Charles B. Walker
Long Beach,CA
Summary
Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 9+ years of overall social work experience. Experience includes Inpatient services, outpatient services, case management, discharge planning, emergency department experience, psych hospital, and Private Practice experience. Successful at helping clients unravel physical, mental, and emotional layers to identify root causes of problems and develop strong coping skills for diverse scenarios. Proficient in interdisciplinary collaboration with a passion for leaving a positive impact on client lives.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Therapist/ Owner
Custom Life Solutions
10.2021 - Current
- Assess Clients for the purpose of understanding how treat the client
- Assist the Client with becoming the best version of their self by providing stellar therapeutic services
- Provide community resources if needed
- Provide individual, family, couples therapy
- Assist patients who suffer from depression, work stress, anxiety and grief and loss.
Case Manage/ Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Facilitate educational groups in our PHP (partial) program that consist of various subjects related to mental health and substance abuse
- Complete detailed needs assessments
- Provide resources to the patients such as SSI information, food banks, housing information, and other community resources
- Schedule and facilitate collaterals with patient and their support systems
- Document patients progress throughout the program
- Discharge plan for the patient
- I make sure patient have his/her follow up appointments as well as, placement
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary team regarding patients goals and ongoing treatment at the facility.
Medical Social Worker
Centinela Hospital Medical Center
01.2020 - 04.2022
- Provide emotional support, crisis intervention and counseling for pediatrics, adolescents, adults, older adults and their significant others to cope with a multiplicity of social and emotional problems
- Efficient in MediTech system
- Experience in emergency department, and ICU
- Complete assessments for emergency department patients to determine if they should be placed on a hold or if they can have a general discharge
- Assist in the development and re-evaluation of treatment plans and work as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Provide discharge planning for patients (ie: Snf's, Board and Cares)
- Collaborate with insurance IPA's to ensure patient qualifies for the necessary recommended treatment or placement
- Provide case management & milieu management
- Assist in the development and re-evaluation of treatment plans and work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
Psychiatric Social Worker
Del Amo Behavioral Health System
12.2018 - 12.2019
- Work with multiple populations (ie
- Adults, seniors, children, homeless, parolees, veterans, and adolescents) in a high acute inpatient setting
- Conduct psycho-social assessments within 72 hours for inpatient services
- Provide discharge planning services and arrange for post-hospital/post-outpatient treatment care of patients through external services
- Creates Treatment plans for the patient and assist them with meeting their treatment goals
- Assists patients and their families through the use of psycho-therapeutic skills to understand, identify and resolve complex problems resulting from psychiatric illnesses utilizing group and individual therapies
- Facilitate interdisciplinary team treatment round collaborations which include physicians, nurses, administrators, nurse practitioners, and patients
- Assist with resolving barriers to discharge.
Mental Health Therapist
Tessie Cleveland Community Services Corp
05.2015 - 11.2018
- Complete Psycho-Social assessment for new and existing clients
- Experience in working with wraparound and FSP clients
- Extensive experience in working with full service partnership (FSP) and clients
- Provide mental health services to high-risk children, adolescents, young adults and mid adults who are on probation and/or connected to Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
- Create discharge plans for clients and linked them to different resources in the community
- Collaborate with probation office and DCFS in order to provide client with optimal service
- Formulate Client Care Coordination Plan (CCCP) to achieve mental health goals
- Utilize the Behavior Intervention Response Plan (BIRP) format to document the clients progress
- Provide clients with community resources to assist with his/her needs
- Supervise treatment teams and delegate task to ensure that the client is receiving the best quality of care
Education
Masters of Social -
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California05.2015
Sport Management - undefined
Hampton University
Hampton, VA05.2006
Skills
- Treatment Planning
- Psychiatric evaluation
- EMDR Trained
- CBT Trained
- Solution Focus Trained
- Gottman Method Trained
- Rapport Building through Effective Communicating
- Provides Couples Counseling
- Provides Adolescent Therapy
- Provides Young Adult Therapy
- Offers in-Person and Virtual Sessions
- Effective Leadership Skills
Timeline
Therapist/ Owner
Custom Life Solutions
10.2021 - Current
Case Manage/ Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente
08.2021 - 02.2022
Medical Social Worker
Centinela Hospital Medical Center
01.2020 - 04.2022
Psychiatric Social Worker
Del Amo Behavioral Health System
12.2018 - 12.2019
Mental Health Therapist
Tessie Cleveland Community Services Corp
05.2015 - 11.2018
Masters of Social -
University of Southern California
Sport Management - undefined
Hampton University
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