•“Provide personalized and innovative workforce solutions,” focusing on meeting participants where they are at, emotionally and physically, utilizing strengths based approaches when teaching work readiness skills, resulting in strong foundational relationships leading to better employment outcomes; more than 80 percent of youth have left placement with employment over the last 3 years. •Collaborate closely with invested partners in the facility and in the community, while upholding confidentiality and data privacy, ensuring participants are receiving holistic support without duplicating services; and encouraging participants to utilize and have a clear understanding of the different members of their multidisciplinary team. Fill in gaps in services- create and maintain an on-site clothing closet, support in school enrollments and applying for housing, insurance, and other supports as needed by the young men. •Place and supervise Interns in the career pathway of their choice, completing hiring paperwork and maintaining best practices, collecting and submitting timecards, and supporting on-site placement supervisors and participants throughout the work experience, assuring smooth transitions that focus on Intern learning.

•“Provide personalized and innovative workforce solutions,” focusing on meeting participants where they are at, emotionally and physically, utilizing strengths based approaches when teaching work readiness skills, resulting in strong foundational relationships leading to better employment outcomes; more than 80 percent of youth have left placement with employment over the last 3 years. •Collaborate closely with invested partners in the facility and in the community, while upholding confidentiality and data privacy, ensuring participants are receiving holistic support without duplicating services; and encouraging participants to utilize and have a clear understanding of the different members of their multidisciplinary team. Fill in gaps in services- create and maintain an on-site clothing closet, support in school enrollments and applying for housing, insurance, and other supports as needed by the young men. •Place and supervise Interns in the career pathway of their choice, completing hiring paperwork and maintaining best practices, collecting and submitting timecards, and supporting on-site placement supervisors and participants throughout the work experience, assuring smooth transitions that focus on Intern learning.

Bachelors in Social Work Junior Year Field Placement•Organize and maintain data and scheduling surrounding AVP workshops in 3 Minnesota Correctional Facilities, and one federal prison, creating a clear understanding of services provided, participants accounted for and upholding confidentiality.•Learn financial tracking systems and provide support around organization non-profit financial management, including but not limited to tax documentation, allocations, grant writing, donation tracking and balancing ledgers.•Organize, facilitate/lead, and participate in community events such as: days at the capital, AVP workshops in Stillwater Prison, community discussions on solitary confinement, and community connections events, developing organizational leadership skills and strengthening reach of organization into the community.

•Supported students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders Individualized Education Plans’s on a one on basis with: completing school work, talking through social interactions, and attending different supports, so that they were able to stay enrolled in main stream schooling in an equitable manner. •Fostered classroom cohesion by supporting teachers in daily tasks, as well as leading small academic groups, teaching social studies, and pulling students individually; concentrating on creativity, effectiveness, and warmth, nurturing an environment conducive to learning and growing. •Filled in as a Substitute Teacher for Pre K- 1st grade when classroom teachers were out of the building, safeguarding classroom culture and reducing student anxiety so that their education was not disrupted and they continued to meet learning targets.

•Created, organized, and maintained filling system for paper and electronic discipline referrals, sustaining the integrity of the data and students right to confidentiality, resulting in clear and concise ways to make, handle, and store reports. •Responded to 25-50 behavior calls a day, using best practices to resolve situations, using push in support whenever possible to monitoring students whom were exhibiting extreme behaviors and struggling academically, allowing them space to refocus and talk through the incident and their feelings around it; resulting in decreases of behaviors and increases in academics. •Assisted with front office duties, such as: making copies, delivering messages, ensuring deliveries were signed and accounted for, in addition to being in charge of taking and reporting attendance, to the school and the county, and communicating with parents regarding absences and truancy, often in Spanish.