Catherine Mendonça [MẽˈDõsɐ] Email & Phone Number

San Diego Metropolitan Area

We serve as a vital resource for our member agencies and the community to plan for the future and are committed to creating a San Diego region where every person who visits, works, and lives can thrive.Use of Microsoft SharePoint and Granicus Meeting and Agenda Management in compliance with The Ralph M. Brown Act of 1953.Formatting and Proofreading: Utilize Microsoft Word and other Office Suite applications, particularly Excel, to format and proofread various documents in line with Style Guidelines.Copyediting Tasks: Format letters, memos, meeting agendas, minutes, short reports, and contracts from drafts or author instructions.Complex Copyediting: Create and format mail merges, reports, charts/graphs, electronic forms, flyers, tables of contents, and indexes.PDF Management: Convert and transform documents into PDF format for the website and agenda processing, and update web content using authoring software.Administrative Support: Provide general administrative assistance and support special projects as assigned.Calendar Management: Schedule meetings and manage the calendar according to the approved legislative schedule.

San Diego County, California, United States

Community Outreach Worker Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment | San Diego, CA | Oct 2022-Current(Seasonal part time position according to election seasons and legislation cycles)Engage in both phone banking and door-to-door outreach to motivate community membersProvided individuals and families with information and resources to connect with available programs.Performed canvassing activities to drum up support and increase awareness on Acce Action.Our Team Exceeded Campaign Goals for Acce’s Know Your Rights Outreach at 110% On The Homelessness Prevention Act SB567; I reached a Voter Participation Success Rate of 90% as of August of 2023.

San Diego, California, United States

The San Diego Tenants Union is committed to fighting displacement and gentrification. We organize tenants to fight against rent hikes and fight for improvements.Database and Inter-Office System Coordination to secure efficiency and compliance to company policies and grant requirements.(ETL) Data Analysis/Reconciliation of 76 Tenant Associations and 1200 Tenants/3000 Total Contacts Graphic and Video Design, Photo documentation, Implemented and managed social media campaigns and press releases.Community organizing to create positive social impact, develop helpful programs, and enlist community’s lived experience support for causes; mobilized Tenant Association meetings, engaged in site visits to evaluate residence habitability, executed letters and media pieces in protest to contracts and conditions.Virtual Assistant to Director

San Diego, California, United States

Developed, implemented, and evaluated annual communication plans annual across victims/survivors/surviving families and loved ones demanding police accountability in collaboration with other organizations on a statewide level.Lead the generation of online content that engages audience segments and measurable action.Put communications vehicles in place to create momentum and awareness as well as to test the effectiveness of communications activitiesManage the development, distribution, and maintenance of all print and electronic collateral including, but not limited to, social media campaigns, press releases, letter to news editors, short films, petitions, legislative and penal code research.Coordinate webpage maintenance—ensure that new and consistent information (article links, stories, and events) is posted regularly. Conducted victims advocacy and supportive services including referralsVictim Advocacy • Helping them identify the range of options available to help protect their rights and safety;• Assisting the victims/survivors or their families in asserting those rights against and denouncing police assault, harassment and brutality; including• Providing a safe space in which survivors may disclose information;• Giving support and encouragement throughout legal processes or advocating for legal assistance;• Providing information and offering guidance on finding answers when questions arise;Ensuring that if system response to victims/survivors or their families is unfair, then promoting open and direct action empowering the victims, survivors and their families.Providing continued support when processes have concluded.

1012 C St San Diego, Ca 92101

The mission of the YWCA is to increase safety, promote healing, foster empowerment, and give hope to women and families through innovative programs, services, and advocacy.• Utilize a trauma-informed and client centered approach, provide ongoing support to domestic violence survivors including crisis intervention, safety planning, needs assessment and coordinating resources and services.Answer the 24-hour Domestic Violence Hotline to provide immediate assistance to survivors and the general public including conducting application interviews, shelter intakes and providing referrals to community resources.Assist residential clients with accessing program services and connecting to resources. Completion of data entry and reporting, including hotline information, client status updates and incident reports.Monitor and maintain the shelter facility standards to provide a clean, safe and secure environment for clients.Establish and maintain collaborative community relationships with other organizations* In 2011, the YWCA helped over 5,700 individuals escape domestic violence and homelessness through our programs and our legal services. This is a larger number than last year. Even with fewer resources, we were able to help more people in need. The Becky’s House® program had answered 2,166 hot line calls and helped 401 women and children start new lives without violence.

