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Cedar Rapids, Ia, Us

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Us

Sioux City, Ia, Us

Offering support and technical assistance to agencies nationally on topics such as diversity, Latinx inclusion, trauma-informed services, professional self-care and compassion fatigue. • Providing trainings and workshops in topics such as vulnerability, shame, guilt, social support systems, and self-care in an effort to increase staff’s knowledge and ability to offer trauma-informed services.• Developing presentations on cultural inclusivity while increasing sense of belonging and community amongst staff.• Creating safety for staff to explore how their socio-cultural identities are impacted by dominant narratives and mainstream culture.

Madison, Wisconsin, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Providing bilingual/bicultural trauma-informed advocacy and therapeutic services to students who have experienced dating or domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and stalking.• Challenging systemic oppression within a professional context and creating opportunities for staff with marginalized identities to build connection and find sustainability including advocacy, policy and logistical development, and facilitation of affinity groups.• Providing input, feedback, problem-solving consultation regarding diversity, inclusion and belonging at different system levels within the campus community.• Envisioning, recruiting a team, developing and executing a mental health podcast, Connecting Badgers, in an effort to adapt to pandemic conditions and increase student access to mental health care and literacy. • Facilitating bystander intervention programming as determined by Violence Prevention unit. • Facilitating support groups including first Survivors of Color support group at UHS using a racial justice approach to trauma treatment.• Challenging dynamics of intersectional oppression in the therapeutic setting, within our broad campus and in the community as a whole by promoting social justice.• Exploring and understanding UW-System and UW-Madison’s policies and regulations in regards to Title IX, Equal Opportunity and Sexual Harassment.• Maintaining accurate and up to date track of client contact through clinically-relevant case notes and spreadsheets.• Attending and elevating survivors’ voices at UHS workgroup meetings, Mental Health Services staff meetings, Violence Prevention and Survivor Services meetings, and other campus interdisciplinary collaboration spaces.• Collecting and processing feedback and data from support groups, events and counseling sessions with the purpose of quality control and improvement.• Developing and maintaining professional interdisciplinary relationships with other campus offices and community service agencies.

Madison, Wi, Us

Developing curriculum for undergraduate and graduate level mixed-class, envisioning learning strategies and activities, presenting content and supporting students’ learning process for SW523/923 – Family Violence. • Restructuring class topics and schedule to facilitate students’ understanding of the dynamics of violence within a family context.• Aligning all content, assignments, and other learning activities with Social Work values as well as incorporating a trauma-informed and anti-oppression lens rooted in an intersectional victim-centered approach.• Developing teaching strategies and assignments aligned with creating a culturally-inclusive, supportive, engaging and intellectually-challenging classroom setting to promote student learning. • Supporting students’ varied needs from their academic needs based on their current student status, to their individual needs including McBurney Disability Resource Center accommodations and/or individual flexibility as needed.• Envisioning ways to support students’ learning process during a time of continued uncertainty and limitations due to remote learning.

Worked toward improving family dynamics with the goal of achieving harmony within the unit and prevent hospitalization of children and youth in crisis. • Determined families’ needs and areas for growth while using psychoeducational techniques to assist parents in the process of learning parenting skills and better their interactions with their children.• Developed educational and therapeutic-treatment plans tailored to the family’s needs as a way to improve family dynamics, reduce crisis and prevent the removal of children and youth from their household.• Conducted family-focused crisis assessment, intervention and stabilization through therapeutic clinical interventions. • Provided strengths-based, culturally responsive and individualized care coordination.• Collaborated with practitioners from different disciplines in Dane County involved with the family as a way of providing a holistic intervention for sustainable change. • Challenged social injustice in different system settings like school, hospitals, communities, etc. as a form of client advocacy.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

Provided services to those affected by sexual violence and nurturing RVAP’s relations with community partners. • Provided trauma-informed and strengths-based counseling and therapy in Spanish or English to individuals or groups affected by sexual violence directly or indirectly.• Assisted students with receiving campus Title IX accommodations according to their needs, expectations, goals, healing path, and level of crisis.• Aided clients with immigration applications, disability statements, Iowa Crime Victim Compensation forms, and various other legal processes.• Developed strategies, practices and services that convey inclusivity of all clients’ identities including but not limited to support groups and events for clients who identify with particular identities, providing interpretation services, and participating in trainings to better understand other identities.• Represented RVAP in interdisciplinary meetings in the community like Sexual Assault Response Team, Sexual Assault Investigation Team, SANE, Suicide Prevention, Social Justice Committee, Johnson County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, etc. • Served as the point of contact and liaison for other community and campus agencies and RVAP.• Developed, hosted and facilitated support groups in English and Spanish that cater to clients’ needs and requests like Trauma Informed Yoga and Realizing Resilience.• Supported student volunteers in their advocacy and answering of crisis line roles.

