Management Service
Resume:
KINGSLEY DURU
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New Carrolton MD 20784
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OBJECTIVE
Professional position in Counseling or LMFT
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Highly motivated, goal oriented professional with background in education, social work, and Mental
Health therapy/Community Support Worker. Service-focused individual committed to ensuring
accomplishment of organizational goals with creativity and flexibility needed to meet diverse client needs.
EXPERIENCE
Therapist April 2008 2014
Center for Therapeutic Concepts Inc.; Largo MD
• Collects and assesses data relevant to client’s psychological social needs, risk factors for
psychosocial deterioration and responses to interventions.
• Implements social service interventions that achieve treatment goals, address client’s needs,
link social supports, physical care and physical environment.
• Develop a social history, social assessment and care plan which identifies pertinent problems
and needs, realistic goals to be accomplished and the specific action to be taken in resolution of
the problems and/or needs upon admission of each new client.
• Actively participate in interdisciplinary Care Plan meetings.
• Acts as primary therapist, providing a range of therapies, crisis intervention and behavior
management to achieve improvement of treatment goals and discharge dispositions.
• Provides case management and coordination of treatment services for children, adolescents
and their families to facilitate access to needed treatment. This may include coordinating with
referring professionals, treatment team, QI, UR and others to ensure appropriate care.
• Conducts intake sessions to assess patient and family needs.
• Completes documentation of assessments, treatment plans, therapy sessions, case manager
discharge summaries and formal written reports as needed. Participates in staff meetings and
professional committees as assigned.
• Participates in activities integral to the maintenance and continued development of client’s
strength.
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Therapist February 2008 2010
Family Preservation Inc. Washington DC
Coordinates and facilitates team meetings involving substance abuse, mental health, DSS,
to discuss multi service treatment plan needed.
• Develops treatment plans based on consumer strengths, preferences, needs and
potential to address the identified needs.
• Provides crisis intervention for clients, including those at high risk for
suicide/homicide.
• Provides assessment and intervention through the following treatment activities as
required: individual therapy, psychosocial rehabilitation, education of clients through
teaching activities of daily living.
• Provides clinical services; consultation and technical assistance to families,
professional and community agencies.
• Evaluates risk and potential need for hospitalization; develop and implement risk
management plans;
Attend and participates in staff meetings and professional development activities.
• May perform First Aid and CPR as needed.
Social Worker - First Home Care- Washington, DC May 2004 - May 2010
• Conducted investigations and assessed cases based on findings
• Submitted reviews and reports in accordance with DC and federal laws
• Attended court proceedings to determine if a child should be placed with a member of
his/her family
• Administered process for reunifying children with members of their families rather
than adoption and keeping siblings together in a group home instead of separating them
• Referred patients to counselors, health services, recovery houses and treatment
centers
• Assisted patients with applications for housing, welfare and other management
support
• Provided counseling and support, which included child protection and family services
• Managed assigned caseload
Social Worker - Traditional Foster Care August 1999 - May 2004
DC Children and Family Services Agency; Washington, DC
• Provided leadership in case planning, program development, consultation to team and
branch social workers, and other supervisory duties
• Conducted child abuse/neglect investigations and family and child assessments
• Counseled and assisted individuals and families or other groups to understand and
resolve personal and social difficulties
• Conducted interviews to assess case history and family concerns, prepared case
histories and assessed problems
• Maintained up-to-date records for documentation of case activity, to include
electronic case management data entry for caseload of 30.
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• Participated in formal Administrative Review to determine viability of reunification
for the children
• Counseled client and provided therapy; follow up results of counseling programs and
clients adjustment.
Social Work Intern - Epidemiology Unit June 1997 - 1999
National Institutes of Health; Department of Health and Human Services; Rockville, MD
• Evaluated the benefits of federal HIV/AIDS program in inner cities
• Responsible for final analysis and reports of all programs of HIV/AIDS in my unit to
determine if the projects meet federal standards
• Compiled an analysis of cocktail medicines given to HIV/AIDS patients to test the
effects of the drugs administered
• Conducted research on the interaction new drugs and monitored the reaction of the
new drugs administered to the HIV/AIDS patients
EDUCATION
1999 Howard University; Washington, DC
Master of Social Work- MSW, LMFT
Summa cum Laude
1996 University of District of Columbia; Washington, DC
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2002 Seminar - DC Laws Concerning Reunification of Families;
DC Child and Family Services Agency; Washington, DC
2001 Seminar - Children and Families: The Effects of Adoption and Separation of Siblings on Families
and Kinship; Child Welfare League of America; Washington, DC
2000 Seminar - Importance of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace; DC Child and Family Services
Agency; Washington, DC
1999 Seminar - Palliative Care and Other Related HIV/AIDS Treatments; Department of Health and
Human Services; Washington, DC.
2009 Cultural Competency in work place.
2010 Medication Management.
Trained in Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
2011 HIV 101”what you need to know about it”.
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