Brianna Smith, CADC-CAS

• Manages an assigned caseload of clients at the outpatient level of care.
• Assists clients in setting realistic goals, developing treatment plans, and monitoring progress towards achievement.
• Facilitates efficient process and psychoeducational groups to clients to guide clients in developing peer support and recovery skills.
• Created the outpatient family program and facilitates family groups.
• Signs off on uncertified staff's intern hours and provides mentorship for certification.

• Provided addiction recovery counseling services to adult male parolees in a 30-90 day residential treatment setting.
• Provided education on relapse prevention, healthy relationship and parenting skills, anger management, conflict resolution, and money/time management as an effort to assist them in their road to recovery and to reduce chances of recidivism.

Counseling Position:

• Independently managed an adolescent caseload at Cambridge Continuation High School, as well as other Fresno/Central Unified campuses.
• Provided services such as intakes, ASAM assessments, addiction severity indexes (ASI), treatment planning, daily group and education counseling sessions, individual crisis counseling sessions, collateral sessions, and discharges.

Management Position:

• Provided on-site training of all program services and policies to newly hired counselors, supervised treatment services, and created weekly employee schedules for a staff of approximately 20 counselors.

Counselor Position:

• Facilitated addiction recovery counseling groups and family counseling at the IOP and PHP levels of care.
• Created individual client treatment plans.
• Provided appropriate discharge recommendations and referrals to local services for continued recovery and mental health treatment.
• Managed the program's alumni aftercare group every Sunday evening.
• Trained multiple newly hired counselors and interns on program services and policies.

Admissions Position:

• Provided a professional attitude for initial client contact over the phone.
• Completed pre-assessments and intake assessments.
• Verified client insurance coverage and managed all utilization reports, insurance billing, and client payments.