Iowa City, Ia, Us

Responding to arising crisis situations to community settings on an on-call rotation. • Worked on problem solving with clients regarding their options and accessing community services depending on their needs and preferences.• Clinically assessed clients’ risk for suicide while addressing and attempting to modify the source of conflict through environment change, access to services, and development of a support system. • Nurtured relationships with community service providers by responding to their needs for client crisis management.• Engaged in advocacy services for high-risk clients in inter-disciplinary care teams composed by members of schools, police, and medical teams.• Responded to high-risk crisis situations and defused conflict through motivational interviewing and trauma-informed and strengths-based emotional support.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

• Established rapport with clients when working towards their independent living goals and prioritized their sense of control over their own decision-making processes. • Trained new staff on service provision to individuals, and on organization’s policies while supervised their progress. • Participated in the development of clients’ new skills through working on goals and determining opportunities for growth. • Supported clients in their daily activities to achieve a more independent lifestyle and regain power and control over their lives. • Actively listened to the individuals’ needs, provided options and assisted them in finding the right option to solve daily life problems.• Advocated for the individuals’ needs and wants in different social systems like organization, school, and society.

Provided non-judgmental support and therapy to victims/survivors of sexual assault and their significant others. • Provided trauma-informed and strengths-based counseling and therapy in Spanish or English to individuals or groups affected by sexual violence directly or indirectly.• Offered supportive and non-judgmental advocacy services to children under 18 years of age and adults who have been impacted by violence.• Developed strategies, practices and services that convey inclusivity of all clients’ identities including but not limited to support groups and events for clients who identify with particular identities, providing interpretation services, and participating in trainings to better understand other identities.• Supported the individual’s right to choose their own path to healing by working with them on creating their own treatment plan and allowing change as necessary. • Reached out and collaborated with different service providers and businesses in the community to raise awareness about sexual violence and available resources including police officers, medical staff, beauty salons, tattoo parlors, etc. to creatively reach a broader community.

Worked towards individuals and groups’ equal treatment and access to services within the community of Iowa City.• Established and fostered connections with other organizations in the community in order to bring WRAC's services to individuals and groups through their membership to those organizations. • Developed, planned, executed and facilitated support groups in diverse topics including but not limited to a group for native Spanish speaking graduate students.• Raised awareness about different kinds of violence, oppression, discrimination and stereotypes and created opportunities to provide bystander intervention trainings to staff, faculty, students and members of the community.• Provided trainings to the greater university community in topics like power based personal violence, oppression, diversity, bystander intervention and supporting survivors. • Increased agency’s visibility among student communities and groups of diverse identities by performing outreach, needs assessments, and creating strategies to meet their needs with short and long-term plans. • Influenced university’s policy change through conducting multiple needs assessments, engaging with inter-disciplinary teams and collaborating with the specific groups impacted by these policies to ensure their voices are represented and heard in this process.

Increased awareness about sexual violence, rape culture and RVAP’s available services within the counties served by agency and the University of Iowa campus.• Planned, coordinated and assessed use-of-technology-focused Stalking Awareness Campaign for the University of Iowa.• Planned, organized, promoted and executed over 40 events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Stalking Awareness Month that included The Clothesline Project, Anti-Street Harassment Event, panels, tabling events, and community lectures.• Coordinated and provided training to new volunteers by presenting in topics like teen victims, self-care, significant others, and facilitating role plays.• Supported student volunteers in their provision of in-person advocacy services and answering of crisis line roles.• Answered the 24-hour Iowa Sexual Abuse Hotline.• Provided systems advocacy to hospitals, police stations, campus Sexual Misconduct Office and others• Provided bilingual/bicultural trauma-informed and strengths-based counseling to victims/survivors of sexual crimes and their significant others.• Participated in the training of new volunteers by presenting areas like teen victims, self-care, significant others, and role plays.• Organized, updated, and maintained RVAP’s website as a way to inform, and educate our community and society. • Processed difficult calls with advocates after their shifts and helped to identify abusive callers.

• Established rapport with clients when working towards their independent living goals and prioritized their sense of control over their own decision-making processes. • Trained new staff on service provision to individuals, and on organization’s policies while supervised their progress. • Participated in the development of clients’ new skills through working on goals and determining opportunities for growth. • Supported clients in their daily activities to achieve a more independent lifestyle and regain power and control over their lives. • Actively listened to the individuals’ needs, provided options and assisted them in finding the right option to solve daily life problems.• Advocated for the individuals’ needs and wants in different social systems like organization, school, and society.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Family Centered

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology