Women's Community Rehabilitation Center WCRC - Upliftd

The UpLIFTD/Women's Community Rehabilitation Center (WCRC) has immediate job openings for the following positions.:

1. Full-time Evening Counselor II-Bachelors degree in a social service field is required. This position will hold a caseload of at least 8 clients. The counselor does case management with the clients weekly and leads group therapy five days per week. Hours of work are Monday through Friday-3pm to 11pm. Position is fully benefitted.

2. Part-time Weekend/Holiday/Relief Direct Care Staff-High school diploma is required and experience working with mental health clients a plus. Hours are two (2) twelve hour shifts on the weekends which will rotate from evenings to days. Relief work is usually the evening shift Monday through Friday from 3pm to 11pm when FT counselor is off or the midnight shift 11p-7p Sunday through Thursday when that FT counselor is off. This position also works at least a 6 hour shift on all state holidays.

3. Part-time weekend cook-cooking for 16 women. The hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12p-5pm.

Please send resume to: [email protected] or [email protected].

On April 18, 2024, the WCRC ladies enjoyed a Day of Beauty done by Janel Chapman and the Garden Angels from the Country Club of LA Garden Club. A wonderful time was had by all. Our ladies were beautiful!! Thank you all so much!

WCRC would like to thank Ms Margot Kiehfuss and the Newcomers Encore group for their generous donation of food for Easter for the WCRC residents. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

2023 WCRC Alumni Party December 7, 2023. WCRC residents and staff enjoyed a great time and dinner with past resident alumni, past graduate student interns, past WCRC staff and Ms. Sally Meyers, the first WCRC Director from 1974-2005. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🤶🎅🎄

December 14, 2023: WCRC Residents Christmas Party 2023. Thanks to Donovan and Valerie Hill and Lifepoint church elves for gifts and Christmas caroling. Also to First United Methodist Church, Woodfin Lowry Circle for gifts. Our residents were so excited to open their Christmas gifts. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from WCRC! 🎄🎅🤶

WCRC will be having its annual Alumni Christmas party this Thursday, December 7th from 3p-5p. Alumni residents and staff-PLEASE call WCRC at 225-336-0000 to let us know if you will be able to attend. We want to see you all!! Merry Christmas!!

Thank you Region's Behavioral IOP for the cheesecakes for one of the WCRC ladies Birthday. What a special surprise. They were enjoyed with the birthday dinner prepared by our cook. 🎂🎁 WCRC celebrates monthly birthdays for our ladies.

Getting ready for the Christmas season at WCRC in our new home. 🎄🤶🎅

Thank you so much to the Irene and C.B. Pennington Foundation. WCRC was awarded a grant in the amount of $25,000 towards the purchase of a Generac system that will be installed in January 2024. The program also received a $15,000 grant for this project from the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation. We are so grateful that we will be able to keep electricity for our residents in times of bad weather or emergencies.

Thank you to the Woodfin/Lowry Circle with First United Methodist Church and all of their elves for blessing the residents of WCRC again this year at Christmas. Our resident Christmas party will be Thursday, December 14th and these beautiful bags of gifts will be given to our ladies at that time. 🎄🎅🤶

Thank you to the Garden Angels with the Country Club of Louisiana for the food for the 2023 Thanksgiving meal for the WCRC residents. Thanksgiving was wonderful at WCRC this year and we are truly blessed. 🦃

Happy Thanksgiving Dinner 2023 for WCRC staff and Residents. We enjoyed a wonderful chicken and sausage gumbo, potato salad and dessert made by our new cook Mrs. Brenda. Everyone shared what we were thankful for and we were all thankful and blessed for our WCRC family. The residents will enjoy their traditional Thanksgiving meal together next week on Thanksgiving Day.

