Candidates
Yvonne Haynes
Please give a brief biography, including your education, licensure or certification level and employment history:
Education:
B.Sc., Howard University, Washington, D.C.
MSW, certification in gerontology, Virginia Commonwealth University
License: LCSW, Virginia
Employment history:
I currently provide services to independent agencies as a behavioral health consultant. I am retired from service as director of mental health services at the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority in Richmond, Virginia. I was employed at that agency for 16 years. Prior to my experience with the RBHA, I was employed as the clinical coordinator of the behavioral health unit at a midsize urban hospital, the Capitol Medical Center, for 11 years. The previous three years, I was employed at the Richmond Community Hospital as a program development coordinator. In addition to my full-time employment, I served as an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University for more than 15 years.
Regulatory and professional experience:
In my capacity at the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority, I designed, implemented, and directed a comprehensive mental health service system to more than 1,300 adult consumers in seven clinical units, 700 children and youth, 250 students in Richmond public schools, and one psychosocial program. I also provided overall direction, clinical supervision, and leadership to staff of diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the mental health division.
In addition, I worked with the department of behavioral health and developmental services on a pilot project on the recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission related to assisted-living facilities in the city of Richmond. I designed and facilitated many aspects of that research project for three years, the goal of which was to improve the quality of services the residents of those facilities received through collaboration with the local community services board.
During my employment, I served on various committees of numerous nonprofit organizations including the executive director’s task force of Homeward, a homeless services collaborative; both state and local departments of social services; the United Way Community-Based Committee (vice-chair), the board of the local NASW chapter, and the board of the YWCA.
Give a synopsis of your regulatory and professional experience. Please emphasize your involvement with ASWB:
I was appointed to my first four-year term on the Virginia Board of Social Work and the Virginia Department of Health Professions by one Virginia governor and reappointed to a second term on both boards by his successor. The Virginia Department of Health Professions focuses on the licensing of health care providers and enforcing standards governing their practice. During my tenure, I served as vice-chair on both boards and ultimately as chair of the Board of Social Work. While serving in executive positions on the Board of Social Work, ASWB became an invaluable resource to me. Following my New Board Member Training, I attended my first delegate assembly as the Virginia delegate. I subsequently facilitated the Board Member Exchange at an education conference. I have been a member of the Bylaws and Resolutions Committee and currently serve on the Supervision Competencies Task Force.
Publications:
Haynes, Y. P. (2008). Not an option, but a duty.
In J.O. Beckett (Ed.) Lifting Our Voices. The Journeys into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers. (pp 134-162). New York, New York: Columbia University Press.
Finally, make a brief statement on the major issues you see facing ASWB, and how you would address them:
Licensing reform
Public protection and concerns for public health and safety have been the primary reasons given for the need for occupational licensing. The vision of ASWB is the licensing of all social workers. If the current trend of reduction and elimination of professional licensure continues, ASWB will be faced with the critical challenge of licensing reform.
In response, ASWB needs to initiate the conversation through advocacy by convening meetings with national and state law and policy makers to educate and develop strategies related to recent licensing trends and issues that strike a balance between public protection and the enhancement of the ability of social workers to practice. In addition, ASWB could continue its practice of providing education to member boards specific to the issue of promulgating regulations that are not onerous, arbitrary, or too restrictive. ASWB can also provide information on current best practices and occupational licensing research outcomes.
Proliferation of technology-assisted supervision
As a profession, social work has always preferred the practice modality of face-to-face interaction between client and therapist and supervisor and supervisee. The increasing use of social media and the exploding numbers of platforms, apps, blogs, and video sites make the proliferation of technology-assisted supervision an imminent reality requiring a unified response.
Through the publication Model Regulatory Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice, ASWB has provided some foundational direction that could be incorporated in a document specific to clinical supervision. This document, however, should also answer questions relevant to issues of the percentage of supervision that should be technology-assisted and how the supervisor can demonstrate expertise in the use of technology-assisted supervision sufficient to protect the confidentiality and safety of clients discussed.
