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Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes My Presentations

Owner and Clinical Director Sample Video

Gainesville Counseling and AllCEUs

Addiction

Warrenton, VA 20186 w: 352-***-**** Counseling

United States Overview

Anger Management

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Attention Deficit

Disorder in Adults

Summary and Children

Behavior

Modification

Visionary leader, bridge builder and licensed clinician with a Ph.D. and 9 years of Bipolar and

experience in senior management in both for-profit and not-for-profit environments. Depressive

Enthusiastic, creative, and passionate director who believes that the key to Disorders

Brief Therapy

organizational success is developing an environment that is supportive, engaging

Complicated Grief

and self-monitoring.

Case Management

Specializations include: Quality Improvement, waste reduction, rapid cycle

Referral Service

change, program development, budget creation and management, and using

Coordination

technology in clinical and educational service delivery.

Child Mental Health

Correctional Mental

Health

Counseling Persons

Work History with Co-Occurring

Disorders

Gainesville-NOVA Counseling Criticial Incident

Stress Management

Warrenton, VA, United States Oct 2002 - Present

Crisis Intervention

Clinical Director Diagnosis and

Treatment of Mental

Provide assessments, counseling, treatment planning and discharge planning services

Disorders

for persons with mental health or substance abuse issues.

Domestic Violence

Consult and/or present on topics such as addictions, PTSD and Critical Incident Stress

Identification and

Management (CISM)

Intervention

Eating Disorders

Counseling

AllCEUs Ethics in Counseling

Fetal Alcohol

United States Apr 2006 - Present

Spectrum Disorders

Owner, Clinical Director Law Enforcement

Stress management

Own and serve as Executive Director for a large distance learning program, serve as part

Legal Issues in Adult

of instructional design team, focusing on design consultation, staff professional and Child Mental

development/training, creation of online learning objects, and piloting/implementing new Health

technologies for teaching and learning. Work with staff to design and develop quality Mental Health

online courses based on sound adult learning pedagogy and instructional design practice. Issues in Jails and

Support staff in ongoing course evaluation and revision processes. Provide professional Prisons

Multicultural Issues

development experiences for staff such as course design seminars, software

in Counseling

demonstrations, and best practice workshops. Maintain active engagement with the

Overcoming Trauma

instructional design and online learning communities through publication, presentations,

in the Borderline and

and ongoing professional development activities.

Addictive Disorders

Post Traumatic

Began AllCEUs providing multimedia, online and face-to-face trainings in 2006. It has Stress Disorder: A

shown more than 30% growth each year, and in 2010, served 16,202 clinicians CBT Approach

throughout the country. PTSD and ASD Best

Approved provider of continuing education and professional development training by: Practices

The National Board for Certified Counselors

NAADAC, The Association for Addictions Professionals

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California Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors

Pharmacology

California Board of Behavioral Sciences

Psychological First

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling Board of Georgia

Aid

Texas Board of Clinical Social Work Examiners

Psychopharmacology

The Florida Boards of Nursing, Mental Health Counseling, Clinical Social Work,

Prevention Guiding

Marriage and Family Therapy and Addiction Certification Good Choices (TM)

The Connecticut Certification Board Rape Trauma Stress

Disorder

Recruit, hire, train and manage both paid staff and interns Shaken Baby

Maintain compliance with requirements set forth by accrediting bodies (e.g. National Syndrome

Board for Certified Counselors, Florida Bar, NAADAC). Suicide Prevention

Use innovative methods and materials to produce effective learning experiences including Telehealth and

cooperative learning, thematic instruction and differentiation. Online Counseling

Regularly survey the market and competitors to ensure that AllCEUs maintains cutting- Treatment Planning

edge technology and service delivery. Verbal Crisis

Intervention

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare

Gainesville, FL, United States Dec 1997 - Jun 2011

Director Residential, IOP and Related Services

Prior Positions and Promotional Track:

Intern 1997

Addictions Counselor II 1997-2000

Addictions Counselor IV 2000-2001

Sr. Clinician 2001-2002

Program Manager I 2002-2003

Program Manager IV for Alachua, Bradford 2004-2006

Program Director Residential, Intensive Outpatient and Related Addiction and

Psychiatric Services for clinics serving the 11 county catchment area.

