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Mission

Fostering health through culturally relevant, equitable services and advocacy tailored to promote individual and community resilience, healing and prevention.

Tidwell Social Work Services and Consulting, Inc. (TSWSC) is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit whose mission is to foster health through culturally relevant, equitable services and advocacy tailored to promote individual and community resilience, healing and prevention. TSWSC has been providing clinical services primarily to indigent and vulnerable populations since 2001. Today TSWSC serves over 350 individuals.

Our Vision

Community members from other cultures are embraced and respected for their contributions to, and enrichment of, our community.

Clinic

Our clinicians comefromdiverse backgrounds;draw from a wide range ofexpertise and trainingtoprovide counseling servicesutilizing the followinginterventions:

-DialecticalBehavioralTherapy

-Mindfulness

-Psycho-education

-Cognitivebehavioraltherapy

-EMDR

-Expressivetherapies(art/sandtray/narrative)

-Playtherapy

-Parent-child psychotherapy

-Positivepsychology

-Referrals made to Animalassisted/equineassistedtherapy when indicated

Community-based Rehabilitation Services/ Targeted Case Management

-Targeted Service Coordination (TSC/CM).

Targeted Service Coordinationis a brokerage model of Case management which is a community-based program where a behavioral health professional assists clients who are at risk of being underserved in their effort to identify; access and utilize medical, behavioral health or social services, or to otherwise achieve goals for recovery/resiliency. Case Management services vary in intensity, frequency, and duration in order to support the client’s ability to utilize behavioral health and medical services, manage functional difficulties, or otherwise realize goals for recovery/resiliency.

-Community-based Rehabilitation Services (CBRS)

Community Based Rehabilitation Services is a home or community-based program available to adults who are recovering from a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness. It promotes recovery, and helpsindividuals develop skills needed to increase their capacity to thrive in their home, employment, school or social environments. Services target skills for adults are those that have been lost due to the symptoms of the client’s mental health condition. Our CBRS/CM program has over the years helped dozens of people from around the world establish new lives here in Boise. Based on the principlesoftrauma-informedpracticeand the provision ofequitable services, our program aims to:

  • Provide culturallyrelevantservices byreinterpretingconventional practicestobetter suit the needsofour refugee clientswhoare often resilienttraumasurvivors.
  • Counselor-CBRS/TSCworker collaborationisfundamental in this treatment model

Peer Support Services (PSS)

These are services lead by people in recovery. It is based on the philosophy that people with shared experiences of mental illness and/or substance abuse can give each other encouragement, hope, assistance, guidance and understanding to aid in recovery. These are services that are delivered by certified Peer Support Specialist (individuals in recovery who utilize their lived experiences with to assist other individuals in recovery).

Ancillary Mental Health Services

-Massage Therapy: In recognition of the psychosomatic effects of Trauma and the importance of utilizing a holistic approach in treating trauma survivors, TSWSC contracts with a Licensed Massage therapist to work on clients with Psychosomatic disorders and PTSD because studies have shown that the body is the medium of expression for many trauma survivor. This program aims to introduce ways to treat the body in a hands on, compassionate and caring way in an effort to help individuals in their process of recovery. Clients are referred to this free service on a voluntary basis as long as they meet criteria for the above mentioned diagnosis. Massage therapy serves as a culturally responsive alternative to conventional psychotherapy and helps ease some of the emotional and physical burdens of PTSD.

Community Building and Healing for Diverse Peoples

This is an inclusive community-oriented program designed to address the multiple barriers and unmet cultural and service needs of the local Refugee population. Based on innovative and recovery-oriented approaches, the program focuses on alternative ways of healing, learning and community-building in an effort to support refugees foster a healthy and productive life in their host communities. These efforts include thefollowing initiatives:

  • Women Empowerment
  • Family Services
  • Self- Help
  • Pay it Forward
  • Healing & Rebuilding our Communities (HROC)

Training and Consultation Services

TSWSC offers training forfamilies, students,paraprofessionals, andprofessionalsin the social workandmental healthfields. We also offerconsulting services togovernmentagencies andnonprofitorganizations. Servicesinclude: Managementconsultation, Mental healthadvocacy, Caseconsultation, customizedtraining, Clinical supervisionfor LMSW and LPC

2014 - 2015 Stats

-Financial overview

October 1st 2014 – December 31st 2014 / January 1st 2015 – December 31st 2015
Gross Income / $57,657.91 / $1,117,901.97
Total Expenses / $122,363.43 / $979,946.36
Net Income / -$64,705.52 / $137,955.61

