Sam Glaubitz

• Establish trust-based relationships with clients using lived experience as a foundation for meaningful connections.
• Advocate for client's self-directed recovery, and least restrictive means of care within the mental health services systems.
• Workshop coping skills and strategies. Help client's identify natural and professional supports through OARS, or Motivational Interviewing.
• Demonstrate proficient knowledge of community resources, and assist client's in navigating such supports.
• Assess client's risk of suicide using a standard Columbia ask well as observations.
• Establish a safety plan with clients, and ensure their safety through securing/removing lethal means.
• Respond to Crisis in the Community as a part of an interdisciplinary Mobile Crisis Team.
• Deescalate deregulated client by allowing individuals to ventilate while being provide support and validation.
• Provide telephonic support to clients transferred from the Crisis Line to the Peer Line. Process referrals to the EPICC Peer Program.
• Promote awareness on the 988 Crisis Line, and providing education on what one might expect when reaching out.
• Contribute to a healthy working environment for the entire team. Model and mentor oncoming Certified Peer Specialists.

Chair OACIT's Peer Advocacy Committee

• Facilitating monthly meetings, scheduling presenters, leading group topics decided by Peers, drafting meeting Minutes and Agenda
• Sharing resources and continued education opportunities
• Empower Peers to share their story at CIT Basic Trainings
• Share my lived experience in CIT Advanced Trainings
• Promoting Peers' personal and professional development

• Facilitating our local NAMI affiliate's Schizophrenia Peer Support Group
• Serving on our local NAMI affiliates Advisory Council
• NAMI Missouri In Our Own Voice presenter; sharing my story in CIT Trainings, for medical students, NAMI Family-to-Family classes, and Peers across the state
• Partners in Policy Mentor; Advocating for bills pertaining to mental health and suicide prevention. Empowering new Peers, and preparing them for meetings with their legislators
• Elected to represent NAMI Missouri's in NAMI National's Peer Leadership Council
• Pursuing a certificate to lead NAMI's Peer-to-Peer and Provider training

• Advocate for suicide prevention bills in scheduled meetings with my representatives alongside others at AFSP Missouri's Advocacy Day
• Raising Awareness of the Crisis Continuum, operate AFSP Resource Booths at community events
• Trained Talk Saves Lives presenter, a basic suicide prevention education program designed for community members

• Utilized data-driven strategies to target specific demographics for increased voter outreach.
• Raise awareness of the socialized healthcare movement, while engage voters in healthy discussions relating to our healthcare system.
• Listen to voters primary concerns regarding barriers and access to care. Provide information on Medicaid or other pathways towards care when needed.
• Maintained a positive attitude and high energy levels throughout long hours of door-to-door outreach.
• Collaborated with fellow team members to ensure consistent messaging and seamless coordination of canvassing activities across neighborhoods.

(I worked on 2 campaigns; one in Springfield, MO and another in Troy, MO. Circulating 5 different petitions in total.)

• Circulate petitions on progressive bills (5) in community spaces.
• Raise awareness, and educate members of the community on different features of the bills and other parts of the political process, such as registering to vote.
• Collect legal signatures to be processed by notaries, and sent to the Missouri Secretary of States office. While tracking progress digitally.
• Participate in daily skills workshops with team members.

(Once known as the Suicide Prevention Coalition of the Ozarks) Elected as the Marketing Chair

• Collaborate with other members of the coalition to plan community awareness events
• Managing GCSPN's social media page
• Creating flyers and other marketing materials
• Recruiting multidisciplinary coalition members from various agencies

I worked the overnight shift and my daily responsibilities included counting medication, and dispensing client's morning medication at an inpatient drug rehabilitation center.

• Managing client's medications, monitoring their vitals, and applying other treatments. Providing transportation to medical appointments.
• Maintaining a nurturing and therapeutic environment for client's to thrive. Providing client's with choices regarding their day, and supporting their individual goals.
• Planning enrichment activities for developmentally disabled clients, including those in the community.
• Providing care and assistance with Daily Living Activates such as preparing meals, assisting them with their hygiene needs, and making sure incontinent client's are routinely changed and dry.
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• Empowering young peers' self-directed recovery by equipping them with the resources and tools they need to be successful.
• Utilize Lived Experience to form meaningful connections, and inspire hope.
• Work on a multidisciplinary team to address client's needs. Collaborating with a team in daily meetings to coordinate client's care and establish individual treatment plans based on client's goals.
• Meeting with client's in the community, and helping them engage in services. Providing transportation when needed.

Job Summery: Work together with a treatment team to address the care, safety, and well being of children in the Family Connections Center.

• Overall development, implementation, and expansion of programs available at the Hope Center, and throughout the southwest region of the state.
• Recruit, train, and coordinate volunteers
• Oversee Missouri Department of Mental Health contract compliance.
• Research, apply, and overseeing the development and implementation of grant funds. Manage a Specific Help fund through donations to the Hope Center.
• Plan and coordinate workshops and community awareness events.

Accomplishments:

• Expanding NAMI programs in Lebanon, Bolivar, Branson, and Ozark
• Raising the census for support groups by 57%
• Became a host agency for AARP
• Expand incoming outreach and collaborations with other agencies like: Burrell Behavioral Health, Jordan Valley, and the Missouri Department of Social Services
• Expanded outreach to at risk populations through NAMI's signiture “In Our Own Voice” program
• Successfully writing grants, program manuals, and the training curriculum for volunteers for the southwest region of the state.
• Having an open door policy where I assisted peers with a wide range of needs. Referring Peers to other community resources.

• Built rapport with individuals and maintained therapeutic relationships. Communicate patient's needs to higher levels in the chain of command.
• Provide crisis intervention for at high risk populations as apart of an interdisciplinary team. Deescalate deregulated patient's with patience and understanding.
• Exercise situational awareness and judgment in maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment. Performing Safety Checks.
• Lead cognitive groups aimed to educate patients on mental health topics, in addition to leading other therapeutic activities.
• Collect vitals and be alert to potential adverse patient reactions. Observe, evaluate, record and report to professional staff changes in patient's condition.
• Collaborate with other staff to develop and manage effective treatment plans.
• Assume responsibility for the security and well being of patients while assisting them in completing Daily Living Activities.
  

• Providing a warm, therapeutic environment for client's to thrive.
• Planning enrichment activities for clients, and taking them out into the community for other recreational activities.
• Assisting client's with Daily Living Activities; preparing meals, helping client's maintain their hygiene, prompting client's to take their medication, and more.
• Deescalating deregulated or overstimulated clients, through active listening, redirection, reducing stimuli, and helping them engage in their coping skills.

• Screened incoming clients and processed client information. Completing regular drug/alcohol screening and collecting vitals.
• Oversaw structured group activities and maintained a therapeutic environment.
• Motivated patients to perform daily tasks and chores