Sylvia S Roan, MSSA, L.C.S.W., LISW-CP, BCBA
**** ******* ***., ****** ****, CA 91780
**********@*********.***; Mobile: 704-***-****
www.CharlotteFamilyCounselingCenter.com
State of California LCSW 77521
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HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Certified Triple P Trainer for Providers; Certified as an accredited provider of Level 2, 3, 4 and Level 5 Enhanced Triple P.
• Crisis Incident On Site Intervention specialist to help companies with different needs and challenges
• As a School Social Worker Worked in Orange County public school system serving District Wide Family Specialist in Orlando, Florida.
• Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Licensed as LCSW in three states to provide Behavioral Health services: North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.
• Excellent clinical experiences working with children and families (keeping in mind the developmental milestones of children, adolescents, and adults); Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Christian Counseling, and ABA have been my favorite approaches in practice.
• Well- experienced in group facilitation, teaching and public speaking
• Bi-Lingual in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner and Private Practice in Psychotherapy/Charlotte Family Counseling Center, LLC 2010 – June 2017
Owner and Private Practice in Psychotherapy/Orlando Family Counseling Center, INC 1998-2010
• Provided assessment of the problems. Presented Problems encompass a wide range of challenges in life and mental health diagnosis including Adjustment Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Disruptive behavior Disorders, OCD, ODD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Provided innovative, solution focused therapeutic counseling for Individuals, Couples, Children, Adolescents, and parents to do problem solving with great results.
• Provided Preventive non-medical Counseling services referred by various agencies of Employee Assistance Program.
• Have had Successful marketing and promotion for two office Sites: Charlotte, NC and Fort Mill, SC.
• www.CharlotteFamilyCounselingCenter.com
Training and Public Speaking: 1974-Present
• Provided Training to providers under Triple P America and Triple P, International, ltd. in the Carolinas, Florida and China
• Provided on-site consultation to school faculty members
• Provided Training for all medical social workers in Taiwan
• Provided Training for medical interns and residents at the Changhua Christian Hospital
• Provided Social Skills Training for all teachers and Students at Josiah Quincy Elementary School in Boston, MA
• Provided Training for Teachers, administrators, and parents at the Public schools in Orlando, FL.
• Provided Staff Development training for employees of BCBS in Charlotte, NC
• Provided leadership-training program to High School and Middle School youth through an innovative curriculum to teach Children’s Church every Sunday in a local church.
• Public Speaking to parents and community organizations in LosAngeles, CA, Portland, OR, NY, Orlando, FL, and Charlotte, NC in the following topics: Parenting Young Children, Parenting Sylvia S Roan, MSSA, L.C.S.W., LISW-CP, BCBA
5606 Welland Ave., Temple City, CA 91780
**********@*********.***; Mobile: 704-***-****
www.CharlotteFamilyCounselingCenter.com
State of California LCSW 77521
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School Age Children, Parenting Teen Age Children, How to Grow Your Marriage, How to Balance Work and Family
• Provided Triple P Training to providers and parents as a Triple P Trainer Assistant Principal, Wicklow Elementary School 07/2005 -11/2005
• Assist with student’s supervision and discipline; assist classroom teachers in positive classroom management; Facilitate teamwork among staff and faculty; Provide training in discipline and behavior management to paraprofessionals and teachers. Assist principal to resolve parental dissatisfactions.
Resource Teacher / Chickasaw Elementary School 08/2004-/7/2005
• Assist Teachers with special student learning challenges in the classroom.
• Provide children and their parents with tools and resources for academic success.
• Coordinated needs of students with community agencies through networking. Community Based Behavior Therapist (BCBA; LCSW)/ Intervention Services, Inc. and KinderKonsultig ad Parents Too, Inc.11/2004-08/2005
• Worked with children, Adolescents (Age 0-18+) and their parents and teachers in their real life spaces.
• Introduced and demonstrated ABA principles and concepts to care givers to help children to decrease the frequencies of misbehaviors.
Positive Discipline Specialist and Family Specialist, OCPS (District Wide Title I Schools, Orlando, FL. 3/1999-11/2004
• Transformed schools by working with students, teachers, and parents with severe discipline problems, such as truancy, explosive anger, and aggressive behaviors.
