Tawanda Scales

Oversee admissions to Medicaid Home Based Community Services waiver awards through assessing appropriate level of services and identifying most in need Individuals for processing towards funding.

• Provide oversight for 6 Regional Office Teams
• Manage staffing, financials and day to day operations of team of 72
• Provide monthly budget review
• Quantify data for Legislature
• Develop policy and procedure for Field Operations
• Served as SME for NOW/COMP waiver service entry
• Approved Individuals to move from Planning List to Waiver

• Provide case management resources for individuals with an I/DD diagnosis who have a history of involvement with DFCS to decrease hospital admissions and utilization of crisis services.

• Provide oversight and monitoring for mental health services for individuals between the ages of 4 and 24 in the north 31 Georgia counties. Support behavioral health and addictive disease initiates to offer recovery for symptoms and help build health communities.

• Developed engaging lesson plans tailored to diverse learning styles.
• Implemented effective teaching strategies to enhance student performance and retention in preparation for ACT.

• Investigate potential foster parents for appropriateness to parent children from the Child Welfare System and compliance with State and Federal regulatory standards.

• Provide community-based mental health services for individuals living with serious and persistent mental illness.
• Facilitated individual and group therapy sessions to promote mental well-being.
• Developed personalized treatment plans based on client assessments and feedback.

• Conduct QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) trainings throughout the State equipping participants with the skills to identify the warning signs and risk facts or a person at risk for a suicide crisis as well as how and when to intervene.
• Provide debriefing and grief counseling when there has been a suicide of an Adolescent.

• Provide support to patients in inpatient crisis stabilization. Conduct individual and group sessions as needed or assigned.

• Provided individual, family, and group therapy for teenage boys with delinquent charges in residential treatment facility.
• Implemented evidence-based therapeutic techniques to enhance client coping strategies.

• Provide Multi-systemic Therapy for families with teenagers with challenging behaviors and co-occurring disorders/diagnoses.

• Supervise Violent and Sexual Offenders on State Probation residing in Davidson County.
• Conducted comprehensive assessments to evaluate probationers' compliance with court-ordered conditions.

• Provided mental health counseling to couples and individuals experiencing crisis, adjustment issues, or recovering from past trauma.