Daniel Berek Email & Phone Number

Denville, New Jersey, United States

* Provide information and referral services to people with disabilities to enhance their ability to live in the community* Lead social skills groups on independent-living topics, such as voting and effective communication* Maintain agency social media presence on Facebook and Twitter* Enhance communication between agency and consumers and their families, by creating educational and outreach emails via Constant Contact and maintaining multiple lists of contacts.

Morris County, New Jersey

While I was laid off from my work in the social service industry because of the COVID-19, I was afforded me the opportunity to reflect on how I can serve my community. As of September 2020, I started full-time work at DAWN Center for Independent Living. I continue to volunteer, albeit on a more limited basis with Congregation Or Ha Lev and Mutual Morris.WRITING, EDITING, SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH* Write updates on current and forthcoming activities for Congregation Or Ha Lev and the Janusz Korczak Association of the U.S.A. on social media* Completed ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) course: Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers.EDUCATION, OUTREACH TO YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES* Tutor teen boy with cognitive disability in all academic subjects and provide mentoring support; provide his grandparent guardians with home-based respite* Revised resume and editorial query letter for a person with a disability seeking a career change.ANIMAL WELFARE* Gathered bedding and delivered old newspapers as bedding for local animal welfare organization * Petitioned for environmental, wildlife, and animal welfare issuesSENIOR CITIZENS* Call seniors by phone to provide them a social outlet, connection to congregation, and assist with launching independent writing business * Shopped and delivered groceries to seniors (via Jersey Cares, Morris Mutual, Nextdoor)GENERAL ASSISTANCE * Engaged in delivering food and financial support for the Township of Mount Olive food bank* Evaluated applications for scholarship, Kiwanis of Mount Olive, New Jersey* Used supermarket holiday points to purchase grocery items for town food pantry.

Budd Lake And Ewing, Nj

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST • Promoted the mission of social service agency serving people with all disabilities through monthly staff newsletter I wrote, illustrated, and laid out with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat Pro • Researched and wrote articles and original photographs for donor newsletter and agency website blog, along with other communications and marketing projects • Established and regularly maintain the agency’s online presence on five social media platforms; successfully obtained many followers on each, a more than twelvefold increase for Twitter alone.CAREER DEVELOPMENT (EMPLOYMENT) SPECIALIST• Enhanced the independence and overall self-esteem of consumers with various disabilities, training them in effective job-search techniques; provided on-site employment support for those already working.FAMILY SUPPORT SPECIALIST • Mentored boy with intellectual and learning disabilities with life-skills and homework assistance • Engaged children, teens, and young adults with I/DD to interact successfully in community-based pro-grams, enhancing their social and communication skills, fostering self-esteem, and encouraging independence.

Morristown, Nj, And Flanders, Nj

• Foster internal communication with quality electronic newsletter I design and create, using Adobe InDesign CS6.• Enhance internal staff communication and online visibility of SCORE, Chapter 15, with high-quality quarterly newsletter, 15SUES, I write, edit, and lay out, using Adobe InDesign CS6• Research and write articles, reviews, and bibliographies for academic and professional publishers (including SAGE Publishers and EBSCO) and websites.

Gladstone, Nj

• Fostered a love of learning in children through individualized and instruction in all subjects• Enabled the school to teach children beyond pre-K by compiling and writing mathematics curriculum incorporating hands-on teaching, aligned to NJCCCS and school philosophy• Assisted in the smooth operation of the school and its future success with research and administrative duties, including school promotion and fundraising• Enriched student learning through unabridged traditional cultural oral folk tales in English, Spanish, and French.

Gladstone, Nj - Basking Ridge, Nj

• Created hands-on academic, vocational, and life-skills programs to meet the academic and emotional needs of teens and young adults with cognitive and behavioral disabilities • Enhanced school spirit and promoted the school online and in PR communications with high-quality photographs I took, edited, and mounted• Strengthened the relationship of the school with current and prospective parents in meetings, introducing them to the merits of the school and the programs offered.

Peapack, Nj

• Taught students ages 3–21 with severe cognitive and physical disabilities; created individualized course materials; tended to students’ bodily and emotional needs• Collaborated with team members in other specialties to provide patients with optimal care• Nurtured sick and lonely children by reading to them to offer them other forms of enrichment.

Manville, Nj

• Brought conversational Spanish to students in district, ages 9–15 (including special-needs) • Created course materials, games, visual aids, and study sheets, adapted to the varied needsof the students in the district• Strengthened to the academic connection among the schools in the district by voluntarily serving on Curriculum Committee, ensure program articulation across all grades and schools.

Flanders, Nj

• Researched and wrote historic biographic material for producer of educational CD-ROMs• Researched important historic speeches and adapted them for educational reference CD-ROM • Substitute taught, all grades, with specialization on woriking with children with severe multiple disabilities (both physical and cognitive)• Taught and supervised computer activity at children's and teen's summer day camp; documented daily activities through photojournalism for parent communication and camp promotional materials.

Bound Brook, Nj

• Made the school and district curriculum accessible to immigrant children in English very diverse cultural and educational backgrounds by created custom materials • Interpreted complex social and academic issues for Spanish-speaking parents at meetings.• Improved communication between the schools and parents by actin as interpreter for Spanish-speaking parents regarding social and academic issues during parent and IEP meetings• Enhanced my professional value to the district by taking a high-level graduate-level course at Rutgers University on theories and methods of teaching children in different languages; shared my knowledge with other staff.

Morristown, Nj

• Enhanced the school’s cultural offerings by teaching elementary Spanish in multiage classrooms, grade levels K–8, for which I created syllabi and specialized original materials• Articulated a vision for future Spanish instruction by writing the world languages curriculum• Assisted with school expansion and growth by planning and creating detailed budget for new classroom• Strengthened school spirit by contributing essays, articles, and photographs for school newsletter and Web site.

New Providence, Nj

• Played an important part in ensuring that published materials were up to date and accurate, as part of a multinational team editing comprehensive bibliographic database of periodicals, journals, and newsletters from around the world • Assisted in company’s transition to new Oracle database and standardizing foreign addresses• Added value to several publications by writing abstracts and editorials.

Morristown, Nj

• Enhanced communication and employee morale and teamwork among senior management marketing units world wide for a major multinational pharmaceutical by managing and coordinating all editorial and production activities of an important corporate newsletter• Met the needs of other pharmaceutical company clients by writing articles.

New York,Ny

• Ensured that professional and technical computer journals and newsletters met the exacting standards on which the reputation of the company was built.

New York, Ny

• Took an active role on the editorial team to maintain high standards of quality for pharmaceutical industry-sponsored educational and clinical literature for consistency and accuracy.

Certification Program, Special Education And Teaching

Activities and Societies: CEC - Coucil for Exceptional Children, Phi Beta Kappan International, ASCD - Association for Supervision.

Mat - Elementary School Teaching, Education, Special Education, Early Literacy

Activities and Societies: Took extra courses in early literacy and classroom design and management at Rutgers during the summer, Attended.

Ma - Classics & Archaeology, Archaeology, Greek And Latin, Art History, Athropology

Activities and Societies: Teaching assistantship - Medical Terminology, Teaching assistantship - Field Archaeology (Wiltshire.

Ba - History, History, Anthropology, Archaeology

Activities and Societies: Student Council Representative, Editor - Literary Magazine, Debate Team, Archaeology Club,Made Dean's List.