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Cultivating Paths Counseling
1941 South 42nd Street, Suite 307
https://cultivatingpathscounseling.com/contact-us
Mildred Tucker
Owner/Supervisor/ Lead therapist
cultivatingpaths@gmail.com
+1 (140) 297-9835
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Mildred Tucker-Owner/Management/lead counselor
Mildred Tucker, MS, PLMHP, LADC Owner/Management/Supervising Substance Abuse Counselor Experience in program development, case coordination with outside entities and providers, State provider. Provisional Mental Health provider since June of 2021. Substance Abuse Counselor since 2014. Experience in practice credentialing, medical billing, and record keeping. Phone: 402-979-8350 FAX: 1-888-490-0210 Email: Cultivatingpaths@gmail.com Team: Earl Brown, MS, LMHP Supervisor/ Therapist Owner of Tubman Center counseling, ten years of supervision of internships and onsite training. Experience in HR and case management. 5 years of group facilitating. Intake, assessments, and case coordination. 10 years of experience working for individuals with mental health challenges. Monroe Evans, MS, PLMHP Provisional Therapist/ EMDR Specialist Three years of experience as a provisional Mental Health provider. Two years of EMDR Experience. Mental Health group facilitating, family therapy, and individual sessions. Experience in past residential treatment at Open door Mission and former teacher. Intake coordination and mental health assessments. Mitch Almeida, AAS, PLADC Provisional Substance Abuse Counselor Metropolitan Community College Graduate 2022. Completed Practicum training at Cultivating Paths Counseling in June of 2021. One year of experience in Intensive Outpatient group facilitating addition to providing Case Management services, Substance Use evaluation and assessment, crises interventions, and supports intake coordination.
Cultivating Paths Counseling is going to offer varieties of counseling services within the scope mental health and substance use in North and South Omaha. We started our private counseling business on April 1, 2022, is to assist our program participants with increasing the ability to adopt healthy coping skills to sustain in their life challenges; achieve and their personal goals. CPC has accomplished by assisting to increase services providers by assisting upcoming professionals with hands on education to prepare them for state licensing testing, and knowledge of culturally competent services. Our service offerings are listed below: • Mental health • Family therapy • Teletherapy • Interpreters (Espanol) • Intensive Outpatient/Outpatient Programming (AM and PM groups available). • EMDR (Trauma Approaches) • Group Therapy • Alanon Group Meeting (Psychoeducation for a family of substance use individuals). • Community Resources (e.g., Utilities, Education, Employment, and outside healthcare). • Practicum student training site.
Cultivating Paths Counseling Proposal for North and South Omaha
245494.0
300000.0
Combination of capital project and service/program
Cultivating Paths Counseling, LLC is incorporated in Omaha, Nebraska 1941 South 42nd Street, Suite 307 Omaha, Nebraska 68105 Cultivating Paths Counseling, LLC is a professional and licensed counseling (private practice) firm that is specialized in helping its clients overcome their challenges and achieve their personal goals and improve their competence and lifestyles. The scope of our business offerings covers areas such as substance use, mental health, Intensive outpatient programming, family therapy, child, and family mental health services. Our business will be located in – between a well–populated residential estate and a business district in Omaha, Nebraska United States of America. Cultivating Paths Counseling (CPC), LLC is a client-focused and result-driven private counseling that provides counseling to clients that face issues with mental health and substance use issues. Individuals and families will have the ability to learn approaches and experience at an affordable fee. The agency is established as a State provider for assistance with the re-entry population (Justice System), and including CPC accepts Nebraska State Medicaid. We will ensure that we work hard to meet and surpass all individual client expectations as it relates to their career, personal relationship, and personal goals in their life of sobriety whenever they hire our services. At Cultivating Paths, our client’s’ overall best interest would always come first, and everything we do is guided by our values and professional ethics. We will ensure that we hire professional and licensed substance use counselors and mental health therapist with various skills set who are well experienced and passionate in helping our clients achieve their personal goals within record time. Cultivating Paths Counseling, LLC will always demonstrate commitment to sustainability, both individually and as a private counseling organization, by actively participating in our communities and integrating sustainable business practices wherever possible. We will ensure that we hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards by meeting our clients’ needs precisely and completely. We will cultivate a working environment that provides a human, sustainable approach to earning a living, and living in our world, for our partners, employees and for our clients.
