Paula Cain Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin Area

- Provide Individual, Family and Group Therapy for adolescent sex offenders tailored to each participant.- Participate regularly in multi-disciplinary team meetings supporting rehabilitation.- Facilitate reunification within families affected by intra-familial sexual assault.- Teach empathy skills.- Engage youth enabling them to consider offense from victim's point of view, genuinely taking responsibility for their actions and recognizing impact of their actions.- Maintain monthly reports.- Provide written reports to Department of Health and Social Services and County Court System.- Collaborate with youth and families to understand underlying issues contributing to offense in order to prevent recidivism.

Madison, Wi

-Owned and operated State Certified out patient mental health clinic. -Provided child and family therapy, individual, couple and group therapy-Supervised and consulted providers and graduate students-Negotiated business transactions, prepared documents and maintained requirements for State Certification-Responsible for human resources, overseeing employees, recruiting, training and retaining staff -Contracted with numerous insurance panels for third party reimbursement -Employee assistant program affiliate providing: *Assessment and referral *Brief treatment at clinic as well as on-site *Topical presentations and public speaking *Counseling *Industrial relations *Critical incidence response debriefing * Business consultation relative to employee satisfaction * Collaborative initiatives in conjunction human resource department-Promoted business through public speaking engagements and experiential workshops-Provided best practice per needs of consumers on individual basis with a depth of knowledge of multiple models of therapy-Special expertise treating trauma, substance abuse and personality disorders, developmental and life phase transitional crises-Collaborated with other agencies to develop programming to fill gaps in serices

Madison, Mount Horeb And Verona W

Obtained grant from Department of Juvenile Justice Assistance to develop and implement comprehensive, innovative pilot program serving delinquent and truant youth in collaboration with two school districts at the middle and high school level, local law enforcement officials and community businesses. -Collected and analyzed data for grant report providing quarterly updates to funding source-Project preparation: *Researching communities lacking services for target population *Interviewing school administrators and support staff within county to select districts *Developed policies and procedures with stakeholders *Instituted appropriate, standardized evaluation tools for data collection *Measured pre- and post-scores *Reviewed and selected referrals from school personnelServices included: *Individual and family interviews to ensure voluntary participation in all phases of project *In-home family therapy *Individual therapy *Group therapy with participants in school *Organized community activities *Negotiated restitution between offenders and affected parties *Empowered youth and families to lead school meetings, present their needs to school staff to achieve success *Developed 'de-facto' individual education plans endorsed by school personnel *Advocacy, community outings and other pro-social experiences-Program met goals above and beyond expectation-100% of participants graduated from high-school going on to post secondary school, fulfilled restitution, with 0% recidivism rate-After piloting project's resounding success, host agency (Briarpatch) incorporated program as part of established services and received on-going funding from original grant provider as well as additional stakeholders

Madison, Wi

-Worked with youth and families affected by all manner of child abuse-Developed creative, individually tailored group programming per needs of each unique group-Facilitated experiential, educational and treatment groups including parenting classes -Collaborated with collateral contacts of various disciplines involved in families welfare, establishing and advocating for supportive services from community resources providing for specific needs of families -Utilized best practices unique to each situation- Provided supervision and consultation-Promoted volunteering by public speaking engagements in community creating awareness of child abuse-Outreach and development with local colleges and university -Established relationships with academic advisors, professors and department chair-Public speaking engagements as college classroom guest lecturer to educate and recruit volunteers-Developed and implemented comprehensive training program for volunteers-Designed and published handbook for working with children and families affected by child abuse-Presented program at National Conference in Washington D.C.

Madison, Wi

-Provided intake, assessment and individual counseling to both youth and adults in 28-day in-patient hospital treating substance abuse- Facilitated educational and treatment groups-Arranged adjunct and aftercare services for patients using existing community resources-Participated in multi-disciplinary team meetings to develop and implement treatment plans-Developed experiential treatment activities to enhance patients level of engagement

Masters Of Science & Social Work

Concentrated specifically on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and School Social Work.

Bachelor Of Science, Sociology & Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Extracurricular Activities: Drama (acting, stage-management, writing plays, working backstage) Women's Issues.