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Work History
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Certification
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Gary Reaves

Felton

Summary

Dynamic mental health professional with extensive experience at Santa Cruz County, specializing in crisis intervention and psychotherapy. Proven ability to assess complex mental health diagnoses and family systems and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. Skilled in providing advanced clinical training and effective communication, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals with severe mental illness.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Mental Health Client Specialist

Santa Cruz County
07.2012 - Current

Provide highly skilled, specialized, and intensive mental health and/or substance use services, counseling, therapy, and case management services to individuals with mental illness or emotional disturbance, their families and support network; to serve as a liaison to other community agencies/ organizations in a training, educational, advisory, and/or consulting capacity, provide crisis intervention support and services including initiating 5150 applications when necessary; and to do other
work as required.

Mental Health Client Specialist

Santa Cruz County
09.1999 - 07.2012

Provide a variety of professional mental health and/or substance use disorder services and related administrative functions in support of clients and their families, including case management/care coordination, short term crisis intervention, evaluation, counseling, and/or assisting in the implementation of appropriate treatment or service plans; and to do other work as required. This is the journey level in the professional Mental Health/Substance Use series. Incumbents are mental health license eligible and actively pursuing a full license from the California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners (BBS) or have a higher level of experience in providing crisis intervention services

Education

Master of Arts - Social Work

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
06-2002

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
06-1995

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
06-1995

Associate of Arts - Psychology

College of The Redwoods
Eureka, CA
06-1993

Skills

  • Working directly with people with severe mental illness

  • Provide crisis intervention support and services for those with severe mental illness

  • Provide psychotherapy

  • Provide Social Work support

  • Provide advanced clinical trainings

  • Provide detailed mental health assessment

  • Collaborate with various community organizations

  • Understanding complicated family systems

  • Understanding complicated post-traumatic stress disorder

  • Coordinator of Student Internship Program

  • Professional and effective communication

  • Working with multiple disciplinary clinical teams

Accomplishments

Created the Santa Cruz County 5150 training manual and implemented the certification trainings for individuals tasked with evaluating and implementing 5150 applications.

Created and implemented a complex mental health program within the homeless shelters supporting high risk individuals experiencing severe mental illness that resided within the Covid-era shelter system in Santa Cruz County.

Created and implemented the Student Internship Program at Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health.

Completed thousands of detailed mental health assessments for crisis intervention and/or access to direct services for Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health.

Certification

Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW 28704

Timeline

Senior Mental Health Client Specialist

Santa Cruz County
07.2012 - Current

Mental Health Client Specialist

Santa Cruz County
09.1999 - 07.2012

Master of Arts - Social Work

San Jose State University

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

University of California, Santa Cruz

Associate of Arts - Psychology

College of The Redwoods
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