New Roles At Imani

President/Chief Innovation Officer

Tamara Boone, LPC-MHSP-S

Tamara Boone, LPC-MHSP-S is transitioning from President/Chief Clinical Officer to President/Chief Innovation Officer of Imani Behavioral Health. Tamara has been with Imani since its start in 2018, starting as a clinician and Clinical Director. In the early stages of the company, she helped to establish many of the original procedures and policies as well as set the clinical standards. The company saw growth in a little over a year adding several more clinicians and staff. During this time, she was promoted to President/Chief Operating Officer in late 2019.

During her tenure in this position, she helped to bring organization to the newly developed departments of Clinical Services, Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Administrative, and eventually Marketing/Communications. There was a void in the Finance department and wanting to see the company succeed she took on the role President/Chief Financial Officer. During this time, she took classes in business and accounting to better assist in this area. In the CFO position, Tamara helped to organize the billing and insurance structure and establish policies and procedures to improve productivity and cash flow. Additionally, she assisted in the development of the sliding scale and payment plan system, a way to meet our goal of providing services regardless of ability to pay.

After structure was created and individuals put in place, she then transitioned to the role of President/Chief Clinical Officer. While in the Chief Clinical Officer role, she helped to provide more structure to the department and created various positions to ensure a more streamline process. She created the clinical resource drive for all the clinicians to have access to clinical resources, templates for letters, supervision contracts, etc. She also provided mentorship to many of the new clinical leaders, provided supervision, led clinical meetings and clinical supervision meetings, and helped to improve the intern application process and experience.

She is now transitioning to the Chief Innovation Officer role. This is a new role to help to ensure that we move forward in the direction of being more engaged and forward thinking. Her new responsibilities include overseeing the development of new services in the community as well as new services that help to provide a more comprehensive treatment approach to the whole body. She will also work on the creation of activities to engage in more fun and educational social media and online content, and being innovative in how we engage and interact with you all.

Liaison Director - Love Offering Life

Brian Hill

Brian Hill joined Imani in 2022 as a Client Care Coordinator at our Clarksville office. He quickly proved himself to be a hard worker and very efficient and effective at his job. He was quick to bring up solutions to problems and improve our workflow and was promoted to Planning and Assessment Coordinator/IT Manager the following year. While in this role he has been instrumental in improving our software and technology use to include overseeing the recent change to Valant, our new EHR system. He is also responsible for collecting data and tracking our progress to ensure we are meeting our goals from the Strategic Plan.

Brian will now also take on the responsibilities of being the liaison for the nonprofit, Love Offering Life, a recent partner of ours.

Director of Client Relations

Kayla Blair

Kayla Blair started with the company in April 2023 as a Client Care Coordinator in the Clarksville office. Since being in the role, she provided a lot of support and stability in the front office. Both clients and staff spoke highly of her abilities. She was promoted to Office Manager in October 2023. She continues to provide support and stability in the office, but also now oversees the medical records process, the sliding scale application process, and the work of other client care coordinators and interns at both locations. As part of our initiative to better engage our clients, she is now taking on the role of Director of Client Relations. Her goals is to provide more interactions and positive experiences with our clients inside and outside of the office. We want to be able to provide more resources, educational social media content, and provide relevant activities throughout the year. We want to show our clients that we value them and appreciate their trust in allowing us to care for their mental health needs.

Director of Business Relations

Castenada Locke

Castaneda Locke is new to Imani, joining the company December 2023. She joined as the Account/Billing specialist helping to get our client accounts balanced and assisting with insurance matters such as posting ERAs and verifying insurance. Shortly after starting she also begin to assist by filling in as the client care coordinator when needed. Her personality and ideas were well received by the clients and staff. She comes to us with a lot of knowledge, experience, and relationships of the local business area. As a part of our engagement initiative is to build relationships and resources with local businesses, schools, churches, and other organizations.

Castaneda will oversee our relationship development with local businesses in the community with the added responsibility of serving as our Director of Business Relations.