Adam Peterson

Seasoned clinical manager and leader with over 20 years' experience working in the behavioral health field seeking a position that will allow me to meaningfully contribute to the success of the organization and the ongoing wellness of our communities.

Social Work Manager at Rogue Regional Medical Center (2025-07 – Present)

Manage social work teams in all three inpatient settings under Asante Hospital system – Ashland Community Hospital, Rogue Regional Medical Center, Three Rivers Medical Center.

• Manage and supervise each team of medical social work, clinical social work and professional social work.
• Serve to hire and provide coaching, training and performance feedback to maintain the high level of professionalism and expertise in an inpatient setting.
• Worked on multiple task forces and committees meant to decrease barriers to discharge, increase patient access to appropriate medical care and advocate for patient needs in a social work lens.
• Provide support and counseling during emergency or crisis, help patients and families cope with psychological impacts of illness and participate in life planning.

Clinical Services Manager at Kaiser Permanente (2023-11 – Present)

• Recruit, hire, train, and supervise dually credentialed providers across two Service Areas of Kaiser Permanente's Addiction Medicine department
• Met regularly and collaborated with multi-disciplinary executive team across Northwest Region to develop, implement and measure system changes on its impact on personnel, service satisfaction, and financial impact for Northwest Region budget
• After adopting a second Service Area to manage, lead the Northwest Region in all service areas and departments as "best place to work"
• Provided group and individual clinical supervision to utilize trauma-informed, resilient-oriented, equitable practices.
• Managed Union represented Teams to develop and streamline program documentation, service, retention of staff and increase efficiency of services in a patient-centered lens

Medical Social Worker at Providence Home Health (2022-06 – 2023-11)

• Conducted comprehensive biopsychosocial/spiritual assessment, diagnosis, and/or treatment, interventions, advocacy of patients in their support systems in a Home Health, Palliative and Hospice setting
• Coordinate care within multiple community health systems with a diverse patient population
• Educate and advocate for patient and family systems as needed within a medical system that requires understand and communication of a complex medical health record and set of medical circumstances
• Communicate and facilitate patients' access to community resources in application, access, and implementation of meeting future physical, medical, emotional needs of housing/living

Addiction Program Manager at Options for So Oregon (2020-05 – 2022-04)

• Led the clinical development for opening over 10 new inpatient and outpatient treatment programs including medication assisted treatment, medical inpatient rehabilitation, day treatment and intensive outpatient care
• Prepared and reviewed reports for grants and contract compliance, staff productivity, financial management and clinical outcome data.
• Provided progressive clinical and administrative supervision to individuals, teams, and programs; including mentoring and development of staff needing license and credentialing oversight.
• Provided group and individual clinical supervision to develop and oversee training plans and manage the hiring and disciplinary process in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Trained clinical staff on Medicaid compliance and documentation
• Developed training materials and provided in-service training to clinical staff for a variety of clinical and ethical topics including diversity, equity, and inclusion, specifically to people with disabilities

Social Service Specialist at ODHS Child Welfare (2012-05 – 2020-05)

• Investigate reports of child abuse or neglect while assessing parents and families for strengths and barriers to success.
• Conducted thousands of interviews with children, parents and made hundreds safety plans for the best interest of a child
• Served as an expert witness for the State of Oregon ODHS in civil proceedings; working with the DOJ that families could be supported and children could remain in the best care for the family
• As an Addiction Recovery Team (ART) coordinator, managed and oversaw two CADC providers stationed at the Jackson County office.
• ART provided support, coordination, consultation, and liaison services for the State of Oregon and their partners.
• ART provided numerous trainings and assisted in keeping thousands of families in Jackson and Josephine County Oregon
• As the Co-Chair of Jackson County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (JCCADSV), increased visibility of survivors of domestic and sexual abuse/violence.
• As a multi-agency council, we created a forum for professionals to staff, report and inform one another for the care of families impacted.

B.S. in Criminal Justice – Southern Oregon University

Master's in Social Work – Portland State University