• Supported school discipline team including behavior specialists in helping students' behavior problems;
• Trained regular education classroom teachers and ESE teachers in classroom management and Goal Chart implementation;
• Conducted workshops for teachers and parents in positive discipline; Provide crisis intervention for schools;
• Designed brochures for teachers to remember basic concepts and principles of positive discipline in daily classroom management and goal chart implementation;
• Trained 20 new teachers of the original North Learning Community in positive classroom management strategies.
• Worked with on-site agencies to promote students' behavior improvement. Served as a facilitator, supporter, communicator, home-school liaison, mediator, trainer, and a change agent in Title I schools Coordinator/ Therapist for Alternative Resource Center, later this developed into West Orange Neighborhood Center for Families 1994-1998
• Developed family support programs to serve 13 feeder schools of West Orange High School plus the Westside Tech Center in 1994, and in 1996 I wrote a grant and received a multi-million -dollar grant to include 7 agencies to support the families of the schools.
• Supervised and trained collaborative staff of 7 agencies under the Neighborhood Center.
• Established and facilitated a viable community advisory board.
• Provided individual, small group and family intervention for students with discipline problems. Sylvia S Roan, MSSA, L.C.S.W., LISW-CP, BCBA
5606 Welland Ave., Temple City, CA 91780
**********@*********.***; Mobile: 704-***-****
www.CharlotteFamilyCounselingCenter.com
State of California LCSW 77521
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Staff Clinical Social Worker/ Danvers High School, Dunn’s Middle School, Danvers, Massachusetts 1993-1994
• Provided regular counseling services to students and parents on setting parameters and specific goals and to monitor progress of students using data.
• Implement the Daily Goal Chart system to improve students’ behavior.
• Served as a core member of a weekly discipline team meeting. Staff Clinical Social Worker/ Quincy Elementary School, Boston Public Schools and New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 1992-1993
• Served a highly diversified population of students, teachers, and families dealing with severe discipline problems.
• Served with students of special needs.
• Provided individual, small group and family counseling for young children of varieties of diagnosis.
• Designed a pilot program to co-teach pro-social skills with classroom teachers in kindergarten classrooms
• Wrote and was awarded a grant to do a school-wide social skills training. Lecturer/ Department of Sociology Gordon College, Wenham, MA 1986-1987
• Taught “Man and His Environment” an introductory college level course for students in social work. Staff Clinical Social Worker/ Hogan Regional Center Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1985-1986
• Staff Clinical Social Worker with profound and severe level of the mentally and physically handicapped population.
Chief of Social Work Department / Taipei Veterans Hospital, Taiwan, ROC 1976-1977
• Direct delivery of social work services to the OBGYN and Pediatric department.
• Recruited, Trained, and supervised the clinical social workers to provide services to children from 0 to high school age and their parents.
Director of Social Work Department, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taiwan, ROC 1974-1976
• Supervised the clinical social workers to provide services to children from 0 to high school age and their parents.
• Worked directly with expecting mothers and during well-baby clinic time in areas of parenting.
• Co-founders of a Community Rehabilitation Center for the physically handicapped young adults.
• Provided Training to hospital Interns and Residents in better understanding of patients’ socio- psychological needs during the treatment of their illness.
• Facilitated teamwork among multiple disciplinary team members. EDUCATION / HONORS/ LICENSURE
• Board Certified Behavior Analyst National Board of Behavior Analyst Certification 2004
• Educational Leadership Certification University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
• Licensed Clinical Soc. Worker State of Florida 1998; NC & SC (2010);
• M.S. in Social Administration Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 1974
• B.S. in Sociology National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Post Graduate Study at Phillips Graduate Institute, CA
• Fulbright Scholarship recipient
• AAUW International Fellowship
Sylvia S Roan, MSSA, L.C.S.W., LISW-CP, BCBA
5606 Welland Ave., Temple City, CA 91780
**********@*********.***; Mobile: 704-***-****
www.CharlotteFamilyCounselingCenter.com
State of California LCSW 77521
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• Accredited Provider of Level 4 Standard
Triple P and Level 5 Enhanced
Triple P America, December 15, 2005
• Accredited Trainer in Positive Parenting Triple P America and Triple P International, Ltd 03, 2015