Nafisat A.

Experience

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  OPTIONS Transitions to Independence

  Sept 2013 - May 2015

  Intern Vocational Counselor

  Assist vocational counselor with vocational assessments, career explorations, and job placement&development, employment strategies, job readiness and job social skills.Working with a range of students with complex intellectual disabilities.Our goal is to transition students to independence.

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  Trilogy Behavioral Healthcare

  Jun 2015 - Oct 2015

  Employment Specialist

  With a special focus on employment/vocational services and goals, advocates for clients, links clients to needed community services; assesses client's personal, vocational, medical, social, emotional. And environmental situation to plan for treatment course; provides individually-based motivational treatment to clients to assist them in their recovery from mental illness. Provides client-centered and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction disorders. Per the supported employment fidelity scale, provides at least 60% of services in natural community settings. Show less

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  Texas Workforce Commission

  Oct 2015 - May 2018

  Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor II

  Accurately determines eligibility for VR services. Demonstrates quality standards throughout the eligibility assessment process. Provides counseling and guidance to support consumer informed choice. Demonstrates quality standards in counseling and guidance by maintaining active and meaningful partnerships with consumers throughout their cases. Supports the consumer through assessing and planning process to identify an appropriate rehabilitation goal and services. Demonstrates quality standards by engaging the consumer in assessing and planning process to identify consumer needs and strategies to address them. Provides reasonable and necessary planned services and appropriately closes cases, or transitions case to adult VR. Demonstrates quality standards in implementation of the consumers plan. Accurately determines and documents level of significance of consumers disability. Show less

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  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  May 2018 - now

  • Acts as the direct supervisor for Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors throughout the Los Angeles Regional Office.• Oversees career development and/or leadership engagement for designated staff.• Provides expertise and guidance on "best practices" and law/legislation.• Completes Performance Reviews for designated staff.• Assists the Regional Office's Veteran Readiness Employment Officer (VREO) and Assistant Veteran Readiness Employment Officer (AVREO) in providing oversight of Veteran Readiness and Employment Services throughout the Los Angeles Regional Office.• Serves as the Acting Veteran Readiness and Employment Officer (as needed). Show less Responsible for providing counseling services to severely disabled veterans with complicated rehabilitation plans such as those calling for homebound and self-employment services. Provides case management services including coordination of all rehabilitation services, employment services, documentation of progress and adjustment, and maintenances of case records according to VA regulations. Performs initial evaluations, makes eligibility determinations, does rehabilitation planning and problem solving, and conducts counseling. Coordinates and implements rehabilitation services, case documentation, employment services, and administration and interpretation of vocational testing. May act as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) to acquire evaluation, case management, employment, and other services needed in the rehabilitation process. Make recommendations and referrals to other sources which may assist the veteran. Show less

  • Learning Management Officer, Learning & Development/Human Capital Services

    Mar 2023 - now

  • Management Analyst

    Jun 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Budget Analyst

    Nov 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Supervisory Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

    Feb 2020 - Nov 2020

  • Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

    May 2018 - Feb 2020