Harriet Shea, Lsw, Cprw Email & Phone Number

• Provide job search strategies for a diverse caseload of approximately 60 clients per month.• Develop relationships with employers throughout the Columbus area on a continuous basis to assist clients with networking and job matching.• Conduct workshops on résumé preparation, interviewing skills and applications.• Prepare résumés for clients; entry level, middle management and executives.• Motivate clients during the job search process and while on the job to ensure continued employment.• Make recommendations for assessments or community resources.• Visit YWCA Family Center weekly to provide job search assistance and résumé workshops to homeless adults.• Collaborated with 30+ community based organizations yearly as the lead in a city-funded grant taking job coaching services into the neighborhoods.• Collect and enter data into computer database.

• Assisted homeless clients obtain employment while living in a shelter apartment with their family.• Contacted potential employers to develop employment opportunities.• Created weekly flyer of job openings and distributed it to the shelter families.• Coordinated “Twelve Steps to Employment” pilot program which included soft skills training, motivational speakers and job matching evaluations.• Provided intake and assessment of psychological, emotional and physical needs of homeless families.• Assisted families with their search for permanent housing and completed paperwork for first month’s rent and deposit.• Motivated adults to pursue employment opportunities.

• Supported families from program approval and throughout construction until house dedication ceremonies.• Compiled family “sweat equity” data for each family during the construction of their house.• Represented Habitat for Humanity at neighborhood meetings.• Planned ground breaking and house dedications.

• Managed the operation of the Family Center where homeless families spent each day.• Assigned each family to the Interfaith Hospitality Network for night time shelter. • Hired, trained and supervised a staff of 5-7 ensuring coverage of the Family Center seven days a week.• Developed and maintained case files and statistics on all families served.• Resolved all problems between families, children, churches and staff.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

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