LaBrenda Thomas

• Taught Master level Social Work courses, providing instruction to up to 15 graduate students.
• Built relationships with students, mentoring on personal, professional and academic goals while providing coaching on effective study habits.
• Graded quizzes, tests, homework, and projects to provide students with timely academic progress information and feedback.
• Strengthened critical thinking skills in students through the incorporation of problem-based learning activities.
• Fall 2025: Advanced Individual Practice
• Spring 2026: Social Work Practice III

• Facilitated engaging classroom discussions with up tp 22 graduate students to promote critical thinking and application of social work theories.

Courses Taught:

• Advance Social Worker Practice Skills III: Organizations and Communities
• Social Welfare Policy and Services
• Generalist Social Work Practice I: Working with Individuals and Systems
• Psychopathology and the Role of the Social Worker
• Methods of Research in Social Work I
• Advanced Social Work Practice Skills I: Individual and Families
• Advanced Social Work Practice Skills II: Groups
• Human Behavior in the Social Environment I

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of clinicians serving children, adults, and families across

Arkansas and Tennessee.

• Oversee agency operations, compliance, and clinical supervision for LCSW

candidates.

• Develop community partnerships and implement innovative mental health initiatives.

• Led the design and implementation of tiered behavior intervention supports across elementary school campuses.
• Conducted professional development sessions on behavior management, trauma-informed care, and SEL integration.
• Developed behavior intervention plans (BIPs) and functional behavioral assessments (FBAs) for students with significant needs
• Collaborated with district RTI2-B coordinators and special education staff to align behavioral supports with IEP goals

• Provide clinical supervision to professional counseling students
• Provide individual and group counseling services to parents
• Oversee the development of clinical services

• Responsible for the management and oversight of all care management and counseling services in the children and youth department
• BSW/MSW Field Instructor – Rust College and University of Memphis students

• Supervise/oversee support team; provide clinical guidance as needed
• Establish community linkages and serve as a liaison to community partners
• Identify training/support needs to community partners
• Coordinate trainings utilizing expertise of psychologists, psychiatrists, team leaders and specialist within the community
• Identify and coordinate necessary trainings for team members
• Ensure the collection of required data and documentation on consumer access and utilization of services

• Therapeutic Mentor Program in Ferguson-Florissant School District
• Provide group therapy services to elementary school children after school
• Instructed children on how to build and maintain coping and social skills

• Serve as a liaison between school, family and community
• Conduct psychosocial and needs assessments with recommendations and provided resources
• Collaborate with principal, counselor, nurse, PBIS and teacher on the needs of students and families
• Participate in IEP, 504 and Intervention Team meetings
• Provide support to student and family emotional, social and basic needs

• Conduct needs assessments to new and discharging patients
• Provide community and hospital resources
• Coordinate discharge planning along with case manager
• Attend triage meetings with nurses, physicians and case manager

• Conduct individual, group and family therapy
• Discharge planning and connecting families to resources
• Collaborate treatment planning with psychiatrists, nurses and community counselors
• Conduct involuntary commitment assessments on those in crisis

• Conduct initial assessments on new clients and provide diagnosis
• Conduct individual, group and family therapy in school and clinic settings
• Create and update treatment plans
• Serve as a liaison and collaborate treatment with various systems within the community