Mental Health Services Professional

Lebia Elena Daniels

Petersburg, VA ***** ***.********@*****.*** +1-804-***-****

Summary

Ambitious bi-lingual Service Professional and college student with a passion for social justice. Having 30 years lived experience collaborating, assisting/leading teams to meet performance targets and exceed client service expectations while enhancing overall outcomes. Keen interest in working as a behavioral/mental health service professional. Comfortable working with minimal supervision, detail oriented, in servicing families, men, women, children of diverse backgrounds and clients of all sorts. Key strengths include strong communication, relationship building, fostering collaborations and partnerships, knowledge and understanding of the needs of families with various challenges. Skills include but not limited to inventory management, technical competency, computer, office software operation. Familiar with conducting needs assessment about the target or focus community. Directly engage with target audience to identify and know challenges. Team leadership and collaboration to set goals, educate, develop a strategy and work for policy changes.

Work Experience

Associate Minister

Second Mt. Zion Baptist Church - Hanover, VA

February 2002 to Present

·20 years of lived pastoral/social work experience.

·Family support: housing, health care, substance abuse counseling, cognitive behavior guidance.

·Coping skills coach trained in enhancement and empowering known and new skills.

·Spiritual support counselor trained in assessment and crisis intervention. Team leadership and collaboration establishing relationship and connections to community resources.

·Encourage, foster, motivate, and empower members with knowledge, resources that offer support for improved decision making in their personal faith, service, vocation, community involvement, and life goals.

·Providing guidance, compassionate care and integrous leadership influenced and based on 25 years' experience and study.

·Church administration; educating, training, planning, finance and policies. Facilitating, speaking, and implementing church events or functions.

Chaplain Intern

VCU Health System - Richmond, VA

June 2022 to August 2022

·Clinical Pastoral Care-1 unit of CPE equivalent

·Basic Patient Counseling

·Independent Study Patient Counseling Course

·300 clinical hours of patient visitation, counseling and support w/ medical record charting and notes, working with a health care team of professionals to meet patient spiritual needs faced during health challenges, crisis and trauma.

Grant Coordinator

Girl Scout Commonwealth Council of VA, Inc - Richmond, VA

February 2005 to August 2009

·Management of an SOL based Math, Science, and Technology program grant.

·Grant management and marketing: Compliance with grant guidelines, program implementation. Prepare, present, and pitch the program to city and community leaders but also school board members from two different school districts and cities. Communicate program purpose, goals, and objectives to school board for approval. Statistical report format presentation outlining the purpose, goals, and benefits for Hopewell and Petersburg Public Schools. Successful program presentation won approval for the implementation of the program in 8 schools.

·Administrative responsibilities include but not limited to planning, budgeting, accounts, finance, implementation, advocating, and collaborating. Contract, downsize, and evaluate workforce to meet needs of the program and company, train and incorporate state and company safety procedures. Also, inventory, salaries, prepare and provide monthly/quarterly program progress and budget reports.

·Notable contribution: In the year prior to being hired the membership for the program was 30. Under my direction the membership increased to over 1000 members in the first school year and increased to 1500 and remained there for four years. Also, I won the CSCC of VA an open-ended grant application status to continue the SOL based program in the cities of Petersburg and Hopewell.

Office Administrator

Catholic Charities- Catholic Immigration services - Springdale, AR

August 1999 to June 2001

·Office administration: bilingual communication skills to schedule appointments, and offer legal document translations. Office inventory, accounts payable/receivable, events scheduling, planning, record keeping, data entry, collaborate with office management and team.

·Community outreach: Provide translator services, legal services for immigration, also community resources, to include housing, nutrition, social, spiritual support, drug and substance abuse counseling services. Collaborated with local, city, state and federal institutions advocating to meet the needs of our clients. Maintain Notary public license and provide translation of documents as required by the courts. Notable contribution, the creation of an excel data base with multiple query options.

Education

Master's degree in CPE- Clinical Pastoral Education

VCU- Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, VA

June 2022 to Present

Master's degree in Divinity and Master's degree in Christian Education with focus on Pastoral Care, Grief and Loss, and Counseling

Virginia Union University - Richmond, VA August 2018 to December 2021

Skills

•Educating/Teaching

•Curriculum Development

•Individual / Group Counseling

•Team leadership

•Financial Report Writing

•Addiction Counseling

•Case Management

•Behavioral Therapy

•Group Therapy

•Personal Assistant Experience

•Tutoring

Languages

• Spanish - Fluent

Military Service

Branch: United States Army

Service Country: United States

Rank: Private

I am familiar with military service benefits systems and culture.

Awards

Presidential Volunteer Award

January 2010

Silver 2010, Bronze 2011

Certifications and Licenses

Adult, Infant Child, First Aid, CPR, AED, and BBP February 2022 to February 2024

Assessments

Customer focus & orientation — Proficient October 2022

Responding to customer situations with sensitivity Full results: Proficient

Work style: Reliability — Highly Proficient

October 2022

Tendency to be reliable, dependable, and act with integrity at work

Full results: Highly Proficient

•Crisis Intervention

•Motivational Interviewing

•Intake, Assessment, Response

•Social Work

•Child & Family Counseling

•Goal setting

•Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

•Meeting Facilitation

•Crisis Management

•Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint

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