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Ali is dedicated to advancing culturally-and linguistically-responsive social emotional learning and support practices, with a strong emphasis on mental health and community wellbeing. This work enhances the positive development of youth, and the professional growth of adults working with youth, to transform community and workplace settings. Ali is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) from New Mexico with over 15 years of social work experience domestically and internationally. She is also a founding board member of SEL4NM, and a certified instructor for: Youth Mental Health First Aid, Teen Mental Health First Aid and the Nurtured Heart Approach.Her work in New Mexico has included: in-home services to youth and families, building case management services within School Based Health Centers, training youth peer support workers, and opening a peer-support drop-in center for transition-age young people who have experienced disconnection from school, work, family, and/or community. Ali is most proud of her role as a partner and a mama to five children who keep her humbled in her own SEL and wellness strategies; centering physical activities, adventures, joy, and family. CURRENT FOCUSStatewide Capacity BuildingAli collaborates to advance trauma-responsive SEL practices tailored to diverse cultural and environmental contexts, aiming to enhance mental wellness and overall wellbeing. She offers Youth Mental Health First Aid certification training and the Nurtured Heart Approach to schools and organizations, along with providing coaching and consultation. Through these efforts, she fosters the development of supportive communities of care that prioritize mental health and collective wellbeing for all.Behavioral Health InitiativeFuture Focused Education collaborates with youth and schools to create paid internship career paths in mental and behavioral health, to improve mental health and well-being for all. The program provides training in Youth Mental Health First Aid for school staff and Teen Mental Health First Aid for youth. Additionally, selected alumni have the opportunity to become certified Youth Peer Support Specialists, enabling them to lead mental health initiatives in their schools as part of the paid internship program. Teen Mental Health First Aid training can be integrated into group internships or classroom settings, offering schools flexibility in designing programs to address the current youth mental health crisis while cultivating future mental health professionals.
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Director Of Youth Behavioral Health And WellbeingFuture Focused EducationAlbuquerque, Nm, Us
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Director Of Social Emotional Learning & Well-BeingFuture Focused Education Oct 2019 - PresentAli focuses on the advancement of culturally- and linguistically-responsive social emotional learning and support practices. This work enhances the positive development of youth, and the professional growth of adults working with youth, to transform community and workplace settings.
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Director Of Student SupportFuture Focused Education Oct 2019 - PresentAlbuquerque, New Mexico, United StatesAli is helping spearhead an initiative with the New Mexico Public Education Department to develop a Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) framework that provides a theoretical foundation for integrating SEL into the infrastructure and classrooms of schools statewide. In partnership with the Leadership School Network (LSN), Ali has been supporting the Student Support Directors in building out and sharing their Culturally and Linguistically Responsive (CLR) Framework for centering and institutionalizing educational equity at the LSN schools. This also includes co-developing and facilitating professional development regarding these practices. Ali is lead on recruiting and carving out career pathways for young parents, within the X3 Internship Program. This includes developing responsive systems of support to meet the unique needs and challenges of young parents to contribute to a positive intergenerational impact on themselves, their career goals and their families. She is co-authoring practice and operations manuals for the X3 internship program and for a school within the LSN to build safe and inclusive learning environments.
