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Its All About Abandonment

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J. Ray Rice, M.S.W., A.C.S.W.

J. Ray Rice received his ABS-71’ and MSW-77’ from George Williams College, now at Aurora University. Presently he is a doctoral candidate at Walden University in Human Services with a specialization in Clinical Social Work. He is the author of Thank You for Loving Me! The Psychology of Abandonment, Healing and Loving and (volume 1 of 2) What I Must Give Myself...First! He is available to speak, lecture, and train international.

A member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW) since 1979, he has worked, trained, and studied human interactions in 19-countries. He has been employed using his social work knowledge base in the following opportunities.

A youth worker in the streets of Chicago with gangs.
He has worked in a maximum-security state correction facility for youth.
He has worked in an emergency-room as a ER Social Worker.
He has trained at Elgin State Hospitals where he rotated and worked positions in all three-shifts.
He has been a therapist at the Aurora Mental Health Center.
He has directed residential treatment centers, and facilitated the establishment of over twenty new facilities around the country.
He has designed community-base programs for youth to transition from in-patient treatment to home and school.
He was one of the first social workers to provide home-bound therapy in the inner-city of Chicago's west side.
He has provided training on military bases for the Air Force and Navy in FL.
He has trained transatlantic on cruise-ships.
He has trained and lectured in high-schools.
He has trained law-enforcement in KY and FL.
He has been in private practice.
He has been a school social worker.
He has provided training at colleges and universities.
He has served in the YMCA World Service and assisted in establishing the first YMCA Camp in Bogotá.
He has been a camp director for a vocational exploration for youth in IL and MA.
He has been a foster-father.
He has been a delegate from IL to the White-House Conference on Children and the White-House Conference on Aging.
He has worked with gangs and lectured about them and cults.
He was the director for corporate training at one of the largest college in America, Miami-Dade College.
He has been a grant writer for social service program and state job development programs.
In 1977 the first Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Center for Adolescences was established in the country and he served as its' first coordinator at The Threshold in Chicago.
He was listed in Who’s Who in the World in 1987, as well as Who's Who of the Midwest, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders.
He has been an exchange social worker to Sweden studying their delivery of health care with the International Council of Fellowship.
He was an invited presenter to the 5th International Conference on Conflict Resolve in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He has been a keynote speaker and workshop presenter in back-to-back conferences for IRACCA in IN.
His bldg its all about abandonment is viewed by readers from over 120 nations.
His 36-years of studying and writings on the effects of unresolved abandonment issues and the individuals he trained are his contributions to Social Work.