Jerry Thomas
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J Thomas Consulting & Training Services
1799 Linden Ave
Memphis, TN
38104
Phone: (901) 276-5741
Fax: (901) 276-5741
Profile:
Ms. Thomas specializes in providing expert consultation and testimony regarding the safety and well being of children in institutional settings. Her vast experience in child welfare agencies has given her a comprehensive understanding of the quality of care necessary for those systems to be successful in providing for our children as well as how to provide that quality of care in real life terms. Her professional experiences have ranged from direct child supervision to the administration of a 30 bed psychiatric residential treatment center, from managing food services and housekeeping in a runaway shelter to providing group, individual and family therapies in an adolescent psychiatric hospital, and from serving as the clinical coordinator and public relations liaison for a full service psychiatric hospital to developing start up programs for children with serious psychological problems.
Ms. Thomas has spent the past 17 years as J Thomas Consulting and Training Services. As a consultant/trainer Ms. Thomas has been responsible for the following: (1) the development, implementation and oversight of programmatic approaches which facilitate and encourage the involvement of family or familial surrogates in all aspects of services to children and youth; (2) development and implementation of program models which provide intervention and treatment services to sexually abused and abusive youth, and their respective families; (3) the assessment and evaluation of child welfare programs for compliance with licensure and accreditation requirements, (4) the evaluation of institutional responsibility for child abuse and neglect and the development of systemic safety programs, (5) the assessment and evaluation of child welfare programs for licensure compliance, (5) comprehensive staff training which prepares them to work with high risk populations, particularly sexually abused and abusive youth, and families, (6) the development of community collaboration models and (7) assisting the legal community with consultation on child abuse/neglect in out of home settings.
Mrs. Thomas' work as a community volunteer has included the following: (1) a founder of the Memphis Child Advocacy Center: past member of the board and board president, currently on advisory committee (2) National Task Force on Sex Offense Specific Residential Standards for Youth: a founding member, collaborated in producing a document that identified standards or best practices for those programs, (3) National Task Force on Juvenile Sexual Offending: a member of the original task force as well as a collaborator in writing both the National Task Force Report and the revision, which were solicited and published by the National Council of Youth and Family Court Judges; (4) an appointment by the National Institute of Health to a 1995 think tank on female sexual offenders; and (6) an invitation to participate in a conference hosted by the National Center on Sex Offender Management re current standards of practice being utilized She is an active member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Beaverton, Oregon, and has participated on the Adult Standards and Adolescent Standards Committees for that organization.
Education/Licenses:
MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Memphis, Tennessee, 1972
Masters in Education: Counseling
RHODES COLLEGE, Memphis Tennessee, 1961
B.A., English
Primary Area of Expertise: Child Abuse & Neglect
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