-Service Data

October 1st 2014 – December 31st 2014 / January 1st 2015 – December 31st 2015
# of clients served
Medicaid / 253 / 1010
Insurance / 8 / 30
Ins/Medicaid / 7 / 16
Medicare/Medicaid / 1 / 2
Medicare / 0 / 1
RBH / 1 / 6
Self-pay / 2 / 8
Total / 272 / 1073
Service Hours by CPT-Counseling
90791(Assessments) / 37 / 269
90834(Individual psychotherapy) / 592 / 3624
90785(Complexity code) / 521 / 3309
90837(Individual psychotherapy-ext) / 82 / 871
90847(Family therapy w/o client) / 28 / 129
90846(Family therapy w/ client) / 11 / 71
90853(group therapy) / 0 / 30
Total / 1271 / 8303
Service Hours by CPT- CBRS/CM
H2017 / 976.75 hours / 7235 hours
T1017 / 269.5 hours / 2757 hours

-Other accomplishments

  • 2014 African Culinary Conference/Fundraiser - In an effort to promote economic development and support local businesses, the proceeds from this event were used to provide startup funds for three aspiring entrepreneurs to begin their businesses at the Boise International Market.
  • 2015 Arab World in Idaho: Food, Innovation & Culture Conference – 70% of Funds raised benefited the local chapter of HROC: Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities, an organization that seeks to rebuild community trust in the wake of traumatic violence. Given the recent tragedy at the Boise International Market, 30% of the net proceeds were donated to help with the Market’s rebuilding efforts and/or support its vendors.
  • The Community Unbound Project (CUP) is a collaborative initiative between Boise State University and Tidwell Social Work Services & Consulting Inc. The committee is dedicated to providing venues for cross-cultural education and contact that promotes understanding, healing and community building in the city of Boise, Idaho.
  • Massage therapy – Program Evaluation Pilot project
  • Successful transition!!!

Strategic Plan

Tidwell Social Work Services and Consulting, Inc. offers mental health and other supportive services to vulnerable groups and indigent populations. Our client demographics span a wide array of cultural identities as access to our programs/services is non-discriminatory.Keeping our client’s needs at the heart of the treatment, TSWSC workers strive toward the restoration of dignity & respect, safety & trust, power & control. This often requires the use of innovative but effective and culturally relevant treatment modalities (e.g. massage therapy, yoga, community healing activities etc) not sanctioned by our current revenue source.

Our financials significantly influence our decisions and can undermine the accomplishment of our mission. As such, we need to generate unrestricted funds to help support alternative treatment and support to our consumers.

Looking Forward

Finance:

  • We expect to increase funding by 15% through online donations and small fundraising events, in order to expand unrestricted funds, and hope to initiate a capital campaign by year’s end.
  • Generate ~ $25,000 (or close to!) from ticket sales, silent auction, raffle and donations at the 2016 Annual Conference and Fundraising Event.

Operations:

  • In-house Biller/Bookkeeper
  • Transition to Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Programs:

  • Introduce more alternative trauma-informed healing practices e.g. yoga, Body Work, HROC groups
  • Expand adjunctive services e.g. Peer Support Services, Community Mental Health Advisors (CMHA)
  • Implement a Peer Support Service (PSS) Program
  • Partner with SARMC Center for Global Health and Healing in providing supportive mental health services for their Survivors of Torture Program (PSOT).

Notable Upcoming Events:Save the date for our 3rd Annual Conference and Fundraising event on Saturday October 15th 2016!! More details to follow.

This Work Needs Your Help…

Your commitment to helping heal our community and its people can be demonstrated by financially supporting our programs any way you can. All donations are tax deductable. Here are some ways to show your support:

-Credit Card or PayPal donations (one-time or recurring) can be made securely at

-A donation of $50 or more to the Massage Therapy program pays for an hour long massage for the donor and also helps fund the of cost of providing massage therapy for trauma survivors. The more you donate, the greater the impact!!

-A donation of $10 or more can help support our Trauma-informed yoga program

-Donations by mail may be made to:

Tidwell Social Work Services and Consulting, Inc.

5999 W. State Street

Boise, ID 83703

Volunteer and Make a Difference.

Your time commitment and dedication to our cause is just as valuable. Please let us know how else you can help.

Wish List…

As we continue to grow and deliberately expand our services to benefit indigent community members who are marginalized by current limitations in our State's welfare resources, it has become increasingly necessary to improve the accessibility of our services.

In line with our mission to provide culturally relevant services that promote individual and community healing, TSWSC now offers/is in the process of developing various services that are not Medicaid reimbursed e.g. massage therapy, yoga, some group healing (HROC) etc. However, most of the individuals that stand to benefit from these services lack the means to easily commute to their appointments without Medicaid non-emergency transportation services.

In an effort to overcome this potential snag on obtaining positive outcomes, TSWSC is in need of a safe and functioning vehicle. Kindly consider donating if you have one!!