In- Home and Family Services Promotion
Amy’s Supervisor, Emily Rawsky, remarked that, “I am thrilled to have Amy in this role where she is well-positioned to leverage her expertise and experience to expand the scope and reach of Little City’s specialty services to some of the most vulnerable clients in under-served communities.”
Amy is excited to expand her team’s expertise in order to provide in-home, telehealth and community-based services to a broader base of clients across Cook and surrounding counties both in person and via telehealth. Little City’s Community Mental Health Services are particularly geared toward children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic stress, as well as children, teens, and adults who are experiencing mental health stressors alongside a developmental or intellectual disability.
Our clinicians are experienced in working with individuals with limited verbal abilities. Services include individual and family therapy, mental health case consultation and coordination, community support, and training. These services have been initiated for youth formerly in foster care who are no longer a part of the foster care system due to having attained reunification with their birth families, or attained adoption or legal guardianship. Community-Based Mental Health services is able to accept Medicaid and most Managed Care Organization (MCO) insurance and private pay. More information about the full array of community-based mental health and behavioral services available through Little City’s In-Home & Family Services’ Program can be found here: https://www.littlecity.org/cbcs
Amy began working at Little City in 2013 as a therapist in the Foster Care & Adoption Program, moving into the role of Clinical Supervisor in 2015, and Director of Community Mental Health Services in 2020. Previously Amy worked for the Fraser Autism Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota as the lead clinician in a Day Treatment program for toddlers and preschool-age children on the autism spectrum. Amy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Amy has worked in a diversity of environments across Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, including elementary schools, community centers, and public housing.
Amy has specialized training in a variety of trauma-focused treatment modalities, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework. Amy has also been trained in Stanley Greenspan’s DIR/Floortime™ model for children with autism, as well as the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM).
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