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• Co-facilitate internal curriculum involving Positive Youth Development Model of after-school programs of 20 students.• Mentoring and outreach for at-risk youth.• Case management; connect, aide and assist students and families to resources and entitlements.• Translation and interpretations services from Spanish to English and vice versa.• Manage supplies for activities.• Plan and monitor after-school activities and trips.• Management of High School program.• Administration of baseline surveys and family assessments.• Reporting, assessing and monitoring clients cases.

Thailand

3rd Year Extended Service• Designed, proposed and spearheaded new programming partnership with Peace Corps Thailand and Ubonratchtani University focused on global youth development needs in rural Thailand.• Implement experiential learning based activities focused on games and sports to develop youth from ages of 11-22 in the Mekong River basin. • Planned, co-taught and developed four 1.5-hour university classes on gender equality and bias.• Initialize programs to support youth and equip them for more adept citizens and globally conscious individuals. • Plan and implemented camps, workshops and trainings for students within the university. • Assisted in two hands on experience trainings with 50 social development students. • Develop and execute camps and trainings about, but not limited to healthy life styles, leadership, fostering critical thinking skills, public speaking, and English language curriculum. • Developed activities and programs for youths, ages 11-15, at a rural school of 80 students. • Instituted awareness and empowerment projects on gender equality, life skills, LGBTQ, healthy life styles, civic duty, leadership, volunteerism, and reproductive health.• Implemented and managed experiential life skill education programs of 40 rural students from ages 11-15 • Collaborated with local government agencies for youth and community work to improve youth self-advocacy and using youth as an agent of community development.• Co-planned and co-facilitated 2 English and life skill learn and play camp for 200 youths respectively.• Conducted 5 curriculum trainings for professional development ranging from under 10 to over 100 participants.• Organized and launched youth council of 20 students ages 11-15, meeting and advising monthly for English improvement and community service projects.• Conducted bi-annual evaluations to monitor and evaluate youth development indicators.

West Michigan

• Aided and managed client in their transition back into general society from a penal environment, with an average case load of 7 clients a month, needing varying services such as: o Assisted in navigating Social Security services, Welfare entitlements, mental and physical health needs, job searches and housing. • Collaborated with agencies: Michigan Department of Justice, US Social Security services, Michigan Department of Human Services, Michigan Secretary of State and various private and public mental health agencies. • Monitored and reported on the general status of each client’s case to both the head of the Michigan Re-entry Program and to each individual’s parole officer.• Managed the daily workings of a transitional housing residence, allowing 8 men at a time, on parole or recently out of the penal system.• Implemented and monitored tasks and schedules for residents.

Master'S Degree, Public Administration And Policy, 3.66

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology, 3.78

Associate Of Arts - Aa, General Studies