Mackenzie Comeau MSW, LICSW, SAC
Lynnfield
Summary
My primary goal is to use my experience from all facets of mental health to help students achieve their best selves through an eclectic model of evidence based practice.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
School Social Worker, T3 Program
Andover High School
08.2022 - Current
- Organized transition planning, coping and safety plan development, data tracking
- Crisis Management
- Management of students with significant psychiatric diagnoses, self-harm, diverse backgrounds, and trauma related symptoms
- Systemic collaboration with all facets of high school population, with families and outside providers; facilitation and care coordination for increased level of care
- Development of strategies to help students achieve personal, social emotional, and academic goals
- Facilitated a variety of groups including RENEW program, grief group, CBT, mindfulness, and social thinking
- Coordinated school wide events centered around grief and loss
- Created a welcoming environment and inclusive space for students of all identities
- Managed effective crisis management for T3 program, 9th grade and other students in need of support
- Leading Vision of the Graduate program and freshman board
Youth Social Worker
The Town Of Bedford
08.2021 - 08.2022
- Streamlined effective care coordination with youth family unit, schools, DCF, DMH, police, local hospitals, crisis teams, homeless shelters, and other local, state, and federal agencies
- Participated in multidisciplinary teams including District Mental Health team, At-risk team, Bedford Community Partnership Team, and Violence Prevention Coalition
- Organized numerous community youth mental health outreach initiatives, including Youth Alcohol Diversion Program, new high school volunteer program
- Launched 2022 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey as team leader and interpreted data for district programming
- Created local Refugee and Immigrant resource guide and Emergency Mental Health Crisis guide for families
Education
Masters in Social Work - School Social Work/Adjustment Counseling License
Salem State University
Salem, MA05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Social Sciences
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH05.2019
Internships
School Social Work Intern Andover High School August 2020-June 2021
- Effectively managed and counseled a varied caseload of referred students throughout the academic year
- Utilized trauma informed evidence based practice under a Positive Behavioral Supports Intervention model with students of varying diagnoses, gender identities, and cultural backgrounds
- Collaborated with different school based interdisciplinary teams, consulted families, and coordinated with outside agencies to advocate for students social emotional needs
- Supervised and facilitated Students to Students peer mentorship group, mindfulness and social thinking groups, signs of suicide seminars, anti-bullying panel and created resource guide
Family Resource Intern The Department of Children and Families September 2019-May 2020
- Managed families from many different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, co-facilitated Grandparents Raising Grandchildren foster family support group
- Participated in different units such as Family Resource, Investigations/Response, Ongoing, and Adoption Unit
- Advocated for foster children by facilitating access to community resources and services to maximize safety and well-being of child
- Participated in numerous Foster Care Reviews, Permanency Planning Conferences, Foster Care Recruitment Meetings, Screening Team Meetings, in addition to Ongoing Unit and Family Resource Home visits/studies, completed home study with new foster family
Skills
- Strong interpersonal, writing, and communication skills
- Therapeutic Crisis and Positive Behavioral Support Intervention
- SBIRT evaluation and training
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention, psychodynamic, and solution-focused therapy, trauma-informed
- IEP and 504 documentation and goal writing
- Columbia Suicide Assessment Evaluation
- 51A, Section 12, Section 35, Biopsychosocial, Individual treatment plans
- Mindfulness training
- Conflict resolution and peer mediation
- Family, behavioral, and safety plan writing
- Aspen, Schoology, Myflexlearning, Google systems
- 3 years of clinical supervision
References furnished upon request.
Timeline
School Social Worker, T3 Program
Andover High School
08.2022 - Current
Youth Social Worker
The Town Of Bedford
08.2021 - 08.2022
Masters in Social Work - School Social Work/Adjustment Counseling License
Salem State University
Bachelor of Science - Social Sciences
Plymouth State University
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