Amanda de Jesús

MSW, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2004

Doctoral Candidate, Fordham University

Seminar in Clinical Social Work Practice

Amanda is a psychotherapist at a Bronx community health center. She is also the social work consultant for the Foster Care Film and Community Engagement Project, a series of short films profiling individual’s journeys through the U.S. foster care system. Her Practice Experience includes:

• Preventive Services
• Community Mental Health
• Crisis Intervention
• Supervision with Social Work Interns
• Psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults

Her areas of interest are social work practice with immigrants and refugees, human and labor trafficking, mental health, and individuals who were previously in foster care.