FREESTANDING MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS • STAFF

Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., LPC – Program Manager

jimmy.widdifield@occy.ok.gov | (405) 606-4919

Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., LPC, is the Freestanding Multidisciplinary Teams (FSMDT) Program Manager at the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth in Oklahoma City, OK.  He is responsible for supporting and monitoring more than 35 FSMDTs in Oklahoma (according to the statute and administrative rules), as well as coordinating, providing training, and technical assistance, on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary issues in child maltreatment to MDT members and professionals.  He was formerly the Training Director for the University of Oklahoma Problematic Sexual Behavior Training/Technical Assistance Program and the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth.  He has extensive experience planning and providing training/technical assistance and presenting locally, nationally, and internationally, to professionals in child protection services, foster care, juvenile justice, law enforcement, schools, mental health agencies, and to the general community on the research and treatment of youth with problematic sexual behavior.  Mr. Widdifield is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has trained in several evidence-based treatments that address the impact of child maltreatment and trauma.  He is also a graduate of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.