A. Rashad Skinner, LCSW-S

Experience

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  Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

  Aug 1999 - Aug 2001

  CPS Conservatorship Specialist IV

  • Paid full-time work experience developing treatment plans and making referrals to community resources for children, up to age 21, and pregnant women.• Casework related activities related to all types of child abuse or neglect, foster care, and adoption.• Consulted with families to identify problems through home visits and maintaining parent-child relationships.• Participate in making decisions regarding temporary or long-term corrective actions to eliminate abuse or neglect, including child removal, maintaining relationships with law enforcement and judicial officials, and crisis intervention. Show less

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  Center for Family Services

  Oct 2001 - Mar 2004

  MRAI Therapist/UDIS Lead Coordinator

  • Worked full time conducting individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and community referrals under direct supervision of an LCSW and LCPC.• Provided crisis intervention as needed in order to help family resolution.• Provided comprehensive assessment and counseling services to individuals, families and groups.• Paid full-time work experience completing psychosocial and health needs assessments, reassessments, treatment plans, and progress reports for service planning.• Led UDIS Program in providing information regarding area programs in order to link clients to appropriate services in the community, and assist in any registration processes.• Provide home-based counseling and support to for children, up to age 21, and families in order to facilitate social, behavioral, and emotional growth.• Paid work experience maintaining contact with Juvenile Intensive Probation, schools, court, and making referrals to community resources Show less

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  Aurora Education Center

  Aug 2003 - May 2004

  Social Work Clinician

  • Worked full time, under the supervision of an LMSW and LCPC, conducting individual therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and behavior stabilization in an alternative school setting for children up to age 21.• Worked extensively with youth diagnosed with mental disabilities, learning disorders, and behavior disorders.• Trained new employees in behavior program implementation, and health and safety.• Created and implemented a panel addressing cultural diversity in the workplace. Show less

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  Aspiring Youth of Houston

  Aug 2004 - Aug 2005

  Program Manager/Grant Writer

  • Created and reviewed grant proposals, budgets and plans used to set project goals and objectives.• Monitored projects from initiation through delivery and monitored for continuous improvements.• Identified and developed contingency plans to mitigate an address program risks.• Assembled, trained, and led a project team from project implementation to project end.• Communicated with and influence internal stakeholders and community leaders on project steps and objectives.• Learned and utilized development strategies for fundraising, grant writing, grant research, and strategic planning. Show less

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  Communities In Schools Houston

  Aug 2005 - Jun 2006

  HISD/Katrina Project Manager

  • Provided direct support services to Hurricane Katrina evacuees at Dowling M.S., including individual and group counseling to assist students with issues such as grief and trauma, transition issues, and relationships with their peers.• Assisted students and their families with basic and emergency needs such as food, clothing shelter and medical needs.• Linked students and their families to community mental health providers to assist them in addressing the post-trauma of Hurricane Katrina and Rita.• Hosted community events to involve entire families, and open these gatherings to additional schools will also benefit.• Worked closely with campus administration to address any additional students as they arise. Show less

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  Spaulding for Children

  Oct 2005 - May 2006

  Grant Writer

  • Research and analyze foundation, corporate, and individual prospects as well as current and future funders. • Work with the Board of Directors and social work staff in the development of programs and funding opportunities.• Prepare written funding proposals, reports, and special event funding requests to private foundations. • Maintain agency donor records and agency foundation files. • Assist in writing and editing of newsletter and other marketing, development and communications tools. • Acknowledge major foundation and corporate gifts in a timely manner. Show less

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  Sapphire Therapeutic Services, Inc

  Sept 2006 - now

  Executive Director

  • Group counseling for substance use (excluding methadone).• Marital, child, individual, and couples counseling.• Divorce or bad break up support groups.• Overcoming shyness and anxiety counseling.• Mood disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder treatment.• Home studies for international, kinship, and domestic adoption and foster care placement.• Grant writing and strategic planning for 501(c)3 startup and expansion.

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  Harris County Hospital District (Ben Taub Hospital)

  Oct 2007 - Feb 2009

  Mental Health Professional

  • Provide clinical social work and complex discharge planning to patients and their families. • Holds joint accountability with case manager for facilitating psychosocial and continuing care. • Works collaboratively with physicians, case managers and multidisciplinary team to effect positive patient and family outcomes.• Perform psychosocial diagnosis, needs assessments, and reassessment of patients with alcohol, tobacco, or substance use issues in a health care setting.• Respond to referrals as well as collaborate with internal and external community resources for resolution of immediate problems.• Perform motivational interviewing techniques during brief treatment session in hospital and other community based clinics.• Patient chart reviewing to identify needs of patients in nursing units with substance use issues. Show less