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Adopt a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Lynn Toveg, Mental Health Clinician (Licensed), upon her retirement from the Department of Health & Social Services, Behavioral Health Division, with over 20 years of dedicated public service to Solano County
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health and Social Services (H&SS) recommends that the Board adopt a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Lynn Toveg, Mental Health Clinician (Licensed), upon her retirement from the Department of Health & Social Services, Behavioral Health Division, with over 20 years of dedicated public service to Solano County.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Lynn Toveg began her career in Solano County on August 10, 1998 in the H&SS Department, Mental Health Division. As a Mental Health Clinician, licensed as a marriage and family therapist, Ms. Toveg mainly worked in the Vallejo Children's Clinic where she provided individual, family and group therapy to high risk families, including children and teens with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Ms. Toveg also supervised interns at the Vallejo children's outpatient clinic, helping to support new clinicians in the field. Ms. Toveg participated in collaborative meetings in the community with psychiatrists, school staff, lawyers and/or probation officers. Ms. Toveg was the first clinician to start and maintain long-term group therapy in the Vallejo children's clinic.
Ms. Toveg has a flexible approach to her work assignments and when there were shortages of staff in other Mental Health clinics she offered assistance in the Fairfield children's outpatient clinic, the Vallejo adult clinic, and the Access team. In 2014, Ms. Toveg voluntarily transferred to the mental health Access unit where she remained until her retirement on December 28, 2018. Working in the mental health Access unit, Ms. Tove...
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