Full Name
Taylor Farris LCSW, MSW, C-DBT
Job Title
Clinical Social Worker
Company
Lafayette Parish Correctional Center (LPCC)
Speaker Bio
Ms. Taylor Farris is a contract Clinical Social Worker for Voitier Group LLC and Counseling and Recovery Guidance, LLC. Through Voitier Group, Ms. Farris is contracted to Lafayette Parish Correctional Center (LPCC) to provide mental health services to the justice-involved population. She has an MSW with a concentration in Mental Health from the University of Southern California. She has completed over 60+ hours in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy training and education, and has completed a 20+ hour certificate program in C-DBT. Her passion is to assist clients in understanding themselves, the path that got them to LPCC, and how they can improve their situation outside of the facility. She is also a trained member of the Southern Law Enforcement Foundation that provides on-call Crisis Incident Stress Management (CISM) services. As a member, she completed 16 hours of training to provide defusing and debriefings to Louisiana officers involved in crisis incidents that are deemed distressing by their supervisors, officer-involved shootings, and officer-involved deaths. Ms. Farris is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and has served on the regional Louisiana Political Action for Candidate Election committee and Louisiana Annual Conference Committee.