Field Consultant and Lecturer Erica Gomes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that has been working in the non-profit sector providing clinical social work services for the past 20 years. She started her career as a Domestic Violence Counselor and has worked primarily in medical settings providing services to a variety of populations including children, youth and families, pregnant and postpartum women and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. She has worked in a community health center in San Francisco, providing bilingual (English/Spanish) clinical services; developing and implementing their integrated behavioral health model. She has also provided outpatient sliding-scale psychotherapy services, mental health evaluation for asylum cases, and has worked internationally providing social services in Central America. She is an Exam Writer for the Association of Social Work Board's Clinical Licensing Exam and has contributed to research related to culturally adapted best practices in group CBT interventions for unaccompanied minors. In addition to her Field Consultant work at UC Berkeley, she is a Lead Integrated Behavioral Health Supervisor at La Clínica where she supervises a team of clinical social workers who provide integrated services at several medical and school-based clinics throughout Alameda, Solano and Contra Costa counties.
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