Inpatient/Outpatient experience/ Spanish speaking

Melissa Hillie, LMSW

* ****** **** **** **********, NY 11050 | 347-***-**** | ************@*****.***

Education:

Hunter College School of Social Work, NY Columbia University, NY

Masters in Social Work (MSW) June 2008 Bachelor of Arts (BA) English, May 2002

Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) July 2009

Language Proficiency: advanced level Spanish (oral, written, and verbal)

Lived with a native family in Costa Rica for seven months (10/09-5/10), studied Spanish in a language immersion program, and spoke Spanish on a daily basis.

Social Work Experience:

Social Worker, February 2011-June 2011

Mt. Sinai Hospital Child/Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, NY (short term, per diem)

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary treatment team of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and creative therapists to address the needs of patients and respond rapidly to crisis and high demands of acute hospital unit.

• Communicated consistently with schools, mental health services, community based organizations, and other outpatient providers.

• Provided crisis intervention, emergency services, and short term therapeutic services to individuals and families, including children and adolescents that are LGBT and/or HIV positive; provide Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to a high risk adolescent twice weekly.

• Planned discharge services and individualized plans for children, adolescents, and their families, coordinate referrals, educate families on placement options, and provide psycho-education on mental illness and related issues.

Social Worker, August 2008-October 2009

Children’s Aid Society PINS Diversion Program, Bronx, NY

• Provided assessment, explored and facilitated referrals, performed psychosocial analyses, conducted direct counseling using a variety of treatment modalities (individual, short term, family), and crisis intervention to high-risk adolescents and their families.

• Conducted intake interviews to asses the nature and degree of client’s issues, determined client treatment plans, completed individual and family assessments, devised family interventions and conflict mediations, and responded rapidly to crisis situations.

• Collaborated closely with service providers such as mental health professionals, hospital staff (doctors and nurses), schools, drug rehabilitation staff, and child welfare workers to identify and respond to the needs of clients and their families.

• Prepared extensive documentation and client reports, managed and organized time sensitive paperwork, utilized various computer database systems in a high-volume, fast-paced setting.

Social Work Intern September 2007-May 2008

Good Shepherd Services Family Reception Center, Brooklyn, NY

• Provided on site, as well as home based, direct counseling and preventive services to individuals, youth and families, and assisted in locating community referrals.

• Conducted play therapy sessions with children, and provided one on one individual therapy sessions for clients to mobilize inner capacities and environmental resources.

• Documented clients’ mental status, progress, goals, needs, and behavior.

• Co-led eight month long therapy group for low income, at-risk middle school boys (8-11 members).

Social Work Intern September 2006-May 2007

Center for Family Representation, New York, NY

• Worked collaboratively with interdisciplinary team of attorneys and parent advocates on each case, and collaborated with foster care agency workers, mental health professionals, educators, and drug counselors.

• Coordinated information with ACS, family court, law guardians, and other individuals involved with client’s case to develop individual treatment plans.

• Advocated that clients receive proper services, and helped locate and communicate with all service providers to ensure quality of services.

• Participated in family team conferences, school meetings, home visits, community advocacy group meetings, court hearings and conferences, child welfare meetings, and interdisciplinary trainings at the Legal Aid Society.

Related Experience:

English as a Second Language Teacher (ESL), June 2010-present

Zoni Language Center, New York, NY

• Teach intensive four-hour intermediate-advanced level course to international students ages 13-55, and substitute teach for other classes, when needed.

• Demonstrate excellence in classroom management, utilize strong engagement and active listening skills, devise and prepare exciting and interactive lesson with dynamic classroom visuals.

• Advise students on progress, assess written and spoken performance, administer and grade written and oral examinations.

Volunteer English as a Second Language Teacher (ESL) March 2010-May 2010

Costa Rican English for Sustainable Tourism (CREST) Uvita, Costa Rica

• Taught beginner to intermediate level Costa Rican students of all ages, both in groups and individually, and with a variety of learning styles using limited resources.

• Created own curriculum and devised an ESL program based out of a small elementary school in a rural community in southern Costa Rica.

• Recruited students in the community and self managed work without any overseeing guidance.

Additional Educational Training:

Costa Rica TEFL, Samara, Costa Rica

TEFL Certificate (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), January 2010

Completed 160 hours of training and, planned for and successfully, taught 9.5 hours of observed teaching practice.

Awards: Child Welfare Fund Fellowship (for dedicated interest in advocacy and commitment to child welfare), Helena Rubenstein Foundation Scholar (for outstanding academic achievement) (2007-2008).

Skills: Proficient in MSOffice, WordPerfect, Outlook Express, Adobe, Macintosh and PC systems, PROMISE, Connections, and the Internet.

Affiliations:

National Association of Social Workers

Child Welfare Fund

Harlem Service Providers, Network of neighborhood based advocates (2006-2007)

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