Availability of Cultivating Paths Counseling Name Check: Completed • Business Incorporation: Completed • Credentialing with the State of Nebraska Medicaid: Completed • Opening of Corporate Bank Accounts at various banks in the United States: Completed (Cobalt Credit Union). • Opening Online Payment Platforms: (State Medicaid completed, State Probation Completed). • Application and Obtaining Taxpayer’s ID: Completed • Application for business license and permit: Completed • Purchase of All forms of Insurance for the Business: Completed • Contracted Interrupter-In Progress • Leasing a standard office facility in a good location plus reconstruction: Completed • Conducting Feasibility Studies: Completed • Generating part of the start-up capital for grant: In Progress • Writing of business plan: Completed • Drafting of Employee’s Handbook: Completed • Design of Logo for the business: Completed • Graphic Designs and Printing of Packaging Marketing / Promotional Materials: In Progress • Recruitment of employees: 4 Hired and ready to serve. • Purchase of the needed furniture, office equipment, electronic appliances, and facility facelift: Some completed and Additional needed. • Creating an Official Website for the business: In-Progress • Creating awareness for the business in Omaha, Nebraska- In Progress • Health and Safety and Fire Safety Arrangement: Completed • Teletherapy Equipment-In progress • Establishing business relationships with Justice System, Psychiatrist, health clinics, Nebraska Total Care, Healthy Blue, United Healthcare, and Inpatient treatment facilities: In Progress/completed (continued task)
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Fundamental Change (i.e., a proposal that will continue to elevate North or South Omaha's presence and perception within the region, significantly improving the lives of area residents through physical development) Long-Lasting Economic Growth (i.e., a proposal that will foster gainful employment opportunities and financial investment in the area, leading to the creation of generational wealth and widespread economic vitality in North and South Omaha)
Other Sustainable Community (i.e., create or enhance housing, services, education, civic uses, recreation, etc.)
Mental Health Counseling and Provider training
The overall goal of Cultivating Paths Counseling is to reduce symptoms, improve mental health status, improve functionality, and improve quality of life. Decreased use of illicit substances in the North Omaha and South Omaha Communities. These results are measured through clinician tracking of goals that are agreed upon by the client and clinician, and through biannual client surveys that ask clients to assess their satisfaction with the program. For all programs and services for which the agency surveys clients, Cultivating Paths Counseling will utilize Results-Based Accountability principles. Cultivating Paths Counseling desired outcomes will include: • 90% of clients will make progress to or achieve a mental health goal (goals include: addressing anger, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, social adjustment, trauma, substance abuse and relationship issues) • 90% of clients will report an improvement in quality of life • 90% of clients will report improved mood/reduced depression • 100% of respondents will report experiences with Telehealth was at least “very good” or “excellent." on a satisfaction rating scale. • We will have at least 6 therapists offering an average 5 to 6 sessions 5 days per week. •We will have access to 6 private counseling rooms. • We will serve at minimum of 300 North and South Omaha clients before year 2025.
Cultivating Paths Counseling proposal aligns with Visioning Workshop Summary because it will assist with strengthen the North and South Omaha communities by decreasing symptoms that are increased from Covid with mental health and substance, and increasing employment and training for Metropolitain Community College students and surrounding institutes in the human service field.
Cultivating Paths Counseling, LLC (CPC) seeks to expand clinical mental health counseling and substance use treatment to support vulnerable populations who are also disproportionately affected by COVID pandemic and traumas in North and South Omaha area. CPC provides one point of entry, allowing for increased coordination of in-house services for those experiencing mental health impacts of COVID, including depression, anxiety, isolation, grief, PTSD, and substance use addictions. Through our wraparound services, CPC is a gateway to numerous of community social support services for substance use issues, and mental health services. CPC is dedicated to offering more education opportunities to chemical dependency practicum students, and employment opportunities to upcoming professionals at Metropolitan Community College. With the support of Grant Funding, CPC will provide more counseling for individuals with barriers to access; deepen community outreach and education to promote preventative measures to support the mental health of individuals with even higher vulnerability, before they reach a crisis; and provide easier access and more flexible counseling options through Telehealth. Telehealth Intensive Outpatient/ Outpatient substance use and mental health services. The requested funding could be assisting with long-lasting economic growth by creating wellness in mental health stability support and educational facilities for upcoming professionals to continue serving the North and South Omaha communities.
Cultivating Paths Counseling Proposal is assisting with creating Jobs by providing onsite training and possible upcoming human services students and provisional licenses.
6 positions
Three temporary practicum placements from Metropolitain Community College every three month.s.
Provisional Substance use Counselors -$38.400
Cultivating Paths Counseling will provide jobs to upcoming substance use counselors ongoing by providing practicum sites to students and possible hiring after completion.
The services of Mental health and substance abuse treatment will improve healthy living, health, and decrease the recidivism of incarcerations in the North and South Omaha Community. The contract with Metropolitain Community College will promote career training to all North Omaha Community.
Cultivating Paths Counseling will assist in improving higher wages employment to upcoming substance use counselors.
Cultivating Paths will include a hired analysis into the budget. Midred Tucker will gather all surveys from clients and practicum students.
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Metropolitain Community College
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Within one or more QCTs
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$ 245.494.00
• The budget for liability insurance– $750.00 Annually. • Acquiring an office space that will accommodate the number of employees we intend to employ for at least one year (Re-Construction of the facility inclusive) will cost –$14,928. Three years =$44, 784. • Equipping the office (computers, new white board, new printer, markers, copy paper, pens, note pads, sticky note, staplers, folders, file labels, staples, journals, and pencils, additional furniture, additional telephones, office computers, estimated cost – $10,000 annually. • 1 -Staff payment-therapist/EMDR specialist-$84.264 Annually ($42.13 hourly). • 2-therapist co-occurring treatment specialist- Three years 252, 792. • 3- Staff Substance Use Counseling - $38.400 Annually ($20.00). Three years $115,200. • The cost for accounting electronic record-keeping software – $3,192 annually. • Cost for payroll software$960.00 annually. • Teletherapy equipment-Additional cost of $20,000 startup (e.g., Wall mounting, cameras, carts, HIPPA approved software). • Interpreters contracted company estimated cost: 145.00 per hour. 3-hour intensive Outpatient Groups monthly $5220.00. Annually- $62.640. • Additional Expenditures such as Business cards, Signage, Advertisement, and Promotions will cost annually– $5360.00. • Miscellaneous – $5000. Check List / Milestone • Availability of Cultivating Paths Counseling Name Check: Completed • Business Incorporation: Completed • Credentialing with the State of Nebraska Medicaid: Completed • Opening of Corporate Bank Accounts at various banks in the United States: Completed (Cobalt Credit Union). • Opening Online Payment Platforms: (State Medicaid completed, State Probation Completed). • Application and Obtaining Taxpayer’s ID: Completed • Application for business license and permit: Completed • Purchase of All forms of Insurance for the Business: Completed • Contracted Interrupter-In Progress • Leasing a standard office facility in a good location plus reconstruction: Completed • Conducting Feasibility Studies: Completed • Generating part of the start-up capital for grant: In Progress • Writing of business plan: Completed • Drafting of Employee’s Handbook: Completed • Design of Logo for the business: Completed • Graphic Designs and Printing of Packaging Marketing / Promotional Materials: In Progress • Recruitment of employees: 4 Hired and ready to serve. • Purchase of the needed furniture, office equipment, electronic appliances, and facility facelift: Some completed and Additional needed. • Creating an Official Website for the business: In-Progress • Creating awareness for the business in Omaha, Nebraska- In Progress • Health and Safety and Fire Safety Arrangement: Completed • Teletherapy Equipment-In progress • Establishing business relationships with Justice System, Psychiatrist, health clinics, Nebraska Total Care, Healthy Blue, United Healthcare, and Inpatient treatment facilities: In Progress/completed (continued task)
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Cultivating Paths Counseling will maintain all financial obligation following all use of funds.
• Payment with sliding scales fee • Payment via check • Payment through voucher from third party source (State Probation/Scholarships) • Payment through state provided Medicaid insurance (DHHS) • Private insurance billing
State Of Nebraska Medicaid-Completed
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In connection with your consideration of honoring the grant to Cultivating paths the described above commitment to purchasing and providing documentation the obligations from financial accounts. Cultivating Paths financial commitment is to pay cost for all providers licenses to practice in the State of Nebraska. Pay all cost for continuing education to maintain licenses.
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