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Courses: Child Abuse & Family Violence: undergraduate & graduate student demographic.Health Psychology: undergraduate.Research Methods: undergraduate.

•Assembled data on STEM learning in families who participated in activities at the Chicago Children’s Museum•Transcribed parent-child interaction videos to gather relevant information for research study

•Provided trauma-informed individual and group counseling services for children, youth, and parents in shelter•Guided all members of a family through their various crises by providing advocacy and service plan management •Oversaw children’s program in domestic violence shelter including: case management, grant fulfillment, files and documentation, familial activities, parental development, and direct staff to children domestic violence services

•Engaged in collaboration with team members of various clinical backgrounds to provide therapeutic services for children with special needs and/or developmental delays through the DIR/Floortime approach •Established comprehensive and individual programs for children that encouraged emotional regulation, social engagement, and character development

•Lead a team of five peers in providing developmentally appropriate educational activities, with a focus on language and literacy, to young children. •Coach five team members by modeling developmentally appropriate practices and guiding reflection and discussion related to adult practice and children’s development. •Coordinate team administration, including facilitating well-organized meetings, managing notes and records, and communicating regularly with classroom teachers, parents of the children, and the team’s site manager.•Assessed preschoolers using ‘Test of Preschool Early Literacy’ to identify preschoolers at risk for literacy setbacks.

•Collaborated with a team of eight interns and SEC staff in developing and supporting social innovations focused on alleviating and improving everyday life in impoverished communities of the Dominican Republic.

•Developed and facilitated workshops and enrichment activities in collaboration with five staff members for 75 middle school youth on social/emotional enrichment and life skills •Supported youth in building healthy positive relationships with each other, adults, and their families

•Conducted statistical analysis of data [CITIES Stress and Learning Study] to determine how different aspects of life such as family structure, sleep patterns, and daily activities affect the stress of CPS students. •Collaborated with team of three Research Assistants, two Graduate students, and Dr. Adam in order to effectively and accurately code participant’s responses into SPSS for research analysis. •Designed efficient methods for data tracking and data cleaning.

•Participated in therapeutic interventions used to help stabilize children in acute crisis such as individual/group therapy, recreational therapy, parent education, family therapy, pharmacology, and outpatient follow-up•Designed developmentally appropriate special education lesson plans for patient’s ages 4-16 •Communicated with patients schools staff on a variety of cases to advocate for academic and social support

•Collaborated with four interns in planning appropriate daily activities and field trips for children ages 7-18 with different English, math, and reading levels. •Acted as a positive role model for refugee youth while supporting positive relationships in order to ease transition into American culture. •Provided daily documentation/case notes for program participants.

•Planned and executed activities according to the resident’s needs with the goal of creating an increase in physical, mental, and cognitive skills of residents at the center. •Facilitated group and one-on-one activities that provided residents entertainment and therapy to enhance their overall quality of everyday life.

•Provided individualized attention and positive adult-child relationships to prepare children, focusing on ESL children, attending preschool in low-income neighborhoods for school success.•Collaborated with a team of six Corps members to plan twice weekly in-classroom activities for a class of twenty preschool children.•Received intensive training and professional development in early childhood theory and practice, language and literacy development, leadership skills, and communication with families.