Annie Monks

• Evaluated patients' goals, as well as mental and practical conditions, to develop individualized courses of treatment.
• Studied and applied practices from professional reports and literature along with therapies focused on patient needs.
• Managed caseload of individual clients, couples and family therapy sessions.

Accomplishments

• Facilitated culturally informed healing groups post natural disaster.
• Facilitated queer youth groups.

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• Identified risk and resiliency factors within individual youth, peer group, family, school and community and developed strategies for intervention.
• Ability to work with a broad range of mental health strategies, through a trauma informed lense; narrative therapy, expressive therapy, CBT, art therapy, sand therapy and somatic experiencing
• Provided comprehensive case management services, created treatment plans and connected clients and families to appropriate resources.
• Developed goal-oriented psychoeducational and activity therapy groups to improve clients' level of functioning.
• Co-facilitated with headspace youth social groups.

Accomplishments

• Speaker for LGBTOQSB inclusion at DCJ group supervision.
• Adapting delivery methods during Covid 19 and the Lismore floods to continue service.
• Collaboration with other key stakeholders and community members to deliver culturally safe and inclusive practice organisation wide.

• Coached team members on productivity strategies, policy updates and performance improvement plans to accomplish challenging goals.
• Monitored progress of programs, using and applying programming documents, program directives, funding documents and other program material.
• Addressed and resolved technical, financial and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
• Complex case reviews provided to team members, tracking client outcomes and risk.

• Promoted available resources and connected individuals with services locally.
• Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.
• Facilitated mental health psycho-education classes for mental health inpatients.
• Partnered with agencies and organizations to work collaboratively, driving improvements in community health.

Achievements

• Consulted for the Pebbles in the Pond research project. This is a co-design project aimed at improving consumer experiences of mental health inpatient units.