Facilitate group counseling sessions with seniors in Structured Outpatient Program Collaborate with variety senior citizen programs, facilities, and healthcare providers to market the newly established program and conduct case management activities. Completed Care Assessment training

Geriatric Psych Outpatient Program. Psychotherapy groups

• Plan, organize, and direct the intake, assessment, counseling, referral, community relations, and follow-up activities of the workforce centers in a seventeen county service delivery area. • Manage the workforce centers to maximize quality of service, financial performance, and renewal and expansion of business, while ensuring compliance to contractual outcomes.• Perform human resource management duties such as employee recruitment, performance appraisals and accountability, and conduct staff development activities. • Work with the Local Workforce Investment Board(LWIB) to develop and maintain a demand driven culture, aligning the workforce center’s processes and outcomes to the State and Local Workforce Investment Board’s goals and objectives. • Plan for programmatic changes through constant monitoring and analysis of service provision, performance outcomes, and community and regional needs.

-DESI)Plan, organize, and direct the intake, assessment, counseling, referral, community relations, and follow-up activities of the workforce centers in a seventeen county service delivery area. Manage the workforce centers to maximize quality of service, financial performance, and renewal and expansion of business. Perform human resource management duties such as employee recruitment, performance appraisals and accountability, and staff development activities. Work with the Local Workforce Investment Board (LWIB) to align the workforce center's processes and outcomes to the State and LWIB's goals and objectives. Plan for programmatic changes through constant monitoring and analysis of service provision, performance outcomes, and community and regional needs.Instructor, Pittsburg State UniversityTaught generalist social work courses including; Basic Helping Skills, Social Work With Families and Children, Advanced Practice II, Basic Interviewing and Counseling Techniques, Mental Health Process and Theory, and Integrative Seminar for practicum students.Arranged professional practicum sites for students as the practicum coordinator.Director of Family Preservation Program, Elm Acres Youth and Family Provided administrative functions for the program, including: human resource management, program budget maintenance, community partnership building, program evaluation, and monitoring compliance to local and state policies and outcome measures. Provided therapeutic guidance and supervision of all personnel in providing strengths-based services to at-risk families through home-based service delivery system.Managed overflow of cases, providing home-based crisis intervention with at-risk families.

Provided home-based services to at-risk families, using individual and family treatment. Services included counseling, 24 hour crisis management, and family education and assessment, resource linkage, and community based collaboration and advocacy. Advocated at the state and local levels for family preservation service contracts Additional Professional Activities Employment history encompasses a variety settings and populations: ICF/MR as trainer and supervisor, Parsons State Hospital direct care; Mt. Carmel Hospital, Gentry House Arma (long term care facility), Pittsburg Police Dept., Police Dispatcher, and other long term care facilities beginning at the age of 15. Additional professional activities include participation on county coalition teams, providing training to staff and other agencies on family centered practice, staff enhancement, Agency Board reporting and community partnership.

Social Science instructor/Social Work student practicum coordinator

• Provided administrative functions for the program, including: human resource management, program budget maintenance, community partnership building, program evaluation, and monitoring compliance to local and state policies and outcome measures. • Provided therapeutic guidance and supervision of all personnel in providing strengths-based services to at-risk families through home-based service delivery system.• Managed overflow of cases, providing home-based crisis intervention with at-risk families.