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Resume:
Julie Ashby Cardwell, LMSW, MEd.
*** **** **. ********, ** 30548 US
Cell: 770-***-**** Email: ac0x82@r.postjobfree.com
Work Experience
Veterans Administration, Veterans Crisis Line
**** ********* Road
Atlanta, GA 30329 United States
Social Science Program Specialist, Trainer
10/2016 – 4/23/17
Salary: 62,000.00 USD Per Year
Hours per week: 40
Series: 0101 Pay Plan: GS Grade: 11
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Trainer for the Veterans Crisis Line New Employee Orientation for Health Science Specialists and Social Services Assistants. Training new employees in Therapeutic Interventions for Veterans in Crisis with Suicidal and/or Homicidal Ideations using Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy and Crisis Intervention modalities. Training in standard operational procedures, Military Culture, and Medora, CAPRI, JLV, computer programs. Also training employees in online searching and Crisis Intervention. Listening to hundreds of hours of veterans’ making crisis calls.
Veterans Crisis Line Atlanta is a new center for handling the crisis line for veterans and active duty service members. This program will be training over 300 new employees in less than six months. It will effectively double the call handling ability of Canandaigua New York's well respected and famous Crisis center featured in HBO's "Press 1" documentary.
Supervisor: Sarah Deegan 585-***-****)
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Gwinnett County Public Schools - PRHS
1555 Old Peachtree Rd.
Suwanee, GA 30024 United States
07/2003 - 07/2013
Social Science Teacher/ Electives Coordinator.
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
* 11 years of teaching college level psychology teaching Biological Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Learning, Cognitive, Substance Abuse and Treatments, Abnormal Psychology, Therapeutic Treatments (including bereavement therapy), Intelligence and Personality Testing, States of Consciousness and Memory Psychology.
* Expert knowledge of Mental disorders, biological pathology, and a variety of treatments including psychotherapeutic modalities, psychopharmacology and how they work and the side effects, biological disorders affecting behavior such as Schizophrenia, Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer's, and sociocultural factors affecting behavior.
* Problem solving while supervising eight course teachers, average of 90 students and in Advanced Placement classes, three extracurricular activities and organizing and managing Advanced Placement Exam Review Sessions.
* Demonstrating and teaching Group therapy and Group Guided Visualization.
* Interventions with students, schools and parents through hundreds of personal meetings and the Student Support teams.
* Public Speaking in front of small and large groups including delivering three ninety minute lectures a day on subject matter.
* Leadership during challenging situations
* Subject Supervisor of 8 teachers teaching five different subjects which including being a liaison between Administration and teachers, planning and running weekly meetings of teachers including course planning, peer review of cases, and database management including tracking.
* Evaluating student strengths, weaknesses, sociocultural influences and motivation to succeed and how to solve problems to facilitate the success of the student.
* Motivating students to believe in themselves and reach for the dreams that only through hard work and expecting the best can you achieve your goals.
* Expert Computer skills and teacher of peers, tested out of all of MS Office, Lotus, Galileo, and school database requirements and an excellent researcher on the Internet.
* Community lecture series on Death and Dying and the psychological effects.
* Sponsor largest extracurricular activity, Habitat for Humanity building from one student to 175 students contributing to eight houses built in four years.
Honors won:
Nominated for Teacher of the Year twice out of over 250 teachers
Won Best Storytelling Teacher
Won Most Passionate Teacher
Ridge Writing Award
Sponsored: Habitat for Humanity; Volunteer Club; Muslim Student Association; Liberty in North Korea; Anime Club, Fencing Coach and Aspiring Leaders of Medical Altruism
Supervisor: Courtney O'Brien 678-***-****)
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Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton Community Service Board
977-A Taylor Street
Conyers, GA 30012 United States
09/2002 - 06/2003
School Crisis Counselor for Rockdale County Schools
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
School Crisis Counselor for Rockdale County Schools working for Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton Community Service Board
* Evaluating and assessing psychological functioning and direct crisis intervention for suicidal and homicidal students determining level of need and working up a biopsychosocial assessment for a possible 1013.
* Liaising between family and/or school and Gwinnett, Rockdale and Newton Community Service Board and Rockdale County Police for mental health help.
* Diagnosing patient mental disorder with treatment team and deciding the best level of service for patient.
