DONTE RANDALL
Mental Health & Addiction
Duluth,GA
Summary
Persistent leader eager to lead and grow organizations. Skilled in strategic planning, problem-solving, and communication with good understanding of business principles, project management and team leadership. Collaborative with relentless work ethic.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Chief Executive Officer
Perspective Mental Health & Addiction
Smyrna, GA
10.2019 - Current
- Established key strategic partnerships with industry leaders to enhance business development opportunities.
- Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive, and performance-oriented business culture to lead industry in innovation and push progress.
- Engaged positively with staff and leadership colleagues, soliciting and encouraging feedback and collaborative spirit.
- Reviewed individual department performance and worked with leadership to improve processes, procedures, and practices.
Chief Executive Officer
Cutz N Kicks
Lawrenceville, GA
01.2018 - Current
- Engaged positively with staff and leadership colleagues, soliciting and encouraging feedback and collaborative spirit.
- Coached and guided senior managers to improve employee job satisfaction and achieve higher performance levels.
- Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships by negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts.
- Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive, and performance-oriented business culture to lead industry in innovation and push progress.
Chief Executive Officer
Randall and Randall Recovery Consultants
Smyrna, GA
12.2015 - Current
- Increased company revenue by implementing innovative business strategies and expanding product offerings.
- Managed high-performing teams to successfully execute corporate objectives and drive organizational success.
- Built productive relationships with industry partners and competitors to support strategic business objectives.
- Established key strategic partnerships with industry leaders to enhance business development opportunities.
Substance Abuse Counselor
Grady Memorial Hospital
Atlanta , GA
02.2016 - 02.2020
- Plans Substance abuse programing
- Maintains oversight on the execution of training
- Maintains oversight of all activities involved in the analyses, design, development, implementation, and validation of prevention programs for which the Grady Substance Abuse program is responsible
- Plans, directs, supervises and evaluates the Installation's Grady Substance Abuse Program
- Report blood pressure deviation and abnormally low or high blood sugar
- Maintain community relations with local faith/spiritual based organization and employers.
Psychiatric Nursing Assistant
Atlanta VA Medical Center
Atlanta, Georgia
01.2012 - 03.2015
- Collaborate in daily report with multidisciplinary team to establish patient treatment, including NPO (ECT, lab test, and procedural assignments
- Collect and record patient vital signs, accucheck, and weight data
- Report blood pressure deviation and abnormally low or high blood sugar
- Assist with patient scheduled test and procedures including (X-ray and dental.)
- Monitor and report patient’s behavior and mood, i.e
- Increasing agitation, disruptive behavior, and self-destructive behavior to initiate immediate intervention
- Prepare and maintain hospital equipment including restraints, vital sign and accucheck devices
- Collect urine samples for urinalysis and drug screening.
Forensic Health Tech / Substance Abuse Counselor
Georgia Regional Hospital
Decatur, Georgia
03.2006 - 12.2013
- Implement program treatment plan for dual Diagnosis patients
- Ensure MH/DD/AD clients’ adherence to the clinicians stabilization and treatment plan
- Assist patients with ADL training
- Participate in progress to evaluate a patient’s competency to stand trial
- Ensure continuity of education among adolescents
- Analysis patient case studies
- Implement Behavioral safety training as a certified specialist
- Provide group and individual counseling to inmates who have been found incompetent to stand trial or Not guilty by reason of insanity
- Make recommendations for high-security inmates’ treatment, which include antisocial personality disorder, drug abuse, and/or Mental illness
- Designed and implemented goals and objectives from interpreted assessments for forensic/correctional population
- Maintain the security of the correctional institution
- Designed and implemented a 12-week Drug Abuse lesson planned Curriculum for statewide usage
- Facilitate Drug Abuse/Dual diagnosis groups for non-English speaking Forensic/Correctional and sex offender Inmates
- Conduct and interpret SASSI Assessments for Drug Abuse Treatment Resistant inmates
- Monitor community-based drug treatment contract.
