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Key Personnel

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SRS Established Measures for Quality
SRS Enhanced Mental Health Services are designed for positive clinical outcomes. With over 20 years of experience in behavioral counseling, the staff of SRS have taken the time to develop and refine the best practices for every detail related to the challenges and changes within the clinical counseling and rehabilitation industry.

SRS makes the difference through Strong Clinical Experiences, HIPAA Conformance, and Client Support Solutions.

Strong Clinical Experiences
We hold ourselves to a higher standard at Sierra's Residential Services, and no one exemplifies this more than our professional clinicians and support staff. Our knowledge, leadership, company culture, and high standards come directly from our management team.

At SRS, our management team possesses strong real-world clinical experience in the areas of intervention, assessment, and counseling.

Further, management at SRS is an active and continually rehearsed function. In order to be most effective, our management team actively practices the standard of Leadership by Setting the Example.

If you were to observe our daily operations on any given day, you will find our management team is very involved in the delivery of our professional intervention services. As such, we consider our management teams effectiveness to be one of our topmost differentiators.

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HIPAA Conformance
At Sierra's Residential Services, we place a high emphasis on conformance with HIPAA requirements for the confidentiality of patient information, processes and the security of information. Our efforts in this area include all of the following:

Conformance with operational procedures and guidelines

Application of appropriate security systems and applications for electronic systems

Training and refresher training for staff member on the importance of confidentiality and HIPAA guidelines

Regular internal self-assessment and audit

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Client Support Services
At Sierra's Residential Services, we combine all of our talents, clinical experience, and practices to deliver a support system that focus on generating the most positive outcomes possible for our clients. Inherently important to the process of meeting these goals is our ability to effectively service referral requests, conduct assessments, and to deliver effective interventions in a timely manner.

In order to do this, we have organized our client support services programs to ensure effective communications and availability to our clients, and referral sources. Our client services program incorporates all of the following communications tools:

Referral contact support desk

Client contact support line

Printed literature

Program orientations

Additionally, all of our personnel and team members go through evaluations to ensure that only persons with the right skills and demeanor work on our client facing teams. You will find that our client services team members are always friendly, helpful and fully capable of solving problems quickly.

• Miranda Pearson LPC NCC
  is a licensed professional counselor and a Qualified Professional for the SRS CABHA Organization. She received her Masters Degree in Christian Counseling and in School Administration both at East Carolina University. Ms. Pearson also serves as an Outpatient Therapist for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following: a. Providing individual and group interventions (under the direction of the physician) designed to offer support and structure to assist the service recipient with coping and functioning on a day-to-day basis to prevent hospitalization to step down into a lower level of care from inpatient setting;
  b. Providing interventions that address functional deficits associated with affective or cognitive problems and/or the service recipient’s diagnostic conditions. This may include training in community living and specific coping skills. Assist service recipients to develop their strengths and establish peer and community relationships;
  c. Facilitating clinical intakes and assessments for children with a wide variety of mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse challenges;
  d. Providing comprehensive clinical assessments to determine service need(s) and medical necessity in collaboration with physician;
  e. Conducting individual and family therapy and case management services.


• Mr. Fisher QP
  is a Qualified Professional for the SRS CABHA Organization. He received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in Psychology at Livingstone College. Mr. Fisher also serves as the Group Home Manager for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following: a. Providing individual and group interventions (under the direction of the physician) designed to offer support and structure to assist the service recipient with coping and functioning on a day-to-day basis to prevent hospitalization to step down into a lower level of care from inpatient setting;
  b. Providing Clinical and Administrative Supervision for QPs, APs and PPs;
  c. Implementing and monitoring best evidence based practices and emerging practice protocols for serving At Risk Youth is group setting; and
  d. Developing and implementing individualized PCPs and case management functions, etc…
  e. Developing staffing schedules based upon the person (s) needs, interests, and/or desires and the related strengths of support team staff
  f. Participating/leading treatment team meeting
  
