Behavioral Health Case Management

Beverly A. Taylor, LCSW

Contact **********@*****.***; 205-***-****

Education BS

MSW, University of Alabama

BS Bachelor of Science degree with Social Rehabilitation Services major and double minor in Sociology and Psychology, Troy State University

Current Licensure: States of Tennessee Florida and Alabama (LCSW) Professional Experience

01/2021 to Present:

Licensed Behavioral Health Specialist/LCSW private practice 2/2019-3/2020

Clinical Consultant Part Time Youth Opportunity Investments: Provide Clinical Supervision. Provide clinical consultation a few hours monthly to Youth Residential Treatment Center aiding in delivery of treatment planning and services and recommendations to Facility Director regarding Admissions and staff protocol.

01/2010- 10/2018: WING DIRECTOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH: 118TH Wing, Nashville, TN (Civilian employee of OCI /Gold Belt who contracted with USAF then converted to TEMP GS with USAF/ANG): Term position ended 10/01/2018. I established the first Air Guard Psychological Health Program in the State of TN and provided consultation, assessment, education, brief counseling and referral services through a major transition of Mission Changes at the Wing. I developed power point presentations and provided training on Depression, Stress Management, Anger Management, Grief, Change Management, Anxiety, Sleep Hygiene, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Resiliency, Pre and Post Deployment, and Suicide Prevention. Assisted in the establishment of one of the Air Guard’s first CAIB and IDS and participated in the planning and implementation of Four Wingman Program Days. I serve on the State Headquarters Suicide Prevention (R3SP) Task Force and Behavioral Health Work Group. I represent the Air Guard on the NAMI Veterans Council. I have developed a list of Preferred Providers in the Community through professional collaboration and research. I served on a monthly SARC Case Management team for a year providing clinical updates. I coordinate closely with the Chaplain Corps, the JAG, the Family Readiness Coordinator and now the Wing’s MRT in serving the Resiliency Needs of our Wing. I educate and provide services to the pre and post deployed Airmen at Yellow Ribbon events. I brief Airmen who are in processing and out processing. I provide briefings at Student Orientation. I provide clinical case management to high-risk airmen. I provide Bereavement Outreach and provided Suicide postvention activities. I serve on the J-9 team. I collaborate with Public Affairs for Behavioral Health Messages on the Internal TV Channel and past Wing Newsletters (wrote columns). I collaborated with Safety for Stress Management and its effect on Safety as well as Wingman Day. 2/4/2009- 02/2011

DIRECTOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH PROGRAM ALABAMA NATIONAL GUARD CERIDIAN CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE—I established the first Psychological Health Program in the State of Alabama for the Air and Army National Guard traveling the entire state to provide Commander Consultations, Briefings, Command Directed Assessments, Voluntary brief counseling, and Assessments. I functioned on the first State Suicide Prevention Task Force and was selected to serve as one of the 12 Delegates for the Veterans Policy Academy Team representing Alabama in Washington DC. I planned and implemented one of the First Yellow Ribbon events in the country for the Air Guard and trained a pre and post deployed Army population of hundreds of soldiers in over 40 Yellow Ribbon Events. I actively participated in Screenings and provided Briefings for in processing and Out processing and provided consultations to Nurses and Case Managers during Medical Screenings pre and post deployments for Soldiers with Behavioral Health Issues and Flags for PTSD, etc. 1995 - 3/2009

PRIVATE Psychotherapy Practice/Private Contracts

Beverly Taylor LCSW, PIP Counseling and Consultation Services

● Provided children, adult and geriatric therapy, long-term care Consultations in my private practice counseling office in Pelham, AL

● Provided services in dementia education and geriatric mental health Training, play therapy, domestic violence, pain management, psychiatric and Substance Abuse evaluations, home health visits, grief counseling for various agencies and facilities 2 years/ to Cooper Green Hospital Pain Clinic, 1 year to Bradford Inpatient, Impaired professional programs; Counseling Center court ordered treatment groups, Two Years PRN Psychiatric Consultations and Clinical DSM Assessments to Baptist Shelby Medical Center Physicians for overdoses and medical cases with special psychiatric issues including Depression Assessments and Alcohol and Drug Screening Assessments, etc.

12/2005-06/2008

BEREAVEMENT COORDINATOR and STAFF DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR ASERACARE HOSPICE and CareFirst

Directed Bereavement services and provided grief services to bereaved families and dying patients, provided grief training to staff and nursing homes, conducted Memorial Services. Staff Development Director provided psycho education to Nurses and staff on Death and Dying and Grief. Supervised chaplains and social workers

9/2001-12/2002

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, ALABAMA A&M FACULTY

(Temporary Appointment)

1998-2001

Gateway Family and Child Services/ Therapeutic Programs Inc. Birmingham, AL Clinical supervisor for therapeutic foster care program, clinically and administratively supervised MSWs and reviewed and approved treatment plans for children with Axis I diagnosis. Assessed and Trained and Licensed Foster Parents, assessed foster children and executed the match of parents and children. 1998-1999

SOCIAL WORK MANAGER

CARETENDERS HOME HEALTH CARE, Vestavia, AL

Supervised 5 homecare social workers, managed a small caseload of medically fragile patients, trained nurses in psychosocial

issues of patient care, served on management team. Agency closed. 1992-1999; 2003-2005

SENIOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER and then PRN LCSW Emergency Evaluator SHELBY MEDICAL CENTER, MENTAL HEALTH UNIT/Alabaster, AL Provided clinical consultation, group therapy, family therapy and social work supervision. Developed treatment plans, worked closely with the psychiatrist to determine Diagnosis through Collateral Psychosocial Assessment interviews with patient and family. Unit closed. But I returned later to Hospital on a consultant basis to evaluate overdoses and other special needs of medical patients with behavioral health needs.

