Amanda Cambron, MSW

Lead Therapist, Behavioral Health Assessor, Therapeutic Foster Parent, Team Leader, Resource Coordinator, School Social Worker, Medical Social Worker, CPS Social Services Specialist

Hixson, TN 37343

admwrg@r.postjobfree.com

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Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

Lead Therapist & Behavioral Health Assessor

Camelot Community Care - Chattanooga, TN

March 2020 to May 2021

• Provide Camelot approved therapeutic interventions to clients and families to affect identified needed changes as well as assist with case coordination and/or resource linkage to clients and other involved parties (i.e. family, DCS, Court personnel, non-relative supports, etc.) when needed.

• Routine supervision of assigned Therapists and Care Coordinators in compliance with their program’s requirements: Interviewing/hiring/training employees, Planning/Assigning/Directing Work, Appraising Performance, Rewarding/Disciplining Employees, Addressing Complaints and Resolving Problems

• Assessing clients on intake as needed, conducting community client visitation, transporting clients, completing on-call duties, and providing Camelot approved therapeutic services to clients and families including but not limited to: coping skills, behavior modification, parenting skills, and crisis intervention.

• Providing individual, group, and /or family therapy to assigned clients and families

• Working with assigned clients’ treatment team to create, personalize, and update all Treatment Plans and other necessary documentation, and assuring that plans are consistent with Camelot policy, state licensing regulations, and COA accreditation requirements

• Attending Supervision and Treatment Team meetings and making presentations on each assigned client as required

• Assuring integrity and excellence by completing peer audits as assigned and contributing to the Performance Quality Improvement Cycle, including the collection and use of data to continuously improve client and program services

• Serving as an On the Job Trainer and mentor for newly hired Therapists and Care Coordinators as assigned

• Serving as a liaison and client advocate with other professionals and agencies involved in assigned clients’ care

• Supporting fellow team members to ensure the best outcomes for all Camelot clients and families

• Completing clinical documentation within established time frames and rectifying all deficits within the allotted time frame

Team Leader II

Omni Visions Inc - Chattanooga, TN

March 2018 to October 2019

• Responsible for training, supervising and directing the activities of the case management staff who are responsible for all aspects of service delivery for clients placed in their caseload.

• Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of resource coordinators, operations managers and other personnel, including tutors, therapists, etc.

• Provide administrative support to review treatment plans, individual support plans, records, documents.

• Provides oversight and consult on subordinates’ caseloads, including but not limited to reviewing referrals, providing training for prospective foster parents, crisis management, conducting home visits, etc.

• Provides support for clients and families to ensure quality care, behavior management and proper environmental conditions.

• Maintain communication between departments, staff, and clients by attending communication meetings and coordinating interdepartmental functioning.

• Establish work schedules and assignments for staff according to workload.

• Serves as liaison between case management staff, clients, families and state officials.

• Monitor, oversee and supervise case management activities of case managers on assigned team. Resource Coordinator II

Omni Visions - Chattanooga, TN

November 2015 to March 2018

• Provide referral treatment planning for foster and adoptive children placed in a family or group setting to maximize the social functioning, safety, wellbeing and permanency of the client.

• Perform administrative duties including, but not limited to updating client case files, foster/treatment parent files, information technology, etc.

• Provide information and referrals to community, private, state and federal agencies based on assessment of individual client needs.

• Review referral information with foster/treatment parents and respite parents to identify strengths and needs.

• Maintain a standard case load and act as liaison for child and/or foster/treatment parents in court proceedings and/or educational system.

• Act as advocate on behalf of child and family.

• Recommend services for families based on assessment of family strengths and needs; provide crisis intervention as necessary.

• Provide support, consultation and training to clients and foster/treatment parents including transportation, coordinate and provide input regarding the activities of resource personnel including mentors, therapists, tutors, etc. to assist the child with established evidence-based treatment strategies.

• Assist in the education and training for perspective foster/treatment parents and adoptive families.

• Participates in child/family team meetings and function as the leader of the child's treatment team.

• Ensure services are provided in the frequency, intensity and duration needed to facilitate timely permanency for each client.

