Jamie Gibb Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Helping kids in need one child at a time.

Portland, Oregon Area

This position works directly with the Equity and Diversity Office Program Manager toward enacting their Five-Year Racial Equity Plan. Through a strategic project map, the plan works to guide Bureau members toward embedded equitable processes.Specifically: I assist the Police Equity Council in strategizing ways to communicate equity internally and externally; assist in drafting and editing tools, policies, and job descriptions, and transcribe council meeting minutes. I help create, edit, and fine-tune agendas, correspondence, white papers, and business case documents, all while keeping an equity lens closely focused on our work. This position has included research surrounding Equity and Diversity policies and plans, LEP/LAP policies and plans, and historical policing and demographic information. Further, I design flyers and tools, and create PowerPoint presentations and handouts. Outcome: Through collaborative efforts, I have created a Binder for the Police Equity Council, a tangible representation to the members of this council which helps them understand how they are a legitimate body within the Bureau. This binder houses their newly created charter documents and resources for their success. I have helped this group document their plans for future projects and set-up templates for those who will eventually follow in my footsteps.

Portland, Oregon Area

A project of the Pathways to Positive Futures research program, this position focused on helping foster youth learn skills to overcome their life circumstances, and through those skills building exercises, into understanding how their education can become a pathway to a better future.Specifically: Teaching foster youth self-efficacy and empowerment techniques; encouraging them to foresee and mitigate roadblocks to achieving a postsecondary education, or in transitioning from foster care into the workforce; helping them write college applications; acting as a sounding board for difficult life situations. Further, researching timelines and requirements, setting agendas, networking, and maintaining youth cohort meetings: attendance, location, materials, and notes. Also, researching options for grants, foster youth access to college rates, and then communicating these findings to Portland State University for review.Outcome: Two youths both submitted applications and were accepted into the colleges of their choice. One student was given a full 4-year scholarship to a local university. The other student decided on a different course, beginning with a 2-year community college first, and then reaching out for scholarships to a 4-year university. Regardless of which path they chose, I am delighted to still be able to help these two students reach their goals.

Portland, Oregon Area

Adhering to federal, state, and local directives, and by using specialized equipment and techniques, this position worked to safely transport youth to and from schools and events locally and throughout the West Coast.Specifically: Working with routing information to efficiently map and safely transport students, and their aides, to and from their assigned schools and programs; working with limited English proficient (LEP) and immigrant families in understanding safety guidelines, timelines, and school schedules.Promoted to spare driver, which further required the ability to run any route at any time, with any type of equipment, working with any type of student.Assisted new drivers: Helped train drivers to work with special needs equipment, and to work with family needs.

Master'S Degree, Social Work

Coursework included: Oppression and Privilege • Social Justice • Research and Evaluation III • Practice and Leadership with Communities.

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Work, 4.0

Coursework included: Generalist Practice with Groups • Oppression and Privilege • Social Justice • Research and Evaluation I, II • Racial.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Child And Family Studies Minor

Coursework included: Poverty Policies • Trauma and Resiliency • Family Violence • Early Childhood

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology, 4.0

Sociology: Human Behavior • US Society • Minorities • Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality • Religion Psychology: Social Science • Conflict.