* Working with the police to investigate and sometimes restrain patient when there was an active threat of harm on school campuses.
* Working with DFCS and Police on criminal investigation of child abuse.
* Advocating for patients in the school system for level of care that the patient needed and consulted with them on how best to help the patient.
* Documentation of all patient interactions in case files and on Medicaid forms.
* Working with children from ages 5-18 years old from a variety of ethnicities and socio-economic status.
* Evaluating patients at the hospital emergency rooms and at the county jail.
Other Social Work Experience:
Laurelwood Psychiatric and Crisis Stabilization Hospital
200 Wisteria Dr.
Gainesville, GA 30501 United States
08/2015 - 01/2015
UGA MSW Behavioral Therapy Intern
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Working in a locked ward Crisis Stabilization Hospital providing direct crisis intervention and management under clinical supervision.
* Working with a wide variety of patients including working in the adolescent unit, the Adult Patients with Psychosis Unit, in the Dual Diagnosis Unit for Substance Abuse and the Day Partial Hospitalization Program.
* Provided case management and services for assigned residents.
* Working up the initial psychosocial assessments gathering information from charts and interviews and consultations with staff, parents and agencies such as the Department of Family and Children Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice and community agencies and schools if involved in the patients’ cases.
* Assess, analyze and evaluate the psychosocial functioning, identifying patient strengths, weaknesses, coping skills and assistance needed of patient and family.
* Conducting and documenting clinical interviews and therapy sessions with the patients.
* Planning and conducting Group therapy meetings with a variety of patients on all the units ranging from teaching coping skills, goal setting, community resources, recovery planning and avoiding relapse to art and music therapy.
* Participating in the Behavioral Therapy Team meeting and then the multidisciplinary treatment team meeting with the psychiatrists, nurses, Behavioral Therapy Supervisors, therapists, interns, and case managers where cases are discussed, analyzed and treatment is planned and assessed.
* Participated in facility training and daily program planning meetings.
* Weekly peer and case reviews.
* Consulting with other staff members about the psychosocial needs of the patient case
* Documenting of all cases by computer and verbally.
* Contacting and working as liaison between the hospital, parents and adolescents and physicians, Department of Family and Child Services, government organizations, and outpatient facilities advocating and arranging for patient services.
* Treatment is analyzed, evaluated and documented with the Behavioral Therapy Team and in treatment team meetings.
* Searching out and researching new community resources to be made available to the patients and their families.
* Participating in Family meetings being held daily either in person or by telephone and sometimes with an interpreter.
* Discussing cases with the patient’s family members to assess validity of allegations of abuse and neglect.
* Working with parents to find the best treatments or placements available for their child.
* Working with suicidal, homicidal or psychotic adolescents to intervene and stabilize crisis situations with the goal of returning patients to baseline and assuring a safe environment for the patient and family to discharge to with services put into place to continue needed psychiatric care.
* Alternative safe placements are found for children in unsafe situations which could be relatives, foster parents or a long term psychiatric inpatient program.
* Discharge planning consists of psychiatric treatment follow ups are arranged with psychiatrists, therapists, wrap around services, community agencies and long term psychiatric inpatient programs. All patients and families leave with short term and long term plans for treatment with the safety, health and success of the patient as the goal.
* Safety plans are made with patient and gone over with family before discharge.
* Treatment planning and goal setting for a variety of patients.
* Counseling patients using evidence based practice namely Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy employed with a strengths based positive attitude. This is a fast paced team environment where we are constantly assessing, triaging, planning, discussing with the treatment team and advocating for patients are constantly being done where the safety, health and success of the patients are the number one goal.
* Working with patients who have a substance abuse issue: teaching the patients relapse planning, community resources, coping skills, interpersonal communication skills and boundary issues. Then discharging patients to long term SA programs and to family.
* Working with families to solve family issues, communication issues and marital issues.
* Working with adolescents with PTSD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, bereavement disorders and Cluster B Personality Disorders.
* Trained in the DSM V to evaluate and diagnose Medical and Mental Disorders and psychopharmaceuticals used to treat certain disorders and how they work and their side effects.
My internship was supervised and evaluated by an LCSW. By the last Semester of my internship most of my work was practiced independently with weekly supervision.
