Roscoe Bright, LSW

Experience

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  Western Psychiatric Hospital

  Mar 2014 - May 2016

  HUD Homeless Housing Service Coordination

  As a Service Coordinator, my responsibilities included working with clients of the hospital to function and reintegrate into the community by connecting the consumer to resources and assessing as necessary, housing people with several episodes of homelessness, and working with treatment teams (physical and mental health) to provide the best support for individuals engaging with multiple systems.

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  Mon Yough Community Services, Inc.

  May 2016 - May 2018

  Behavioral Health Counselor

  As a behavioral health counselor, my responsibilities included working with individuals diagnosed with substance use disorder to adjust behaviors that have led them to legal, financial, vocational, or relational distress in their lives. This position required an understanding and ability to complete substance use disorder evaluations, time management, and crisis management skills. This position also required the counselor to act as part of a team to meet the needs of legal teams and mental health teams. Additonally, I was the organization’s crisis management trainer. Crisis Intervention trainerTrainer (2016- 2018)Responsibilities include training peers, coworkers, and staff with other departments how to de-escalate conflict with clients by utilizing a multitude of skills ranging from safety assessments, verbal de-escalation skills, escape techniques, and risk verse risk analysis in crisis decision making. Trainers are responsible for conducting an entire presentation and physical demonstrations of the skills being taught to staff. Show less

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  Allegheny County Department of Human Services

  May 2018 - now

  Caseworker

  As a caseworker, I was required to have a firm understanding of multiple systems and the interaction of the systems, appropriate services to address needs of families, an understanding of how underlying problems lead to current barriers for families, the ability to articulate concerns appropriately, and a strong ability to build rapport with families that may be defensive when dealing with government entities. My responsibilities included working with families to meet goals set forth by the agency, courts, and the families themselves, completion of safety and risk assessment, child removal if deemed necessary, testifying in dependency court on behalf of the agency’s actions and the progress of the family, deployment of brief intervention strategies to problem solve with the family, and coordinating multiple services for each family to ensure that goals are met. Additionally, I was responsible for the initial investigation of allegations and presentation of safety concerns to child safety teams, if a removal was possible. At times I would be responsible for working closely with entities including law enforcement, criminal court parties, forensic interviewers, Office of Behavioral health providers, Child Sexual Exploitation investigators and many more. NOTE: employment dates (May 2018- July 2019; February 2020- Present) Show less

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  Allegheny County

  Jul 2019 - Feb 2020

  Juvenile Probation Officer

  In my role as a Juvenile probation officer, I was considered an agent of change, where I worked to assist youths and families in changing environments and behaviors to decrease the likelihood on ongoing delinquent behavior that could possibly have children involved in the criminal justice system. I was the assistant manager of a day evening program for juveniles managing direct care services administered to the juvenile adjudicated delinquent. My responsibilities in this position included completing court reports, testifying in court and making decisions regarding community protection, victim restoration, and competency development. Show less