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Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

Swansea, South Carolina

Create website content and edit client communications materials. Clients include Stoneridge Builders, Lexington, SC, and HIT Communications, Greenville, SC. Blog Writer: Foodandfaithinthekitchen.wordpress.com

Randolph, Maine

Formalized volunteer program to support foster care recruitment efforts. Established volunteer procedure and application process. Recruited and trained volunteers and coordinated assignments. Provided presentations to community groups on volunteer opportunities. Created inventory and ordering system for marketing and promotional materials and managed inventory utilized by staff recruiters.

Hallowell, Me

Held primary responsibility for day-to-day operations of the Cohen Center, a community center serving older adults in southern Kennebec County. Oversaw ongoing programs and created new opportunities to enhance seniors’ social and educational experiences at the center. Handled facility management issues. Provided leadership and guidance with consumer, volunteer, and employee concerns. Served as center liaison with local advisory council. Managed logistics for organization’s ninth annual Healthy Aging Expo.

Managed day-to-day operations of a non-profit association. Provided information, education, and peer support services. Held primary responsibility for grant writing and budget management. Coordinated volunteers to serve in roles including health educators, board members, and peer visitors. Created communication tools to include new logos, newsletter, informational brochure, and portable exhibit boards.Achievements:● Established Wheeling in New Directions, an educational conference that focuses on options and opportunities for individuals after spinal cord injury. ● Crafted regional trainings and in-service education to expand the knowledge base of rehabilitation professionals on daily life with spinal cord injury.● Introduced an injury prevention program in area schools and expanded from five presentations in the first year to 40 presentations annually.● Built new website to better serve target audience and highlight individuality of South Carolinians with spinal cord injuries.

South Carolina

Provided clients with writing and consultation services. Developed creative concepts. Edited publications. Contracted with photographers, web designers, and graphic artists and coordinated printing process. Communications materials included in-house newsletters, community news magazines, brochures and booklets, annual reports, and website writing.Clients Served Included:• University of South Carolina School of Medicine • Columbia, SC• County of Lexington • Lexington, SC• Carolinas Hospital System • Florence, SCHighlights: ● Established four-page faculty newsletter, which evolved into a 20-page publication.● Published articles in Easy Street magazine (Aiken, SC) and SASS news magazine (Augusta, GA). ● Provided majority of content for hospital community news magazine. ● Created ghostwritten op/ed columns for Columbia businessman on societal issues.

Managed the Public Relations Department of a 266-bed acute care hospital. Developed public awareness, promoted hospital service usage, and projected a positive image for the hospital with a variety of audiences. Specific responsibilities included media relations; advertising; publications; budgeting; community education and health screenings; special events; hiring, training, and retaining staff; departmental and physician support.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Journalism, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Attendant for students with spinal cord injuries Reader for students with blindness and visual impairments

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