1998-1992

INSTRUCTOR IN PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORK

UAB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY

Assisted Director of Inpatient Psychiatry in attainment of clinical, research and teaching objectives. Maintained caseload of acute care Psychiatry patients, Served on Interdisciplinary Treatment Team and monitored and developed Individual Treatment Plans. Executed discharge planning. Responsible for inpatient group therapy program and training family therapy and group therapy to medical students and Psychiatric Residents whose rotation was with the Director of Inpatient Psychiatry.

11/1984-9/1987

MEDICAID WAIVER COORDINATOR

STATE OF MARYLAND, EASTERN SHORE, Salisbury, MD

Managed and established the Medicaid Waiver services coordination program for de-institutionalized MR Clients on the eastern shore of Maryland, monitoring services provided by community-based MR-ICF level of care providers.

1/1983-2/1984

QMHP/PRIMARY THERAPIST

NORTH ALABAMA REGIONAL HOSPITAL, DECATUR, AL

Managed caseload of psychiatric and addiction patients, providing counseling, family therapy sessions and group sessions. As QMPH, served as a clinical decision maker, I was responsible for treatment plans and considered a Clinical Guardian of Federal Court Order protecting treatment rights of psychiatric patients.

1/1980-1/1982

PROGRAM SPECIALIST/Commissioned USPHS Officer (National Institute of Mental Health) U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, ROCKVILLE, MD Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, advised in the review of competitive grant applications submitted to NIMH for funding. Wrote technical reports and regulatory language for legislation, Left due to large federal reduction in force Formal Teaching Experience

CERTIFIED BY CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA

To teach 30-hour courses to prospective adoptive and foster parents 1995 - 2010

CERTIFIED DEMENTIA EDUCATOR (PT)

ALABAMA BUREAU OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY, DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH 1989 – 1995

Adjunct Faculty/Field Instructor, UAB Department of Social Work University of Alabama Graduate School of Social Work Field Instructor and Guest lecturer

Alabama A&M Graduate Social Work Assistant Professor Courses taught: Assessment of Mental Disorders, 1989-1993; Family Education of the Mentally Ill; Case Management in Health, Mental Health and Aging 1994-1995. As Assistant Professor at A&M, I taught graduate Courses: Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) I&II, SW Practice I&II, Psychopathology, Crisis Intervention, and Social

Work Practice in Health and Mental Health. I served as Student Advisor to a small group of graduate students.

Recent Training

● Psychological Autopsy 2014 American Association of Suicidology

● ASSIST 2012 Suicide Prevention

● CAMS Suicide Prevention Clinical Training 2014, Participate in Active CAMS workgroup

● Various ANG and DCOE virtual Trainings

Publications/Presentations

● "When Mental Illness Invades the Minority Family." AMI video consultant, 1992.

● "Mental Health Consumer Advocacy: Leadership Implications for the Social Work Profession."

● Selected for presentation at the NASW Symposium in Philadelphia, November

● Rural Health Coordinating Committee's Special Report to The White House, contributing author 1980.

● ADAMHA's chapter of the Annual Employment and Training Report to the President, 1980.

● Alabama DDSA Study of Dallas, Perry and Wilcox Counties, co-author,

● UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION: Keynote speaker, Montevallo University Depression Screening,

"Depression More Than Just the Blues."

● Invited Presentation, 1995 Alabama Conference of Social Work (Clinical Institute Chair).

● Coordinator of First Anxiety Disorders Screening Day in Alabama, 1994.

● Presentation Alabama Clinical Society Summer Conference: "Inside the Endless Loop of OCD."

● Invited Presentation Alabama Society Clinical Social Work

● Numerous community and civic presentations for over 20 years.

● Invited Presentation for Alabama Conference of Social Work “The Secret Illness of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder."

● Invited "Dementia Care Giving", Alabama Assisted Living Association: Annual Conference

● Invited "The Family's Role in Dementia Care" Alabama Gerontological Society Annual Conference 1996. Membership in Professional Societies (Past and Present) Program Chair, 1993, 1994, 1995 Alabama Society Clinical Social Work Winter Conference

● Board member, National Federation of Societies of Clinical Social Work, 1991 - 1997

● Currently Licensed Certified Social Worker /ΝΑΣΩ

● American Orthopsychiatry Association

● National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Curriculum/Training Committee, 1986 to 1990 American Group Psychotherapy Association; Established first OCD Group in Alabama; served as Professional Advisor several years

● Past President four terms Alabama Society of Clinical social workers

● Recent NAMI of Davidson County Board Appointee for Military Support

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