WCRC has immediate job openings:
1. Part-time Weekend/Holiday/Relief Counselor I: 2 twelve hour shifts every other weekend, 6 hour shifts on state holidays and relief work as needed to fill in for full time staff in the evenings or midnight shift. Position does earn some paid leave time after employed one year.
2. Part time cook: 12pm-5pm shift Friday, Saturday and Sundays Cooks lunch and supper for up to 16 clients, oversees commercial kitchen and safety of kitchen. Works closely weekday cook and with dietician monthly for menu.
3. Full-time evening counselor: 3p-11p Monday through Friday. This position is for a primary counselor. Bachelors degree in social service field required and prefer case management experience. Works with adult women who are diagnosed with behavioral health disorders. This position will do Individual and Group sessions with a caseload of clients, works closely with interns. Good computers skills and documentation a must. WCRC is moving to an electronic medical records system. This position is fully benefited with vacation, medical, dental, paid holidays, retirement etc.
Please email resume to: [email protected]

Can you believe it is almost Thanksgiving!! What a quick but wonderful and blessed year we have had at WCRC! We are looking forward to our upcoming holiday festivities in our new home! WCRC staff will be celebrating Thanksgiving dinner with our residents on Thursday November 16th. The ladies and staff working on Thanksgiving Day will enjoy a meal together.

Our alumni Christmas party will be Thursday, December 7th from 3p-5p this year. Our resident Christmas party will be Thursday, December 14th from 3p-5p.

Alumni Staff and Residents-please call Kristi Bourgeois or LaShonda Kelly at 225-336-0000 to RSVP for the Alumni party. We would love to see you and catch up with how you are doing.

If anyone would like to donate to WCRC for our residents, we are always in need of the following:
1. Walmart Gift Cards
2. Washing pods
3. Twin size Bed bug mattress covers
4. Twin Size bed bug pillow covers
5. Twin sheet sets
6. Spoons and Forks
7. Paper goods
8. Skillets, large size pots
9. Pot holders
10. Dish Towels
11. Pens and Pencils and journals for Group therapy
12. Crossword Puzzles
13. Umbrellas
14. Movie Tickets
15. Monetary donations are accepted and used for client and program needs.

UpLIFTD/WCRC is a 501c3 Non-profit and any donations are tax deductible.

Remember that WCRC is now located in the same location with our parent agency-UpLIFTD at 1979 Beaumont Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70806. The WCRC entrance is on the side of the building towards the back on the side of our parking lot. The WCRC sign is right by our entrance.

Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for all of our blessings!

Kristi Bourgeois-UpLIFTD/WCRC Director

Happy Halloween 👻🎃. WCRC was blessed again by the wonderful ladies from the Country Club of LA's Garden Angels. They came with food, games and candy for our ladies. Pictured in first photo from left to right is Janel Chapman (CCLA Garden Club), Kristi Bourgeois (WCRC Director), and Sarah Wilde (CCLA Garden Club).

WCRC has two immediate job openings:

1. Part-time Weekend/Holiday/Relief Counselor I: 2 twelve hour shifts every other weekend, 6 hour shifts on state holidays and relief work as needed to fill in for full time staff in the evenings or midnight shift. Position does earn some paid leave time after employed one year.

2. Part time cook: 12pm-5pm shift Monday through Thursday. Cooks lunch and supper for up to 16 clients, oversees commercial kitchen and safety of kitchen. Works closely with dietician monthly for menu.

Please email resume to: [email protected]

Happy Fall!! We are busy as ever with residents graduating successfully to independent living and maintaining their employment to new faces entering our family. WCRC is gearing up for our holiday season in our new home and are so excited! Our Alumni Christmas party will be Thursday, December 7th at 3pm. If you are an alumni of WCRC, please contact Kristi or LaShonda at 225-336-0000 to let us know if you are able to attend.

Our Resident Christmas party this year will be Thursday, December 14th at 3pm. Donations to our residents are greatly appreciated. UpLIFTD/WCRC is a 501c3 non-profit and all donations are tax deductible. A few ongoing needed items are:

1. Umbrellas
2. Games -our weekend counselors do recreational groups with our ladies on the weekends and at this time the ladies are asking for Monopoly and UNO No Mercy. Games are great to teach social skills and communication skills.
3. Personal items such as shampoos, conditioners, sanitary pads, lotions, body sprays.
4. Washing machine pods, dryer sheets.
5. Passes to the movie theatres.
6. Bath towels and face cloths.
7. Gift cards are ALWAYS welcomed so the ladies can do their own shopping for their needs.

