Kenneth Wyche Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Texas Medical Center

• Interviewing and screening patients to interpret social and environmental factors and medical requirements.
• Planning course of treatment and referring cases to appropriate professionals, institutions or agencies.
• Collecting data to develop significant teaching endeavors, programs, and social services.
• Coordinating with physician, faculty, social agencies and relatives to address patient needs.
• Conducting individual and group therapies and assisting patients in developing an economically feasible method of planning for services, and to make psychological and social adjustments necessitated by different types.
• Preparing detailed reports and reviewing sessions with coworkers and faculty members.

Texas Medical Center

• Developing and initiating psychosocial plan of care.
• Communicating with the patient, family and medical team.
• Coordinating, implementing and following-up on the psychosocial plan of care.
• Engaging patient/family in problem solving.
• Providing appropriate therapeutic support (individual/family/group/grief counseling, crisis intervention).
• Contacting Children's Protective Services and Law Enforcement, as appropriate.

Region 6/5S

• Conducting needs assessments for children with special health care needs who seek Personal Care Services.
• Working with families to determine if their child is eligible to receive Personal Care Services.
• Providing case management for clients who seek services in addition to Personal Care Services.
• Linking clients to resources to help address specific needs.
• Maintaining client's tangible and digital charts.
• Coordinating services with families, Personal Care Service, and the Texas Medicaid Health Partnership.

Houston And Katy

• Serving as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team to diagnose problems, formulate treatment plans, and evaluate progress.
• Providing individual and group counseling, crisis intervention and social casework for health center patients.
• Conducting comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessments and ensuring bio-psychosocial needs are met.
• Linking patients with community resources to meet their needs
• Maintaining records of encounters with patients and providing verbal and written reports as necessary.

Houston, Texas Area

• Direction of the primary health projects such as ALL HEALTHY CHILDREN and SHOUT-T to enroll uninsured children in public benefits/programs.
• Coordinate CDF-Texas state and regional outreach initiatives to improve the health and well-being of Texas children.
• Engage with stakeholders to support CDF priority areas of health, education and welfare.
• Increased outcomes of SHOUT-T CHIP/Children’s Medicaid enrollment project by 800 percent in eight months.
• Identified the need for program expansion to East Harris County and the Houston area Asian Community.
• Successfully engaged new partners to expand outreach efforts.

• Conceptualize, develop, and communicate on program evaluation design to report program compliance and efficacy.
• Compile, analyze, and manipulate multiple sources of quantitative and qualitative data.
• Design and manage performance management metrics to determine departmental productivity.
• Provide recommendations on methods to address program weaknesses and maximize program strengths.
• Provide consultation on the educational significance of research proposals.

• Manage and coordinate current and new parent engagement initiatives.
• Manage program budget to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local guidelines.
• Supervise Parent Resource Leaders, parent volunteers, and the Parent Resource Center.
• Comprehensive needs assessment of the school and community.
• Promote the concept of the Community School model.
• Manage and promote Parent Resource Center events and activities.

• Diversion Officer,
• Supervise juveniles placed on court ordered Deferred Adjudication.
• Maintain face-to-face and collateral contact as required and needed.
• Provide crisis intervention, counseling, information, and referral to family-based social services and other community resources.
• Provide case management to the families of juveniles referred by law enforcement, family, self, or community.
• Perform intake screening and needs/risks assessments to determine action plan for the juvenile and family.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Social Service Administration

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Social Work