Stephen Stott

Experience

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  Riverside School (Residential Treatment)

  Jul 2010 - Jul 2012

  Direct Care Staff

  NFI’s Riverside School seeks to help prepare its students to lead productive and fulfilling lives by equipping them with the emotional, behavioral, academic, and daily living skills needed to achieve them when the complete the program and are reunited with their families. (http://www.nafi.com)

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  Columbia University School of Social Work

  Sept 2012 - May 2014

  Graduate Student

  At Columbia University School of Social Work I am further developing my clinical skills (working with people one on one or in a group setting) as well as learning how programs work (program development), how to evaluate them (program evaluation), and how to improve them (needs and assets assessment).

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  Family Life Academy Charter School

  Sept 2012 - May 2013

  Social Work - Intern

  Member of the Child Study MeetingPlay TherapyTalk Therapy - individual sessions as well as group sessionsGroup TherapyHome VisitsTalked with the parents/guardians to get a better understanding of how the child is at home

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  Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

  May 2013 - Jun 2018

  Counseling Coordinator & LGBTQ+ Advocate

  Therapy connections (including but not limited to)-Grief & loss-Substance treatment/inpatient care-Mental health (depression, anxiety, parenting, anger, trauma, PTSD, etc)-Family therapy-Group therapy-Different therapy modalities (CBT, TF-CBT, EMDR, DBT, Play therapy, EFT, Equine, etc)TAPS Care Groups-compiling lists of survivors in each state to find a central location to meet-maintaining and supporting the current groups-locating a mental health professional to co-facilitate-locating a spaceTAPS supports those who have lost a loved one serving in the Armed Forces regardless of the relationship to the deceased; as well as, how their loved one died. Internship - May of 2013. Full-time - May 2014 I was offered a full-time position.I know the personal sting grief brings from a loved one who died whether it be family or friends. I used my personal and educational background to provide the best support I can when I am talking/listening to a survivor's story and struggles, or helping them locate therapy resources in their area. I am assisted the Director of Community Based Care at TAPS as we are looked for mental health professionals who would donate their time to support our bereaved military survivors. We created TAPS Care Groups which consists of a meeting once a month, for an hour and a half, that is co-facilitated by a TAPS Peer Mentor (PM) and a mental health professional. A PM is a military survivor who is at least 18 months out from their grief and has taken training to become a PM and they then take additional training to become a group facilitator.We are also built a network of mental health professionals who would provide pro bono serives to our surviving military survivors that relate to: grief & loss, trauma focused therapies, working w/children and families, substance abuse treatment (in/out patient), experience working with death by suicide, and the many other issues that can impact a person's life after the death of a loved one. Show less

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  The Ali Forney Center

  Sept 2013 - May 2014

  MSW - Intern

  Intake - new clients, re-admitting clients, 6 month assessmentsTherapy - Individual Sessions and group facilitationProgram Development (Needs and Assets Assessment)Event PlanningSecurity AdministrationCreating and administrating surverys

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  Crisis Connections

  Oct 2018 - Feb 2022

  Crisis Service Clinician and Training/Education Specialist
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  Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic

  Feb 2022 - Apr 2023

  Mental Health Worker III

  Federally Qualified Health Center

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  Embrace The Darkness LLC

  Jul 2023 - now

  Owner