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| Robyn A. Murry-Hoffman |
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Robyn A. Murry-Hoffman Ph.D.
Phone: (614) 644-7342
Email: robyn.hoffman@odrc.state.oh.us
Robyn Hoffman is the Director of Psychology and Director of ID/DD (formerly MR/DD) for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, these positions respectively held since July 2001 and March 2006.
Dr. Hoffman has worked in the mental health field for 18 years. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in 1977 from The Ohio State University where she majored in Psychology. She completed her Masters Degree in Education at Indiana University in Bloomington in 1979 then returned to the Ohio State University where she completed her doctorate in Developmental Psychology in 1988. She has been licensed as a psychologist in the state of Ohio since 1990.
Dr. Hoffman began her career working in private practice with primary service to children and families referred from Franklin County Children’s Services. In 1990, she accepted a position as a psychology assistant for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, where she primarily worked with sex offenders in a residential treatment program. In 1991 she became the Psychology Supervisor at the Pickaway Correctional Institution, responsible for supervising psychology staff; developing, planning and implementing psychological programs and services; providing input on policies and procedures and establishing the delivery of psychological services within the institution. During this time, Dr. Hoffman spent eight days at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio during the prison uprising in 1993, as part of a team of psychologists and psychology assistants working with the ODRC hostage negotiators, the FBI, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Tasks included providing clinical input into profiles of inmates involved in hostage negotiation, talking with both staff and inmates as they attempted to define a “new normal” in their lives and cope with a death of a correctional officer who was taken hostage, and finally participating as part of a structured statewide individual institution debriefing after the conclusion of the uprising.
In 1995, while continuing to work with ODRC on a contractual basis including teaching the mental health section of the preservice training to new staff at the Corrections Training Academy, Dr. Hoffman worked through a private psychology corporation providing mental health services to the elderly in long-term care facilities and was appointed as the Director of Quality Assurance for the long-term care division. She served in this capacity until 1997 when she returned to full time contract work for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, serving as the Clinical Director for both the London and Central Ohio clusters of prisons, providing clinical oversight to the operation of mental health services, as well as participating in direct clinical services to inmates on the mental health caseload.
In 1999 she was appointed by the Director to head the Quality Assurance Transition Team to work with the institutions on developing risk management and quality improvement programs. In addition to monitoring institutions for compliance with delivery of mental health services to inmates who are seriously mentally ill, the Team provided consultation to institutions for quality improvement in conjunction with technical assistance provided by the Bureau of Mental Health Services under the auspices of a court-ordered consent decree. As the Administrator of Quality Assurance for the Bureau of Mental Health Services, she provided oversight for medical and mental health quality assurance and coordination for the Health Care Assessment Team, as they were named, to continue individual institution site visits, after substantial compliance with the terms of the consent decree was achieved.
Dr. Hoffman became the Director of Psychology for the Department in 2001 and continues to serve in this capacity.
Dr. Hoffman is married to Richard Hoffman, a now-retired training officer with the department. She is a “second mom” to stepsons Brian, Brad and Brandon. The Hoffman’s are avid campers and sports enthusiasts, with unwavering devotion to The Ohio State Buckeyes.
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