Caleb Folkerts Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Chief Operating Officer• Collaborate with leadership to set and drive organizational vision, operational strategy, and hiring needs• Translate strategy into actionable goals for performance and growth helping to implement organization-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operating planning• Oversee company operations and productivity, building a safe, supportive culture ensuring team members thrive and organizational outcomes are met• Ensure effective recruiting, onboarding, professional development, performance management, and retention• Adhere to company, federal, state, and local business requirements, enforcing compliance and taking action when necessary• Analyze internal operations and identify areas of process enhancement• Develop actionable business strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term objectives developed in collaboration with leadership• Directly oversee operations, HR, and accounting, and partner with leadership on sales management to budget for sufficient capital to achieve growth targets over the near term• Comprehensively manage capital and expenses to ensure the company achieves financial targets relative to growth and sustainability• Monitor performance with tracking and establish improvement measures as needed, and prepare detailed reports, both current and forecasting• Maintain and build trusted relationships with key customers, clients, partners, and stakeholdersPublic Speaker & Business Consultant• Utilize decades of neuroscience research and executive-level leadership training to optimize human performance via group training/one-on-one coaching• Utilize 13 years of clinical knowledge and communication skills mastery to present and train on compassion fatigue and COVID resilience to community agencies in support of frontline workers • Provide Trauma-Informed Care consultation and education

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

• Work with the top 1% of 420,000+ total members identified as “high risk” with mental health needs • Liaise to the Ohio Department of Medicaid• Enhance leadership ability through engagement in Centene's Igniting Leadership Trainings• Further project management capabilities by participating in Centene's Project Management Organization• Collaborate with the Community Outreach Department as public speaker o Presented 40 years of research findings on bullying in relation to social, psychological, and legal realms to groups of community representatives (i.e. Senator, Law Enforcement, School Administrators, Over 400 behavioral health experts). This was a 6-part workshop series comprising a state-wide campaign throughout Ohio toward state and local policy improvement. o Co-Presented alongside NFL Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz on the importance of social connection to mental health o Performed 13 presentations on various mental health topics throughout Northeast Ohio• Liaise to Jefferson, Mahoning, and Columbiana County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Boards• Liaise as sole point of contact to all NE Ohio Residential Substance Use Treatment Centers• Determine member goals, objectives, and interventions focused on achieving improved quality of life• Assess members’ current functional level • Assist with discharge planning• Facilitate on-going communication between departmental and plan administrative staff, case management staff, utilization management staff, health plan partners and contracted providers• Participate in special clinical projects and programs including: o Pre-Release Program, providing support to criminal offenders as they re-enter the community o Narcan Program, providing support to members with Opioid Use Disorder and recent Narcan claims o Development of department best practice policy for Autism Spectrum Disorder• Participate in the Workflow Team toward a common goal of process improvement/clarification

• Assessed, diagnosed, and treated adolescent and adult populations experiencing mental illness and/or substance use issues (Specialized focus on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other trauma-related diagnoses) • Provided individual and family therapy sessions to adolescent and adult populations

Youngstown, Ohio

• Functioned as lead Intensive Group Programming coordinator planning, organizing, and facilitating evidence-based psychoeducational content for a recurring set of 24 group sessions for adolescents and young adults experiencing substance use issues.• Led a complete, successful redesign of the Intensive Group Program, boasting a 19% increase in success metrics post-implementation (i.e., Client ability to maintain sobriety for an uninterrupted 90-day period while actively engaging 3x/week in group sessions)• Contributed to the formation and functioning of the Trauma-Informed Care Committee and Crisis-Intervention Response Team • Assessed, diagnosed, and treated adolescent and adult populations experiencing emotional/mental illness and/or substance use issues (i.e. individual, family, and group therapy)• Engaged as liaison between Meridian Healthcare and Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center

Lakewood, Us

The Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program (January 2015 – August 2015)• Actively engaged on an interdisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, pain specialists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists to comprehensively address chronic pain in the adult population• Facilitated as lead of all available group therapy programming (i.e., Psychodynamic, Substance Use, Rage, Assertiveness Training, Grief, Cognitive-Behavioral Skills, Relapse Prevention, Life Balance, Psychodrama, Meditation, and Mindfulness)• Provided individual, group, family, and couples counseling to adult population experiencing chronic pain (e.g. Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome)• Facilitated biofeedback therapyCenter for Behavioral Health (September 2014 - December 2014)• Diagnosed, evaluated, and treated adult populations with mental illness (i.e. individual counseling)• Engaged in Executive Health Consultation

Shaker Heights, Ohio, Us

•Implemented behavior management programs for 12 clients, ages 12-22, experiencing various mental health diagnoses (e.g. Post-Traumatic Stress, Autism Spectrum, Schizoaffective, Global Developmental Delay)•Gathered and input behavioral data (e.g. Self-Injurious Behavior frequency)•Developed acceptable alternatives to non-communicative, negative, and destructive behavior (i.e. coping skills)•Explicitly taught and implicitly modeled pro-social, mediation, and self-management skills•Supervised and assisted clients' hygienic and nutritional needs•Protected clients from physical and emotional harm•Provided comprehensive on-the-job training to 4 new staff (i.e. behavior management education and skills training)

St Louis, Missouri, Us

• Worked closely with the President and Vice President regarding Fortune 500 executive-level leadership assessment and private coaching based on resulting data • Learned and applied behavioral dimensional models to the Fortune 500 business world• Observed and facilitated Cognitive, Leadership, Personality, and Teamwork assessment of Fortune 500 executives (MBTI, Strong Interest Inventory, Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, etc.)

Edwardsville, Illinois, Us

Master'S Degree, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Bachelors Of Science, Psychology