APA-accredited, APPIC forensic internship consortium for qualified doctoral candidates, which currently includes three tracks: Outpatient Forensic Services (SPA) and community corrections, and Corrections (ODRC).• Responsible for directing the training program consortium and ensuring intern readiness for entry-level practice upon successful completion of the internship program• Develop policies and procedures for the internship and monitor the sites for adherence to internship goals, including ensuring APPIC and APA standards are met• Manage, track and compile intern records• Assist with identifying the need for and implementing intern performance improvement and remediation plans, as needed• Facilitate Training Committee meetings, at least monthly, with the Directors of Supervision for each site• Readily available for site and intern needs, including but not limited to, managing grievances

• Domestic Violence Program Coordinator• Facilitate offense-related services: Adult Sex Offense group and individual treatment, and 52-week Batterers Intervention Program; oversee 10- and 26-week Conflict Solutions groups - formerly facilitated and trained on juvenile sex offense programming when it was offered as a service• Conduct mental health assessments for treatment determination and diagnostic clarification, and intake diagnostic assessments for individuals seeking sex offense/paraphilic, domestic violence, substance abuse, and/or general mental health treatment• Provide individual therapy for mental health conditions and/or offending behaviors (i.e. sex offenders under county to Federal supervision)• Conduct a variety of evaluations, including but not limited to Competency to Stand Trial, Pre-Employment, and Fitness-for-Duty.• Domestic Violence Intervention Court liaison: an Ohio Supreme Court certified specialty docket, for male and female individuals in need of 52- or 26-week perpetrator treatment, and potentially additional mental health and/or substance abuse treatment• Supervise court mental health liaison in Family Intervention Court for individuals in a domestic violence diversion program and oversee treatment for court participants.• HOPE Mental Health Court liaison: an Ohio Supreme Court certified specialty docket, to coordinate evaluations and treatment services• Supervise doctoral interns, practicum students and/or postdoctoral fellows, including facilitation of weekly individual and group supervision

• Client population can include a variety of mood, anxiety, psychotic, personality, paraphilic, developmental, and cognitive disorders in an outpatient setting• Act as a court mental health liaison in Domestic Violence Intervention Court, an Ohio Supreme Court certified specialty docket, for male and female individuals in need of 52- and 26-week perpetrator treatment, and potentially additional mental health and/or substance abuse treatment• Supervise court mental health liaison in Family Intervention Court for individuals in a domestic violence diversion program and oversee treatment for court participants.• Conduct intake and diagnostic assessments for incoming clients, who are seeking sex offender, domestic violence, substance abuse, or general mental health treatment• Provide individual therapy for mental health conditions and/or offending behaviors (i.e. sex offenders under county to Federal supervision)• Facilitate 52-week Batterers Intervention Program groups• Facilitate Adult and Juvenile Sex Offense group and individual treatment• Conduct mental health assessments for treatment determination and diagnostic clarification• Develop and implement empirically-supported treatment plans for individual and group treatment clients• Conduct a variety of evaluations with a licensed Psychologist, including but not limited to Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, Competency to Stand Trial, Parenting, Pre-Employment, Fitness-for-Duty, Gender Reassignment, and Spinal Cord Stimulator.• Participate in individual supervision twice a week, 2 separate court interdisciplinary meeting once a week, staff interdisciplinary meeting once a week, and meetings with referral sources (i.e. probation/parole departments)• Supervise pre-doctoral interns, including facilitation of weekly individual and group supervision• Work closely with Internship Training Director to enhance and provide assistance in the development of the APA-accredited Ohio Psychology Internship Consortium

Matched to this one year, APA accredited internship (Ohio Psychology Internship) providing Forensic/Clinical Services as the last requirement to earn a PsyD• Client population can include a variety of mood, anxiety, psychotic, personality, paraphilic, developmental, and cognitive disorders in an outpatient setting• Act as a court liaison in Family Intervention Court for male and female individuals in a domestic violence diversion program• Conduct intake and diagnostic assessments for incoming clients, who are seeking sex offender, domestic violence, substance abuse, or general mental health treatment• Provide individual therapy for mental health conditions and/or offending behaviors (i.e. sex offenders under county to Federal supervision)• Facilitate groups for violent offenders in the form of 10-week or 26-week Conflict Solutions psychoeducation groups and 52-week Batterers Intervention Program• Co-facilitate adult sex offender group• Develop and implement empirically-supported treatment plans for individual and group treatment clients• Conduct a variety of evaluations with a licensed Psychologist or Psychology Assistant, including but not limited to Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, Competency to Stand Trial, Parenting, Pre-Employment, Fitness-for-Duty, Gender Reassignment, and Spinal Cord Stimulator.• Participate in individual and group supervision twice a week, court interdisciplinary meeting once a week, staff interdisciplinary meeting once a week, meetings with referral sources monthly (i.e. probation/parole departments), and monthly didactic seminars• Chief Intern role includes support to interns and to supervisors, communication between sites within the internship consortium, assist with internship development, attend monthly internship meetings with Clinical Director and site supervisors, and other duties as assigned

PsyD Practicum: Corrections Therapy/AssessmentMental Health services at Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution and Howard R Young Correctional Institution. Conduct individual and group psychotherapy, along with psychological and forensic evaluations.

• Daily oversight of training schedule and notification of removal of staff who no longer met regulatory requirements• Facilitated, developed, and scheduled trainings in small and large group settings. This includes new employee orientation, annual trainings, medication administration, leadership training for management, staff effectiveness, safety techniques, personal emergency interventions, CPR, first aid, AED, Basic Life Support for nurses and auxiliary trainings. All trainings were created to meet standards of the organization’s policies and governing regulations to ensure appropriate and a high quality of care to the individuals served and maintain licensures.• Supervision of Training Coordinators• Research and development of training presentation• Conducted medication administration observations and documentation review to maintain employee certifications for Medication Administers and Practicum Observers• Supported staff of all levels and worked closely with all departments

PsyD Practicum: Therapy/AssessmentProvide individual and group therapy for adolescents in a specialized foster care program and adolescents/adults in an outpatient setting. Client population is court-mandated to complete therapy for sexual and/or violent offenses. Administer and interpret psychological assessments using objective, projective, intellectual, and personality devices.

Previous department of Staff Development restructured to become Professional Development. The department of Professional Development expanded the goals of Staff Development and made this department its own entity rather than being under the Human Resource umbrella.

Facilitate, develop, and schedule trainings in small and large group settings, along with tracking trainings on a computerized system. This includes new hire orientation (working with individuals with disabilities, CPR, Medical Equipment, incident management, fire safety, etc), annual in-services, van certification, peer mentor, safety care, corporate compliance, standards of professionalism, along with auxiliary trainings. Duties include maintaining records of staff certifications, assist with research and development of training curriculum, and demonstrate advanced level of proficiency in knowledge of all training topics.

Implemented Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) educational instruction to individuals in a structured classroom environment and residential setting to promote intellectual, emotional, and social growth. Duties included implementing Behavior Support Plans (BSP) and Individualized Education Programs (IEP), along with implementing behavior analytic interventions, such as Safety Care techniques. Those served exhibit aggressive and/or self-injurious behaviors, along with other challenging behaviors ages 5-21 with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and medically induced or traumatic brain injury.

Developed the lifeguard schedule for three pools of a staff of over a hundred lifeguards, and was on call for alterations as necessary. Facilitated monthly in-services to test and/or refresh skills for the lifeguard staff, along with record keeping of certifications required for staff. When necessary, recertified staff.

Promoted to Head Lifeguard

Worked closely with a school psychologist on functional behavior assessments to develop and implement Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIP) for target third and fourth grade students. Duties included facilitating weekly skill training sessions with target students, enhance teachers’ presence in the classroom, and data collection related to frequency, intensity, and duration of student difficulties. Data was also collected to test the effectiveness of the intervention.

Conducted clinical interviews and data collection/entry for a Project Titled: Genetic, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Vulnerabilities to Depression in Youth under Dr. Jami Young. Clinical interviews were conducted over the phone and in-person with mothers and children ranging from third to twelfth grade. Trained to conduct Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS), Self- Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview (SITBI), UCLA Child and Adolescent Life Stress Interview, Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule (ADIS) and to administer multiple self-report surveys to assess the duration and severity of clinical symptoms. Also, trained in suicide protocol, including assessing suicidal ideation and intent. Attended clinical supervision to review and evaluate diagnoses. Began mentoring junior research assistants and assisted in their training.

Designed coding scheme to analyze qualitative data for multi-wave longitudinal study on evaluation of the Moving Ahead Through Money Management curriculum, which looks at the effect of economic empowerment to those who have experienced domestic violence. Other duties for this project included conducting literature reviews on factors that influence economic status and authoring the yearly report to the funder of this research: The Verizon Foundation. Also, contributed to research collected in Liberia on gender-based violence in three different universities and its correlation to low rates of female students with the creation of a coding scheme to analyze data and video transcription.

Worked in Small Wonders Preschool with neurotypical children, as well as children with autism using Applied Behavior Analysis while taking a course on ABA.