▪ Provide staff development for 20+ challenge course facilitators through recruitment, training, meetings, and performance evaluations.▪ Schedule, plan and implement 150+ challenge course groups annually.▪ Promote the UNI ROPES Challenge Course through informational outreach events, articles, and social media campaigns.▪ Appointed as Emergency Management Coordinator on the hospital’s safety committee.▪ Oriented and mentored psychiatric technicians to challenge course programming through staff climbing days and small training sessions.▪ Maintain annual Challenge Course Facilitator certification from ABEE by facilitating over 50+ hours each year.

▪ Pioneered and developed challenge course programming for adolescents in the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment inpatient program by improving risk management.▪ Appointed to the program development committee for the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment inpatient program.▪ Reformed challenge course programming for adolescents in the Teenscope day treatment program.▪ Supervise and mentor students completing their capstone internships for recreation therapy certification and licensure.▪ Facilitate group therapy based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

▪ Plan and coordinate the annual multi-day professional conference and several CEU workshops annually.▪ Transitioned registration system from paper to online using cloud storage.▪ Developed marketing plan utilizing social media and online event services.▪ Reduced the annual budget by redesigning and managing the website at utahrectherapy.org. Prepare and publish new content frequently.▪ Attend monthly executive committee meetings to discuss needs of a 325+ member organization of licensed recreation therapists. Research and implement technology solutions to meet organizational mission.

• Management of daily operations that includes over 60 vehicle operators on over 20 vehicle routes; developed ability to work in a fast-paced atmosphere, record and maintain information in either written or electronic form for department, and reconcile budget of over 1.5 million dollars annually. • Developed ability to deal effectively with hostile and irate customers

• Facilitated therapeutic recreation group therapy to clients between the ages of 8-18 with substance abuse and other behavioral disorders.• Planned and implemented week-long wilderness expeditions as part of an individual’s treatment.• Issued LDB assessments before and after treatments to determine the role and effect of recreation within an individual’s personal life.

• Facilitated leisure activities serving a diverse range of people with disabilities in a camp setting and community setting; safely transported people who use wheelchairs in a van designated for that use.• Led discussions on the importance of leisure, why it matters and how it can be applied in everyday life.• Documented the progress of each participant on notes kept by a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist.

• Led groups of people on scenic and whitewater tours of the Snake River• Learned how to row a raft through class II and III whitewater.• Earned whitewater rescue certification.• Drove buses, 15-passenger vans, and trailers with 16-man rafts.