2015
Work Experience
- Write, rewrite, approve and edit content for regular web comic including a diverse cast of characters that satirize gendered tropes in media.
- Develop show ideas and characters that are mindful about the voices underrepresented in media including people of color and women
- Cast and direct voice actors for upcoming puppet show.
- Coordinate a crowd-funding campaign and press push to satirize lazy, reductive jokes.
- Develop therapeutic interventions for teenage clients utilizing CBT and Narrative Therapy.
- Provide therapy to clients without health insurance.
- Measure and quantify progress with clients through the use of Outcome and Session Rating Scales.
- Bill consistently and accurately for Medi-Cal through a county agency.
- Coordinate with service providers in the community in WRAP meetings.
- Provide one-on-one therapy to low-income families from diverse background.
- Work with a diverse population that includes immigrants, ESL children and parents, homeless families and survivors of abuse.
- Lead in the execution and creation of a comic book club that develops social and emotional skills.
- Design and implement a pre- and post- test that measures the impact of groups on social and emotional skills through Likert scales.
- Participate in the creation of an outcome-focused Playroom program to track and target specific social and emotional skills.
- Lead in the creation of a Playroom manual for staff, volunteers and potential donors that breaks down methodology of Playroom work and how the Playroom functions within the agency.
- Represent Playroom work and stories to clinical staff to help make meaning of the family and child.
- Coordinate with parents on tactics to adjust and manage negative behaviors.
- Perform SDQ and ASQ:SE parents with parents and teachers to assess the progress of clients.
- Collaborate with clinical supervisor to create play plans that serve the clients developmental goals including mirroring, reflecting and mentalizing.
- Utilize ETO to input assessments, track client sessions and generate reports to measure progress.
- Assist Development department in the creation of the 2012 Annual Report.
- Create content for Development's Twitter account.
- Develop therapeutic interventions for teenage clients utilizing CBT and Narrative Therapy.
- Provide therapy to clients without health insurance.
- Measure and quantify progress with clients through the use of Outcome and Session Rating Scales.
- Bill consistently and accurately for Medi-Cal through a county agency.
- Coordinate with service providers in the community in WRAP meetings.
- Provide one-on-one therapy to low-income families from diverse background.
Accomplishments
- Launch Catchphrase Dog, an International Digital Webcomic.
- Create and lead a new group for children utilizing Role Playing Games to build social emotional competency.
- Revise curricula to incorporate likert scales to measure group progress in prosocial, self-management and self-awareness dimensions.
- For both Comic Book Club and Hero Kids, all participants saw an increase in at least one social emotional dimension.
- Begin UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Masters program.