I am a Davis County Democrat (except for one year experimenting with being a Libertarian in my twenties) following in the proud footsteps of my 89 year old father who was born in Ogden and later moved to Salt Lake City where I was born. I was born in 1955 (a year before Burger Bar in Roy opened) at the old St. Mark's Hospital across from the old Wasatch Springs Plunge on 300 West (I would later become the first volunteer at the opening of the Children's Museum of Utah which would use the same building as Wasatch Springs until they moved to the Gateway Mall) . Utah has been my home all my life, except for a brief time spent at New College in Sarasota, Florida. I later completed my formal education at the University of Utah, a couple miles from where I grew up. I finally came here to live in Clearfield City twenty years ago when I married my wife Bobbie.
We have now been together for 20 years and been quite busy during the last three years replacing our roof, installing a new air conditioner and furnace, fixing a broken sprinkler connection, repairing our washing machine, backflow regulator, waste disposal, garage door opener and replacing our oven that broke the day before our waste disposal went out. Now this year we've had to replace our out of code 36 year-old "vinyl" venting for our dryer. Home is a house where Bobbie and I live in Clearfield and that's thirty years old, where my wife's parents lived and died and the City where my wife's brother and one of her two sisters live.
MY EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
Professional
experience
I have been a social worker for the past 17 years and received my state clinical license in 2006 because "I care about people." I have helped, primarily using cognitive-behavioral therapy, hundreds of children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly to cope with:
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anxiety
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depression
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disruptive behavior
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suicidal ideation
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substance abuse
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employment issues
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marriage and family problems
I "life coached," including the use of Gestalt and existential therapy, to help people find meaning in their lives and achieve the dreams they struggle to make into reality.
From 2015 to 2018, I also had the opportunity to teach a life skills course to over a hundred of inmate-students at the Davis County Jail consisting of:
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Grief and Loss
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Confidence & Self-Respect
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Stress
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Self Care
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Emotional Intelligence
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Communication
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Relationships
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Career and Employment
Prior to being a social worker, I held various professional positions spanning over twenty years of my life in local governments and mostly non-profit organizations serving people like you, "caring about people."
Work
experience
2019 to 2020 Independent Contractor, Therapist
2007 to 2018 Family Counseling Services, Therapist
2010 to 2011 Blomquist Hale Consulting, Therapist
2009 Salt Lake Community College, Adjunct Instructor
2007 to 2008 Clinical Consultants, Group Therapist
2007 Volunteers of America, Case Manager/Therapist
2005 to 2006 Associated Interventions & Counseling, Therapist
2002 to 2005 New Horizons, Therapist
2002 Community Treatment Alternatives, Support Staff
2001 Turn Community Services Instructor
2000 Smart Title Solutions, Data Entry
1994 to 1996 University of Utah Neighborhood Action Coalition,
Community Mobilizer
1993 to 1994 Salt Lake County Aging Services Project CARE coordinator
1990 to 1993 Sandy City Community Development Block Grant
coordinator
1989 Salt Lake Community Action Program jobs facilitator
1989 University of Utah Survey Research Center interviewer
1989 American Red Cross Salt Lake Chapter fund raising
campaign coordinator
1984-89 West Valley City community development specialist
1982-84 West Valley City economic & redevelopment assistant
1982 West Valley City planning intern
1979 Continental Bank (now Hotel Monaco in Salt Lake City)
courier
1976-77 Salt Lake City-County Health Department Drug Referral
Center file clerk
1973 Peck & Shaw GMC Cars and Trucks, Murray, car lot attendant
1972 Birds Unlimited, Hansel Valley, Utah pheasant farm laborer
Community
Experience
2019 Davis Community Learning Center, English as a Second Language
Tutor
2018-19 Community advocate and organizer
2014-15 Japanese American Citizens League, Salt Lake Chapter, newsletter
editor
2012 Clearfield City Left Hand Turn Lane, neighborhood advocate
2011-13 The Leonardo, exhibit docent
2011 Utah State Legislature, parent advocate
2009-11 Parents of Murdered Children, Inc. Utah board member
and president
2005-08 Davis School District Equity Committee member and chair
2002 University of Utah Social Work Diversity Conference chair
1999 Japanese American Citizens League, Salt Lake Chapter,
president
1999 Salt Lake City School District- Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce,
School-To-Careers, Community Editor
1997-98 Guadalupe School tutor
1996 Mobilization Against Gang Violence in Communities (MAGIC) chair
1994-95 Northwest Society of Arts and Humanities (Rose Park, SLC)
trustee
1993-95 Salt Lake City Board of Education member
1993-94 Salt Lake Valley Drug Abuse Prevention Coalition Legislative
Committee chair
1992 Salt Lake Valley Drug Abuse Prevention Coalition Asian Task
Force member
1991-92 Salt Lake County Coordinated Grants Task Force member
1991-92 Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Business Education
Committee member
1990-91 Sandy City Historic Preservation Commission staff member
1987-88 Literacy Action Center tutor
1983-86 Children's Museum of Utah docent
1979-81 Salt Lake City Board of Education member
1974-76 Utah State Board of Education Student Rights and Responsibilities
Committee member
1973-74 Utah State Board of Education Youth Advisory Committee member
1973-74 East High School Curriculum Committee member
1968-69 Bryant Junior High School Underground Newspaper reporter
Education
University of Utah
Masters in Social Worker
2002
University of Utah
Masters in Public Administration
1986
University of Utah
Honor Society for Public Affairs & Administration
Charter member and Vice-President
1982
University of Utah
Bachelors in Political Science & Philosophy, cum laude
1980
Sarasota Florida
1975
East High School
Salt Lake City, Utah
Graduated with Honors
1974
