Mental Health Washington Dc

Richard Marcellus **** call place se, 202-***-****, *******.*********@*****.***

Objective

My objective is to find employment which allows me to utilize my expertise with engaging families of at-risk communities with understanding the importance of achieving higher education goals; a participation with mental and emotional health programming in at-risk community to further their civic skills, employability, and education while providing inner city families with more resources to enhance citizenship, employment skills, social engagement skills and positive outlooks on life.

Professional Highlights

Credible Messenger/Youth Advocate Alliance of Concern Men Current

Promote family and community engagement,

Engage Parent Peer Coaches, who are Credible Messengers as they help other families navigate the justice system based on their own involvement and family experiences,

Connect young people to caring adults in their home communities,

Provide healthy family/community placement,

Enhance the agency’s role in city-wide violence prevention efforts,

Improve services to youth in the community,

Connect youth to resources and relationships to ensure their success, and

Create job opportunities for DC residents that build on the strengths of natural community leaders

Community Recreation Specialist Youth Development division, June 2016-current, DC Department of Parks & Recreation

Prevent, neutralize, and control hostile behavior in youth and youth groups through the development of positive relationships between teens/youth and outreach workers.

Utilize recreation and leisure time activities as the intervening vehicles for redirecting antisocial and aggressive behaviors.

Build relationships of trust with teens, youth, professionals, community leaders, and public and private sector organizations.

Interact one-on-one with targeted teens and youth, and together develop a plan of action by matching individual's needs with program's priority.

Help many youths through providing leisure outreach service in communities where the citizen is enduring most challenging and critical times of their lives.

Lead Behavior Specialist/ Family Support Worker, Contemporary Family Services/ Monroe School (mental-health services) 2014-216

Promotion of illness self-management–education and information about mental illness, effective strategies to assist in managing illness, warning signs of relapse, helpful interventions, Education, and employment support.

Establish and maintain empowering, trust relationships with youth and their families by utilizing communication and counseling skills. Provide direct psychiatric rehabilitation services and skills training in client’s natural environment. Facilitate the development of individualized rehabilitation plans and monitors progress toward achievement of stated goals. Ensure that youth can count on you for their rehabilitation and support.

Responsible for the facilitation of each client’s transition to independence using strengths-based approach to social work practice; the endorsement and application of community resources and the provision of information and referral for services.

Youth Coordinator Truancy reduction/Family Support worker, East River Family Strengthening Collaborative 2012-2014

Responsible for collecting, tracking, and entering referrals into the database (ETO) within 48 hours; to assist with monitoring student school attendance, program attendance, and aggregate reasons for not attending school

Conducted or engaged youth into a 3rd party youth providing service within 14 days of referrals. Youth coordinator will assist in assigning the students 2 activities a week throughout the school year.

Completed youth activity plan with the parents/guardian and youth along with collecting parental consent letter. Facilitated attendance at each assigned activity, including locating and escorting students to activity site.

Conduct at least 1 face to face visit and home visit within 30 days of referrals. Attend regular middle school programmatic meetings; and responsible for organizing youth programming logistics with schools.

Skills

youth & adult program development

counseling

project and budget management

Human Services programming

technologically literate

At-risk community Programming

case management

government and non-profit agency strategic planning

Highly motivated, conscientious

Employment History

1.Community Recreation Specialist/ DC Parks & Recreation, Washington DC

06/16-current

2.Credible Messenger/Youth Advocate Alliance of Concern Men

09/21- current

3. Lead Behavior Specialist/ Family Support Worker/Contemporary Family Services/ Monroe School (mental-health services)

02/2016 –07/2017

4. Youth Coordinator/Family Support worker /East River Family Strengthening Collaborative, Washington DC

06/2013- 4/2014

Education

B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies,

Winston Salem State University

May,10,2010

Currently Enrolled (Alabama State University Online Rehabilitation Counseling Masters of Arts Program)

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