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---------------------------- Education Master of Social Work (Clinical) University of Georgia (2016) Bachelor of Social Work Minor in Folklore Studies Georgia State University (2015) Skills English-Spanish fluency Individual and group psychotherapy DSM diagnostics Supervisory skills Social work field instructor Motivational interviewing Housing First Harm reduction Crisis intervention Case management Cognitive behavioral therapy Psychodynamic therapy Acceptance & commitment therapy Mindfulness & hypnotherapy Mindfulness Expressive arts therapy Conflict resolution Community outreach & engagement Program Development Social media management HMIS Photoshop ------- Licenses & Certifications Licensed Clinical Social Worker #CSW007745 GA, 2021- Present Licensed Master Social Worker # MSW007596 · GA, 2015 -2021 ------------------------------ Awards 2021 Proclamation by Atlanta City Council 2019 Catholic Health Association Achievement Citation (Mercy Care Street Medicine). 2018 MLK Jr. Community Service Awards (Living Walls) 2017 Proclamation by Atlanta City Council (Intown Collaborative Ministries) 2017 MLK Jr. Community Service Award (Intown Collaborative Ministries) Associations APA · NASW · Street Medicine Institute |
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FRANCO BEJARANO, LCSW Mental Health · Urban Social Work · Visual Arts Atlanta, GA · [email protected] www.francopsychotherapy.com Clinical Experience ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Franco Psychotherapy – Atlanta, GA Private Practice Psychotherapist (September 21 – Present) www.francopsychotherapy.com Intown Cares – Atlanta, GA Clinical Program Manager, Homeless Services (Sept 22 - Present) Supported the clinical needs for a 15 person homeless services team including outreach, rapid rehousing, and aftercare services. Duties involed supervision of case managers and interns, case reviews, diagnotics and psychometrics, clinical documentation, linkage to mental health, handling of partnership relations, human resources and onboarding, and managment our Georgia Housing Voucher program through the the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Develipmental Disabilities. Team Leader, Homeless Outreach Programs (Jan 19 – Present) Outreach Case Manager, Homeless Outreach Program (Jan 17 – Jan 19) Responsible for street outreach with the goal of housing chronically homeless individuals through the City of Atlanta’s Coordinated Entry system. Work included intensive community case management, psychosocial assessments, street psychotherapy, crisis intervention, identification retrieval, housing navigation, behavioral health within Mercy Care’s Street Medicine team, and advocacy for Housing First policies among Housing providers. In 2017 I became the most prolific case manager in Atlanta in terms of housed clients through Coordinated Entry which allowed the agency to secure funding to expand exponentially and model their homeless outreach program after my work. In 2021 I was recognized by the City of Atlanta for this accomplishment. Positive Impact Health Centers – Atlanta, GA Intern Psychotherapist (Aug 15 – August 16) Worked within the spectrum of HIV care providing outpatient psychotherapy, comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments & DSM-5 diagnostics, crisis interventions & suicide assessments, and design and operation of therapy groups within an intensive substance abuse program. The William Breman Jewish Home – Atlanta, GA Intern Social Worker (Sep 14 –May 15) Worked within the spectrum of aging care responsible for providing case management to older adults in inpatient rehabilitation and long-term nursing care; discharge planning; psychometric assessments; family care planning; interdisciplinary treatment planning; recreational therapy; brief psychotherapy and psychoeducation on neurocognitive disorders, end-of-life care, and grief counseling in collaboration with hospice. Grady Memorial Hospital – Atlanta, GA Behavioral Health Apprentice (May 12 – Aug 12) American Gateway - Texas Forensic Translator - (June 12- Sept 12) Translated medical, clinical and legal documents for refugees fleeing domestic violence across the US Mexican border. Fayette Care Clinic – Fayetteville, GA Spanish Interpreter (Jun 10 – Jan 12) Art Projects & Residencies ---------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Council for the Arts - Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Atlanta (Feb 23 – present) Nominated Member Our Town Program - National Endowment for the Arts (Aug 23 - Dec 2023) Panelist Reviewed grant proposal nationwide in the field of creative placemaking “Street to Home”/ Art & Transportation Rapid Response – Smart Growth America, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) – Atlanta (April 20 – June 20) Artist Selected to work in close partnership with HOPE Atlanta to develop a project that thoughtfully addressed MARTA’s unsheltered ridership during the COVID19 pandemic in the form of public art. Evolution Arts Residency – ChopArt – Atlanta (May 2019 – Nov 2019) Expressive Arts Therapist Co-Lead a 7-month visual arts class working with youth experiencing homelessness while providing therapeutic oversight. Nuna and the Fog: A Children’s Book about Depression – (2018) Illustrator & Author Successfully wrote, illustrated, and crowdfunded to publish a 50-page children’s book about clinical depression based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to be distributed among 300 mental health providers and institutions in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. The BuHi Walk – Living Walls: The City Speaks, We Love Buhi – Atlanta (Nov 2017) Project Management Assistant Assisted in organizing a street art festival in the Bufford Highway corridor of Atlanta, GA. https://www.remezcla.com/features/art/living-walls-atlanta-2017/ Signs of Solidarity – Living Walls: The City Speaks – Atlanta (Sep 16, Sept 18, April 20) Artist / Project Management Assistant Worked in a collaborative effort of over 30 arts organizations and artists creating coordinated public banners in response to political divisiveness https://www.livingwallsatl.com/signs-of-solidarity-atl La Casa Bonita - Cusco, Peru (jun 2014 - August 2024) Expressive Arts teacher Provided weekly art classes to underage kids experiencing parental abndoment in remote indigenous rural locations in the Andes mountains of Peru. WondeRoot - Atlanta (Dec 2012 - Sept 2013) Drawing & Painting Program leader Lead a community-based program teaching painting and drawing to biweekly groups. Published Work & Presentations (Urban Social work) -------------------------------------------------- "Arts & Transportation Rapid Response projects: Homelessness in Marta's Rail System" SmartGrowthAmerica.com (August 2021) “Hand hygiene during the COVID-19 pandemic among people experiencing homelessness”. Journal of Community Psychology (April 2021) “Without a Home: Homelessness and Gentrification in the City”. TEDxGeorgiaStateU. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (May 2019) “Psychiatry on Wheels: A Narrative for the Case of Street Medicine from a Housing Perspective”. Social Work Today (June 2018). https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/exc_0718.shtml Published Work & Presentations (Folklore studies) ----------------------------------------------------- “Shamanic Initiations: A hidden Theme within the Fairy Tale of Hansel and Gretel”. Cabinet des Fées: A Journal of fairy tales (July 2011). https://www.cabinetdesfees.com/2011/shamanic-initiations-a-hidden-theme-within-the-fairy-tale-of-hansel-and-gretel/ “Supernatural Abductions: UFO and Folklore Narratives”. Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal (Vol. 2, No. 3) (July 2011) Press ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Chef Behind Peruvian Pop-Up La Chingana Is Opening a Restaurant in Poncey-Highland". Eater Atlanta (May 2022) https://atlanta.eater.com/2022/4/27/23044658/arnaldo-castillo-opening-peruvian-restaurant-tio-lucho-poncey-highland-atlanta “Franco Bejarano Uses Background in Social Work To Create Life-Size Drawings Of Atlantans Experiencing Homelessness”. WABE 90.1 FM (September 2021) https://www.wabe.org/franco-bejarano/ Fund for homeless Black trans women hits $3M, buys permanent housing (June 2021). Project Q Atlanta. https://www.projectq.us/fund-for-homeless-black-trans-women-hits-3m-buys-permanent-housing/ “From Spirits to Sanitizer: How an Atlanta Distillery Is Helping Fight COVID-19”. Rolling Stone”. (March 2020). https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hand-sanitizer-old-fourth-distillery-atlanta-covid-19-coronavirus-homeless-967305/ “Street Medicine Brings Health Care To Atlanta’s Homeless” WABE FM 90.1 (September 2019) https://www.wabe.org/street-medicine-brings-healthcare-to-atlantas-homeless/ “Anatomy of a Homeless Sweep” AtlantaLoop (September 2019) https://www.atlantaloop.com/anatomy-of-a-homeless-sweep/?fbclid=IwAR0iEJl28l0N4d4X3gecTUlBZINsDwVZqob13x1gn-e1zIR80_Vh7xbJeKk “Atlanta street team offers medical care, hope and no judgment.” Atlanta Journal Constitution (September 2019) https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-street-team-offers-medical-care-hope-and-judgment/eXuXQlnyTVOT2OLJ1BkOhN/ “Atlanta refused to give up on homelessness. It’s working.” The Christian Science Monitor (August 2019) https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2019/0823/Atlanta-refused-to-give-up-on-homelessness.-It-s-working “At Atlanta’s Living Walls 2017, a Spotlight on Latinos in the Deep South” (September 2017) Remezca. https://remezcla.com/features/art/living-walls-atlanta-2017/ “The 2017 Living Walls Street Art Conference is a Love Letter to the Beating Heart of Immigrant ATL” (September 2017) https://remezcla.com/culture/living-walls-street-art-atlanta-buford-highway/ “Signs of Solidarity: Positive words spring up on signs around Atlanta” (January 2019). Atlanta Journal Constitution. https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/arts--theater/signs-solidarity-positive-words-spring-signs-around-town/R3BHlqbsSZxdQvRPiXNNnI/ |
