Grant Management and Public Health Preparedness:-Directed the Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant, significantly enhancing the ability to respond to public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism events. -Spearheaded the Cities Readiness Initiative grant to elevate emergency preparedness in major urban areas, ensuring efficient response to public health crises and effective distribution of life-saving resources to nearly 60% of the nation's population.-Oversaw the Wright County Public Health's Health Alert Network, managing alert dissemination, creating templates, and maintaining updated contact lists.-Provided support and guidance to a team of four staff members working on the Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant, ensuring coordinated efforts and optimal performance.Financial Oversight:-Managed multiple budgets exceeding one million dollars, with a focus on COVID-19 response, workforce development, and emergency preparedness, ensuring the efficient allocation and monitoring of funds.Continuity Planning:-Contributed to the development of the Wright County Continuity of Operations Plan, leveraging expertise in Human Services and Public Health to ensure operational sustainability during disruptions.Emergency Response Leadership:-Functioned as the Logistics Section Chief for Wright County Public Health's COVID-19 Response (Spring 2020 - Summer 2021), overseeing logistics, including facilities, transportation, supplies, food, and personnel services.-Acted as Incident Commander for the Wright County COVID-19 Response, directing overall incident operations and staff management to maintain control and focus on critical management functions.Health Equity Leadership-Coordinated health equity learning opportunities for staff through the Health Equity Action Team.

Managed several state grants including:Suicide Prevention Education GrantStatewide Health Improvement Partnership GrantDeveloped and participated in several state pilot programs including:Statewide Health Improvement Partnership Opioid Pilot ProjectCDC Peer to Peer Opioid PilotParticipated in the application of and was awarded several grants:Suicide Prevention Education GrantDrug Free Communities GrantFoster and developed community coalition and partnerships around the following topics:Mental Health and WellbeingOpioid Overdose PreventionSubstance Use Prevention CoalitionPresented and Provided Education to Peers and Community Members on:Suicide Prevention through the SafeTALK trainingE-Cig Education to parents and studentsOpioid Information Patient Education to Community Members

While at Community NeuroRehab I work as a direct care staff to those that have suffered traumatic brain injury. I provide them with day to day guidance and help them work towards a level of self-sufficiency with the goal that they will be able to return to their communities and be able to thrive. On a daily basis my coworkers and I work with individuals that have speech difficulties, physically difficulties, and intellectual difficulties.

While working as a youth addiction specialist I structure and support a drug free environment and lifestyle for adolescents ages 13-18. These adolescents remained in the facility for 3-4 months, so the position required to interacted with clients on a daily basis and develop rapport with clients, while keeping professional distance. While employed I redeveloped several groups to provide greater accountability for the clients we served. Acted as a mentor and emotional support for clients that were experiencing withdraws or emotional trauma due to the recovery process. I also provided health advice and physical activity education for clients that wanted to use exercise as a coping method. Along with direct care staff experience I also supported my coworkers with general office support and recorded daily logs of events of clients that met HIPAA standards.In Summary:• Structure and support a drug free environment and lifestyle for youth ages 13-18.• Redeveloped several groups to provide greater accountability for the clients we served.• Controlled and managed critical situations between upset clients.

While interning at Safeguard Iowa Partnership I filled several roles and was lucky enough to work on many projects. I worked with Iowa Department of Public Health to conduct a statistical analyzes of where patients were picked up and which hospitals they were transported to while having an acute cardiac incident. Along with this I conducted research and started to assemble several assessments. These assessments covered, physical security, cyber security, and business continuity. I was in charge of creating a comprehensive but accessible question set along with creating a format of delivering the questions. Along with developing tools I assisted Safeguard Iowa Partnership with office support due to the low number of staff that work for the partnership.In summary:• Worked with GIS mapping in collaboration with Iowa Department of Public Health to map cardiac incidents and where patients were taken.• Started to develop a physical and cyber security assessment tool for small businesses to better prepare themselves for a disaster.• Completed review an active shooter table top training. This included presenting a section on the scenario to stakeholders of the partnership.• Planned and created documents for several committee meetings.• Started to review and develop a self-assessment business continuity tool.