Caprice Morrison
Cibolo,TX
Summary
Professional leader, ready for next challenge. Demonstrated ability to drive strategic initiatives and optimize organizational efficiency. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving impactful results. Known for adaptability, reliability, and effective decision-making. Skilled in crisis management, strategic planning, and leadership development.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Deputy Chief/Supervisory Social Worker
Brooke Army Medical Center
01.2022 - Current
- Campus Behavioral Health Services (CBHS)
- Oversee the clinical and administrative operations of an outpatient behavioral clinic.
- Subject matter expert to the Chief of the CBHS clinic and IDPH regarding social work practice, standards, and related medical readiness of active-duty trainees.
- Supervise behavioral health crisis triage services for active-duty services members in a training status.
- Faculty Member in the Graduate Medical Education Program supervising and training Social Work Interns.
- Train and supervise Social Work Practicum Students from the University of Kentucky Master of Social Work Program.
- Provide targeted assessments, screen, and interview patients, conduct Command Directed Behavioral Health Evaluations, and provide individual therapy to Soldiers in training status.
- Proficient in providing evidenced based trauma treatment.
- Provide individual therapy to service members referred by a Sexual Assault Victim Advocate.
- GS 13-6
- 40 hours per week
Tele-Behavioral Health Therapist
Brooke Army Medical Center
09.2020 - 01.2022
- Warrior Resiliency Program
- Duties and Related Skills:
- I performed the following services to Soldiers located at various installations using tele-behavioral health technology:
- Provide targeted assessments of patient, including diagnostic impression or functional status focused on the presenting problem.
- Provide timely and succinct feedback to other medical providers and Soldier’s commander when appropriate regarding consultation findings and recommendations.
- Utilize social work systems and psychological theories, principals, and techniques in treatment plan development.
- Develop individualized treatment plans based on psychiatric diagnoses, identified problems and treatment needs for each case.
- Provide focused follow ups, including relapse – prevention education.
- GS 12-7
- 40 hours per week
Sexual Assault Medical Management Team Behavioral Health Provider
Madigan Army Medical Center
02.2013 - 09.2020
- Duties and Related Skills:
- Provide individual therapy to active-duty service members (SM) who have been referred by a Sexual Assault Victim Advocate after the SM has reported a restricted or unrestricted sexual assault.
- Completed a CID investigation and National Sex Offender Registry for this position.
- These duties are in addition to the below embedded behavioral health social worker duties.
- GS 12-7
- 40 hours per week
Embedded Behavioral Health Social Worker
Madigan Army Medical Center
02.2013 - 09.2020
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Perform targeted assessments of patients, including diagnostic impression or functional status focused on the presenting problem.
- Provide timely and succinct feedback to other medical providers and Soldier’s commander when appropriate regarding consultations findings and recommendations.
- Make behavioral health diagnosis and provide individual and group therapy, using various modalities as clinically indicated to include brief problem-focused psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and client-centered therapy.
- Assess and provide crisis intervention for Soldiers to include screening patients for appropriateness of psychiatric hospitalizations.
- Formulate behavioral health interventions and assist with implementation and monitoring of treatment plans.
- Provide focused follow ups, including relapse – prevention education.
- Work as an inter-disciplinary team member to develop specific clinical pathways or best practice programs for targeted patient groups such as patients with acute stress symptoms and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- Conduct Command Directed Behavioral Health evaluations to medically clear soldiers for administrative proceedings and specialized school programs (i.e., chapter evaluations and drill sergeant school).
- GS 12-7
- 40 hours per week
Lead Social Worker
Brooke Army Medical Center
07.2009 - 02.2013
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Developed (with supervision) the draft psychiatric addendum to the Narrative Summary of the Army Medical Evaluation Board by reviewing the Disability Evaluations completed by the Veterans’ Affairs (VA) physician, reviewing the military inpatient and outpatient records, reviewing VA, civilian and/or Tricare treatment documentation, and conducting a comprehensive patient evaluation.
- Rapidly identified behavioral health treatment, diagnosis, issues: screened and interviewed patients, and performed bio-psychosocial evaluations, using expert knowledge of general and specific concepts, principles, procedures, and practices.
