Andy Wallace Email & Phone Number

Hillsboro, Oregon

• Coordinates and performs audits of Washington County Behavioral Health programs, ensuring compliance with statutes and guidelines for responsive, effective, and efficient strengths-based care. • Collaborates with behavioral health partner agencies to resolve complaints from Washington County residents enrolled in behavioral health services. • Coordinates and conducts staff mandatory annual trainings and new employee orientation. Organizes trainings for behavioral health adult foster care providers in Washington County. • Responsible for creating and publishing quarterly newsletter providing Developmental Disabilities and Behavioral Health staff with guidance on compliance, quality improvement, best practices, and abuse reporting.• Leads the organization, promotion and execution of annual Compliance and Ethics Week activities for the Developmental Disabilities and Behavioral Health divisions. Events focus on promoting a culture of compliance and ethical service.

• Responsible for the supervision of eleven clinicians working with adults with severe and persistent mental illness, providing ongoing feedback, support, and formal evaluation. Ensures financial and utilization management for community supports and services program serving 500 clients in Washington County, OR. • Initiated and lead agency efforts towards pursuing grants to supplement services and resources available for clients. Also involved in RFP writing, securing contracts with Washington County. Lead team responsible for development of wellness initiative for agency.

• Responsible for the supervision of seven clinicians working with adults with severe and persistent mental illness, providing ongoing feedback, support, and formal evaluation. Improved team morale, advocating for clinicians’ needs.• Instrumental in decreasing financial losses for program by focusing clinical team on completing authorization paperwork and treatment plans in timely fashion. Assists clinicians in increasing direct service, meeting agency productivity standards. • Successful advocate for clients with program funders and other community partners.

• Responsible for screening referrals to agency and conducting initial intake interview, assessing for psychiatric symptoms, psychosocial stressors that may influence treatment, and client strengths and resources. Ensured new client receives appropriate level of care and initial services from internal and external service providers. • Provided individual therapy, working from systemic brief therapy model emphasizing client strengths and resources.

Master Of Science (Ms), Counseling Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English