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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

To support youth and adults in living their best life. Assisting them in discovering their unique combination of skills, strengths and talents to accomplish achieving their goals and dreams.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Assist clients in transforming their lives and achieving their personal and professional goals.• Maintaining and creating confidential client file records including client follow-up, and session documentation.• Skilled in using powerful questions in the coaching session process to assist clients in locating the answers within. • Create and facilitate a variety of individual coaching exercises, tools, and worksheets to support clients through the process of discovering their own motives and goals, and encouraging them in finding the best path towards them. • Facilitate 1:1 coaching session’s in person, over the phone, and through Zoom Video Conferencing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Received training through the Regional Quality Collaboration Project Cohort, which is in partnership with Youthprise, Minneapolis Afterschool Network, Sprockets, and Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth. The purpose of this cohort is to increase the limited supply of trained diverse youth-serving professionals to assess program quality and provide coaching to youth-serving organizations in the Twin Cities metro area. The Youth Program Quality Assessment (YPQA) is an evidenced based evaluation tool that focuses on four key areas of positive youth development: safe environment, supportive environment, peer interaction, and youth engagement. YPQA is specifically designed to capture the quality of programming at the point of service. By measuring program quality with the YPQA tool, program leadership and staff can identify specific strengths and areas of development. This allows youth programs to provide targeted support for continuous quality improvements.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Responsible for the cohort development of 9 youth workers over a 9-month period by co-facilitating in-person bi-monthly meetings on methods of assessing quality afterschool programming; culturally relevant training and approaches for using the YPQA tool; and provided coaching on group facilitation and continuous quality improvement.• Consulted and coordinated with youth-serving organizations that requested a YPQA external assessment.• Assigned Quality Assessor Coaches to organizations and collaborated closely with them to address implementation dilemmas and ensured assessment standards were met.• Collected and maintained data spreadsheet to produce project reports.• Observed, collected data, and scored observation of afterschool and summer youth programs using the YPQA evaluation tool.• Provided coaching session to assist program staff/teams in developing a continuous quality improvement plan.

St. Paul, Mn

The Sanneh Foundation serves the holistic youth development needs of the increasingly diverse Twin Cities metro area. Our mission is to empower youth by supporting and promoting educational attainment through in-school and after-school support, improve lives by providing programs that strengthen physical health and social and emotional development, and unite communities by advancing diversity, equity, and community well-being.The Sanneh Foundation's signature program, Dreamline, is an academic intervention and mentoring program working with dis-engaged and under-performing students in public middle schools and high schools. Dreamline Coaches partner with students in public schools located throughout Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Cloud and Rochester to provide services on-site to students identified as most in need of intervention, whose teachers and administrators have identified as failing or near failing, and whose academic futures are in the greatest jeopardy. Dreamline’s goal is to partner with these students to increase their academic performance, improve school connectedness, and to develop leadership and relationship skills in order to become positive contributors to their school and community.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Hired, oriented and assigned program staff• Created and managed the staff training schedule • Developed performance evaluation• Maintained strong relationships with school contacts and administration via routine communications• Managed and evaluated partnership opportunities with community organizations• Assisted in the development of marketing materials and grant narratives• Managed on-going data collection, analysis, and reporting on progress towards program outcomes • Managed development and implementation of improvements to increase capacity and/or quality• Developed and delivered presentations and reports to stakeholders• Coordinated college visits to Mankato State University for high school Dreamline participants

Saint Paul, Mn

JDAI Community Coaches are specialized in providing short-term individualized coaching to youth whom has had previous offenses. Community Coaches ultimate goal is to minimize the risk of youth re-offending by ensuring that they complete their court ordered obligations, connecting them to educational opportunities and making the necessary referrals for further assistance.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Work 1:1 with female youth in Dakota County whom has had previous offenses, by providing short-term individualized coaching and support.• Ensuring that the youth connect to positive pro-social educational opportunities and making the necessary referrals for further assistance.• Complete and submit weekly reports.

Robbinsdale, Mn

Teen Outreach Program (TOP) is an evaluated, evidence-based, nine-month healthy youth development framework and curriculum that enables adolescents to make healthy choices by providing supportive relationships and meaningful community engagement opportunities, proven to increase academic and social success. TOP facilitation is provided in the following school districts: Brooklyn Center, Osseo, Robbinsdale, Intermediate #287, Perpich Center for Arts Education and Athos Leadership Academy (formerly known as New Visions Academy) Charter School.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENT: Developed and implemented new organizational/program procedures and systems to enhance efficiency and overall performance improvements. PRIMARY DUTIES:• Manage all aspects of the TOP program, including timely evaluation and reporting requirements for numerous stakeholders.• Hire, supervise, evaluate, coach and lead 9 TOP staff.• Collaborate with TOP staff to plan, develop, and implement best practices for adolescent participants and program partners.• Coordinate implementation of expanded programming, including funding, staffing, reporting, and sustainability planning.• Provide leadership to develop and maintain strategic partnerships and collaborations with schools, community organizations, and businesses to deliver, sustain, and enhance program services.• Implement marketing/PR strategies to increase public awareness and support of TOP programming.• Developed and monitored $650,000+ program budget for areas of oversight and contributed program information that supports grants and government contracts.• Facilitated a TOP after-school girls group at Armstrong High School.