School Social Worker

Whitfield County Schools - Dalton, GA

August 2008 to August 2015

• Responsibilities include: manage, support and serve 5 schools, ongoing case management, identifying student/family needs, increasing parent involvement, connecting clients to community resources, risk assessment, interviewing children and adults, Truancy – reporting, assessment and intervention, home visits, transportation for clients, parent conferences, close collaboration with School Counselor and Administrators, Attendance Review Team meetings, Educational Improvement Team Meetings, Local Interagency Planning Team meetings, Truancy Court, Community Christmas, Teen Maze

• Provide necessary social services to referred students including home visits, conferences, referrals to other school resources and/or community agencies, or other services as appropriate.

• Provide regular feedback to the referral source on the development of cases referred and develops with the referral source a problem resolution plan.

• Organize, participate in, and contribute to special projects aimed at improving school attendance.

• Furnish local and state reports as required.

• Coordinate matters relating to child abuse with schools and serves as a resource person to the schools in this area.

• Collaborate with community agencies in resolving individual and family problems which interfere with the school attendance of students.

Medical Social Worker

Hospice of Chattanooga, Inc. - Chattanooga, TN

February 2008 to July 2008

• Provide wide range of psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and their families in their home and/or facility.

• Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs.

• Regularly assess the pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.

• Implement the Plan of Care provisions to meet their needs, which include: social service goals for alleviating problems, supportive counseling, problem solving, community referrals, funeral planning, connecting to resources available, providing pre-bereavement and bereavement care.

• Regularly re-evaluate the patient’s and families psychosocial needs.

• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings.

• Complete psychosocial assessments.

• Connect families to community resources.

• Provide emotional support to patient and family.

• Conduct routine medical and emotional assessments of patient.

• Communicate needs of patient and family to team members. Social Services Specialist II

Department of Family and Children Service - Athens, GA June 2006 to February 2008

• Responsibilities include: performing on-going case management, identifying family strengths and needs, assessing child safety and risk, connecting clients to community resources, interviewing children and adults, conducting collateral contacts, completing home evaluations, communicating regularly with schools, doctors and other service providers to determine progress or identify additional needs, providing transportation for clients, conducting family team meetings to develop family/case plans, attending and testifying in court hearings, supervising MSW Intern from UGA.

• Provide investigative and comprehensive case management for a caseload involving child/adult abuse or neglect. Makes immediate and follow-up actions for at risk clients in need of protective services and/ or placement.

• Initiate timely, face-to-face responses to screened-in reports of alleged child maltreatment and conducts assessments that identify and address safety concerns.

• Address identified safety concerns by immediately developing and implementing safety plans.

• Conduct diligent search efforts to locate the child/family when unable to make contact.

• Implement Solution Based Casework (SBC).

• Partner with child(ren) and parents in the development and utilization of the Family Functioning Agreement, Action Plan, and Family Plan to achieve desired individual and family-level outcomes.

• Complete genograms to identify available family support network.

• Collaborate with community partners to create systems of support for children and families.

• Ensure frequency and quality of visits with children and families are adequate to ensure safety, permanency, and well-being.

• Identify physical, educational, and mental/behavioral health needs of children, parents, and foster parents and ensures identified needs were effectively addressed.

• Establish permanency goals for the child(ren).

• Ensure relative/foster care placements are stable and in the best interests of the child(ren) and are consistent with achieving established permanency goal(s).

• Make concerted efforts to achieve permanency for children in a timely manner and consistent with regulations contained in the Adoptions and Safe Families Act.

• Ensure that siblings in foster care are placed together unless a separation is necessary to meet the needs of one of the siblings.

• Maintain child's connections to his or her neighborhood, community, faith, extended family, tribe, school, and friends.

• Promote, support, and otherwise maintain a positive and nurturing relationship between the child(ren) in care and their biological parents/caretakers by encouraging and facilitating activities and interactions beyond visitation.

• Document case management activities within time frames established by policy.

• Routinely serve after-hours on-call duty.

Night Staff Personnel

Athens Area Homeless Shelter - Athens, GA

January 2005 to February 2008

• Provide safety and security for 15 guests at Overnight Women’s Homeless Shelter.

• Provide oversight during overnight hours and monitor guest activity.

• Address and manage face-to-face issues as they arise during overnight guest stays.

