Richard Williams, Lcsw / Lac Email & Phone Number

Arvada, Colorado, United States

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

Coordinate internships and mental health supports for skilled nursing facilities in the Front Range. Consultant to those who offer personal and professional counseling for working with older adults and addiction and mental health issues. Additional consultation for professionals includes: intern and professional supervision, practice / program evaluation, adjunct mental health applications for clients and building brands and markets. Specialize in serving organizations and clinicians providing social services, behavior management, psychotherapy and geriatric services. Private practice psychotherapy for groups and individuals is a requirement of management to retain clinical skills and awareness.

United States

Providing psychotherapy from evidence based practices for older adult clients. Creating treatment plans, courses of therapy, coordinating adjunct psychiatric and health services as well as case management as needed to promote the social, psychological and spiritual well-being of clients.

2121 Mesa Drive, Boulder, Co 80304

Providing services and resources to maintain the highest practicable level of psycho-social and spiritual health. Including: psychoactive med reviews, cognitive and mood assessments, behavior contracts, psychosocial / spiritual interventions and care plans. Responsible for PASRR, MDS (OBRA and PPS) and notes/reports for residents. Provide and analyze data re SS efforts as part of QA reviews to corporation. Computerizing reviews and paperwork. Provide memorial services, grief and loss counseling and spiritual advice to resident community.

Elms Haven Care Center

Providing psychoactive med reviews, cognitive and mood assessments, behavior contracts, psychosocial / spiritual interventions and care plans. Responsible for PASRR, MDS (OBRA and PPS) and notes/reports for residents. Provide and analyze data re SS efforts as part of QA reviews to corporation. Computerizing reviews and paperwork. Provide memorial services, grief and loss counseling and spiritual advice to resident community. Manage SS department.

Manage a staff of social workers in maintaining health and well-being of up to 100 residents in a male behavioral / psych locked unit, secured alzheimer's unit and open unit for geriatric and rehab residents. Assure compliance with state and federal regulations with regard to non-medical care and support services. Work with management team to create and manage the business to deliver the highest level of care and support residents in achieving the highest practicable level of well-being with efficiency and excellence.

Managed the SS department in providing documentation, assessments and services for 125+ residents. Provided OBRA and PPS MDS data, managed the psychoactive med review process, and behavioral interventions. Organized first family council and was part of the team that lifted Malley (aka Kindred HCC, Castle Gardens) off the CMS national SNF focus list. Computerized notes and assessments for SS personnel.

Maintained and expanded the organization providing restorative justice services to Boulder County justice system. Financial management and fund-raising included grant-writing and maintaining budgets and managing expenses. Evaluated programs and adopted new evidence based practices as needed. Did basic reseach and published a variety of press releases, donor and program reports for grantors and board. Managed 20+ volunteers and staff to provide uniquely high-quality interventions.

Worked in the NYC Small Claims Court in Manhattan.

Managed alliances with IBM and StorageTek. Responsible for sales of $3.5 million in Websphere licenses. Closed contract with IBM to make Prolifics the second of the three IBM Websphere Service Providers. Contracted for IBM license of Prolifics C/C++ conversion to Enterprise Java Beans technology. Managed project to connect EMC backup systems to StorageTek large scale tape juke boxes.

Negotiated initial contract with SAP for conversion of R/3 to z/Series systems. Led QA team and developed installation and early sales strategies for the new product. Coordinated technical and sales teams to meet an aggressive product introduction and roll-out schedule. IBM continues to make over $2.5B a year on S/W and H/W "drag" from this effort.

Msw, Social Work With Individuals And Communities, 3.1 Gpa (Honors)

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Honor society, Graduate Student Association student representative, Field Education Committee student.

Master Of Divinity (M.Div.), Pastoral Care, 3.2 Gpa

Activities and Societies: CPT representative to the school -- offering biannual convention for CPT international organization at Iliff..

Certification, Alternative Dispute Resolution, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Mediator internship at Small Claims Court of New York CityProgram run by NYU Law School.

Ba, Sociology / Social Work With Minors In Russian Studies And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Interned as shift supervisor for peer counseling team (OASIS) and crisis counselor for Family of Ulster County.