About

Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with over 15 years of clinical and supervisory experience across child welfare, foster care, housing stability, and community-based behavioral health programs in New York City. Proven leader with extensive experience overseeing multidisciplinary clinical teams, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering trauma-informed services to families impacted by intimate partner violence, substance use disorders, and complex psychosocial needs. Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume workflows, supervise supervisors, and collaborate effectively with ACS and cross-system partners.

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Specialist (Word & Excel
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  • Trauma-Informed Care & Trauma Systems Theory
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  • june 2023 Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
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  • English
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Experience

Mecca Phinizy

Work experience
  • Teach adaptive therapeutic strategies appropriate to each client’s developmental level and goals.
  • Collaborate with caregivers to extend treatment benefits across different environments.

Mecca Phinizy

Work experience
  • Clinical Socialworker  at   BCSNY
  • Provide therapeutic services to children, teens, and families, with a focus on trauma, cognitive behavioral therapy approaches, and behavioral challenges.
  • Conduct thorough clinical assessments, psychosocial assessments, develop personalized care plans, and apply evidence-based techniques (CBT, behavior support, etc.)
  • Support clients in managing stressors, strengthening coping skills, drafting activity schedules for self-care and priorities, and improving emotional regulation through self-validation techniques.

Mecca Phinizy

Work experience
  • Guide clients with co-occurring developmental and behavioral needs toward housing stability
  • Coordinate with service providers to implement supportive clinical care plans

Mecca Phinizy

Work experience
  • Consult on behavioral health needs of youth aging out of foster care
  • Conduct psychosocial evaluations, identify clinical risks, and advocate for supports
  • Utilize Salesforce and CAPS for care coordination
  • Provided clinical and programmatic support to housing liaisons, specialists, supervisors, and directors internally and externally, with a focus on engaging transition-age youth and maintaining current knowledge of evolving housing laws and grant-funded programs including CityFHEPS and CAPS scatter-site housing

Mecca Phinizy

Work experience
  • September, 2019 - January, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Supervised case planners and specialists managing 350+ youth
  • Ensured mental health referrals, assessments, and services met clinical standards
  • Monitored OCFS/ACS compliance and promoted ethical, trauma-informed care

Mecca Phinizy

Education

Mecca Phinizy

Education