Tara Jenkins, MT-BC, CDP, CMDCP
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Credentials
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Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional
International Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners - ICCDPJan, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Dementia Practitioner
NCCDPAug, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
CPR & AED
C.P.R. Resources INC.Jun, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
First Aid
C.P.R. Resources INC.Jun, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
essentiALZ -Alzheimer's Association Training and Certification
Alzheimer's Association®May, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Music Therapist - Board Certified
Certification Board for Music TherapistsAug, 2008- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Harmony in Dementia
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United States
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Health and Human Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founder
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Sep 2014 - Present
Harmony in Dementia (formally Young at Heart Music Therapy) has been serving older adults, care partners, and eldercare professionals since 2014. We strive to build strong relationships, foster meaningful connections, and cater to your unique needs and interests. We provide customized music wellness workshops, group and individual music therapy services, and music consultation support to older adults, care partners, and eldercare professionals. Harmony in Dementia (formally Young at Heart Music Therapy) has been serving older adults, care partners, and eldercare professionals since 2014. We strive to build strong relationships, foster meaningful connections, and cater to your unique needs and interests. We provide customized music wellness workshops, group and individual music therapy services, and music consultation support to older adults, care partners, and eldercare professionals.
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North Austin Music Therapy
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Austin, Texas Area
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Senior Staff Music Therapist
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Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
As a Senior Staff Music Therapist I provide clinical music therapy services (both group and individual), wellness music services, consultation services, and effectively maintain my personal caseload. I am responsible for providing administrative and marketing assistance to the Clinical Director, in addition to assisting with supervision of staff music therapists. As a Senior Staff Music Therapist I provide clinical music therapy services (both group and individual), wellness music services, consultation services, and effectively maintain my personal caseload. I am responsible for providing administrative and marketing assistance to the Clinical Director, in addition to assisting with supervision of staff music therapists.
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North Austin Music Therapy
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Austin, TX
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Clinical Music Therapist
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Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
Specializing in full spectrum senior services, the treatment of autism and other developmental disorders, and early childhood development, North Austin Music Therapy offers excellence in music-based interventions designed to increase and maintain maximum levels of functioning and improve quality of life. Backed by research and driven by results, North Austin Music Therapy is proud to serve clients across the greater North Austin area including Round Rock, Georgetown, Leander, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, and surrounding communities. North Austin Music Therapy offers both individual and group sessions in a variety of settings and seeks to bring the power of music therapy to individuals in the comfort of home, in residential communities, and to a variety of community programs. Building on years of academic training and diverse clinical experiences, North Austin Music Therapy seeks to provide the highest quality of music therapy and a success-oriented environment to foster growth and enable change. Committed to an approach that fuses compassion and excellence, North Austin Music Therapy incorporates a variety of therapeutic approaches through innovative groups and creative interventions to best serve its clients. Show less
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Levine Music
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Music
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1 - 100 Employee
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Music Therapist
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Sep 2014 - Jul 2016
Music therapy uses music as a tool to help individuals - from children to seniors - transform and improve the quality of their lives, while addressing each individual’s unique emotional, physical, cognitive and social needs. Reaching beyond barriers of social, communicative, and cognitive limitations, music therapy offers individuals with disabilities a means to develop skills that can be used in everyday life. Through music therapy, individuals can identify and manage various emotional states, and can pursue opportunities for creativity and self-expression. The Music Therapy department at Levine offers assessments for music therapy services, individual sessions and group sessions for a variety of individuals. My primary focus is to provide group and individual services for older adults in the community. Show less
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Kensington Park Retirement
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Kensington, MD
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Kensington Club Coordinator
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Dec 2013 - Sep 2014
Developed, implemented and coordinated a multi-dimensional activities program for Assisted Living residents experiencing early stages of memory impairment. Responsibilities included; plan, develop and implement (group and individual) activities specifically designed to enrich the lives of the residents enrolled in the club, maintain a monthly themed calendar, work with and schedule volunteers, oversee the family support group, attend service plan meetings, help develop individual goals and approaches, maintain progress notes, assist with media correspondence, attend resident and family council to positively encourage and support residents rights and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to determine the best approach for each resident. Show less
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Copper Ridge EMA Senior Care Services
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Sykesville, MD
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Music Therapist
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Feb 2012 - Dec 2013
Developed, created, implemented and oversaw a variety of music therapy programs based on the residents needs, abilities and preferences (group, individual and hospice services). Implemented American Music Therapy Association’s Standards of Clinical Practice; including referral and acceptance, assessment, program planning, implementation, documentation, and termination of services. Other responsibilities included; work alongside the interdisciplinary team to provide service plan notes for both individual and group services, collaborate with the Chaplin to provide live music for the annual memorial service, manage and support volunteers to help assist within the music therapy program, collaborate with other team members to create multi-dimensional activity programs, maintain an instrument and supply inventory, manage iPods and preference play-lists throughout the building and submit monthly entertainment invoices. Show less
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Sunrise Senior Living
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Activity and Volunteer Coordinator
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Sep 2010 - Feb 2012
Managed, coordinated, and led the Life Enrichment Department. Responsibilities included; conducted interviews, counseled department team members, managed monthly invoices for vendors and entertainers, managed monthly budget-including program supplies for all floors, scheduled vendors and entertainers, organized transportation for outings, planned 4 calendars monthly, reevaluated and restructured daily programming (as needed) to consistently meet the residents needs, led daily activities, and held monthly department meetings. Show less
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Education
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2003 - 2007
Shenandoah University
Bachelor of Music Therapy, Minor in Psychology
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