Allow us to reintroduce Jill Wolf, Wolf Pack’s Founder & CEO
As many of you know, I started Wolf Pack two years ago after over 20 years as a clinician and administrator across the behavioral healthcare continuum. This work is hard work, and it's meant to be that way. But what I found that always stuck with me is that the hard parts actually shouldn't be hard at all. Clinicians - social workers, counselors, psychologists, peer specialists, etc. - deserve safe, supportive mentorship, training, and a real work-life balance that comes with a fair income. Consumers of mental health care should never have to worry about finding or sustaining a relationship with a qualified therapist because of health insurance challenges. Nonprofits need a wide range of guidance and services that they often don't have the bottom line to afford and could be the difference between expanding services or closing shop. Enter Wolf Pack!
Wolf Pack exists to support people and systems through change. I'm excited to reintroduce our work to you and share some updates about our steps to meet the increased demands for behavioral health services. We are expanding, and I'm howling at the moon about our meaningful and strategic moves.
In broad brushstrokes, our focus in 2024 is to maintain our momentum within our three divisions to sustainably meet the dynamic and ongoing demands of the mental health field.
The cornerstone of our work is Wolf Pack Therapy. There is a high demand for our unique approach to providing trauma-informed support and emotional and body literacy for all who need it. We expect to grow by 100% in 2024 and look forward to welcoming systems-minded, emotionally literate, and trauma-responsive clinicians to the pack. Wolf Pack Therapy clinicians use a variety of supportive approaches stemming from harm reduction, trauma-responsive, and anti-racist practices. We work with folks managing anxiety and depression, relationship struggles, difficulties related to drug use and addiction, sexuality & identity, and life transitions (job change, divorce, etc.). If you or a loved one are interested in receiving supportive care, don't hesitate to reach out. If you're a therapist looking to make a career move or add a few clinical hours to your schedule, let's talk!
The Wolf Pack Institute is designed as a training and workforce development community. One of our programs is Group Soup, an inclusive community of mental health professionals and trainees seeking hearty clinical supervision. Group Soup builds the next generation of behavioral health providers and is explicitly designed for Masters-level graduate clinicians collecting hours for clinical license eligibility. This 10-month fellowship allows trainees to chew on concepts, marinate on cases, and serve resources while connecting theory to practice. Our first cohort will be available in January 2024. Learn more here or reach out to me for a call.
With Wolf Pack Consulting, we specialize in working with social service organizations, bridging the communication and strategic design gaps between our clients' workforce, their key decision-makers, and their clients. Our team specializes in many spaces - programming development, strategic planning, resource expansion and development, grant writing, policy and operational restructuring, public policy and advocacy work, and beyond. Through 2023, we consulted with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) to facilitate and manage a working group of volunteer experts to develop narrative text for their Fourth Edition Adult Volume Criteria Update. We supported the writing and development of a new chapter titled Trauma, Culture, and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in ASAM's 4th edition update. The updated Adult Volume criteria will be available in November 2023. Click here for more info on ASAM's 4th Edition. Excitingly, we're partnering again with ASAM to support the development of the same chapter, Trauma, Culture, and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), for their Adolescent Volume due in 2025!
