Angela Mason, LCSW Resume: Clinical and Forensic Social Work, Social Worker

Forensic Social Worker, Expert Witness, Mitigation Specialist, Social Historian
Work with defense attorneys and investigators on federal and state capital murder trials, appeals, habeas corpus cases and juvenile gathering and expert testimony. Generate trial and or psychological fitness cases to effectively portray the mitigation story through use of psychosocial life histories, witness interviews, analysis and presentation of records. Create alternate sentencing plans, juvenile psychosocial and fitness reports on non-death cases through client and witness interviews, document gathering and expert testimony. Generate trial and or psychological chronologies, develop and maintain a positive relationship with clients and their families. Assist with trial support through consultation in the voir dire process and by mapping visual representations of the client’s life through use of gen-o-grams and presentation of risk and protective factors.

Child Custody Evaluator, Expert Witness, Consultant; Perform child custody evaluations, serve as court appointed supervisor or expert witness in cases involving custody disputes.

Mental Health Supervisor, Los Angeles Center for Educational Research (LACER); Provide individual and group therapies to children and their families in Los Angeles public junior high schools. Design group therapy materials for conflict resolution, anger management, grief and loss and boys and girls groups. Supervise interns, teach after school classes for high-risk youth, design and provide staff training in all areas of child, adolescent and family mental health.

Contractor; Social work positions in the Los Angeles area in a variety of settings, including: adult day health care, hospital social work, home health care and in-patient mental health.

School Social Worker, Orleans Parish School Board; Provide counseling and therapy to individuals and groups of students, K-12th grades. Supervise peer educators. Work with parents, teachers and administrators to assist children in processing grief and violence issues, child abuse, suicide prevention, parental divorce, drug abuse and incarceration, attendance, academic and behavior problems. Facilitate the Student Assessment Team. Position includes: court appearances advocating for children’s rights and truancy problems. Designed and taught AIDS education. Wrote and received grants for $10.000.

Health Educator & Trainer, Gynecological Teaching Program, Tulane and Louisiana State Universities; Teach second and third year medical students all aspects of the obstetric and gynecology exams emphasizing communication and education skills.

Ethnographer/Evaluator, Crescent City Peace Alliance; Monitored meetings and forums; interviewed key participants and chronicled project events through the planning stage of a citywide violence prevention community development effort.

Family Therapist, Children’s Comprehensive Services, Part-time family preservation therapist with Project Impact in Orleans Parish. Provided 6-week intensive in-home therapy for families referred from the juvenile courts and child protective services.

Hospital Social Worker, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital); Counseled, assessed and coordinated patient discharges from the emergency rooms. Caseload included: nursing home placements, adolescent suicide attempts, drug overdoses, rape victims, battered women, child sexual abuse and HIV/AIDS patients.