• Ms. Grimm LPC-A
  is a licensed professional counselor and a Qualified Professional for the SRS CABHA Organization. She received her two Master Degrees in Divinity and Community Counseling both from Campbell University. Ms. Grimm also serves as a Team Leader on the Intensive In-Home Services Program for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following: a. Providing Clinical Supervision for QPs and APs serving on the team;
  b. Providing individual and group supervision to each team member which includes reviewing service notes, plans, documentation; researching, implementing and monitoring the fidelity of best evidence base practices, etc..;
  c. Conducting individual and family therapy, comprehensive clinical assessments, and case management services.
  Ms. Wilkinson MSW, LCSW
  is a Qualified Professional and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, for the SRS CABHA Organization. She received her Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Ms. Wilkerson also serves as a Team Leader on the Intensive In-Home Services Program for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following:
  a. Providing Clinical Supervision for QPs and APs serving on the team;
  b. Providing individual and group supervision to each team member which includes reviewing service notes, plans, documentation; researching, implementing and monitoring the fidelity of best evidence base practices, etc..;
  c. Conducting individual and family therapy, comprehensive clinical assessments, and case management services.
• Ms. Adams QP
  is a Qualified Professional for the SRS CABHA Organization. She received her Bachelors of Science Degree in education at Methodist College. Ms. Adams also serves as the Quality Management / Staff Training Director for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following:
  a. Developing quality improvement/quality assurance plan(s);
  b. Ensuring compliance with all documentation, staff qualification and all other state and federal requirements for the services being delivered;
  c. Providing oversight of staff credentialing process;
  d. Providing staff support for the quality improvement committee;
  e. Developing and reporting consumer outcomes and comparing the agencys performance to outcomes achieved by others, similar providers;
  f. Developing and implementing appropriate protocol for continuous staff training designed to achieve all requirements of the services being delivered.
• Dr. Warden
  is a licensed psychiatrist with a specialty in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. She received her medical degree from Duke University. Dr. Warden currently provides psychiatric evaluations and medication management for SRS CABHA Organization as deemed medically necessary for children and adolescents in the areas of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Dr. Kendall Warden also serves as the Medical Director for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following:
  a. Providing the overall supervision of all medical / clinical aspects of the services delivered by SRS.
  b. Identifying appropriate evidence-based or emerging best practices therapies to be employed by staff in delivering services;
  c. Providing oversight of all quality management initiatives;
  d. Ensuring the coordination between the MH/SA services being delivered with primary physical healthcare providers;
  e. Consulting with primary healthcare providers on the clinical aspects of the consumers being served and the implications for those consumers physical healthcare needs;
  f. Coordinating with medical staff of other providers, e.g. state and community inpatient facilities;
  g. Providing supervision of all other medical staff within the provider agency.
• Ms. Spratley, LPC-A
  Ms. Spratley, LPC-A is a licensed professional counselor and a Qualified Professional for the SRS CABHA Organization. She received her Master Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Florida State University. Ms. Spratley also serves as a Team Leader on the Intensive In-Home Services Program for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following: a. Providing clinical and administrative supervision of QMHPs. APs and PPs.
  b. Training support staff on individuals disabilities, their PCPs, and PCP implementation
  c. Providing or arrange clinical and technical assistance to support staff, as needed
  d. Developing staffing schedules based upon the person(s) needs, interests, and/or desires and the related strengths of support team staff
  e. Participating/leading treatment team meeting
  f. Ensuring that services rendered to persons served are billable via management of cases and/or providing direct services
  f. Assembling a team of appropriately trained and qualified support staff to ensure continuity of care to individuals served
  g. Training support team staff on Agency philosophy of service delivery, as related to applicable service definitions, statues and rules
  h. Conducting performance evaluations for support staff team and consult with local Administrator or Clinical Operation Supervisor (as appropriate) regarding results and recommendations, etc
  
• Scottie VanHook MSW, LCSW
  is the CEO and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, for the SRS CABHA Organization. He received his Masters Degree in Social Work from Fayetteville State University. Mr. VanHook also serves as the Clinical Director for the SRS CABHA Organization which includes the following:
  a. Providing clinical oversight and supervision of all non-medical direct care staff in the provider agency.
  b. Designing of the treatment protocols employed within the agency;
  c. Ensuring appropriate assessments for all consumers served;
  d. Implementing best practice and emerging practice protocols;
  e. Conducting reviews of service quality;
  f. Designing of all staff training.
  

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