Tamara Defee

-Provide excellent person-centered service management for Foster Care members and their care takers.

-Assist Foster Care members in achieving their highest possible level of functioning and wellness

-Monitor Foster Care members to ensure highest quality of care

-Support all providers in doing what is best for the Foster Care member

-99% average for all audits

-Earned The I Got Pinned Campaign Award for Passionate Customer Service

-Information Security Champion for multiple quarters

-Team Player- creating a Gratitude Challenge for the Team and a Holiday Gift Exchange

• Oversee and develop the counseling program, oversee the counseling staff and volunteers, oversee and implement a lay counseling structure, conduct counseling for individuals, families, and couples, work with counselors to provide enrichment sessions for staff/community, maintain the schedule of The Hope Center counseling opportunities, maintain required paperwork/client records

• Provided CCPT and Humanistic Sand Tray Therapy, expanded client base and services, participated in team member case presentations, training in Bowen Family Systems, created a more child-centered playroom

• Primary child/adolescent therapist, integrated children into the counseling practice, setup play room for Play Therapy, selected Sand Tray items/miniatures for practice, expanded client services and increased client base, introduced staff to the many forms of expressive arts in therapy, partnered with Bucker Children and Family Services providing counseling to children and adolescents in the Family Pathways Program, as well parent consults