James Starr Email & Phone Number

Oakland

• Group tutoring format (1:15). 3 hour session immediately after school.• Positive Role Model/Mentor for K-8th grade students in a classroom setting.• Ensure that student’s health, care, safety, welfare, security, rights, choices & the classroom and school facility is a safe environment for K-8th youth.• Facilitate and plan academic skill-building activities.• Manage an academic and social development.• Ensure all students graduate with successful completion of A-G requirements. • Manage and develop social, leadership skills and preparation for college success. • Manage student enrollment. Provide student counseling and guidance.• Create, plan, and facilitate engaging team-building skills.• Support students in developing the skills they need to be successful in school life.• Develop, inspire, empower and manage academic priorities that increase student engagement, achievement that empowers students towards a transformative vision where “Agency & Engagement” & “Theory & Practice is actualized.• Responsible for Attendance Sheet, passing out snacks, escorting youth to recess.• Evaluation Student Outcomes for the most vulnerable student populations (English learners, students with disabilities, African-American & Latino students)• Ensure students are consistently receiving supports, accommodations, and/or modifications as delineated in student’s Individualized Education Plans (IEP).• Design and implement lesson plans at varying academic levels (Meet Students Where They Are). Establish academic goals and milestones with students.• Oversee homework study hall, creating a positive learning environment for students to succeed.• Create opportunities for youth to practice building life skills such as goal-setting, self-advocacy, and organization to succeeding in the classroom.• Project-based learning, small group tasks, individual and group writing tasks, formative and summative assessment, and public performance/presentation.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Coordinator/Tutoring format (1:8). 2 hours long sessions (Monday through Thursday). • Tutor at school site in conjunction with After-School Program. Tutor/mentor 6th-8th grade students.• Academic/Mentoring (Tutoring w/homework)• Intake, Assessment & Test students in Language & Arts & Math on a weekly.• Support students’ school enrollment, attendance and academic achievement.• Oversee homework study hall, creating a positive learning environment for students to succeed.• Create opportunities for youth to practice building life skills such as goal-setting, self-advocacy, and organization to succeeding in the classroom.• Track student attendance, grades, and homework assignments.• Manage an academic and social development for at risk youth for college success. • Further develop programming to motivate students and families to embrace college aspirations. • Monitor academic performance of all students.• Ensure all students graduate with successful completion of A-G requirements. • Manage and develop social, leadership skills and extracurricular programming for college success. • Manage student enrollment. Provide student counseling and guidance • Hold regular check in with youth on academic and life skills progress, providing feedback and guidance as necessary. Ability to build rapport with students.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Academic & Career Counselor/Tutor/Mentor to 8-10 Latino/Hispanic student/athletes in East Los Angeles, CA. Tutored in high school math, English, history, writing and science. Facilitated mentor sessions on topics such as trauma, loss, low self-esteem, peer pressure, gangs, education, Latino culture, truancy, teenage pregnancy, computer skills, life skills, independent living skills, vocational and educational opportunities as well as college preparation.• Mentor/Tutoring format (1:5). 3 hours long sessions (Tuesday & Thursday). • Tutor at school site in conjunction with After-School Program. Tutor/mentor 9th-12th grade students.• Manage an academic and social development after school high school program to prepare at risk youth for college success. • Monitor academic performance of all students to develop successful tutoring & workshop.• Ensure all students graduate with successful completion of A-G requirements. • Manage and develop social, leadership skills and extracurricular programming for college success. • Manage student enrollment. Provide student counseling and guidance. • Oversee homework study hall, creating a positive learning environment for students to succeed.• Create opportunities for youth to practice building life skills such as goal-setting, self-advocacy, and organization to succeeding in the classroom.• Track student attendance, grades, and homework assignments.• Hold regular check in with youth on academic and life skills progress, providing feedback and guidance as necessary. Ability to build rapport with students.

Berkeley, Ca

• Case Manager/Counselor for Adults with Disabilities. Worked with 3-5 clients for approximately 10 hours each. Assisted each client in social/independent living skills, applying for social services, in-home care and social security. I worked with them also on vocational/educational opportunities in the community.• Moves clients through five phases: admission; engagement; learning; stabilization; and linkage to medical and social resources and aftercare.• Assisted clients in functional areas: household maintenance, personal hygiene, planning meals and preparation, shopping and money management.• Developed individualized service plans for each client, linking clients to resources and providing referrals for clients to meet their service, disability or hardship needs.• Works with clients to develop client centered treatment plans, and documents weekly progress.• Works with clients to identify behaviors or situations that interfere with their Alcohol, Drug or Mental Health Recovery.• Assisted clients to develop skills and strategies necessary to become successful at remaining free from Alcohol or Drugs.• Connected clients with needed community resources, i.e., physical and mental health, AA Meetings, housing and employment. Follows-up with clients and agencies as appropriate to document use/success of referral.• Escorts clients to court, Social Security, Doctor’s Appointments & others as needed.• Counselor/Therapist to clients relating to mental health, emotional distress, depression, anxiety, coping with trauma, improving interpersonal relationships, identifying & utilizing healthy coping skills.• Assisted clients who were at imminent risk for homelessness to achieve housing stability and self-sufficiency. Provided services that included locating emergency shelter, transitional housing, rental assistance, mental health support, prevention & support services to prevent eviction or cover move-in costs, get furniture, and/or an ongoing rental subsidy.

