Social Worker

Rhonda L. Stewart

***** ******** ****** ****, *** • Bowie, MD 20716 • 240/603-3373 • ***************@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Psychotherapy with military personnel and dependents including couples and individual clients. Experience in family therapy, preparing families and patients for end-of-life care and debilitating illnesses. Clinical background working with children and adults who were sexually abused or experienced other significant traumas. Served as Program Director and Clinical Director of a therapeutic group home for boys’ ages 12 – 18 years old. Experience working with clients diagnosed with the following: depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, PTSD, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder and substance abuse. Accustomed to successfully managing a team and multiple responsibilities.

EDUCATION and RELATED COURSE WORK

SMITH COLLEGE, Northampton, MA. M.S.W., August 2006. Licensure: LGSW, September 2006.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD. B.S., Psychology 2003.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

SOCIAL WORK

ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES, Prince Frederick, MD

Program Director & Clinical Coordinator, April 2007 - Currently

JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, Baltimore, MD

Clinical Social Worker, September 2006 – April 2007

WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Washington, DC

Full-time Social Work Intern, August 2005 – May 2006

FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICE OF MD, Baltimore, MD

Full-time Social Work Intern, August 2004 – May 2005

CLINICAL PRACTICE

• Serve as Clinical Coordinator in group home spending a minimum of 20 hours per week with the group home clients discussing concerns, general behaviors and developing life skills in the milieu.

• Develop and Monitor treatment planning and service provision to insure increased client outcomes and insuring compliance of the clients we serve.

• Provided ongoing individual psychotherapy to ethnically diverse adults, children, and families.

• Assessed patients and provided short-term crisis work with patients who are medically fragile.

• Psychotherapy with military personnel and dependents including couples and individual clients. Provided ongoing psychotherapy with children and adults who have experienced physical and sexual abuse.

• Co-facilitated an educational group on healthy relationships for domestic violence offenders and recidivism decreased in this group.

• Facilitating HIV and cancer patients through emotional adjustment of new diagnosis.

• Coordinating hospice care and preparing families emotionally for end-of-life care.

• Psychotherapy with young children and teenagers in foster care or group home placements.

• Provided short-term crisis-oriented therapy to individuals and their families to address maladaptive behaviors.

• Prepared diagnostic evaluations, presented in interdisciplinary team conferences, collaborated with professional staff and consultations.

MACRO PRACTICE

• Fundraising and financial appeals to community members to offset shelter budget, $15,000.

• Organized and coordinated a Spring Gala and raised $115,000 to offset shelter budget.

• Coordinated Thanksgiving and Christmas Adopt-A-Family project which provided dinners and gifts for 100 families and Christmas gifts for members of all families involved in the Project.

• Fundraising to offset programming/operational fees, $300,000.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

• Developed and implemented a strategy to increase the number of subscribers by 70 percent.

• Negotiated and managed contracts for accounting services, technical support and Web site management.

• Secured additional office space, equipment, apartments and leased vehicles for office expansion in Kansas City.

• Coordinated and successfully managed an office build-out that was both cost-effective and completed on time.

• Managed small office expansions, remodeling, furnishings, office equipment and maintenance projects.

RECRUITING / TRAINING / SUPERVISION

• Recruited and supervised case managers, direct care staff, support staff and interns.

• Trained staff on group home regulations and behavioral interventions.

• Successfully filled personnel positions and conducted benefits and company policy and procedures orientation to new employees.

• Performed quality assurance tests of case records at various sites in Baltimore.

• Developed incentive plans for personnel and achieved minimal turnover.

• Trained facilitators and state leaders in nine states on implementing HeadsUp! Reading.

• Trained and provided ongoing support to state liaisons in nine states.

EVENT PLANNING / ORGANIZATION

• Capable of taking an event/project from conception to completion with great attention to detail while, working with department staff, state liaisons, and state leaders and maintaining project budgets.

• Coordinated the national launch of HeadsUp! Reading for delivery in 48 states in English and Spanish.

• Arranged logistics for board and management meetings, conferences, seminars and award banquet ceremonies for a staff of 85-100.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Program Director ALTERNTIVES FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES, Pr Fred., MD 4/2007 – Currently

Clinical Social Worker JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, Baltimore, MD 8/2006 – 5/2007

Project Coordinator BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES, Baltimore, MD (part-time) 8/2004 – 5/2006

Associate Director NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION, Alexandria, VA 1/2003 – 12/2004

Project Coordinator NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION, Alexandria, VA 8/1999 – 12/2002

Exec. Asst/Office Mgr. MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES, Washington, DC 12/1998 – 8/1999

HR Liaison SYNDICATED OFFICE SYSTEMS, Atlanta, GA 12/1996 – 8/1998

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

CPR/FIRST AID, 2008

TREATMENT PLANNING, 2008

CRISIS INTERVENTION PREVENTION, 2007

HIV/AIDS COUNSELING SKILLS, 2007

THE MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK RESPONSE TO A MAJOR DISASTER, 2006

HOME FROM THE WAR, 2006

NURTURING OUR SOULS: DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS DIFFERENCE, 2006

SUICIDE: CLINICAL IMPACT AND PREVENTION, 2005

SEXUAL ABUSE WORKSHOP, 2005

PLAY THERAPY, 2005

DIAGNOSING YOUNG CHILDREN, 2004

ORGANIZATIONS/AFFILIATIONS

Member, National Association of Social Workers, 2004 – Present

Baltimore Outreach Services, December 2006

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