Manager Training
Resume:
Tracy Ruth Rhoads, MS
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OBJECTIVE
Clinical counseling position requiring strong leadership, communication, creativity, innovation, strategic thinking, and relationship building between clients and consulting team.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Two years of experience in a supervisory position, implementing organizational initiatives, creating training programs, and creating a high performance teams. Three years of experience in the behavioral and mental health industry with increasing levels of responsibility, gaining insights and experience in interpersonal and organizational leadership. Engaged in strategic change planning for healthcare organizations. Demonstrated integrity, accountability, and an ownership mentality to produce breakthrough results benefiting individuals receiving health and psychological services as a lead clinician.
ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Leadership
Led twenty youth in an international mission trip titled, “Soul in the City,” a program in England of over 200,000 individual’s providing food, shelter, safe recreational centers, and healthcare to thousands of individuals affected by poverty.
Fostered growth and work place dynamic change as the Program Manager for 25 Applied Behavioral Specialists. Supervised a 50% increase of yearly training for work with individuals on the Autism Spectrum including Functional Behavior Analysis, therapeutic and sensory activities, and Medication Administration Training.
Led a system wide change initiative to enhance training and professional development for over 100 employees at The Institute for Behavior Change through organizational development assessment and interventions.
Innovation
Generated new forms of treatment by integrating artwork into the rehabilitation program available to over 6,500 patients with the Art Ability program of Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Center, which showcases artwork from one hundred and fifty national and international disabled artists. Led a team of exhibition directors to produce satellite exhibitions at Riddle Hospital.
Created an interactive mural for Immaculata University’s Child Development Laboratory Center. Use of the mural continues through the collaboration of the art program and psychology program to observe social-interaction and developmental responses to stimuli in children.
Assessed and designed a strategic change plan for professional development within the Institute for Behavior change through inter-professional panel discussions, mentorship programs, and strengths based high performance team building.
Relationship Building
Built and fostered relationships that led to the creation of a new course of study for master’s students enrolled in the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Clinical and Health Counseling Program to integrate Organizational Development and Leadership master’s courses into their curriculum towards licensure. Five students have completed the abridged program and are anticipated to earn licensure by 2015. Cross specialty curriculum is now being developed university wide.
Initiated relationships with Immaculata University, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Universities within Delaware County to integrate a 50% increase of psychology students seeking graduate studies into Elwyn’s RTF for Children and the Institute for Behavior Change.
Partnership with the local Universities fostered a growth in internship opportunities for students within Elwyn’s RTF for Children and the Prader Willi Syndrom Program and the Insitute for Behavior Change. Creating new hiring practices continues to create value around job retention, behavioral stability of residents, and continuity of care.
Collaboration
Integrated the daily therapeutic activity schedule into the structure of Elwyn’s RTF for Children by conducting creative, special team meetings between staff, clinicians, and residents. Staff contributes to the advancement of therapeutic services and encourages progress towards independent living skills for 14 individuals involving creative therapies, cooking skills, community outings, and athletics.
Collaborated with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as an Alumni of Clinical and Health Counseling Masters program and current Organizational Development and Leadership student to enhance professional development for the Institute for Behavior Change. This facilitated support in organizational development and on going recruitment and referral practices through the graduate psychology programs.
Contributed as a mentor of the alumni panel in partnership with fellow alum and professors to network with current students.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
THE INSTITUTE FOR BEAHVIOR CHANGE, Exton, PA
The Institute for Behavior Change is a leader in outpatient services for children experiencing profound mental health and behavioral challenges.
Behavior Specialist Consultant, August 2014-PRESENT
As a lead clinician, I directly impact 13 individuals and their families to enhance their quality of life. Within a team approach, interventions are developed to significantly shift the ability of the child and the family to reach their potential through child focused and family centered services.
As a team leader, I foster collaboration through a strengths based approach with clinicians participating on my cases. I have led and designed organization wide trainings and panel discussions to increase professional competencies that led to a survey report of a 75% increase in personal and professional skills self-rated scores.
I enjoy the creativity and innovation of creating case specific interventions that produce breakthrough results. I have successfully created and designed over 100 therapeutic interventions and psychoeducational tools for children and their families.
Through organizational development practices I led a system wide change in training practices and collaboration with the families served. A contract was developed between the Chichester School District and the Institute for Behavior Change as a result of the relationships fostered to refer children with behavioral needs to the Institute first for the quality and impact of services.
ELWYN Inc., Elwyn, PA
Treatment facility specializing in therapies producing breakthrough results for children with autism
Program Manager, October 2013-August 2014
Relentless innovator for new and exciting initiatives to introduce within the Autism Program by engaging therapeutic staff to bring their own strengths and interests into the direct care they give to consumers; Speech therapy, occupational therapy, creative therapies.
Driver of bringing exciting therapeutic activities to the forefront of treatment and enhancing consumer’s progress towards measurable goals through the analysis of behavioral data, building independent living skills, and supervision of 25 Applied Behavioral Support Staff
Intense operations analyst responsible for hiring and continued partnership with undergraduate and graduate psychology program of local universities into ABS staff positions and internships.
Behavior Support Consultant, June 2013-August 2014
Developed behavioral support plans for four, adult individuals with behavioral, mental, and physical disabilities in community residential settings.
Implemented functional behavioral assessment, treatment planning, and behavioral support plans through consultation, family collaboration, collaboration with individual, and staff training.
Provided resources for staff and clients to maximize potential of the individuals in care and advocated for greater integration into the community.
Applied Behavior Support Specialist, January 2012- September 2013
Provided intensive behavioral assessment and treatment services to clients on the Autism spectrum living in a residential setting.
Implemented functional behavioral assessment, treatment planning, and integrated care of 13 individuals to enhance daily living skills.
Demonstrated ownership mentality in collaboration with the clinical team to design behavior plans to create positive developmental trajectories and strategies for increasing quality of life with the hope of the residents integrating into the community and adult programs.
CENTER FOR BRIEF THERAPY, Philadelphia, PA
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy center practicing outpatient psychological services.
Master’s Level Therapist in Training, May 2012- May 2013
Practiced master’s level counseling, providing outpatient services to the greater Philadelphia area through clinical counseling, treatment, and diagnostic evaluations in the implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Designed and Implemented treatment plans for over twenty clients to improve quality of life for individuals experiencing emotional and behavioral problems. Collaborated the care of client’s with comorbid psychological and medical complications through the Lancaster Health Care Center of PCOM as part of an integrated health care team and the Wellness program. Enhancing academic performance through study skills training and treatment for developmental learning disabilities.
Planned therapeutic interventions as part of a treatment team while receiving supervision from license practicing psychologists to enhance professional development and provide compassionate, empathetic, and culturally competent care for clients.
EDUCATION
IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY, Immaculata, PA
B.A., Psychology
Magna Cum Laude
THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, Philadelphia, PA
M.S., Clinical and Health Counseling Psychology
THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, Philadelphia, PA
M.S., Organizational Development and Leadership,
THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, Philadelphia, PA
Licensed Practicing Counselor, Anticipated in May of 2016
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