• Refer significant problems, issues, or complaints to Village House case manager and shelter director. Child Protective Services Family Preservation - Intern Department of Family and Children Service - Monroe, GA August 2005 to May 2006

• Responsibilities included: conducting investigations through short-term case management, interviewing children and adults, assessing child safety and risk, identifying family strengths and needs, conducting collateral contacts, documenting monthly contacts, completing home evaluations, connecting clients to community resources, conducting announced/unannounced home visits Child Protective Services Investigator - Intern

Department of Children and Family Service - Winder, GA August 2004 to May 2005

• Responsibilities include: conducting investigations through short-term case management, interviewing children and adults, assessing child safety and risk, identifying family strengths and needs, conducting collateral contacts, documenting monthly contacts, completing home evaluations, connecting clients to community resources, conducting announced/unannounced home visits Education Coordinator

PeopleSoft - Atlanta, GA

January 1999 to August 2004

• Responsibilities include: facility maintenance, managing inventory, training schedule, catering, client/ customer service, course certification, data entry and assisting Education and HR departments as needed.

Education

Master's in Social Work

University of Georgia - Athens, GA

August 2004 to May 2006

Bachelor's in Psychology

Kennesaw State University - Kennesaw, GA

August 1999 to December 2002

Skills

• Interview and Hiring (3 years)

• Employee Evaluation (3 years)

• Employee Orientation/Training (3 years)

• Case Management (10+ years)

• Documentation (10+ years)

• Mentoring (10+ years)

• Crisis Prevention/Intervention (10+ years)

• Problem Solving (10+ years)

• Home Evaluations (10+ years)

• Community Liaison (10+ years)

• Child & Family Advocate (10+ years)

• CPR and First Aid (6 years)

• Child & Family Counseling (2 years)

• Child Protective Services

• Motivational Interviewing (10+ years)

• Social Work (10+ years)

• Individual / Group Counseling

• Behavioral Health Assessments (2 years)

• Conflict Resolution (10+ years)

Certifications and Licenses

LMSW

May 2006 to May 2020

Previous Licensure in Georgia; Currently Applying for Licensure in Tennessee Medication Management

May 2006 to Present

Therapeutic Visitation

May 2006 to Present

Working with the Education System

September 2019 to Present

HIPAA

August 2004 to Present

Identifying and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect August 2004 to Present

DCS Independent Living

August 2004 to Present

CPR & First Aid

November 2015 to Present

PATH (Parents as Tender Healer) Training

September 2019 to Present

TFACTS

November 2015 to Present

CANS - Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths

August 2004 to Present

Kinship to Traditional Foster Care

September 2019 to Present

Parenting the Justice Involved Youth

September 2019 to Present

Parent Partnerships: Mentoring Birth Parents

September 2019 to Present

TN Key

September 2019 to Present

Navigating the Child Welfare System, Exploring the Impact of Trauma, Roadmap to Resilience, Rerouting Trauma Behaviors

Managing Challenging Behaviors in Child Welfare

April 2021 to Present

Right Time: Understanding Behavior Debrief

April 2021 to Present

TBRI

September 2020 to Present

Trust-Based Relational Intervention

Additional Information

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES

• Lead Therapist - Camelot - Chattanooga, TN

• Team Leader - Omnivisions - Chattanooga, TN

• Supervisor for University of Georgia MSW Interns – Athens GA

• Supervisor for Dalton State College BSW Interns – Dalton GA

• Camp AIM Counselor – Dalton GA

• Teen Maze – Whitfield County School System – Dalton GA

• Sharing is Caring Community Christmas – Dalton GA

• Educational Improvement Team – Dalton GA

• Local Inter-Agency Planning Team – Dalton GA

• Oklahoma Tornado Relief Mission Trip 2013

• Costa Rica Mission Trip 2012 – Construction of Methodist Children’s Home

• Costa Rica Mission Trip 2010 - Construction of Methodist Children’s Home

• Research Assistant for instructor Dr. Leslie MacGregor, Kennesaw State University

• Research Assistant for instructor Dr. Alan Marks, Morehouse College

• Member of Judiciary Panel at Kennesaw State University

• International Student Conversation Partner

• Study Abroad: University of Surrey-Roehampton, England

• Golden Key National Honor Society

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