Katrine Wright Email & Phone Number

West Leonard Branch

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Provided training for new Family Service Workers on agency policies, procedures, and community resources for families
• Developed small group monthly trainings for full day teachers to orient them to Social Services
• Participated in Parent Engagement and Attendance workgroup to promote parent involvement and increase attendance rates for students agencywide
• Coached current Family Service Workers to grow professionally in the Social Service field
• Collaborated with other departments to ensure FSW’s and teachers are completing job expectations
• Created a system of File Monitoring utilizing ChildPlus database

Green Street Head Start, Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Provided Social services and health follow-ups for families on the SE side of Grand Rapids
• Learned conversational Spanish allowing for more productive conversations with families
• Recruited families for the first years of the Family Literacy program

Kingston, Jamaica

• Taught a class of remedial high school students at a school for pregnant teens
• Immersed myself in Jamaican culture and learned Jamaican patios dialect to gain better rapport with students
• Facilitated group counseling with the students