2009-Present.

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. is a free standing behavioral healthcare facility that

provides a comprehensive array of psychiatric and substance abuse services to children,

adults and the elderly. The following lists the types of services and programs I supervise,

or have supervised at Meridian:

60-Bed Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services for

Adults

12-Bed Residential Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Program for Veterans

10-Bed Residential Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Treatment for Mothers

and Children

16-Bed Residential Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescent

Boys

250 person capacity Intensive Outpatient and Outpatient Co-Occurring

Disorders Treatment

Substance Abuse Detoxification Services

Free-Standing Clinics in Alachua, Bradford and Union Counties providing

Outpatient Psychiatric, Substance Abuse and Psychiatric services in clinic, in

home and in the schools

Experience directly related to a CEO Position

Achieve budgeted financial objectives for a multimillion dollar budget, ensuring

departments meet productivity across multiple cost centers and multiple clinic

locations.

Increase revenues and income through the development of two new revenue

streams each year.

Examples include:

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School-Based Prevention Programming (wrote the grant)

1.

Methadone Clinic, now serving nearly 350 people per day

2.

A Medicaid-based, Outpatient Program for men with trauma issues

3.

Meridian s Telehealth Program (in Beta stages)

4.

Partial Hospitalization Programming as a residential alternative (in

5.

process)

6. Providing fee-based online and face-to-face continuing education

Maintain or decrease the effective bad debt rate, achieve the margin

percentage, and implement operating cost controls in the areas of staffing,

supplies, etc.

Focus on census building efforts and strategic planning.

Recruit clinicians in targeted specialty areas

Coordinate staff participation in new agency ventures

Develop new services to offer to fill identified service gaps and increase

revenue.

Supervise the development of more comprehensive outpatient care for persons

with psychiatric and substance abuse issues including the implementation of a

comprehensive, strengths-based program for outpatient services, walk-in clinics

and partial hospitalization programming.

Develop positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Interact and communicate with executive management, ensuring the timely

submission of month-end financial and operational reviews

Contribute to the development of corporate-wide strategic planning efforts

Maintain good communication with executive management.

Ensure that employees respond promptly to stakeholder requests for

information.

Provide clinical coordination and leadership, and clinical expertise to ensure

clinical quality and program compliance in all clinics throughout the 11 county

area.

Partner with executive management to enhance organizational performance,

and serve as a leader in accelerating learning and change at facility, network

and regional levels.

Identify performance gaps. Plan initiatives for remedial actions and reaching

goals.

Engage in data management, report and grant writing and compliance auditing.

Create and implement a continuous quality improvement plan grounded in

measurable goals and objectives (dashboards).

Chair multiple committees including: E-therapy/telehealth; Best-Practice

Implementation and Evaluation and Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment.

Education

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, United States Aug 1989 - Dec 2002

PhD, Counseling

Dissertation was on the Differences in the Perception of (and Coping With) Stressors Among

Emergency Service Personnel.

Skills

Key Skills (Rockstar)

10+ Years Experience, (Currently in use)

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KEY SKILLS

Awareness of State Regulations

E-therapy

TQM Principles

Building Strategic Alliances

Census Building & Strategic Planning

Rapid Cycle Change

Clinical Training and Development

Managing Multimillion Dollar Budgets

Website Development

Accreditation Standards Compliance

Outreach and Public Relations

Work in Multidisciplinary Teams

Communication Skills

Program Development

Written and Oral Presentations

Interests

Alachua County Crisis Center: 1991-1993 Completed 40 hour Crisis Intervention Training and 6 hours

of clinical supervision

Gainesville Pet Rescue; Helping Hands Pet Rescue; Prince William Raleigh County Animal Rescue

1994-present.

Certifications

Nationally Certified Counselor (National Board for Certified Counselors)

Licensed Professional Counselor (State of Virginia)

Licensed Mental Health Counselor 2002 - 2013

(State of Florida)

Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (Commission Certification of Rehabilitation Counselors)

Certified Victim Advocate 1999 - 2002

(State of Florida)

Completed 40 hour training with the Florida Department of Victim Services

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