Licensed Crisis & Behavioral Health Social Worker

JENNIFER MARIA PADRON, M.Ed., MSW, LMSW

Licensed Master Social Worker Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Case Management Peer Leadership

Georgia 706-***-**** ***************@*****.***

Georgia LMSW #MSW012931 NPI 190******* ORCID 0000-0002-1275-4358 NIH eRA #1480081

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Licensed Master Social Worker with more than 10 years of interdisciplinary experience across psychiatric emergency services, crisis stabilization, community behavioral health, early psychosis intervention, ACT, school-based services, peer support, medical/home health social work, and complex care coordination. Experienced in psychosocial and biopsychosocial assessment, suicide and homicide risk assessment, crisis intervention, safety planning, involuntary commitment coordination, treatment planning, care transitions, discharge planning, family/caregiver support, and linkage to behavioral health and community resources. Brings a recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, social-justice perspective to work with individuals experiencing severe mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders, homelessness, disability, trauma exposure, and complex psychosocial stressors.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Behavioral Health Case Management & Care Coordination

• Crisis & Psychiatric Emergency Services (SI/HI, 1013s, safety planning, disposition)

• Medical / Home Health Social Work & Psychosocial Assessment

• Severe Mental Illness, Co-occurring SUD & Recovery-Oriented Care

• Early Psychosis Intervention & Family Support

• ACT / Community-Based Case Management

• Care Transitions, Discharge Planning & Community Resource Navigation

• Housing Instability, Homelessness & Social Determinants of Health

• Adult Protective / Safety Assessment & Mandated Reporting

• Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning & Clinical Documentation

• School Social Work, Special Education & K-12 Consultation

• Peer Support, Lived-Experience Leadership & Trauma-Informed Practice

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFIERS

Licensed Master Social Worker: State of Georgia, License #MSW012931

Basic Life Support: American Red Cross, Credential #X3RIPI

Certified Peer Specialist: Georgia, 2014

Georgia Educator: School Social Worker & Special Education K-12; Educator #1616635

National Provider Identifier: NPI #190*******

Research Identifiers: ORCID 0000-0002-1275-4358; HHS/NIH eRA #1480081

EDUCATION

Doctor of Social Work (DSW), 2026–2028 Cohort

Simmons University School of Social Work Boston, Massachusetts / Online Expected May 2028

• Fall 2026 matriculation; doctoral study focused on social work leadership, systems transformation, crisis services, and applied social-justice practice.

Master of Social Work (MSW)

Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 2019–2023

• GPA 3.8; SAMHSA/HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Fellow, 2021–2022.

Master of Education (M.Ed.), Special Education & Rehabilitation Counseling

The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 2005–2007

• Rehabilitation Services Administration Fellow; GPA 3.98.

Bachelor of Arts, Drama

University of Washington Seattle, Washington 1998

• George Coates Performance Works theater internship.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LMSW – Home Health & Hospice

Adoration Home Health / BrightSpring Health Northeast Georgia May 2026–Present

• Conduct psychosocial assessments with medically complex adults and families in home-based care settings, identifying behavioral health, functional, caregiver, financial, transportation, housing, safety, and community-resource needs.

• Coordinate care with physicians, nurses, rehabilitation professionals, caregivers, and community agencies; support continuity across home health, rehabilitation, outpatient, hospital, and community settings.

• Provide supportive counseling, family/caregiver assessment, resource navigation, advance-care-planning support within social-work scope, and referrals for higher levels of care when indicated.

• Address adult-protective and safety concerns, including suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, unsafe living conditions, homelessness risk, and caregiver limitations; complete mandated reporting when indicated.

• Document assessments, interventions, referrals, care coordination, and interdisciplinary communication in agency clinical systems.

Master Social Worker (MSW) Admissions Counselor

TrustPoint Hospital

MSW, LMSW Crisis Worker

Volunteer Behavioral Health

Behavioral Health Clinician & Master Social Worker (MSW) Case Manager – EPIC Early Psychosis Program

Advantage Behavioral Health Systems Georgia, DBHDD Region 2 2024–2025

• Conducted behavioral health assessments and early psychosis interventions with individuals and families.

• Provided individual/family psychotherapy and collaborated with interdisciplinary teams on treatment planning, crisis stabilization, case management, and client-centered discharge planning.

• Completed crisis admissions, treatment planning, care coordination, and discharge summaries for individuals experiencing early psychosis.

Behavioral Health Counselor – Master Social Worker (MSW) – CSU / Psychiatric Emergency Services

AVITA Community Partners, CSU BHCC Georgia, DBHDD Region 1 2023–2024

• Managed psychiatric crisis admissions, including involuntary commitment presentations (1013s), suicide risk assessment, crisis intervention, and behavioral health documentation.

• Supported inpatient crisis stabilization, interdisciplinary treatment planning, discharge planning, and coordination of outpatient and community follow-up resources.

Special Education Teacher / School Social Work & Behavioral Consultation

Clayton County Schools, GNETS, and Georgia Public School Districts Georgia 2016–2024

• Provided K-12 consultative services for students with emotional/behavioral and special education needs in school and therapeutic education settings.

• Led behavioral interventions, interdisciplinary consultation, family/school collaboration, and district liaison activities; incorporated arts-based and recovery-informed approaches where appropriate.

Certified Peer Specialist / ACT Team Case Manager

Legacy Behavioral Health Services – ACT Program Georgia, DBHDD Region 4 2020–2022

• Provided face-to-face case management and recovery-oriented support to a high-acuity caseload of adults with mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders.

