Sarah Kim
Organizing and Responding to Crisis for Alameda youth (ORCA) Program Manager
What I do at Crisis Support Services of Alameda County
The ORCA Program Manager:
- Provides clinical supervision
- Provides administrative supervision
- Builds program structure and policies including work flow and training for staff
- Provides on-going review of best practices for the purposes of ensuring the program adjusts to community needs
- Attends/ provides training meetings for program associates and interns
- Attends collaborative meetings with CSS departments and agency staff meetings
- Writes quarterly, annual reports for program accountability
- Executes quality assurance duties including chart review, offering feedback, tracking and reporting trends and managing file storage
- Works with external evaluation team on developing and implementing program metrics
- Collaborates within the Clinical Department and with other CSS departments for the mutual benefits of the community.
Who am I?
Sarah Kim, LCSW currently serves as a Program Manager for Crisis Support Services, Clinical Department. She is collaboratively designing a new service called Organizing and Responding to Crisis for Alameda youth (ORCA) Program aiming to serve youth 25 years and younger whose lives are impacted by suicide.
In addition to her work at CSS, Sarah Kim offers individual and partnered therapy through her private practice, Collaborative Counseling Services. You can read more about her at www.collaborativecounselingservices.com