Monique Gray Email & Phone Number

Guinea, West Africa

Designed and managed a maternal and neonatal care program for 80 expecting mothers to decrease birthing complications in the most disadvantaged villages in Guinea.Increased healthy birth count by 41% in rural health centers through prenatal consultations for HIV, syphilis, and malaria for 450 pregnant women. Trained over 275 mothers with children between the age of 6 months to 5 years old on proper preparation of improved porridge and proper weaning to prevent stunting and common diseases.Prevented and managed non-communicable diseases in Oure-Kaba for 95 elementary students by having workshops on nutrition, daily exercise, and ways to combat malnutrition. Performed pre-clinical examinations of vital statistics, such as measuring a patient’s weight, height, temperature, blood pressure, and diagnostics of malaria.Trained 15 local health promoters from different communities that worked together to succeed in reducing childhood marriage, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections rate through health education, counseling and advocacy.Implemented two 13 weeks Dear Black Girls series program in which 75 adolescent girls learned about girl’s empowerment, self-esteem, and the importance of scholastic achievement, which increased the girls’ academic performance to 35%.Designed and co-facilitated 12 sexual health classes for over 350 middle through high school students. These sexual health classes consisted of pre and post tests to monitor gains in knowledge.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Designed and implemented daily literacy STEM enrichment activities for over 70 under-served youth who benefited from additional tutoring.Created a safe space for at risk youth to focus on education and self-improvement. Provided mentoring and on-site weekly training's to high school student assistants. Formulated monthly reports using the ETO and SAS statistical database thus tracking the students’ progress throughout the duration of the program.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Provided one-on-one counseling interventions for adolescents with serious emotional disturbances due to trauma and/or mental illness. Students that received this counseling exhibited a 60% increase in positive behaviors. Implemented crisis techniques, immediate behavioral reinforcements, emotional support, time structuring activities, and additional psycho-social rehabilitative activities to adolescents.Applied mental health meditation to the daily routines of students between the ages of 10-14 to encourage the development of appropriate self-management skills and facilitated development of therapeutic support skills in teachers responsible for supervising the child in an educational setting.

Greater Atlanta Area

Conducted daily home visits educating undeserved mothers on prenatal health care and preventive health services to prevent the high rates of infant mortality. Aided in the development of the annual’ Family Health Expo providing free wellness screenings and services for all women; also highlighting the important of Sister Circle, a support group encouraging Black women to feel empower despite their struggles.