Susan Yee

Experience

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  East Bay Asian Youth Center

  Jan 2005 - Jul 2014

  Wellness Center Director

  • Initiated 2-year community needs assessment and strategic planning process, involving 1000 students, 150 parents and 30 staff and partners• Secured $1.2 million to build a new facility to house the Oakland High School Wellness Center, and oversaw the design and construction process in collaboration with OUSD staff• Planned and managed $500,000 annual operations budget with State, Federal and local grants• Directed and managed a team of 7 full-time staff, and 35 part-time staff, partners, and volunteers• Led collaborative of 10 partners in providing medical, mental health and youth development services to over 1600 students and families each year, including weekly multi-disciplinary Coordination of Services Team meetings, annual planning retreats, and strategic planning processes every 3 years• Developed and implemented crisis response protocol for school community, during and after traumatic events• Trained school and wellness center staff quarterly, including workshops on “Trauma and the Brain,” “Mindfulness and Stress,” and “Restorative Justice”• Presented study of community needs assessment at California School Health Center Association conference• Created specific, school-based policies to increase student access to health and mental health resources Show less

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  Mt. Diablo Unified School District

  Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

  Behavioral Health Specialist

  • Provided individual, group and milieu therapy for students who qualified for Special Education services due to Emotional Disturbance, often caused by complex, acute and/or ongoing trauma. • Conducted mental health status examinations, providing differential diagnosis using both the DM IV and DSM V, developing treatment, and Individual Educational Plans. • Assisted families in addressing trauma and behaviors through weekly family therapy and education. • Trained mental health and teaching staff, including “Trauma and the Impact on Emotional Regulation,” “Sensory Interventions in Response to Trauma,” and “Restorative Justice.” • Developed tools and implemented school-wide restorative justice practices. Show less

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  UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

  Apr 2016 - Aug 2020

  Lead Clinical Social Worker

  * Provided short-term, brief therapeutic support for young people ages 12-25, with histories of complex, acute and/or ongoing trauma, commercial sexual exploitation, medical complications, mental health concerns, or other family and community stressors, and assisted patients in making positive changes and accessing resources through evidence-informed strategies such as motivational interviewing, family systems therapy, and strengths-based counseling techniques* Developed clinical protocol for prenatal care, substance abuse interventions, trauma-informed care and patient feedback* Provided weekly clinical supervision for post-graduate ACSW's, masters level social work interns, and Americorps volunteer* Developed referral tracking tools, billing protocol and weekly FQHC social work and services team meeting* Co-launched the Integrative Medicine Medical Staff Committee and Clinic at the Primary Care Clinic and provided integrated behavioral health direct care* Piloted and demonstrated financial model for integrated behavioral health in the adolescent and primary care clinics* Launched the first health education and high school internship program for the adolescent health clinics* Provided interdisciplinary staff trainings on adolescent mental health concerns and treatments, including leading the interdisciplinary all adolescent staff annual retreat Show less

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  Los Angeles Education Partnership

  Mar 2018 - Sept 2019

  Leadership Coach

  * Coached school leaders on how to create and support trauma informed school environments* Developed and implemented Resilient Leadership curriculum* Led monthly staff trainings on trauma and resilience practices in school settings* Led state-wide resilience in education conference * Developed data collection system for monitoring school resilience and use of trauma informed practices

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  Sabbatical

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2021

  Self-Designed Fellowship

  * Studied up on indigenous histories Sioux, Lakota, Ojibwe, Bri Bri* Learned conversational Spanish* Exploring ecological systems and our environmental impact* Studying herbal medicine through Ancestral Apothecary* Became a Certified Wilderness First Responder* Co-Leading 2 week trip on the Nüümü Poyo / John Muir Trail to Mt. Whitney

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  Laney College

  Aug 2021 - now

  Mental Health Specialist