
Owner, J. Ray Rice, MSW, ACSW
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Owner, J. Ray Rice, MSW, ACSW
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
J. Ray Rice received his ABS-71’ & MSW-77’ from George Williams College. Presently he is a doctoral candidate at Walden University in Human Services. His books can be purchased on Amazon.com. Thank You for Loving Me! The Psychology of Abandonment, Healing and Loving & What I Must Give Myself...First! He is available to speak, lecture, and train international.
He has been a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW) since 1979. He has worked, trained, & studied human interactions in 19-countries.
He was a YMCA Youth Worker in Chicago and worked in a maximum-security state correction facility for youth. He has served as a ER Social Worker.
He was listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who's Who of the Midwest, & Who's Who of Emerging Leaders.
He has been a therapist & director of residential treatment centers where he designed community-base programs for youths transiting from in-patient to home & school.
He was a delegate from IL to the White-House Conference on Children & the White-House Conference on Aging.
He served as the first youth coordinator at The Threshold in Chicago.
He was listed in Who’s Who in the World in 1987, Who's Who of the Midwest, & Who's Who of Emerging Leaders.
He has trained transatlantic on cruise-ships.
He has trained in high-schools, colleges, universities, law enforcement agencies, military bases & transatlantic cruise-ships crossing.
He was director for corporate training at Miami-Dade College & wrote Quick Response Training Grant (QRT's) for job development.
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.
Presently he is setting-up a think-tank to train-the-trainers.
Train-the-trainer, group-work/team-building, conflict resolution, treating the difficult to treat client, and grant writing.
(Think Tanks industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Writer and trainer on the identification and treatment of unresolved abandonment issues within people and societies.
(Privately Held; Real Estate industry)
March 2005 — March 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Sold real estate in Miami-Dade county.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1999 — March 2005 (5 years 7 months)
Provide a skilled interface between corporate clients and the Colleg's systems for a wide variety of corporate training needs, including biotechnology.
Prepared Quick Response Training Grants (QRT's) Applications. Secured over $4,000,000 in funding that provided training for 7,000 new full-time positions in Miami-Dade County.
Served as a representative for The College on several chambers of commerce Boards of Directors and Trustee Council.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Train-the-Trainers' in interpersonal skills and attributes for the Cruise Lines & Resort Industries.
Providing training to all levels of crews onboard Cruise Liners. Improved their teamwork and delivery of superior customer services.
Lectured and trained locally and internationally.
(Mental Health Care industry)
1987 — 1990 (3 years )
Ph.D. in Human Services/Clinical Social Work 2008 — 2012 (expected)
MSW , Social Work , 1972 — 1977
ABS , Group Work , 1967 — 1971
personal development, training, writing, new technology, education,
National Association of Social Workers - NASW, Academy of Certified Social Workers - ACSW