Karen Salinas Email & Phone Number

• Managing team of 30 people consisting Managers, System Coordinators, and direct service outreach staff
• Developed program and communication structure for outreach teams across Seattle and in parts of South King County
• Engage community partners including SFD, SPD, other service providers, and local businesses and community groups
• Oversee outreach teams engaging people who are homeless and use drugs and strategize with staff on how to approach client situations to resolve conflict in communities
• Provide community outreach and education on homelessness, substance use, and intersection with mental health
• Provided conflict resolution strategies amongst staff and community involving clients engaging in difficult behaviors to reach resolution that doesn't always require law enforcement intervention

• Supervised new Screening & Outreach Coordinators in North and East precincts
• Support team building peer leader support
• Assist with referral management, triage, and outreach
• Oversee program development for outreach team in North and East precinct LEAD teams
• Engage community partners and service providers to create network of services for clientele

Greater Seattle Area

• Provide harm reduction, trauma informed case management for clients who are homeless, use drugs, and are legally involved
• Outreach and engage new and existing clients
• Connect clients to resources and services, including housing system navigation, legal advocacy, connection to substance use treatment, mental health and primary care, and client short and long term goals
• Point of contact for clients, prosecutors, partners, and law enforcement
• Manage referrals enrollment in program and in database
• Community outreach to create partnerships with outside providers and community organizations

Greater San Diego Area

• Developed workshop on sexual assault prevention to educate students on consent and communication, establishing boundaries and expectations in intimate and social settings, and intervening in risky situations.
• Tailored and presented workshop to undergraduate students in fraternities, sororities, social clubs, and athletic teams ranging from 15-100 students
• Assisted with program evaluations for SDSU Peer Health Education programs, FratMANners and SISSTER, by completing IRB proposals, providing secondary coding of qualitative data, collected and entered data, and compiled.

Greater San Diego Area

• Assisted with instruction, grading, and support for undergraduate Public Health Communications class
• Worked closely with 14 students groups in creation of mock public health campaigns to promote behavior change in selected target audience. Campaign topics included, HIV prevention, STI prevention, sexual assault.

San Diego, CA

• Conducted evaluative interviews with HIV+ patients to gauge health status, views on accessibility to health care, perception of stigma, and other social and health determinants of health as a part of a five year study.
• Outreached clients via phone and scheduled appointments
• Assisted with data management and entry

Washington, DC

• Conducted syringe exchanges for clients in mobile outreach van and drop in center
• Participated in day time outreach distributing safer sex and safer injection supplies in each of the DC quadrants
• Provided feedback on training materials to include Latino/ Hispanic client needs and created informational resources for Spanish speaking clients
• Assisted with the beginning stages of a skills building workshop
• Completed two month training required for internship. Topics discussed included principles harm reduction, safe injection and safe sex practices, drug use and sex work in DC, and the socioeconomic impact of.

Arlington, VA

• Created guided workshop manuals for different themes of nutrition and stress, in both English and Spanish, for a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Arlington, VA
• Led workshop discussions and cooking demonstrations
• Participated in the pre- and post- testing for participants' knowledge and use of information discussed in workshops and improvements
• Conducted door to door outreach to increase interest in workshops

Silver Spring, MD

• Planned and organized a community outreach event to commemorate Hepatitis Awareness Month
• Provided testing for Hepatitis C, doctor led educational lectures, blood pressure testing, tabling with information and resources from eight community organizations, and a raffle with prizes every 15 minutes
• Partnered with HBI- DC and Providence Hospital to coordinate and implement event

Washington, DC

• Created a workshop curriculum for organization's yearly training sessions for the Promotores de Salud, the community health workers employed by La Clinica

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assisted Front Desk staff with administrative tasks, including after hours front desk management
• Transcribed and captioned videos requested by students that are deaf or hard of hearing
• Scanned books requested by students for the Learning Resources staff

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Tutored students aged 6-12 from various schools in the DC area
• Assisted students with math, reading, and Spanish homework and helped with their guided free time activities, such as independent reading and puzzles

Germantown, MD

• Cashier
• Customer service
• Bus tables and dishwashing
• Assisted with opening and lock up
• Limited food preparation

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Health Promotion And Behavioral Science

Ba Public Health, Minor In Health Promotion, Minor In Biology