- Provided targeted assessments and evaluations, including diagnostic impressions and functional status focused on the presenting problem, Soldiers medical and administrative records and face-to-face interviews.
- Responsible for managing behavioral health care of active-duty service members and their family members who were referred to the Tricare network or outside Military Treatment Facility (MTF) for such care and provided clinical services to military beneficiaries.
- Provided patient centered case management and care coordination planning following discharge/disposition from inpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization programs for all military beneficiaries in the San Antonio catchment area.
- Implemented the behavioral health outpatient treatment program and performed professional case management for military personnel and their eligible family members.
- Contributed to the planning, development, and modification of various human service programs such as crisis awareness, suicide prevention, sexual assault, substance abuse or dependence, or patient relations.
- Participated in multidisciplinary teams.
- Created Standard Operating Procedures for Behavioral Health Case Management to ensure a smooth transition or handoff between behavioral health care clinicians both within military and outside the military.
- Assisted in the development of case management services for recruiters within the BAMC catchment area who presented to the MTF with significant safety concerns.
- Trained new social workers coming to the Department of Behavioral Health on job duties, SOP’s, procedure, command notification and consultation and applicable paperwork.
- Supervised, planned, and organized work to be accomplished by the social work students.
- GS 11-8
- 40 hours per week
Contract Clinical Social Worker
Humana Military Services
09.2008 - 07.2009
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Performed 24-hour post hospitalization assessments for active-duty service members discharging from psychiatric hospitals.
- Provided case management services for active-duty service members who are in Advanced Individualized Training that are high risk for suicidal/homicidal behavior.
- Assessed and triaged active-duty Service members to determine what level of care they need for their psychiatric conditions.
- Provided case management services for active-duty service members while they were in an inpatient psychiatric setting.
- Administered Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DODSER) and tracked all DODSER’s required by the Department of Defense for the SAMMC catchment area.
- 40 hours per week
Director Of Residential Treatment Program
Laurel Ridge Treatment Center
07.2006 - 09.2008
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Developed policies, procedures, and new and innovative intervention strategies for clinical practice standards, assessment, clinical intervention, and clinical treatment of children and adolescents.
- Responsible for the development, implementation, review, and evaluation of three twenty-bed residential units for adolescents 12-19 years old with lengths of stay 6-18 months.
- Applied knowledge of child abuse theories, and clinical research because most of the youth in the program had been exposed to inner-city violence, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and severe neglect.
- Provided individual, group, and family therapy to the patients with varying diagnosis including PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder w/psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, and Conduct Disorder.
- Supervised assigned professional level therapists, paraprofessional treatment supervisors, social work students, direct care staff and provided technical oversight to psychology interns.
- Planned and organized work to be accomplished by subordinates, set, and adjusted long and short-term priorities, and prepared schedules for completion of work.
- Ensured programs were following all licensing requirements through Texas Department of Protective and Family Services as well as Joint Accreditation Commission for Health Care Organizations.
- Reviewed charts to ensure compliance with contract agreements from various out-of-state contracts.
- Developed treatment plans, discharge planning and aftercare treatment referrals for the patients in the community.
- Reviewed and approved the appropriate modality of each patient.
- Networked with various agencies in the community to ensure the referral sources were receiving the information they needed for the courts and families.
- Performed initial assessments and triage in the Admission Department for patients who are in an acute crisis.
- Completed all admissions paperwork on patients who were being admitted to the psychiatric hospital for psychiatric conditions and/or chemical dependency use/abuse.
- 40 hours per week
Contract Therapist
McCullough Center for Mental Health
11.2004 - 04.2007
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provided individual, couples and family therapy to children, adult and adolescents referred by Child Protective Services due to allegations of neglect and abuse.
- Testified in court on behalf of families regarding termination of parental rights versus reunification of family units.
- Facilitated anger management groups for the adults referred by their caseworkers for acts of violence or physical abuse.
- Wrote monthly progress reports to Child Protective Service’s caseworkers as to the progress of their clients in therapy.
