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• Create and Implement Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Procedure.• Develop lessons and facilitate age appropriate Character Education lessons.• Establish a workshops themes and curriculum for the parent academy• Create partnerships with community-based programs, to better serve students and parent-community.• Develop behavior plans for scholars demonstrating patterns of difficult behavior. • Create and facilitate Professional Development workshops on classroom management, discipline, and culture.• Create and implement service-learning curriculum, using the character pillars and maintain school culture• Work, collaboratively with community agencies, to provide mental health counseling to students and parents.• Meet with the Principal and Executive Director to discuss strategies to improve academic performance, school culture and the social and emotional wellness of students.• Recruited to establish and exclusively run all educational components that would expand ongoing charitable efforts and improve the lives of people in need.• Quickly achieved ambitious goals set by the executive director, having the model replicated into four additional schools.

• Restructured academic component and include, instruction, enrichment and remediation activities and lessons• Secured the buy-in from investors, furnishing them with regular financial blueprints steering the direction of needed resources. • Influential leader doing what it takes to ensure children grow up strong and healthy, ready to thrive in school and life.• Committed to recruiting and retaining talented staff who embrace organizational goals in a results-oriented culture.• Fearlessly guided the institution on a journey in fighting the war against poverty.• Cultivated nurturing relationships with the staff and participants giving motivational support and guidance.• Augmented outdated curriculum and lessons plans, inflating participation and retention rates. • Brought organization back into prominence with a fresh vision earning public endorsements and recognition.

Greater New York City Area

• Designed and delivered a Mentor-leadership program focusing and teaching skills on leadership, mentoring and training to junior and high school students.• Originated comprehensive literacy projects to K-6 graders achieving high proficiency ratings in reading and writing.• Piloted the BELL-NY program giving structure and tools for 86 percent of the students showing a marked improvement in their literacy and math test scores within 9 months. • Formulated key relationships with donors to sustain needed funding for site resources and future projects.• Developed, implemented, and supervised an innovative educational program for students, including individual and group activities and impactful curriculums, shrinking teen pregnancy by 20%.• Collaborated with local school principals and strategic community partners strengthening the coordination of services for all students engaged in programming.• Bridged communication gaps between gang members, setting clear and honest communications lessening violence.• Took immediate political action on the suicide epidemic with tireless educational sessions and outreach platforms on to detect and address the early warning signs. • Conferred with Student Advisors regarding “at risk” students, and coordinate with university faculty and program directors to develop specific, personalized, intervention plans and activities for each “at risk” student facing an academically difficult situation.• Facilitate student requests for assistance such as contacting campus based facilitators or arranging for additional academic tutor training and referring students to the appropriate university services, tracking and monitoring their progress thereafter on a regular schedule or until they are assess not “at risk”.

Greater New York City Area

• Referred inmates to other support services, as needed, such as psychological medical evaluation, family support social and employment services.• Utilized motivational interviewing skills to ensure maximum member engagement and promote lifestyle/behavior changes to achieve optimum level of health.• Effectively supported a caseload of 25 clients.• Diligently documented paperwork in accordance with organizational guidelines.• Collaborated with the member and their care team, developed, and monitored established plans of care to meet their REACH plan.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided outreach and create environments in which family, friends, and established relationship of the person served can be fostered.• Conducted outreach to implement programs within the community that promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health; Assist individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors.• Helped to coordinate fundraising initiatives necessary for program operations.• Trained Emergency Food providers on public assistance and food stamp eligibility policies, and the impact of Welfare Reform.• Solely accountable in the execution of the “Teach Us to Fish, an empowerment program for Food Pantry and Soup kitchen participants.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mass Communication/Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-Chief, CAMPUS newspaper. Member of the Association of Black Journalists

Education record

Master Of Divinity - Mdiv, Pastoral Studies/Counseling