Kenrica Sands Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, NC, US

United States

• Plays a key role in the execution of the company’s DEI strategy across four key strategic pillars: talent representation, internal culture, external partnerships, and data & accountability.
• Provide administrative, program/event, data analysis, and communication support in alignment with DEI strategy
• Organize employee engagement activities such as employee resource group programs, heritage months events, and cultural celebrations
• Facilitate 1:1 coaching to employees with a focus on emotional wellness and talent mobility
• Prepare reports or other documents associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies, projects, programs, or policies
• Create internal and external communications and update internal DEI webpage

As a co-founder and lead counselor/mentor for a non-profit girls’ only summer writing camp designed to enrich and empower young ladies in the Delta through poetry and active feminism, I co-create and develop a curriculum activated by love and strengthened with dedication to enriching our community of women of color leaders. While serving I co-direct.

• Provides clinical direction to counselors/specialists based on a treatment model which includes weekly management of the group supervision process by direct case review, and overseeing the treatment planning process
• Coordinates and facilitates quality training to counselors/specialists as one mechanism of fostering overall staff development
• Supports counselors/specialists in managing counselor/specialists’ duties and responsibilities by taking action to ensure that employees fully understand their roles, responsibilities, and performance.
• Reviews and approves, in a timely manner, clinical and organizational documentation completed by their direct reports for the purpose of quality assurance and performance improvement
• Effectively engages in and builds customer relationships
• Assists in the marketing/referral process to increase and strengthen program growth

• Serves through helping identify personal and interactive problems and providing individual, family counseling, and case management services to child and family in the home, with interventions focusing primarily on the.
• Conducts primary family therapy activities using structural and strategic interventions to address structure, individual and parental needs; unity of parenting and marital relationship; monitoring of peer relationship.
• Conducts individual cognitive interventions with the youth, when youth is placed in home, with the primary objective being to teach the youth to think for himself or herself
• Provides individual cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to child, parents, or other family members as needed
• Contacts the family and conducts home visits several times each week
• Provides on call crisis support to families

Athens, Georgia Area

As Youth Transition Coordinator, I coordinate and facilitate monthly social groups that are collaboratively planned with group members to enhance socialization skills. Additional groups are coordinated and facilitated that focus on soft skill development for youth who desire peer support and independent life skills training. By facilitating these groups, I.

As a Clinical Social Work Intern I served by providing case management; utilizing psychotherapy modalities to elementary aged youth inclusive of play therapy, art therapy, narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, loving-kindness practice, solution-focused therapy, and guided mediation; evaluated zero suicide.

Social Circle, Georgia

Serving as a Clinical Social Work Intern, I attend weekly interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient care plans and status; research culturally diverse populations and their use of hospice services; connect families with bereavement, financial, and emotional support; assess patient’s needs by utilizing a psychosocial assessment; and create and.

Serving as Literacy Fellow (3rd grade Literacy Interventionist) includes working on a team to ensure efficient and effective reading intervention, utilizing programs mandated by the state to give intervention as well as create subsets, track data for the interventions and use it to stimulate more success in intervention, and build relationships with.

Greenville, MS

Serving as an English II teacher includes planning and executing engaging lessons for three 94-minute blocks each day; maintaining weekly contact with parents and guardians about their student’s progress, serving as the liaison between the English department and the Principal/Assistant Principal; tracking and compiling data for individual students and.

Greenville, MS

Serving on the Executive Board presented the platform to organize opportunities for corps members to develop inside and outside of the classroom; attend monthly executive board meetings; and create and distribute monthly newsletters.

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Clinical/Medical Social Work

Activities and Societies: 2017-2018 National Association of Black Social Workers Executive Board; National Association of Black Social.

Master Of Public Health, Public Health Education And Promotion

Pursued a Master of Social Work with a Clinical concentration while pursuing a Master of Public Health with a Health Promotion and.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Activities and Societies: East Carolina University - Pirate to Pirate Tutor East Carolina University Residential Life - Resident Advisor.