- Attended multi-disciplinary meetings on the client’s behalf to update all interested parties as to the progress or lack of progress families were making in therapy
- 10 hours per week
Caseworker III
Center for Health Care Services
01.2005 - 07.2006
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Assessed and gave a preliminary diagnosis to mentally ill adults in Bexar County Adult Detention Center and at the Probation Office to determine if they qualified for outpatient services.
- Reported to the courts as to patient’s amenability to treatment as part of their probation requirements and/or early release from the detention center.
- Provided individual and family therapy to children and adolescents diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses.
- Developed treatment plans, discharge planning and aftercare treatment referrals.
- 40 hours per week
Therapist
Texas Adolescent Treatment Center
10.2003 - 01.2005
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provided individual, group, and family therapy to the patients with varying diagnosis including PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder w/psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, and Conduct Disorder. Youth had been exposed to domestic violence and were victims of physical or sexual abuse as well as neglect.
- Coordinated with placement authority to include Child Protective Services (CPS) or a Juvenile Probation officer due to extreme behavior problems.
- Composed monthly reports on client’s progress and faxed to CPS caseworkers and probation officers.
- Developed initial treatment plans and discharge plans for clients.
- 40 hours per week
Program Administrator
Frontier Behavioral Health
06.1995 - 06.2003
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Supervised 20 master’s level and bachelor’s level clinicians in 6 different locations throughout the city of Spokane, WA.
- Developed (from the ground up) an intensive outpatient program for families who were involved with Child Protective Services; wrote all curriculum, policy, and procedures, hired, and trained all staff, provided ongoing clinical supervision as well as budget management.
- Worked intensively with Spokane Public Schools to develop an alternative school program for youth grades 1-8 who had severe behavioral problems that interfered with their education; provided ongoing clinical supervision of all clinicians working in the program.
- Administrator of an alternative school for 36 high school youth on probation/parole and expelled from their home high school; provided supervision to the therapists, teachers and aides working in the school, ensured all school laws were followed regarding discipline procedures and special education requirements, worked with a multidisciplinary team to integrate students back into their home school upon discharge out of the program.
- Oversaw a contract with Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center for a licensed clinician to provide risk assessments for suicidal youth in the facility.
- Supervised a contract with Washington State Division of Juvenile Justice for a clinician to provide intake assessments on youth being released back into the community from a long-term correctional facility, to determine eligibility for mental health services.
- Supervised therapeutic foster homes, ensuring the homes were following Washington state licensing standards.
- Provided individual and family therapy to children and adolescents diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses.
- Developed treatment plans, discharge planning and aftercare treatment referrals
- 40 hours per week
Education
Masters of Social Work - Social Work
Walla Walla University
College PlaceBachelor of Arts - Social Work
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WASkills
- Conducting internal investigations
- Effective communication in public relations
- Leadership development training
- Development of corrective action plans
Certification
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker- TX Board Approved Supervisor 08/2011
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker TX 08/2003
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker WA 11/1997
Awards
July 2012- Commander's Award for Civilian Service, April 2014- Achievement Medal for Civilian Service, August 2020- Achievement Medal for Civilian Service, September 2020- Meritorious Performance of Duty
Timeline
Deputy Chief/Supervisory Social Worker
Brooke Army Medical Center
01.2022 - Current
Tele-Behavioral Health Therapist
Brooke Army Medical Center
09.2020 - 01.2022
Sexual Assault Medical Management Team Behavioral Health Provider
Madigan Army Medical Center
02.2013 - 09.2020
Embedded Behavioral Health Social Worker
Madigan Army Medical Center
02.2013 - 09.2020
Lead Social Worker
Brooke Army Medical Center
07.2009 - 02.2013
Contract Clinical Social Worker
Humana Military Services
09.2008 - 07.2009
Director Of Residential Treatment Program
Laurel Ridge Treatment Center
07.2006 - 09.2008
Caseworker III
Center for Health Care Services
01.2005 - 07.2006
Contract Therapist
McCullough Center for Mental Health
11.2004 - 04.2007
Therapist
Texas Adolescent Treatment Center
10.2003 - 01.2005
Program Administrator
Frontier Behavioral Health
06.1995 - 06.2003
Masters of Social Work - Social Work
Walla Walla University
Bachelor of Arts - Social Work
Eastern Washington University