Supervisor: Kristen Dey 770-***-****)
Barrow County Department of Family and Children's Services, Child Protective Services Intern
16 Lee St.
Winder, GA 30680 United States
08/2014 - 11/2014
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Interning at the Barrow County Department of Family and Children's Services Child Protective Services
* Investigation of Child Cruelty and Endangerment Allegations
* Interviewed persons of interest in cases
* Evaluated varied needs of Families in Crisis
* Encouraged parents to take initiative in their lives to help themselves out of crisis
* Supported parents in their efforts to turn their lives around
* Taught parenting skills
* Documented interviews in case formatting
* Collaborated with case managers to successfully handle case evaluations
* Counseled parents and children appropriate and advisable behavior to succeed in goals
* Summarized police, school, psychiatric and historical reports into concise and understandable summaries
* Searched for and acquired placements for children in need.
Supervisor: Sarah Landers 770-***-****)
Education:
University Of Georgia – MSW, Clinical Social Work, Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy
Master's Degree 08/2015
GPA: 3.72 of a maximum 4.0
Credits Earned: 60 Semester hours
Major: Clinical Social Work Minor: Marriage and Family Therapy Certificate
Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:
This degree requires classes in Social Issues, Psychology, Clinical Individual and Group Direct Practice, Research and Program Evaluation, Intervention Evaluation, Ethics, Assessment and psychological pathology, and a foundation and concentration internship.
In addition to these courses, I took three Marriage and Family Therapy courses and a class in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Furthermore while attending classes, I attended a Marriage and Family Therapy Conference and a Social Worker Conference. While at The NASW Social Worker Conference, I took seminars in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and on Welcoming back Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan and Military Sexual Trauma.
University Of Georgia - MEd, Secondary School Social Science Education – Broad Field, Specializing in Behavioral Science and History.
Master's Degree 07/2001
GPA: 3.5 of a maximum 4.0
Credits Earned: 50 Semester hours
Major: Social Science Education Minor: Behavioral Science/History
Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:
Biological Psychology, Social Psychology, Public Administration, Problems in Education and more. I did my observations at Phoenix HS which is an alternative High School and my student teaching at low income HS. I have a State of Georgia Teaching License. I am certified in Broad Field which means I can Teach any Social Study at HS level. I currently have been teaching college level Psychology for the past 11 years.
University Of Georgia - BSFCS, Child and Family Development
Bachelor's Degree 0/1999
GPA: 4.0 of a maximum 4.0
Credits Earned: 120 Semester hours
Major: Child and Family Development Minor: Business
Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:
This is a degree that looked at all factors that affect "The Family". From Families in Crisis to Personal Finance and Housing. I studied relationships, family interventions and human sexuality. I even took classes on nutrition across the life-cycle. It was the big picture look at the whole life of a person from conception to death. I went back as an adult to get this degree after my family's crisis with a child with a lung disease and I loved every class I took and maintained a 4.0 while I did it. During my degree, I developed parenting classes for community parents as well as having put together a presentation on Death and Dying.
Job Related Training:
Over the past 12 years I have done many continuing education Hours.
Many were seminars such as:
Military Sexual Trauma *9/17/15 Military Families-The New Normal
The Returning Soldier Georgia's Problem with Methamphetamine
The Military Family *9/25/15 Distance Counseling and Telemental Health
Marriage and Family Conference x 2
Dialectic Behavior Therapy
The Family Secret
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
At-Risk Adolescents
DSM IV and Children
Play Therapy
ADHD
Affiliations:
National Association of Social Workers – Member Georgia Chapter of National Association of Social Workers – Member American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy - Student Member
References:
Name
Employer
Title
Phone
Anna*
Jones
Veterans Crisis Line
Responder
ac0x82@r.postjobfree.com
Elaine Ashby
Lighthouse Hospice
Owner and CEO
ac0x82@r.postjobfree.com
Bruce
Crane *
Veterans Crisis Line
SSPS
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Additional Information:
I have a LMSW or Licensed Master's Social Worker. This is my second Master's degree and licensure. I have also completed and received the Marriage and Family Certificate from the University of Georgia Marriage and Family Therapy Department.
I have been working with Families and Children for all combined 21 years now. I feel passionate about helping children and families find safety, healthy functioning and a future full of hope.
I am happiest when working in a fast paced, busy, team environment where dedication, hard work, a positive attitude and a sense of humor are appreciated. We evaluate the problem and then we find solutions.
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