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He has also served as a Practice Manager at Banyan Health Systems, overseeing daily operations and financial performance for a mental health clinic, infectious-disease practice, and family practice. Raul’s strengths include program management, budgeting, Medicaid, grants, community engagement, relationship building, strategic planning, and stabilizing or launching services. His experience includes revitalizing a residential Level 2 center with a $1.1–$1.2 million budget, launching three to four South Florida clinics from conception, and growing waiver programs across multiple counties and service areas to more than $7 million in managed programs. Raul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University–Newark, with graduate focus areas in public policy analysis, budgeting, and organizational management. ## Services - Patient Education - Event Coordination - Patient Advocacy - Human Services - Crisis Intervention Training - Crisis - Developmental Disabilities - Social Work - Crisis Management - Payroll Administration - Skill Development - Key Performance Indicators - Humanitarian Logistics - Emergency Response Planning - Program Implementation - Disaster Response - Bilingual Communications - Office Software - Office Operations - Inventory Control - Professional Phone Skills - Coordinate Meetings - Clerical Skills - Accounts Payable & Receivable - Multitasking - Administration - Medicaid - Relationship Building - Presentation Skills - Event Planning ## Highlights - Worked for more than 26 years as a Public Affairs Specialist for the Township of Weehawken. - Managed communication and coordination between the Township of Weehawken, nonprofit organizations, social-service stakeholders, and media outlets. - Served as a Practice Manager at Banyan Health Systems. - Oversaw daily operations and financial performance for a mental health clinic, infectious-disease practice, and family practice. - Improved service quality and efficiency through administration, Medicaid, and relationship-building work. - Increased patient satisfaction and retention in practice-management work. - Secured multiple grants and contracts for the organization. - Revitalized a residential Level 2 center with an approximately $1.1–$1.2 million budget. - Launched three to four clinics in South Florida from conception. - Grew waiver programs across multiple counties and service areas. - Managed more than $7 million in waiver-program activity. - Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. - Holds a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–Newark. - Completed MPA study focused on public policy analysis, budgeting, and organizational management. - Brings experience in grants, community initiatives, program building, program implementation, program evaluation, and program management. - Combines experience launching new programs with stabilizing existing operations. - Has experience in Medicaid, healthcare management, hospitals, healthcare information technology, clinical research, psychotherapy, group therapy, therapists, patient education, patient advocacy, and case management. - Brings human-services, social-work, social-services, nonprofit, community-outreach, community-relations, community-engagement, and community-development experience. - Has crisis-intervention, crisis-management, emergency-response-planning, disaster-response, and humanitarian-logistics skills. - Applies operations-management, office-operations, payroll-administration, inventory-control, accounts-payable-and-receivable, and key-performance-indicator skills. - Brings budgeting, financial-negotiation, feasibility-study, lease, legal-review, regulatory-requirements, and project-management experience. - Uses strategic planning, strategy, leadership, supervisory, coaching, negotiation, and relationship-development skills. - Has grant-writing, public-speaking, presentation, event-planning, event-coordination, meeting-coordination, and bilingual-communications capabilities. - Communicates in Spanish and has experience with Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, office software, professional phone skills, clerical work, multitasking, and customer service. ## Experience - **Practice Manager at Banyan Health Systems** (2021-10-01–2023-03-01) - **Public Affairs Specialist at Township Of Weehawken** (1997-11-01–2021-10-01) ## Education - Master of Public Administration \(MPA\), Public Administration — Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark (2015-01-01) ## FAQ ### What does Raul do? Raul is a public affairs and healthcare operations professional. His work spans government and stakeholder communications, clinic operations, program management, grants, Medicaid, community initiatives, waiver programs, and social services. ### What are Raul’s core professional strengths? Raul is strongest in building new programs, launching and expanding services, stabilizing existing operations, managing budgets and performance, developing partnerships, securing grants and contracts, and coordinating with communities and stakeholders. ### What did Raul do at the Township of Weehawken? Raul worked for more than 26 years as a Public Affairs Specialist for the Township of Weehawken. He managed communication and coordination between local government and stakeholders that included nonprofit organizations, social-service organizations, and media outlets. ### What did Raul do at Banyan Health Systems? As a Practice Manager at Banyan Health Systems, Raul oversaw daily operations and financial performance for a mental health clinic, infectious-disease practice, and family practice. He applied administration, Medicaid, and relationship-building skills to improve service quality and efficiency, increase patient satisfaction and retention, and secure multiple grants and contracts. ### What residential-program achievement has Raul delivered? Raul revitalized a residential Level 2 center with a budget of approximately $1.1 million to $1.2 million. ### What clinic-launch experience does Raul have? Raul launched three to four clinics in South Florida from conception, including building community buy-in for new services. ### What experience does Raul have with waiver programs? Raul grew waiver programs across multiple counties and service areas, managing more than $7 million in programs. ### What is Raul’s graduate education? Raul holds a Master of Public Administration in Public Administration from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–Newark. His MPA focus included public policy analysis, budgeting, and organizational management. ### What undergraduate education does Raul have? Raul also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. ### What program-management experience does Raul have? Raul has program-management experience that includes grants, community initiatives, and waiver programs. He has experience both developing new programs and bringing stability to ongoing operations. ### What healthcare and patient-services areas has Raul worked in? Raul’s healthcare experience includes mental health, infectious disease, family practice, hospitals, healthcare management, healthcare information technology, clinical research, psychotherapy, group therapy, therapists, patient education, patient advocacy, case management, and Medicaid. ### What community, social-service, and crisis-response capabilities does Raul bring? Raul’s community and human-services capabilities include human services, social work, social services, nonprofit organizations, community outreach, community relations, community engagement, community development, developmental disabilities, crisis intervention, crisis management, crisis-intervention training, emergency response planning, disaster response, humanitarian logistics, and program evaluation. ### What operational and financial-management skills does Raul have? Raul’s operational and financial skills include operations management, office operations, office software, clerical skills, inventory control, payroll administration, accounts payable and receivable, key performance indicators, budgeting, business administration, financial negotiations, feasibility studies, leases, legal review, regulatory requirements, and project management. ### What leadership, planning, and development skills does Raul have? Raul has experience in grant writing, program development, program implementation, strategic planning, strategy, leadership, supervisory skills, coaching, negotiation, relationship development, relationship building, executive visibility, and professional presentation. ### What communication and coordination skills does Raul have? Raul’s communication skills include bilingual communications, Spanish, public speaking, presentation skills, communication, professional phone skills, customer service, event coordination, event planning, meeting coordination, and Microsoft Office and PowerPoint. ### What is Raul looking for in his next opportunity? Raul is motivated by helping families and creating community impact. he also has experience with on-call responsibilities. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raul-gonzalez-mpa-31b34023