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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Awards
Trainings
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Manuel Vasquez

Menifee

Summary

Program management professional with robust experience driving impactful initiatives and delivering measurable results. Adept at fostering team collaboration, adapting to evolving requirements, and maintaining solutions-oriented mindset. Skilled in project coordination, strategic planning, and resource allocation, ensuring seamless execution and achievement of objectives. Reliable team player with proven track record of meeting organizational goals.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Owner/Operator

Casa Del Sol RTF
Fallbrook, Ca
01.2006 - Current
  • Responsible for developing residential program for Aggressive Autistic Adolescents and adults.
  • Developed Behavioral program goals and objectives. Updated and Maintained residents and staff records in compliance with CCLD and SDRC.
  • Developed program guide lines (policies and procedures) .
  • Developed staff's training treatment core.
  • Developed individual behavioral intervention services ABA.
  • Developed aggressive violence prevention program.
  • Developed crisis intervention steps for staff to implement.
  • Coordinate program's follow-up, quality assurance (staff, residents, families schools and programs.
  • Lecturer and trainer for staff and school district.
  • Responsible for implementing and following State and Regional Centers guide lines.
  • 24/7 on call
  • Transporting residents to school/programs, extracurricular activities and appointments.

Clinical Detention Therapist

Riverside County Mental Health Services
Murrieta, CA
01.2007 - 01.2008
  • Responsible for developing and implementing treatment and counseling programs for adults in detention.
  • Provide individual counseling to behavior challenge adults.
  • Provide crisis interventions.
  • Provide anger management.
  • Provide chemical dependency.
  • Provide living Skills.
  • Provide domestic violence awareness .
  • Provide HIV/AIDS and STD’s education.
  • Provide parenting sessions.
  • Provide assertive behavior sessions.
  • Provide after care referrals sessions.
  • Provide gang diversion.
  • Provide substance abuse relapse prevention interventions.
  • Provide statistical data to measure program social impact.

Behavior Modification Specialist

South Land Mental Health Alliance
San Diego, CA
01.2008 - 01.2010
  • In home therapeutic consultation for children who had been diagnosed by the SDRC with developmental disabilities and their families.
  • Assisting families with behavioral consultation (ABA).
  • Provide communication tools to autistic and developmentally challenge children.
  • Expressive arts intervention to autistic children.
  • Provide sensorial play therapy.
  • Provide education on living skills.
  • Provide strategies to reduce and modify out of place self stimulation.
  • Provide family education and “therapy”.
  • Teaching parents on how to implement crisis intervention.
  • Teaching transitional skills to family to implement with client.
  • Individual behavioral interventions, data collection and follow up with client.
  • Provide basic parenting skills.
  • Providing education to parents of children with developmental disabilities.
  • Providing community referrals.
  • Writing outcome intervention reports.

Therapist MFTI, Mental Health Consultant/ Chemical

San Diego County, Juvenile Forensics
San Diego, CA
1996 - 2007

• Responsible for developing and implementing treatment and counseling programs for youth in detention.

• Provided appropriate referrals and resources to clients and parents/caregivers
Radio Spanish speaker (Youth Developmental Disorders) for the San Diego County on at risk youth.
• Children's Health and Human Services.
• Provide individual counseling to behavior challenge adolescents.
• Provide individual and groups for victims o f crimes.
• Provide domestic violence individual counseling and groups.
• Provide stress management groups for adolescents
• Provide crisis interventions at risk youth.
• Provide anger management groups.
• Provide chemical dependency groups,
• Provide living Skills groups.
• Provide individual and group behavior modification sessions.

• Provide domestic violence awareness groups.
• Provide HIVIAIDS and STD's educational groups.
• Provide parenting sessions.
• Provide assertive behavior sessions.
• Provide after care referrals sessions.
• Provide gang diversion groups.
• Provide substance abuse relapse prevention interventions.
• Provide statistical data to measure program social impact.

• Provided support to immigrant youth in detention

• Collaborated with Mexican Embassy on supporting immigrant youth in detention

Program Specialist

Xperience Correctional Consultants
San Diego, Ca

Family Behavioral Therapist

ALLY Program, Bay View Psychiatric Hospital
San Diego, Ca

Education

Psy.D. - Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

San Diego University for Integrative Studies
01-2002

MA. - Counseling Psychology

National University
01-1997

CAADAC Program - Drug and alcohol certification, Drug and Alcohol counseling

Griffing & Wong Institute
01-1995

MA. - Counseling Clinical Psychology

Professional School of Psychological Studies
01-1989

MA./ BA - Clinical Psychology

Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica y Superior (CETyS)
01-1989

Skills

  • Excellent language skills Fluent in English and Spanish
  • Ability to take directions and follow through independently
  • Responsible, effective and dedicated
  • Group and individual instruction
  • Skill building
  • Program management
  • Training coordination
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills
  • High sense of ethics in both personal and professional lives
  • Self starter, creative with initiative and motivation to excel
  • Always open to learn and achieve more experience
  • Teamwork and collaboration aptitude
  • Multicultural competence
  • Patient care and empathy

Awards

Awarded by the County of S.D. Department of Health Services, the P.R.A.I.S.E. award for exemplary performance on March, of 96., Awarded by New Alternatives Inc. for outstanding service and contributions to the cultural competency task force.

Trainings

  • Certification on “SASSI” (Substance Abuse Screening Inventory).
  • Certification in crisis intervention.
  • Certification in counseling children, adults and families.
  • Certification on drug and alcohol counseling.
  • Participated in several other trainings offered by the San Diego County Personnel Development Department.
  • Speaker and Trainer for the San Diego County crisis hot line (multicultural issues)
  • Speaker and Trainer for New Alternatives Inc. (multicultural issues).
  • Certification for Group Home Administrator.
  • Certification for Adult residential Facility Administrator.
  • Certification on Direct Service Provider I and II

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Behavior Modification Specialist

South Land Mental Health Alliance
01.2008 - 01.2010

Clinical Detention Therapist

Riverside County Mental Health Services
01.2007 - 01.2008

Owner/Operator

Casa Del Sol RTF
01.2006 - Current

MA. - Counseling Psychology

National University

CAADAC Program - Drug and alcohol certification, Drug and Alcohol counseling

Griffing & Wong Institute

MA. - Counseling Clinical Psychology

Professional School of Psychological Studies

MA./ BA - Clinical Psychology

Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica y Superior (CETyS)

Therapist MFTI, Mental Health Consultant/ Chemical

San Diego County, Juvenile Forensics
1996 - 2007

Program Specialist

Xperience Correctional Consultants

Family Behavioral Therapist

ALLY Program, Bay View Psychiatric Hospital

Psy.D. - Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

San Diego University for Integrative Studies
Manuel Vasquez