Berkeley, Ca

• Assistant Director/Extended Coordinator for an After-school program for elementary and junior high school aged students (12-16). There were approximately 20 students over saw each day. I also supervised a staff of 10 UC Berkeley students who volunteered & tutored each student in reading, writing, vocabulary, English, math, social studies, history, computers and science.• Oversee homework study hall, creating a positive learning environment for students to succeed.• Track student attendance, grades, and homework assignments.• Ability to build rapport with students. Advocating learner-centered, “personalized” student curriculum, Agency, Power and a belief in educational equity

Concord, Ca And Richmond, Ca

• Assisted consumers with Vocational/Educational placement. Conducted Mental Health seminar work-shops on topics such as healthy living/stress, time management, resources in the community, budgeting social security, independent living skills and vocational/educational placement.• Moved clients through five phases: admission; engagement; learning; stabilization; and linkage to medical and social resources and aftercare.• Responsible for providing addiction and mental health treatment as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team. I provided direct service, including individual, couple/family and group psychotherapy, consultation and crisis intervention.• Specifically addressed issues relating to mental health, such as emotional distress, depression and anxiety, coping with trauma, improving interpersonal relationships, and identifying and utilizing healthy coping skills. Assisted with teaching independent living skills, including linking to housing and providing support for educational and vocational goals.• Intensive Counseling services include Day treatment, crisis stabilization, crisis residential treatment. Coaches clients in developing social skills, money management, personal hygiene, and job readiness.• Provided counseling, psychiatry support, medication management and rehabilitation services.• Provides after hours, “on-call” coverage on a rotational basis to program clients which may include in person response, assistance, or intervention in the evening or on the weekend. • Taught WRAP (Wellness and Recovery Action Program) to emotional and mental disabled mental health adults who suffered from bi-polar, paranoid schizophrenia, depression, PSTD and developmental disabled.• Role was to guide, support and link adults with disabilities and mental health clients to community organizations such as NAMI, WRAP, and Mental Health First Aid, provide education when needed, and model compassion and self-care.

Berkeley, Ca

• Recruit appropriate youth for program participation. • Counsel and advise at-risk youth ages 14-18 during 2 weeks in the summer and Fall & Spring academic school year.• Develop individualized program and career goals/objectives with each participant.• Maintain complete client files by documenting and tracking progress of youth in who participated in Young Entrepreneur Program (YEP) of The Eastbay Outreach Project at Walter Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.• Serve as liaison and YEP representative throughout the EastBay (Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, El Cerrito, San Francisco community).• Engage in programmatic development and planning with Executive Directors, Milken Foundation, YEP Instructor, MBA Mentors & Program Staff.• Worked with MBA graduate students who served as mentors to high school students. Responsible for more than 1,000 high school students learning and designing the basic tenets of a Business Plan and getting funding from a Venture Capitalist Board.• Taught Marketing, Income Statement, Fixed & Variable Costs & Return on Investment.• Maintain quality control/accurate bench-marks for success, constantly seeking new ways to improve disadvantaged surrounding poor economic communities.• Supervise a staff of 10 College mentors for at-risk high school participants accepted in the YEP-Eastbay Outreach Project at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.• Maintain quality control & accurate bench-marks for Entrepreneur success constantly seeking new and creative approaches to improve surrounding disenfranchised economic poor communities.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), African-American/Black Studies, 3.6

I was accepted directly into the Ph.D. program at Temple University's Afrocentric/African-American Studies Graduate Program. I didn't.

"Ba", African-American/Black Studies/Business, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Walter Haas School of Business, Eastbay Outreach Project Black Recruitment & Rentention Center (BRRC) Alpha Phi.

Hotel Management, Kiswhahili, Business Management, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Howard University Homecoming Fall 1993 Alpha Ph. Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Beta Chapter) Homecoming Step-ShowU.C..

High School Diploma, Hotel Management, Business, African-American Historty, U.S. History, Education & Ethnic Studies, 3.0

Activities and Societies: The Durant Hotel The Shattuck Hotel The Shattuck Movie TheatreI graduated a semester early and enrolled.