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Director Of Community ConnectionsNew Day Recovery Youth & Family Services, Inc. Jun 2018 - Sep 2019Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States• Took the lead in the community organizing, grant writing and opening of a peer support drop-in center for young people 16-22 years old. Employed methods of participatory action research, mobilized community stakeholders and diverse groups of young people to collectively develop a program logic model and meaningful evaluation metrics. • Recruited and supported community partners to ensure that New Day is working synergistically with other agencies and providers to build ecosystems of support for young people within programming and in the community. Ensured that goals were in alignment with agency and community initiatives.• Supported the development of a credentialed Young Adult Peer Support Worker (YAPSW) employment pathway within New Day and as a state-wide model, in collaboration with Children, Youth and Families Department. Provided direct supervision to YAPSW. • Oversaw and provided ongoing support, team building, supervision and training of a cross department team of staff, interns and the leaders of the Youth Advisory Council. -
Lead Medical Case Manager- Adolescent ServicesUnm Medical Group, Inc. Aug 2014 - Dec 2017Albuquerque, New Mexico Area• Assesses the psychosocial needs of student patients within the school setting to increase their access to integrated physical, behavioral and academic services. • Establishes wrap around care and facilitates wrap around treatment team and family meetings.• Advocates for the needs of clients, and their families, via accompaniment in navigating numerous systems of care (e.g. child welfare, HSD/ISD, outpatient services). • Provides one-on-one skill building related to client goals (e.g. life skills, social skills, job training)• Works to increase adolescent access to confidential services, such as sexual reproductive services, via advocacy and appropriate provider referrals. • Assists in preparing and co-facilitating presentations in classrooms regarding pressing health related issues (e.g. suicide prevention, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual reproductive health).• Works to integrate families and the greater community into initiatives within the school setting, in an effort to promote positive school culture transformation, which supports the physical and social-emotional wellbeing of all students and their families. • Oversees and collaborates with school based case managers working at four other school sites.• Responsible for the strategic development and evaluation of case management services and group interventions -
Sbhc Lead Medical Case Manager-Adolescent ServicesUnm Medical Group, Inc. 2014 - 2016
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In-Home Service WorkerHogares, Inc. Oct 2012 - May 2014Valencia County, New Mexico• Supported families referred from Child Protective Services in strengthening their protective capacities necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of the children in the biological families’ homes. • Identified the needs and strengths of the families, and referred them to community resources and services. • Provided direct support via family advocacy, crisis intervention, parenting training, family mediation, non-violent conflict resolution, legal accompaniment, and collaborating with community providers and law enforcement, and worked with the families to enhance their utilization of and access to services. -
Community Support WorkerHogares, Inc. Feb 2012 - Aug 2012Bernalillo County, New Mexico• Maintained a caseload of more than 30 youths who were in need of psychosocial support and mental healthcare. Linked the youth and their families to services and provided direct support to address their needs related to education, socialization, and mental health diagnosis.
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International Program InternEngenderhealth Aug 2011 - Jan 2012Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania• Developed and edited an advocacy toolkit for lead NGOs that would increase the organization’s capacity to participate in larger scale advocacy initiatives directed at community and governmental change.• Facilitated a capacity building training for more than 50 representatives from 10 local NGOs to train them in utilizing the advocacy toolkit. • Wrote policy briefs for the Tanzanian Commission for AIDS and for USAID on engaging men in the national HIV/AIDS response, as well as on how to strengthen multi-sectoral AIDS committees in Tanzania. • Assisted in coordinating and documenting MenEngage committee meetings, including scheduling, note taking, facilitation, assigning, and following up on assigned tasks. Member organizations included: The White Ribbon Campaign, UNFPA and JHPIEGO.• Prepared factsheets and presentations on best practice interventions in addressing gender-based violence for use in the organization’s public policy behavior change campaign, which raised awareness of gender-based violence prevention via a multi-media campaign including festivals, radio, and billboard advertising, and helped local NGO’s update their interventions by incorporating current best practices. • Participated in the monitoring and evaluation of various trainings; developed evaluation tools and wrote evaluation reports. Collected and wrote programmatic success stories and assisted in writing quarterly reports for USAID. -
Msw InternWalio Katika Mapambano Na Aids Tanzania (Wamata) Jan 2011 - Apr 2011Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania• Created, implemented, and evaluated a male-focused gender empowerment intervention for young men and women at WAMATA who have been infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. • Shadowed home-based palliative care, voluntary testing, and counseling (VCT) service providers, and raised more than $3,000 via from individual donors.• Evaluated the effectiveness of the gender empowerment group using both quantitative and qualitative data. • Created a pre-experimental, one-group pretest-posttest design to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention by measuring inequitable attitudes among male and female participants, as well as post-intervention reported behavior change, and finding positive change in gender equitable beliefs in both men and women.
Ali Sillas Education Details
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Social Work, International Concentration -
Social Work, Minor In Peace And Conflict Studies -
St. Pius X High SchoolHigh School Diploma
Frequently Asked Questions about Ali Sillas
What company does Ali Sillas work for?
Ali Sillas works for Future Focused Education
What is Ali Sillas's role at the current company?
Ali Sillas's current role is Director of Youth Behavioral Health and Wellbeing.
What schools did Ali Sillas attend?
Ali Sillas attended Dominican University, Pacific University, St. Pius X High School.
Who are Ali Sillas's colleagues?
Ali Sillas's colleagues are Gema Gonzalez, M Jessica Sanchez, Angelica Pantaleon, Maria Rogahn, Atieno Ouma, Moneka Stevens, Lucia Duncan.
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