Legal Assistant/ Behavioral Health Technician/ Employment Acquisitionist
Fulton County Superior Court
Atlanta, Georgia
10.2009 - 06.2012
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team to provide appropriate treatment
- Serve as primary contributor to the design and implementation of the Accountability Court Bench book
- Conduct skills training in home and community
- Participate in strategic planning, designing, and implementation of a literacy/employment/vocational policy for Accountability Court participants
- Facilitate gender-specific group for men to address positive identity and character standard psycho-education for adults to address risk factors to treatment outcomes
- Maintain community resources for community transitioning
- Serves as an agency liaison to the community, establishing relationships with Atlanta Workforce, Atlanta Homeless Coalition, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse
- Document and file participants’ information for administrative record-keeping purposes
- Complete progress notes to address goals and objectives
- Coordinate the New Market Tax Credit (CDFI Fund) initiative to attract investment capital to low-income communities, creating Jobs for ex-offenders
- Recruit potential participants utilizing program criteria and screening procedure
- Provide instruction for participants during orientation
- Arrange assessment materials during participant intake
- Prepare court reports for presented participants progress
- Facilitate Thinking for a Change curriculum
- Serves on committees responsible for implementing Trends and Innovation/ best practices Clinical/legal as well as technology advancement, and community outreach
- Reestablish client benefits
- Facilitate and bridge partnerships with employment agencies such as new Hope Strive and Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency (ACSS)
- Link participants to housing, appropriate treatment, and transitional services.
Addiction Recovery Trainer
St. Jude Recovery Center
Atlanta, Georgia
11.2007 - 12.2011
- Monitor and communicate individual progression with the treatment team
- Facilitate relapse prevention groups
- Document participants’ goals and objectives
- Participate in weekly treatment team meetings
- Prepare case notes to evaluate the participant’s involvement in program activities as well as the effectiveness of the program.
Mental Health Technician
Peachford Behavioral Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia
06.2006 - 12.2011
- Observe patients and communicate findings to various levels of management
- Implement treatment plans for various behavioral health problems including substance abuse, depression, crisis stabilization, adolescent emotional problems
- Implement educational classes for program compliance
- Ensure nutritional and medication adherence.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA 08.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Extensive hardware knowledge including Macintosh, IBM, PC and clones
Extensive software knowledge including SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), SAS (Statistical Analysis System), WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
Presentations
- Cocaine Dependent Relapse Predictors, Directed Studies, 2008
- Early Childhood Development, Psychobiology Thesis, 2008
- Human Cytoglobin Aligned with Hemoglobin Alpha, Morehouse Bioinformatics, 2008
Training
- CADCII certified
- Anger management certified
- PMAB
- First Aid/CPR
- Behavioral Safety
- CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention)
- Psychiatric Medication
- Nutrition
- Case Management
- Critical Incident Reporting
- Treatment Planning
- Strategic Planning
- IRB certified (Institutional Review Board/human subject training)
Research
Genetic and Trauma-Related Risk factors for PTSD at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA, Volunteer Research Interviewer, 06/2012, Present, 16, Part-time, Contact and schedule potential participants during recruitment and screening process, Administer computerized survey of life and trauma histories, Explain utilization of consent forms and study procedure, Complete entire screen (preparation -administration-transfer of data
Timeline
Chief Executive Officer
Perspective Mental Health & Addiction
10.2019 - Current
Chief Executive Officer
Cutz N Kicks
01.2018 - Current
Substance Abuse Counselor
Grady Memorial Hospital
02.2016 - 02.2020
Chief Executive Officer
Randall and Randall Recovery Consultants
12.2015 - Current
Psychiatric Nursing Assistant
Atlanta VA Medical Center
01.2012 - 03.2015
Legal Assistant/ Behavioral Health Technician/ Employment Acquisitionist
Fulton County Superior Court
10.2009 - 06.2012
Addiction Recovery Trainer
St. Jude Recovery Center
11.2007 - 12.2011
Mental Health Technician
Peachford Behavioral Hospital
06.2006 - 12.2011
Forensic Health Tech / Substance Abuse Counselor
Georgia Regional Hospital
03.2006 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Morehouse College
08.2004 - 05.2008
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