About Allyson Tomchin | About Nancy Rudes Nancy Rudes Clinical Trainer Mrs. Rudes began in the field of human services in 1968, when, after receiving her bachelor’s degree, she began working for the City of New York Bureau of Welfare Services visiting families in the east Bronx. She moved to the sister agency, Bureau of Children’s Services, providing case management at emergency children’s shelters. After accumulating experience with adolescent girls in public facilities, she became a social worker for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York at a residential treatment center for disturbed adolescent girls. During that time she began working on her MSW at Fordham University, majoring in clinical group-work under the tutelage of Dr. William Schwartz, renowned theorist. When Covenant House/Under 21 opened, she was one of the original social workers in the Times Square area. After receiving her MSW, she ran a model volunteer/paraprofessional unit providing outreach services to adolescent males in Bedford Stuyvesant, a severely disadvantaged area in Brooklyn, NY. After her son was born, she returned to Catholic Charities where she supervised foster-care and adoption and piloted the first “open adoption” activities enabling biological mothers to choose and meet adoptive parents. It was here that she also began supervising student interns. During her professional years in New York, Mrs. Rudes conducted a part time private practice specializing in gender identity issues. In 1989 she relocated to Florida and joined Broward County Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (BARC) where she focused on training staff to work from the strengths perspective. After supervising numerous students interning at BARC, she eventually developed an outpatient unit as a training site manned solely by interns. The training unit provided strengths-based group therapy to substance abusing pregnant and parenting women. Mrs. Rudes taught substance abuse treatment as an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Social Work and ultimately joined the university as Associate Professor and Director of Field Instruction. She trained new field instructors and also helped to develop Cool School of Dade, Inc., the first project initiated by the Barry University Academy for Better Communities. COOL School Inc., also known as Community Outreach On Location, was an innovative agency that brought social services directly to families and children wherever services were needed; to homes as family therapy, to schools as gang prevention, to Boys & Girls Clubs as “bully” prevention, to Medicaid clinics as domestic violence prevention, etc. After serving on the COOL School board, she became their Director of Training and Development. Concurrently she consulted at Broward Partnership for the Homeless, Inc. during their start-up. After two years she was asked to join their administrative team to direct their social services unit. In August 2003, Mrs. Rudes was recruited by South Florida State Hospital and is currently the Director of Social Services. She directs 20 professional staff and continues to provide strengths-based intern supervision for South Florida local universities. Mrs. Rudes has accumulated years of experience in large agencies and is especially adept at helping interns and social work staff to fully service clients within the “client-worker-agency” triangle. She has impacted the careers of innumerable social workers but is especially appreciated for reaching out to and supporting minority students and adult students juggling family, career, school and commitment to the field. Ms. Rudes is currently a Clinical Trainer with Directive Energy. In her continued efforts as a clinical trainer and field educator, she is committed to consistently train Mental Health Practitioners in adopting cutting edge practice in their clinical work. Ms. Rudes is spearheading “Integrating Coaching & Solution Focus Practices, Building Your Coaching Toolbox” a clinical workshop focused on training Mental Health Practitioners in the State of Florida to open their minds to new and expansive possibilities for the clients they serve. 3 Core Values of the Coach · Non-Judgemental · Honest · Provides Complete Attention “The fundamentals of human change remain the same. If you want to change and better yourself, you have the innate ability to do so.” -Allyson Tomchin © 2005 DirectiveEnergy, Inc. Site by Equivox