ROSALYNE BLUMENSTEIN LCSW/LMSW

                                                                                                                                                     License number 24228

323 465 6602

rosalyneB@sbcglobal.net

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Los Angeles Employment

Roze Room Hospice

2007-Present

Supervising ACSW/MSW staff/ counsel, support, and educate around terminal condition. Provide non-invasive pain and symptom control techniques/ Assist with Medicare/Medi-cal, Social Security, Veterans benefits Information about Legal Instruments/ Community Resources

Consultant

Saint Mary’s Adult Day Health Center

Assessment, re-assessment of participants focusing on mental health issues. Supervision of Social Workers.

 

Pacific Hospice CARE                                                                                                                                                                     2004-Present

Social worker meeting all the needs of patients and their families in the last stages of life

Psycho social assessments/family counseling/grief and loss issues/understanding the dying process/benefits advocate/overseeing pain management/assessment of mental health issues

 

Tarzana Treatment Center Youth Program                                                                                                             

2004-2005                                                                                                               

Counselor III, Project Coordinator

SAMHSA/CSAT Funded Study

Addiction and recovery related issues

Task management/coordinator of project/outreach/marketing strategies

utilizing harm reduction modalities and recovery oriented therapy with gang youth

/incarcerated youth/institutionalized youth

 

L.A. Shanti                                                                                                                                                                                               2003-2004

Manager of emotional support services/ program focusing on addiction and recovery, mental health and life threatening illnesses. Oversee budget/ task supervise MFT interns/ fund raise/policy  

initiatives/program development/grant writing/board interaction/oversee volunteers/

clinical supervision

 

HIV Epidemiology Program County of LA DOH                                                                                            

 2003-2004

Research assistant/therapist

Group and one on one counseling/assisting principal investigator for population living in Downtown LA Hotels

 

Charles R Drew University Community Service and Research                                                                              2003

Manager/consultant position for Positives dealing with substance abuse issues

Oversee SAMHSA/CSAT federally funded project

Drew University SPECTRUM

Homebound Health Care/one on one counseling/psycho social assessment/work with interdisciplinary team

 

    * Certified as a clinical supervisor/consultant for ACSW/MSW trainees*                                                                                                         

 

 

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                                      ROSALYNE BLUMENSTEIN LCSW/LMSW Continued

 

New York City Employment                                                                                                                            

The LGBTCenter                                                                                                                                                         1993-2002

Oversee $350,000. budget/ Overall program coordination/ supervision/administration of staff and volunteers

Direct services delivery of individual and group counseling/ information, referral, and advocacy/community building/stress management and motivational interviewing/diversity and sensitivity training on cultural, ethnic, racial, and sexual issues /oversee substance abuse services/HIV prevention and education

 

Housing Works, Inc.                                                                                                                                          1998-2002

Clinician/Facilitator

Evening program direct services provider for HIV+ substance abusers

assess agency mission, goals, and consult on cultural effectiveness

design and implement program/ group facilitator/advocacy

 

Katharine Gibbs School                                                                                                                                    1998-2000

Adjunct Professor

Introduction to Psychology/ Personal Development/Public Speaking

 

National Drug Research Institute/ Harm Reduction Training Institute                                                      

Consultant/Trainer

1997-2005

 

Education

Hunter School of Social Work                                                                                                                         1998-2000

Administration and case work major

TSELF Scholarship recipient

 

John Jay College of Criminal Justice                                                                                                          1993-1997  

CUNY BA Program Psychology of Addictions

Belle Zeller Scholarship/Paul Rapaport Scholarship/Thomas W. Smith Fellowship recipient/Who’s Who Among America Students

 

-      Member, National Association of Social Workers

-      Member, World Professional Association for Transgender Health

-      Past member LA  Drug and Alcohol HIV/AIDS Task Force

-      Past member LA Mental Health Task Force

-      Past member LA Task Force/ West Hollywood  Task Force

Past member, Gender Professionals Working Group, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital

-      Past member, NYC Department of Health HIV Prevention Planning Group

-      Past  member NYC Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and addiction issues

-      Past member Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services

 

References available upon request