Liz provides customized consultation to organizations to help them meet their mission and goals, improving staff performance and fiscal viability. These services include skill development, coaching and ways to rethink the structure of organizations to enhance work effectiveness and productivity.

She helps people provide effective leadership while empowering workers to use their inherent strengths to manage change that is imposed on organizations from within and from external forces.

If you are interested in talking about custom designing training or consultation for your organization, please contact Liz so we can discuss your particular needs and goals.

Recent agency training and organizational consultations include work with:

• Family Services of Greater Boston
• The Massachusetts Department of Public Health at the Shattuck Hospital and the Massachusetts Hospital School
• Abbott Labs, a biopharmaceutical company in Chicago, IL (through her consultancy with Waife & Associates, Inc.)
• Martha’s Vineyard Community Services
• The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families
• The Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership
• Pittsfield Family Networks, Berkshire Children and Family
• South Shore Mental Health Center
• Lyndon State College
• St. Ann’s Home and School
• Westborough State Hospital

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Relevant Courses, Training and Organizational Development

Courses

“Intensive Program in Family Systems Therapy: Working Effectively with Children, Adults and Larger Systems”, 78 hours of training in day long classes and a weekend retreat with the Family Institute of Cambridge, 9/05 – 6/09 and ongoing via www.FamilyTherapyTrainingBoston.com

“Program in Couple Therapy: The Art of Facilitating Intimate Relationships”, a weekly two hour class at the Family Institute of Cambridge, Watertown, MA, 10/03 – 4/04

“Partnering With Families in Social Services: An Intensive Program in Collaborative Approaches to Child Welfare” sponsored by the Family Institute of Cambridge, Family Centered Services Project, eleven day long classes throughout the academic year for Department of Social Services personnel, 9/05 – 6/08

“Partnering with Your Colleagues: Enhancing an Organizational Culture of Respect, Appreciation and Ongoing Learning” sponsored by the Family Institute of Cambridge, Family Centered Services Project, four day long classes as a follow up for practice leaders who took the Partnering With Families class to assist them in creating organizational change, 2/07 – 6/08

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Relevant Workshops/Training Series

“Mindfulness as Self Care for the Clinician”, Harvard University Cambridge Series Conference, 6/2/07

“Team Facilitation: Running an Effective Meeting”, Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Marlborough, MA 4/4/07

“Working with Adolescents and Their Families”, Family Institute of Cambridge, Watertown, MA, 6/24/05 and 6/25/05; 6/15/06, 3/30/07 and Human Services Training Institute, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT, 10/23/04

“Striving For Safety: Family Centered Practices in a Residential Setting” St. Ann’s Home in Methuen, MA, 5/24/06, 6/7/06, 6/21/06

“Working with Families”, training series for the social work Department of Westborough State Hospital, Westborough, MA, six sessions, 4/25/05 - 10/7/05

“Creating a Climate for Change”, the Behavioral Healthcare Network of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 7/99, 8/99, 9/99

“Managing Family Based Programs in the Managed Care Era”, New England Regional Family Based Services Conference, South Portland, ME, 11/96

“Clinical Decision Making in Managed Care Settings”, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University, Training Institutes, Traverse City, MI, 6/96

“Home Based Services: The Role of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist”, New England Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Belmont MA, 10/94

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Comments from former employee of the home based family crisis stabilization program that Liz managed where she developed a family therapy training program for staff and student interns:

I speak of you often. I wanted to send you another note of my appreciation and grateful feeling I have from the experience of working under your leadership. Most of what I learned about supervision came for your model. I am in my element training new social workers (Mostly BA's). I try to be ALL INCLUSIVE, appreciating everyone’s style of work and most of all, I am taking care of my staff in this very taxing work they are doing. Everyone I have interviewed to take positions understands that my style is responsibility, accountability and work ethic. I'm open to providing anyone with training and extra time to do their job, within reason. I just went through a stressful audit of our records. We came out with excellent results by the time the audit was executed. I was proud. From you, I understand that without a humanistic view of Social Work, people may not want to work for you. I mean really work! I enjoyed working for you and will do it again. I love you and feel lucky I had you as a role model.

Bernadette Rucker
Children's Services of Roxbury, Inc.
Intensive Foster Care Program Supervisor