4740 Murphy Canyon Rd # 300, San Diego, Ca 92123-4

A belief that all adults have the right and ability to work at real jobs for real pay.The San Diego Regional Center San Diego-Imperial Counties Developmental Services, Inc.• Training, monitoring, counseling and advocating for program clients in the community and vocational settings.• Develop age appropriate functional integration and/or work schedules and provide assistance with outreach to the community while monitoring the quality and effectiveness of the integration. • Participation in the assessment of the needs of persons with developmental disabilities during treatment team meetings.• Maintenance of participant files: Treatment Plans, Progress Notes, etc. Job Coach sub files and community books and timely completing required program and participant paperwork such as 30 day reviews and quarterly reports. • Mandatory attendance of all TMI required meetings and In-service trainings.

4246 Wightman Street, San Diego, Ca 92105

Provides professional support to ASD fundraising objectives including individuals, foundations, corporations, and events. • Assisting in planning and implementation of all ASD special events - logistics, contracts, vendors, volunteer coordination • Donor communications - Thank you letters, phone calls, reporting, coordination of bulk mailings • Database management - update and correct database records, track donor correspondence, assist in moves management • Provide support and assistance with grant writing and grant processes. • Provide support and assistance to the Executive Director as needed.

3002 Armstrong Street, San Diego 92111-5702

• RTC level 14: Supervise the day-to-day activities of the program while maintaining ratios within licensing and insurance regulations.• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts for children in the institutional setting.o Emphasize the strengths of the child together with the modification of maladaptive behaviors to promote positive insights and develop adaptive coping skills. o Helping children decrease problem behavior by self-control through active problem solving and the practicing of pro-social interactions.o Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.• Instructing, supervising, and participating with children in maintaining the appearance and structure of their living space (to include their rest and sleep needs and meeting their health and hygiene needs as appropriate) while monitoring both individual and group recreational and life skills activities.• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.• Maintained client progress notes on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.• Providing assistance to teachers in classrooms with behavior management; instructions or other duties assigned.

Palomar Family Ymca, 1050 North Broadway, Escondido

• Responsible for providing services to SBCS clients and community members, keeping with agency goals, mission and style and within a team framework, provided strategies to address those objectives in conjunction to WIA.• Facilitate job readiness classes such as resume development, job search/interview tips, tutoring and effective communication skills while developing goal-oriented service plans.• Work with WIA clients to provide proper emergency assistance as needed such as housing assistance (TLP information, apartment hunting/roommate search, utilities) and provide referrals for healthcare, counseling, legal issues, substance abuse, pregnancy prevention, etc.• Maintained positive, constructive working relationships with collaborative organizations, including service providers, school administration and staff, parents, and youth. Built rapport with youth.

5348 University Ave # 205, San Diego, Ca

“Refugees gain the skills and knowledge to achieve long-term stability by family tutors/mentors working to promote self-sufficiency, access to health care and community resources as well as teaching them survival English in their homes.” • Case Management Components (Independent Living Skills) • Educational Tutoring: One-on-one or group tutoring to refugees that need help with their English reading, writing and school work. • Life Skills Preparation • Mentoring: providing in many areas client support by offering stability and life-long connections. • Workshops that cover employment and communication skills, education planning, financial literacy, promoting strong self-esteem, living healthy lives, decision making, navigating through school, urban survival skills, social skills, and more.

4508 Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, Ca

Volunteers work as an interdisciplinary team with emergency room staff, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and police officers. They respond to survivors in the hospital or at the police station, 24 hours a day and provide crisis intervention to survivors and non-offending family members about sexual assault, evidence collection and date rape drugs. In addition, advocates provide information about social, health and legal resources.

Certification, Fund Raising Executive (Cfre)

Introduction to Fundraising and Development Making the Case: Fundraising Communication Skills Leading and Managing the Development.

Bachelor'S Degree