GEORGE VETTIKUNNEL, LMSW.

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Texas 78520, Ph: 956-***-**** Email

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

•Licensed Master Social Worker: License Number 51765.

•Thirty-seven years of professional social work experience in various service settings including hospital, behavioral, child welfare, forensic inpatient & correctional social work. Skilled in conducting clinical interviews and bio-psycho-social assessments for clients in various settings.

•Proven skills in need identification, program planning and program development. Experienced in case management, individual, family and group counseling with children and adults. Besides CBT alternative therapies like Meditation & Breathing modalities are engaged.

•Effective team member in working with multi-disciplinary team.

ASSESSMENT AND COUNSELING

•Conducted clinical interviews and performed bio-psycho-social assessments for clients in various settings.

•Provided individual and family counseling for children and their families.

•Offered supportive counseling for coping with illness and life transition problems of developmentally disabled.

•Provided crisis intervention, problem solving and psycho-education groups of emotionally challenged children, adults, and their families.

•Prepared court reports for adolescents and adults who are on probation.

•Facilitated the early release of long-term convicts and coordinated their rehabilitation

• Provided aftercare services for children in conflict with the law.

TREATMENT PLANNING AND CASE MANAGEMENT

• Developed individualized plan of services using treatment modalities and available resources.

•Linked clients and families with resources and community services based on assessment and plan of service.

•Made appropriate referrals for transition to open prisons from closed ones for convicts.

•Maintained accurate clinical records in accordance with professional standards and agency's requirements.

•Conducted case conferences and coordinated services for clients.

PROGRAM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

•Developed and conducted in-service program for the agency staff.

•Participated in the drug dependency assessment for the Planning Commission of India. Taught MSW final year students for one academic year and provided supervision and field instruction for two years.

•Developed guidelines for the early release and rehabilitation of convicts.

•Taught fundamentals of Corrections and Criminology at the Correctional Officers' Training School.

•Coordinated field work opportunities for student social workers in Corrections.

CURRENT POSITION

Social Worker III (2018 onwards): With the Health and Human Services of Texas (HHS) at the Kerrville State Hospital, TX-78028. Responsibilities include Biopsychosocial assessment, group therapy, individual & family sessions, Master treatment plan & Discharge/Continuity of care planning.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

DISABILITY INTEGRATION ADVICER (2017-18): With the FEMA at Houston for Disaster 4332 since October 17 as a local Hire. The role is to work w/ mitigation, DSA in identifying survivors and providing them w/ services and linking those w/ resources to be resilient to spring back to pre-disaster capabilities & function.

CASE MANAGER MSW (2015-17) : With the Rio Grande Regional Hospital in_ McAllen TX 78503. The role focused on enabling the patients to choose optimally beneficial discharge plan and in linking clients with community resources apart from being the liaison between the patient, the treatment team and the insurance agencies.

Correctional Officer (2014-15): With the Geo Group at the Hidalgo East Detention Center in La Villa. The responsibilities included enabling the orderly routine activities of offenders within the facility as a team ensuring the safety & security of inmates, as per the rules, procedures.

Social Worker 2013: At Social Workers As Needed San Antonio TX 78245. Responsibilities include Assessment for home health care, linking clients with community resources, Individual & Family sessions, and Treatment & Discharge plan in liaison with the home health care agency.

Licensed Master Social Worker, 2009 - 2012: At Valley Baptist Behavioral Health Services (VBBHS), Brownsville, TX-78521.Responsibilities include: Biopsychosocial assessment, group therapy, individual & family sessions, Master treatment plan & Discharge planning.

Correctional Officer Ill: (2008): With the Texas Department of Correctional Justice at the Walls Unit in Huntsville. The responsibilities included enabling the orderly routine activities of offenders within the facility as a team ensuring the safety & security of inmates, as per the rules, procedures.

Research Officer 1996-2007: Department of Corrections, Government of

Maharashtra, Pune, India. Responsibilities included: Needs assessment, coordinating 2

after care and rehabilitation services. Planning and organizing prison reforms, revising prison manual. Scientific classification of prisoners, redress prisoners' complaints against the staff and facilitating enquiries from the Supreme Court, National & State Human Rights Commissions at the Inspectorate General of Prisons.

Lecturer 1994-1995: Department of Criminology & Correctional Administration, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Duties included field work supervision, teaching courses and conducting seminars for MSW students.

Field Work Supervisor for MSW students & Research Assistant: (1998—94). Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India: Supervised the first year MSW students placed in correctional settings and liaised with the field work agencies in creating experiential learning opportunities for social work interns. Undertook research studies.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Satisfactorily completed all yearly training requirements of HHS in 2023.

Successfully completed all training requirements of FEMA in 2017

•Satisfactorily completed 3month's On the Job Training Course required for Case Manager MSW at Rio Grande Regional Hospital, McAllen, TX in Sep 2015.

•One Day recertification Course in SATORI: Alternatives to Managing Aggression at VBBHS, Brownsville, TX in June 2011

•4 Day Conference on Behavioral Health and Addictive Disorder organized by U S Journal of Training at Clearwater, FL in Jan 2010.

•One Day Intensive Cognitive Therapy Training organized by Hope Family Health Center, McAllen, TX May 2010

•Satisfactorily completed one month's Pre-service Part I course & the On-the-Job Training Course required for Correctional Officer at Houston TX in Nov 2008.

LICENSURE & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW): issued by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (www.dshs.state.tx.us/social work) License no.51765, expires05/31 /2024. In the process of upgrading to LCSW; exam cleared on 10/28/23.

M.S.W concentration in & Correctional Social Work. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1986; The Council on Social Work Education evaluated this degree as equivalent of a master's degree in social work earned from a school of social work accredited by the CSWE vide its letter dated 1-9-2008.

Member: National Association of Social Workers.

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