Experience
More than two decades across direct service, behavioral health, nonprofit leadership, national capacity building, clinical social work, and public child welfare.
Supports multidisciplinary response through case preparation, information-sharing, outcome tracking, consultation, family guidance, service linkage, and coordination related to forensic interviews and medical assessment. The position collaborates with child protection, law enforcement, prosecutors, forensic interviewers, medicine, mental health, victim advocacy, and community providers.
Conducted complex investigations involving child sexual abuse and serious physical harm; interviewed children, caregivers, and collaterals; assessed safety and future risk; developed safety and service plans; maintained timely records; and worked within multidisciplinary CAC processes.
A supervisory period broadened Christopher’s practice to case consultation, staff coaching, transfer of learning, safety and risk analysis, documentation and quality review, and support for difficult decisions. Current Social Work Coordinator responsibilities are described separately and conservatively.
Provided affirming individual and couples support under supervision; participated in assessment, treatment and safety planning; contributed to community needs assessment; and developed DBT-informed group learning.
Led grant-supported training, technical assistance, curriculum development, and capacity building across harm reduction, overdose prevention, HIV/HCV, stigma, drug-user health, and LGBTQ cultural responsiveness.
Held increasing responsibility across LGBTQ+ services, behavioral health, homelessness, housing, food access, youth programming, staff supervision, quality assurance, policy, partnerships, and nonprofit operations.
Supported human-services organizations with program development, staff learning, community assessment, facilitation, evaluation, and organizational improvement.
Built foundations in HIV-related services, behavioral health, substance-use counseling, harm reduction, Seeking Safety, Motivational Enhancement, service coordination, and program evaluation.
Practice in perspective
