Mental Health Assistant

ROBIN CRESS-COOK

**** ******* ****** **********, ** 15213

Phone: 412-***-**** e-mail:**********@***.***

OBJECTIVE

To help people with drug and alcohol/mental health issues to obtain the life skills and interpersonal skills to negotiate difficult situations so they are able to successfully live independently in the community.

COUNSELED

• Counseled clients and students as necessary to ensure they were meeting program requirements

• If an individual was not on track for meeting goals, devised a one-in-one plan with them to achieve success and maintain goals

• Tracked individual residents weekly and monthly goals and gave reports to program director

FACILITATED & DEVELOPED PROGRAMS

• Instructed Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills classes for residents

• Instructed Alcohol and other Drug classes at the Parole Violator Center at Renewal

• Facilitated women’s Drug and Alcohol program on life skills, goal setting and 12 step program

• Developed and instructed various courses at proprietary schools and the Allegheny County Community College

DOCUMENTED & EVALUATED

• Documented clients’ behaviors, using a merit and demerit system to gauge program compliance of up to 130 clients

• Documented major program violations that resulted in incident reports, clients being placed on complete or returns to the penitentiary

• Documented medication compliance

• Documented client results for urine analysis and breathalyzer tests

WORK EXPERIENCE

Community Residential Services, Glenshaw, PA

8/16-present- Residential Counselor at Wetzel Specialized Housing Program for Women with Borderline Personality Disorder

Brooktree Health Services, Wexford, PA

3/16-7/16-Overnight Counselor/Laboratory Technician

Renewal, Pittsburgh, PA

4/14-3/16-Community Corrections Assistant, State Mental Health Work Release Unit

8/10-4/14-Program Assistant, State Parole Violator Center Lock Down Unit

(promotion to Community Corrections)

5/09-8/10-Treatment Aide, Women’s Drug & Alcohol Inpatient Lock Down Unit (promotion to Program Assistant)

Sanford Brown Institute/formerly Western School of Health & Business, Pittsburgh, PA

4/04-5/09-Instructor, General Education Department

EDUCATION

Master of Arts: Organizational Communication; Miami of Ohio 1985

Community College of Allegheny County-Drug and Alcohol Certification classes 4.0

TRAINING

PA Department of Corrections Training Academy: Elizabethtown, PA -required training for contractors working with state inmates

First Aide-2017

CPR-2017

Act 33&34

FBI Clearance

References Available Upon Request

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