#27: From Social Work to Social Justice: Jordana's Journey

Today's episode features Jordana Rutigliano    Jordana is a licensed social worker with a specialization in leadership, management and entrepreneurship and received her Master's degree at Columbia University. Initially drawn to the social work profession for its commitment to social justice, equity and anti-oppression frameworks and then drawn to healthcare from a lifelong mission to help others, Jordana has spent the last 15+ years leading from within a variety of settings - social service nonprofits,  federally qualified health centers, managed care, local health departments, and venture-backed health and behavioral health startups.  Through her career, Jordana has honed her ClinOps chops in a number of areas including integrated primary and behavioral care models, clinical quality, health care compliance, revenue cycle, scaling clinical operations, effective clinical workforce management, cross-system partnership and value-based models. Jordana also teaches health policy and financial management to graduate level social workers and runs a career support, networking and coaching business to support individuals seeking career transformation, particularly in healthcare.   In her spare time, Jordana enjoys obsessing over her cats, being outside, and anything Star Wars.  You can connect with Jordana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordana-rutigliano/  Highlights from this episode Jordana's journey into social work and working with underserved clients The challenges with working in mental health How to achieve better access to mental health services   Next Steps Ready to level up in your career?  Check out these helpful resources. --> https://www.definingpointcc.com/resources    Stay Connected Find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandydpt/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/definingpointcc/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@definingpointcc      Share This Episode If you enjoyed this episode and know a friend or colleague who would benefit from listening too, please share it with them! Your friend will be glad you did... and so will I!