We and our ladies are so grateful for the tremendous community support that we received.

The wonderful WCRC staff surprised Kristi Bourgeois, WCRC Director with a surprise birthday party (birthday Sept 5) and work anniversary celebration (August 19th was 31years with WCRC). Awesome work family. We are blessed. ❤️

Happy 31st Work Anniversary to the UpLIFTD/WCRC Director, Kristi Bourgeois!

The UpLIFTD/Women's Community Rehabilitation Center (WCRC) has 2 immediate openings for part-time Weekend/Holiday/Relief Counselor I's. The position is direct care staff. These counselors do Recreational groups and activities with the clients on the weekends and supervise/monitor only. No direct psychotherapy is done by these positions. This position is single coverage-2 twelve hour shifts every other weekend (night shift one weekend then day shift next weekend on); 6 hour shifts on state holidays; Relief coverage when Evening or Midnight Counselor is on vacation or sick. UpLIFTD/WCRC is a 49 year old, state licensed and CARF certified Residential Treatment Center for adult women who are diagnosed with Psychiatric Disabilities. Requirements are someone working on their Bachelors degree in a social service field is a good fit. Could have Bachelor's degree in Social Service Field and working towards Masters Degree. Great experience. Could also have a high school diploma but must have at least two years experience in working with adult women with Psychiatric Disabilities. Please send your resume to the UpLIFTD/WCRC Director-Kristi David Bourgeois Looking strongly for a team player and someone with strong work ethics.

Email: [email protected]

Happy August WCRC birthdays to staff and client August babies!

For the last three days, WCRC has undergone a CARF recertification. CARF is the national certification for rehab facilities. It is a BIG undertaking and expensive. I write a grant for this process every 3 years for $10,000 to $12,000. CARF looks at 1400 standards that we have to meet. WCRC has been preparing for this for months (really ongoing for since the last survey in 2020). For the entire 3 days, we are working every day, ALL day with the surveyor and this time it was on Microsoft Teams which means we also had to upload ALL documents required as WCRC is still very much not paperless YET.

Result of survey: In 21 categories, WCRC received NO RECOMMENDATIONS for 16 of the 21 categories. Two of these categories were the BIGGEST documentation-Program Services and Program Centered Plan.

Of the other 5 categories, we only received minor recommendations and ALL have been corrected as of today.

We are VERY proud of this accomplishment. I want to thank my staff, LaShonda Kelly-WCRC Admin Asst and Carolyn Bazille, Supervising Counselor, as well as a BIG thank you to Jacob with Faulk & Winkler and Alex with IT Inspired who assisted with the documents and explanations for the Financial and Technology sections of CARF. I could not have done this without the help of all of you.

We will know in 6-8 weeks if we receive a 1 year certification or 3 year certification from CARF but I am very confident that it will be another 3 year certification. Now we just keep doing all the hard work to keep up for the next certification.

Thanks to all!

Kristi D. Bourgeois, MA, LPC-S, CPRP, CESP
UpLIFTD/WCRC Director

Happy Easter from WCRC! Residents received Easter bags from WCRC and a $10 gift card from Sally Meyers, original WCRC Director, who stopped by for a visit to see our new home. ❤️🐇🐰

This beautiful lady stopped by today to see the new WCRC home. She is my mentor and my second mom. Sally Meyers was the original Director of WCRC from 1974 until her retirement in 2005. She hired me as Supervising Counselor in 1992 and I was honored to step up as Director upon her retirement. Pictured with us in the second picture is her daughter Holly Vidrine. Ms Sally brought the WCRC residents $10 gift cards for Easter. ❤️

Thank you to Jess Byrd and the Department of Corrections and Probation and Parole for the kind donation of food for the WCRC residents. The Department of Corrections was the neighbor to WCRC for 45 years when the program was in the old fire station on St Ferdinand and South Blvd until our move to our new home in January 2023. Thank you for continuing to think of us! ❤️ (Pictured are LaShonda Kelly-WCRC Administrative Assistant and Jess Byrd-DOC)

UpLIFTD/WCRC Open House 03/24/2023. Happy to show off our new home with the community.❤️