• Facilitated recovery groups, participated in treatment team meetings, co-authored care plans, supported crisis intervention, and coordinated community-based services.

Program Developer & Social Justice Messaging Consultant

peerGalaxy.com / PEERX Media National / Digital 2021–2024

• Developed behavioral-health, peer-support, telehealth, and multimedia programming and engagement strategies.

• Directed social-justice messaging and arts-based communications focused on psychiatric experience, disability, race, recovery, and human rights.

CASE MANAGEMENT & CARE COORDINATION SCOPE

Behavioral Health: Biopsychosocial assessment; psychiatric, substance-use, trauma, functional, environmental, and social-needs identification; individualized service planning; treatment coordination; monitoring engagement and barriers to care; linkage to psychiatry, therapy, peer support, SUD treatment, and community services.

Crisis & Psychiatric Emergency: Rapid assessment of acute psychiatric and psychosocial crises; suicide/homicide risk assessment; safety planning; level-of-care determination; psychiatric hospitalization referrals; crisis stabilization; involuntary commitment coordination; safe community disposition planning.

Medical / Home Health: Psychosocial assessment related to acute/chronic illness, disability, hospitalization, rehabilitation, functional change, treatment barriers, safety, caregiver needs, and community supports.

Complex / High-Risk Care: Coordination across simultaneous medical, psychiatric, substance-use, functional, housing, financial, family, and social-service needs; prioritization of safety and stabilization while building continuity of care.

Substance Use & Recovery: Assessment of SUD-related psychosocial needs; linkage to detoxification, residential/outpatient treatment, recovery services, peer support, relapse-prevention resources, and co-occurring-disorder services.

Housing & Homelessness: Housing-instability assessment, crisis housing navigation, shelter/supportive housing coordination, eviction/homelessness prevention, and safe discharge/community-living planning.

Family & Caregiver: Assessment of caregiver capacity, family dynamics, support systems, and caregiver burden; supportive counseling, education, communication facilitation, respite/resource linkage.

Adult Protective / Safety: Assessment and documentation of suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, unsafe living conditions, caregiver limitations, and threats to vulnerable adults; mandated reporting and safety-focused intervention.

Disability & Rehabilitation: Assessment of functional/psychosocial barriers; advocacy for accessibility, independence, community integration, rehabilitation, and coordinated supports.

Care Transitions: Coordination across emergency, inpatient, rehabilitation, home health, outpatient, and community settings; post-discharge needs identification, referral, follow-up, and reduction of service gaps.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Recipient, Esperanza Isaac Memorial Award, National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery, 2022, recognizing work promoting recovery, cultural diversity, and inclusion of people of color.

• Creator, PEERX Media streaming and social-justice media platform.

• U.S. Organizer, Surviving Race: The Intersection of Injustice, Disability and Human Rights Dialogues & Retreat, Savannah, 2021–2022.

• Contributor, Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, THE PERCH, 2024–2025.

• Review Editor / peer-review service, Springer Publishing and health/social-work journals, 2023–2025.

• SAMHSA/HRSA BHWET Fellow, Valdosta State University MSW Program, 2021–2022.

• Authored a U.S. peer-workforce / Medicaid algorithm for CMS-related peer workforce development work, 2015.

PUBLICATIONS, WRITING & SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS

• THE PERCH, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry – contributor, 2024–2025.

• Mental Health Weekly – published contribution, 2015.

• Psychiatric Quarterly – published work related to severe mental illness and public health.

• Peer-review and editorial service in health, social work, and behavioral-health publishing.

• Compendium, Volumes I–X, 2022.

Note: Full bibliographic citations can be expanded in a publication appendix when required.

PEER LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL JUSTICE & CREATIVE PRACTICE

• Founder / creative director, OPHELIAX and PEERX Media / ART+ for Social Justice.

• Develops interdisciplinary work at the intersection of lived experience, behavioral health, disability, race, grief, recovery, human rights, and social-justice messaging.

• Experience in digital arts, photography, film, projection, sound, editorial design, and multimedia engagement as tools for peer leadership, public education, and systems-change communication.

• Longstanding involvement in peer-support, recovery, and lived-experience leadership in Texas and Georgia.

TEACHING & EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

• Licensed Georgia educator with School Social Worker and Special Education K-12 credentials.

• Special education / behavioral consultation experience across Georgia school districts, including GNETS and emotional/behavioral support environments.

• Graduate training in special education and rehabilitation counseling at The University of Texas at Austin.

• Experience translating behavioral-health, recovery, crisis, and social-justice concepts for professional, community, peer, student, and public audiences.

CLINICAL & TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

• Psychosocial and biopsychosocial assessment; suicide/homicide risk assessment; C-SSRS; crisis stabilization; safety planning; 1013 / involuntary commitment coordination.

• Treatment planning; case review; interdisciplinary consultation; discharge summaries; care transitions; resource linkage; family/caregiver support.

• EMR/EHR: Avatar, ShareNote, CareLogic, AdvancedMD, Kareo, and related clinical documentation systems.

• Telehealth / digital collaboration: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and digital behavioral-health communication platforms.

• Digital media: Canva, Adobe design tools, eDesign, social-media messaging, multimedia publishing.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Behavioral health systems transformation; crisis services; suicidology and suicide/overdose intent; peer-informed crisis response; social determinants of health; complex care management; home health and serious-illness social work; recovery-oriented systems; lived-experience leadership; social-justice messaging; digital and AI applications in social work.

REFERENCES

Professional, academic, clinical, and creative references available upon request.

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