Date jurisdictional board term ended:
June 30, 2019
Karine Levesque
Please give a brief biography, including your education, licensure or certification level and employment history:
I received my BSW from Moncton University in New Brunswick in 1996 and started working at the regional mental health clinic as a frontline clinical social worker in the adult program for the next four years. Since 2000, I have been working for the Extra-Mural Program, which is a provincial health care program delivering health care services in clients’ homes. As the sole social worker, I am part of a multidisciplinary team providing health services, counseling, access to resources for all age groups, individual and group counseling, and involvement in palliative care and grief counseling for families. As a bilingual frontline clinician, I have since perfected my practice in palliative care. As part of a new initiative, I am now an approved facilitator for Pallium Canada, responsible for training the multidisciplinary teams and paramedics in New Brunswick on the principles of palliative care and the end of life philosophy to care. I am a strong believer that our social work profession is well trained to be in such a pivotal and influential position, and I am proud to add this to my involvement with a client faced with dying in dignity. I am a dedicated and passionate person who doesn’t hesitate to become involved in organizations that present values I believe in! I am a proud mother of two beautiful, healthy kids who motivate me to be the best I can be for those less fortunate.
Give a synopsis of your regulatory and professional experience. Please emphasize your involvement with ASWB:
Upon receiving my license to practice social work in New Brunswick in 1996, I became involved with my association and still am to this day. I served as chair of the NBASW Regulatory and Discipline Committee for seven years, moved into an executive position on the provincial board for four years, and then served as president of NBASW for four years. At that time, I became involved with ASWB, CASW, and the Canadian Council of Social Work Regulators when Canada needed to move forward with mobility for professionals and when Canadian social work standards of practice and education curriculums were evaluated and developed. I then served six years on the CASW board before moving to my current position as regional director for my chapter of NBASW. These past few years, as an NBASW board member, I served on the committee that worked on NBASW’s newly adopted legislation, last year’s Nominating Committee for NBASW annual elections, the Bylaws Committee, and the Promotion of the Profession Committee. During my four years as NBASW president, I participated in ASWB’s Annual Meeting of the Delegate Assembly as the voting delegate for New Brunswick and attended a few education conferences. I humbly share that I am a past recipient of NBASW’s Debbie Nason Social Work in Health Care Award, CASW’s Distinguished Service Award for New Brunswick, and a recognition by my local peers as Social Worker of the Year. I was also appointed as a member of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission from 2010 to 2016. I was elected to ASWB’s Nominating Committee in 2016 for a two-year term and served as chair this past year. Over the years, I have become familiar with ASWB’s mandate and challenges and made new friends along the way. I was part of ASWB while each Canadian province gradually joined this wonderful organization.
Finally, make a brief statement on the major issues you see facing ASWB, and how you would address them:
I may be a familiar to some who may recall my statements around the fact that I am a strong advocate for diversity and a believer in the need to network and become unified. ASWB is every member’s business! Coming from a French Acadian culture, I know that small doesn’t mean less powerful! Having the ability to motivate and empower change, I am sensitive to the topic of mobility that has been a challenge for ASWB these past years. This requires members to adhere to this new philosophy, and I want to continue influencing how mobility is a vital asset to ASWB being one voice and one regulator for social work practice across Canada and the United States. Members are also struggling with the sense of “belonging” to an organization that, at the end of the day, is all of US! I would continue to maintain strong links to transparency with the membership and to be a leader in building new relationships among each other and with stakeholders. I would take part in any initiative to maintain a strong and viable ASWB. I am also a leader in promoting how social work is a profession we need to be proud of. The public can expect quality service from social workers. I would hope to motivate people to become involved in campaigns to emphasize this awareness among our members as well as the public. Last year was also pivotal because we faced an important challenge around the ASWB exams and how that could affect/divide Canada and the States. I was pleased to see that ASWB’s Board members also felt this issue needed to be tabled and that some revision and consultation were necessary. As a French Canadian from a legislated bilingual province, I know that enforcing an exam not available in French would be catastrophic for our small association. Although it has been an open discussion for possibility among NBASW for some time now, as an ASWB Board member, I would be privileged to be allowed the opportunity to work on policies around this issue while ensuring no loss to ASWB’s members. Lastly, let’s face it, ASWB is a big business and with that come its financial priorities; I would take the time to learn the challenges without being self-serving and while keeping ASWB`s best interests in mind.
I thank you all for considering my nomination for this elected position on the ASWB Board.
Date jurisdictional board term ends:
First mandate to end in June 2020
Kim Madsen
Please give a brief biography, including your education, licensure or certification level and employment history:
Since January 2009, Kim Madsen has served as the executive officer for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Ms. Madsen’s regulatory oversight includes four mental health professions totaling more than 115,000 licensees and registrants: licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed professional clinical counselors, and licensed educational psychologists. Serving at the pleasure of a 13-member board, Ms. Madsen manages a $12 million budget and 60 staff members to attain the operational goals and policy direction of the board.
