Susan Paul

Experience

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  Head Start, Ounce of Prevention

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1999

  Family Support Supervisor

  Head Start Family Support Supervisor, with caseload of five to ten children with special needs; supervised three Family Support Workers in providing linkage and services to 125 children and their families from the neighborhood surrounding Robert Taylor Homes development of Chicago Housing Authority, during the first year of implementation of Federal 'welfare to work' legislation. Provided clinically informed "Reflective Supervision" as agency implemented the model throughout all Head Start and Early Head Start programs. Show less

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  ValueOptions, Inc.®

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2009

  Regional Systems Specialist, NJ DCBHS Contracted System Administrator
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  The Children's Home Society of NJ

  Nov 2009 - Aug 2016

  Director of Clinical and Behavioral Services:• Administrator of nine separate contracts with NJ Division of Child Protection and Permanency • Supervised twelve therapists in clinical work providing trauma-focused care to children, adolescents and their families• Clinical supervision to the Mental Health Specialist for Early Head Start and Head Start in Trenton • Supervised graduate social work students from Rutgers, Columbia and Kean Schools of Social Work• Clinically trained social worker with caseload providing therapeutic care of adolescents and their families, especially when exposed to traumatic events and relationships, including the traumas of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and domestic and community violence as well as the trauma of being removed from their families of origin and becoming clients of a child welfare system • Implemented and coordinated the agency-wide monthly clinical case conference to include non-clinical staff—beginning five years ago—to develop a broad and shared sense of trauma-informed wisdom across the several divisions of our agency’s work in central New Jersey Show less

  • Clinical Consultant

    Jul 2015 - Aug 2016

  • Director Clinical and Behavioral Health Services

    Nov 2009 - Jul 2015
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  Capitol County Children’s Collaborative

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  Senior Program Manager
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  Capitol County Children's Collaborative

  Nov 2018 - now

  Clinical Manager