Brooklyn Center, Mn

Girl Scouts is the world’s preeminent leadership development organization for girls, building girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts ConnectZ is a leadership development program to reach girls in under-served/under-represented communities by partnering with school districts, youth serving agencies, and faith based organizations to have River Valleys’ Staff and volunteers deliver the Girl Scouts Leadership Experience to girls in grades 5th-12th grades. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Redesigned the format/layout of the Girl Scouts ConnectZ curriculum and planning guide; created and implemented the badge incentive system; revised the ConnectZ curriculum to be culturally relevant; and developed enrichment opportunities for program participants.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Hired, trained, coached, and supervised a team of two Promise Fellows and seven ConnectZ Interns.• Determined and implemented short-term strategies to ensure organizational goals and commitments are met.• Contributed to the development and recommendations of long-term strategies to ensure continuous quality improvement.• Provided mentorship and coaching to staff, interns and volunteers around effective implementation strategies of the Girl Scouts ConnectZ program activities.• Ensured staff, interns, and volunteers have the necessary training, resources and support to deliver a high quality and relevant Girl Scouts ConnectZ program.• Collaborated with key stakeholders to increase girl membership, especially from under-served/under-represented communities, by forming partnerships with schools, youth serving agencies and community partners.• Assisted with program data collection and membership registrations.• Facilitated a ConnectZ troop at AGAPE High School in St. Paul.

Minneapolis, Mn

Beacons Learning Center engages youth as leaders and learners by transforming schools into active youth centers after-school and in the summer providing free high quality educational, recreational, and leadership development activities opportunities to kindergarten-8th grade youth and their families at Cityview PAM School. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENT:Facilitated the successful program redesign of the Beacons Learning Center Program to be more structured and organized; as well as increased student retention and program outcomes.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Managed the day-to-day operations, overall development, coordination, administration, supervision and promotion of the Beacons Learning Center after school/summer programs.• Hired, trained and supervised nine program staff; supervised 49+ ALC teachers, independent instructor contractors, youth serving program agency staff and community members.• Assisted with recruitment of 350+ participants (average 230 young people per day during school year) and 100+ participants (average 52 young people per day during summer).• Created and monitored a $250,000+ program budget.• Established and maintained relationships with school personnel, youth serving organizations and collaborating community partners to ensure continued success of program outcomes.• Worked in partnership with school personnel to ensure there was adequate space in the school to facilitate programming.• Responded to customer and service agent challenges through proactive investigation of issues in a decision-making role while partnering with other departments across the organization.• Researched, created, and facilitated orientation/workshop/training modules around leadership and staff development, quality programming and youth development.• Developed program goals, procedures and guidelines and made sure they were followed and implemented.• Ensured program activities and data collection were in compliance with grant funder mandates and best practices.

Bloomington, Mn

Kids’ SAFARI is a Community Education Program, which encompasses all the before and after school programs offered for children in kindergarten through grade 5. The focus of these programs is on school age child-care and enrichment opportunities designed to meet the changing needs of children and families. This is accomplished through creative learning experiences designed to lead children to discover friendships, independence, and confidence. PRIMARY DUTIES:• Managed the day-to-day operations, coordination, administration and supervision of the Kids’ SAFARI program and ALC targeted services after-school programs at Indian Mounds and Valley View Elementary schools.• Supervised 12 program staff (2-full-time and 10-part-time) • Managed a $13,000 program budget for the Kids’ SAFARI program and $45,000 program budget the ALC targeted services program.• Created program procedures and guidelines and made sure they were implemented.• Recruited and retained young people to participate in Cultural Connection classes at Indian Mounds Elementary School.

Minneapolis, Mn

Youth Frontiers partners with schools to delivers one-day retreat programs throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota that focused on the timeless values of Kindness, Courage, Respect and being responsible for students in 4th – 12th grades, that build positive school communities where students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically, as well as strengthen their character.PRIMARY DUTIES:• Lead a team of retreat staff to deliver an excellent retreat experience by assigning roles and managing retreat time.• Coordinated logistics with school contacts before, during and after retreat. • Responsible for the training of the volunteer small group leaders (usually teachers or high school students) to help support the students through the retreat experience.• Provide and receive constructive feedback on and off retreat to help co-workers and the organization grow.• Written and presented 15-minute speech presentations about courage (6th-8th grades) and respect (9th-10th grades), delivered with both heart and humor, which were addressed to over 18,000 youth across Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota.

St. Paul, Mn

Girl Scouts is the world’s preeminent leadership development organization for girls, building girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. As a Membership Outreach Specialist, my role was to deliver the Girl Scouts Leadership Program experience to girls in under-served/under-represented communities. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Restored and redesigned the program structure and developed the curriculum format of the Beta Gamma Sigma (now known as the Beta Gamma Gamma Sigma) Program, which was intended specifically for African American young women in grades 6th-12th grades. Now approaching 18 years since being restored, the BGGS program continues to be a catalyst to inspire effective change in young girls of color. PRIMARY DUTIES:• Recruited, retained membership, and facilitated 11 Girl Scout troops in after school programs in St. Paul Public schools (3 elementary, 2 middle schools, and 3 high schools), two public housing complex and one neighborhood community center.• Collaborated with community partners to create curriculum and facilitate discussion sessions for the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) program groups for girls in 6th-12th grades.• Planned, coordinated and managed the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) program events: College tours to Louisiana, North Carolina, Atlanta; the BGS Health and Wellness Retreat; the BGS Kickoff Event; and the BGS monthly meetings.

Minneapolis, Mn

• Developed and facilitated three youth groups at Brian Coyle Community Center.• Participated in bi-monthly AmeriCorps leadership trainings.

Master Of Arts In Leadership, Organizational Leadership

The Master of Arts in Leadership program is a cross-disciplinary program of liberal arts that builds skills in communication.

Educational Psychology W/Focus In Special Education And Minor In Afro-African American Studies