Couns

2007 Other eling

Guest Lecturer, Master’s Drug Center

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