Throughout Ms. Madsen’s 25-year career with the state of California, she has focused on professional licensing and consumer protection. Ms. Madsen spent 10 years at the California Board of Pharmacy, investigating consumer complaints and conducting undercover Internet purchases of pharmaceuticals from random websites. One undercover purchase resulted in a $55 million fine to a California pharmacy for filing an Internet prescription without a good-faith examination by a California physician. This was one of the largest fines assessed by the California Board of Pharmacy at that time.
Prior to her appointment as the BBS executive officer, Ms. Madsen served as the board’s assistant executive officer and the licensing manager, the criminal background unit manager for the Department of Public Health, and enforcement manager for the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology.
In addition to Ms. Madsen’s Associate of Arts degree, Ms. Madsen has completed the University of California, Davis Executive Leadership Program; American River College Regulatory Investigations Program; and the Council on Licensure, Enforcement, and Regulation’s National Certified Investigator Basic and Specialized Program.
Ms. Madsen recently was awarded the 2019 American Association of State Counseling Boards Distinguished Service Award for leadership.
Give a synopsis of your regulatory and professional experience. Please emphasize your involvement with ASWB:
Achieving successful regulatory proposals is not accomplished by one entity or person. Successful regulatory proposals are a result of partnerships. I firmly believe that “together we are better.” I am deeply committed to the inclusion of all stakeholders to discuss regulatory proposals. Establishing trust, listening to all stakeholders, flexibility, and transparency lead to successful experiences collaborating with professional associations and educators of all license types regulated by the board.
As the board’s executive officer, I partner with stakeholders to develop consensus on proposed regulatory language through a series of stakeholder meetings. These meetings provide the forum to resolve differences and vet out any unintended consequences. As a result, I am able to present a regulatory proposal to a prospective author (assembly member or senator) and confidently state there is no opposition to the proposal.
I work diligently to establish a strong working relationship with the author (assembly member or senator) and staff. At each juncture of the regulatory process, I provide testimony in support of the proposal and work with staff to ensure the proposal’s success. Further, I am readily available to meet with the legislature regarding any concerns related to the board and board licensees and applicants.
Since 2015, I’ve attended all ASWB Annual Meetings of the Delegate Assembly. I’ve also attended the 2018 and 2019 education conferences. I was honored to serve on the 2017 ASWB Mobility Task Force. This collaborative effort developed the resolution for member boards to support the concepts of practice mobility. The resolution was successfully adopted during the 2017 delegate assembly.
I was selected as a co-presenter to share California’s efforts to develop a license mobility proposal at the 2018 education conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. These efforts were discussed during the session “Mobility Tool Kit Step 5–Assess Facilitators and Barriers for Interjurisdictional Practice: Practice Across Professions and Borders.” The framework in this presentation ultimately became California’s current license portability proposal, which was referred in early September 2019 to the governor for his signature.
Recently, I served on the 2019 ASWB Membership and Contracts Task Force. I’ve enjoyed my experiences with ASWB committee membership and ASWB meetings. The collaboration and collegial environment encourage creativity to find solutions to common issues. I welcome the opportunity to continue to serve the ASWB community
Finally, make a brief statement on the major issues you see facing ASWB, and how you would address them:
License portability/mobility: The concept of license portability/mobility will remain a concept until all member boards have laws or regulations that provide a streamlined process for state licensure. Currently, 30 member boards either have or are in the process of revising existing law to increase license portability/mobility. Let’s identify the barriers and/or challenges the remaining states face; develop strategies and solutions to achieve license portability/mobility in their states; and become one of the first professions to have license portability/mobility in all 50 states.
Governance reform: Remove or reduce licensure requirements, board consolidations: These proposals immediately strike fear in our hearts. They seek to eliminate and/or minimize the work we do. I believe education and data are the key arguments to support the work we do and why the work is critical to our public protection mandate. Let’s consider developing a model plan member boards can use when these legislative proposals are introduced and discussed. Components of the model plan may include talking points to educate legislators about the value of licensure, the work of the board and data, and the importance of protecting the public. The model plan may then serve as a template that provides consistent messaging regarding social work regulation and practice and highlights the individual state’s work to protect consumers.
Date jurisdictional term ends:
Currently the Executive Officer for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. I serve at the pleasure of the Board.