Levin Sibley-Schwartz17 No. 6 Road Leverett, MA 01054 www.levinschwartz.com

413-977-5045 (Cell) 413-549-1810 (Fax)

levinschwartz@gmail.comOBJECTIVE: A career that requires dedication to social justice, multiculturalism and that promotes positive social change. EDUCATION: Smith College, Northampton, MA 2009 - 2011 • MSW: Master of social work University of Connecticut, STEP programs 2007 • Macro Theories: Human Behavior in the Social Environment • Human Oppression: The African American & Puerto Rican Perspective University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Winter 2001 • Certificate of mediation and conflict resolution University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1996 - 2000 • BA: Individual Concentration - Ethnomusicology School for International Training, Fortaleza, Brazil Fall 1999 • “Culture, Development and Social Justice” WORK EXPERIENCE:

Clinical Social Work Veterans Administration Medical Center 2010 – 2011 Specialized Inpatient PTSD Unit Clinician for inpatient milieu therapy treating PTSD symptoms using ACT & exposure therapy.

o Group leader –interpersonal, in vivo exposure, goal setting, & family therapy groups. o Clinician for individual therapy sessions. o Psychosocial assessments, suicide-risk assessments, and diagnostic assessments. o Facilitate didactic classes: PTSD concepts; Anger management; Imagery-relaxation & music; Music

and mindfulness; Music and ACT. Berkshire Children and Families 2009 - 2010 Specialized Assessment Team • Conduct comprehensive Permanency Planning Assessments for the Department of Children & Families.

o Work with children, foster families and collaterals to assess client needs. o Offer clinical recommendations in relation to the strengths and needs of child clients.

• Conduct Home Studies for families who are interested in adoption. o Assess client’s history, accessing delicate, potentially triggering background information to assess a

person’s capacity to parent in the future. o Use the Home Study to inform recruitment and placement of a foster child and foster parent(s). o Coordinate all logistics: fingerprinting, CORI checks, medical records, physical safety standards of

the home, and safety enhancement assessment. Healthy Families Program Group Leader: Men's Group Therapy • Therapeutic men's group for clients in the Department of Children & Family system.

o Topics include: Anger management; Communication, love & loyalty; Family in the modern era. Group Leader: Teen Parents Group Therapy • Therapeutic teen parents group for clients in the Department of Children & Family system.

o Topics include: Discipline techniques; Capacity building; Food and nutrition (WIC); Planned parenting; Building healthy relationships; Infant & toddler massage; Mental health awareness.

Treehouse Foundation Group Leader: Adolescent Boys Group Therapy • Adolescent boy’s group for adopted children.

o Facilitate a bi-weekly, therapeutic music group for up to seven adolescent boys. o Provide a socialization experience for children with attachment disorders o Work to create a safe and healing environment.

Musician and Educator Private music instructor - The Fretted Instrument Workshop, Amherst MA 2002 - 2010 Teach 20-30 private music lessons a week. • Mentor and empower each student to meet his or her personal goals as aspiring musicians. • Host two recitals a year, on-line blog, and create opportunities for student performances. Musician - The Amity Front, LLC, Amherst, MA 2004 - 2009 • Founding member of 5-piece music ensemble. • Responsible for all managerial obligations.

o Publicity, web media and fiscal responsibilities. o Liaison for all legal, licensing, royalties and third party involvement. o Coordination/facilitation of other group member tasks'. o Group mediator.

Head Teacher, CAPACIDAD: Music & Arts Camp, Amherst MA 2002 - 2005 • Created and facilitated the music for three summer performances focusing on multicultural and social justice

education themes. • Worked with children using conflict resolution, bias intervention, behavior management, creative leadership

and educational/cultural group facilitation skills. Head Musician, Amherst College Theater Department Fall 2004 • Marat Sade: director Manu Mukasa.

Federal Work State Leader, AMERICORPS* VISTA 2001 - 2002 • Work with Campus Compact to design and facilitate the training of all MA Americorps*VISTA members.

o Building sustainable community partnerships; Advising, supervising and mentoring; Bringing social justice home; Making change happen: being a change agent in higher education.

• Public speaker for higher education service learning programs at national conferences. • Coordinated student, faculty and service learning relationships with community partners. • Supervised recruitment of future Americorps* VISTA members and coordinated student volunteers for

community partner organizations. Community Service Learning Dept (CSL), UMass, • Administratively contributed to the development of CSL. • Increased the student enrolment by 33% and student programs from two to five. • Served as a consultant to faculty and an advocated for CSL. • Leadership trainings created to meet the needs of CSL student teachers:

o Diversity and inter-cultural communication. o Facilitative and Situational Leadership. o Service-Learning Theory and Practice.

Program Coordinator, (U-ACT) UMass, • Systematically developed the infrastructure for a new academic organization: UMass Alliance For

Community Transformation (U-ACT), Anthropology Department UMass • Class teacher “Grassroots Community Development,” anthropology 397, 4cr honors. • Designed and disseminated educational curricula and training materials for facilitators. • Facilitated group meetings, coordinated all logistics for program events. COMMUNITY SERVICE: Soccer coach for 11-14 year-old girls team • Volunteer as head coach for fall and spring recreational girls soccer team. Berkshire Hills Music Academy • Work one-on-one with a student who has Williams Syndrome. • Coach student on performance technique and composition. • Perform at Best Buddies fundraising events. Grassroots Community Development • Work with residents to improve family housing. Inter-Religious Project • Tutor elementary children in their school systems.

TRAININGS: • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), PTSD concepts, Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive

Processing Therapy (CPT), intake interviews, diversity/multicultural concepts, Motivational Interviews (MI), Yalom group dynamics, mental status exam, differential diagnosis, capacity assessment, psychopharmacological treatments, PAI/MMPI2 testing, EMDR, assessment on dementia, seeking safety, nightmare re-scripting, TBI assessment, Grant writing, and HTML coding.

• Highlander Research Educational Center, New Market TN: Leading learning circles ACTIVITIES: • Guitar, mandolin, cello, singing, percussion. • Styles: Jazz, delta & piedmont blues, folk, rock, old time, bluegrass, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian music. • Soccer, cooking, hiking, yoga, writing, reading and composition