Mykel Selph Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Serve as a thought leader to create and execute social justice strategies transforming organizational cultures. Clients include: La Porte County Juvenile Probation, Illinois Equity Staffing, Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice, Marijuana Matters, The Moss Group, Inc., & Prevent School Violence Illinois.

Created and led Cresco Labs' social impact strategy from a several local community collaborations to a multimillion dollar department with community partnerships and programming throughout country.

Worldwide, Oo

• Direct and manage all Diversity and Inclusion Research and Eminence Team; oversee research projects and eminence opportunities to enhance brand and knowledge for internal and external stakeholders. • Perform departmental and organizational assessments to understand and document current business processes.• Conduct key stakeholder analyses via interviews and focus groups. • Define future state business processes and act as subject matter expert between clients and technical staff to assist building innovative technology systems and troubleshooting issues as they arise. • Craft effective change campaigns aimed at specific stakeholder groups to educate and prepare organizations for large scale culture, technology, and operational changes.• Draft diversity and inclusion strategies including data analytics, executive management toolkits, and directors’ playbooks.• Design and submit innovative strategies for recruitment efforts, resulting in training for recruitment leaders and revisions to interview questions.• Administer training for firm leadership on inclusive leadership strategies, unconscious bias, and intersectionality; initial training efforts resulted in requirement of all firm leadership to complete training curricula and permanent diversity and inclusion classroom at Deloitte University.

Austin, Tx, Us

Oversee and fulfill federal and local government contracts providing subject matter expertise and guidance in girls and women’s needs, sexual safety, and the LGBTQI incarcerated population. • Utilize national justice policies, conduct local agency assessments, policy review and analysis, and develop and implement strategies for agency reform. • Consult on and develop curricula; facilitate and monitor training at agencies throughout nation to create and reform justice culture. • Clients include: The Moss Group, Inc.; the National PREA Resource Center; and Washington DC DYRS.• Aid in arranging committee of U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s LGBTQI Listening Session to develop national recommendations to improve treatment of LGBTQI justice-involved youth.• Plan and lead focus groups and individual interviews for state correctional agency and provided written report of findings.• Guide, facilitate, and supervised PREA, Sexual Harassment, and Supervisory training development and consultation for large urban adult correctional facility.• Developed curricula and facilitated gender-responsive training for three state juvenile justice agencies• Cowrote sexual safety toolkit for large state juvenile justice agency.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Functioned as subject matter expert to lead, coordinate, and oversee tasks and initiatives on Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center in areas such as TTA Network, managing and enhancing TTA Technology Platforms and provision of general support. • Delivered content leadership and visioning by identifying research, resources, service delivery trends, national issues, and stakeholder experts and organizations related to topic.• Partnered with other subject matter experts, project staff and partners, as well as federal staff to develop product services, tools, and publications aligned with vision of OJJDP, child victimization and delinquency prevention, and juvenile justice fields.• Directed, coordinated, and co-facilitated first sponsored LGBTQ train trainer event for community correctional agency.• Evaluated statewide juvenile probation training program, via document review, facilitation of focus groups, report findings and provide recommendations for system and fiscal improvement.• Introduced and connected TTA providers for content and project collaboration.• Established, coordinated, and facilitated Quarterly TTA Network Collaboration Meeting virtually.

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• Steered, created, and managed organizational and community mandates to include best practices for at-risk girls, cultural sensitivity, and experience of trauma in daily interactions with all residents, programming, and services. • Led cultural change programs; incorporated knowledge and skills of these practices into all levels of detention personnel. • Implemented program audits to ensure compliance and initiated recommendations for change.• Composed first policy statement for programming and services on gender, culture, and trauma.• Co-created first policy statement to set standards for conditions of confinement for LGBTQI youth.• Devised and directed training programs for 500+ staff and administrators to incorporate gender responsive and LGBTQI cultural principles into policy, procedures, and practice within facility.• Established and facilitated cultural training workshop for all five Illinois juvenile correctional facilities.• Fostered reciprocal relationships with 20+ community, government, and academic institutions.• Prepared advisory council of local experts and community stakeholders.

Conducted assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and ongoing counseling services for adolescents, adults and couples. Administered intake assessments and triage potential clients for appropriate level of service. Provided community based crisis intervention services in collaboration with police and emergency room personnel. Participatee in weekly group and individual supervision and case consultations. Consulted with staff psychiatrists regarding medication issues or inquiries. Developed working knowledge of private and public insurance standards.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Oversaw all aspects of opportunity center, food pantry, clothes closet, and case management departments. Recruited, promoted,and terminated staff; managed grants and contracts that funded the center; monitored client files for quality assurance; compiledprogram statistics and progress reports to funders; accepted and supervised distribution of donationsACHIEVEMENTS: Earned a 93% compliance with City of Chicago Family and Support Services contract Designed and deployed a new case management documentation system Improved program compliance with the Greater Chicago Food Depository Created and implemented new tracking system for clients requesting services Invited to join the 23rd district Chicago Police Subcommittee for Homeless/Mental Health Organized and facilitated client grievance process.

Alexandria, Va, Us

I managed two faciltities that served the homeless population of Uptown and the greater Chicago area. From August ' 07 to September '08, I served as the Social Services Director of the Tom Seay Corps and Service Center. I managed the case management department, food pantry and the Opportunity Center. The closure of Tom Seay afforded me the opportunity to manage the Evangeline Booth Lodge Homeless Shelter. This facility housed families and single adults with children. Here, I supervised all the direct care staff including shift supervisors and case managers.

Wheaton, Illinois, Us

Responsible for 60 client cases with regard to counseling, case management, and treatment planning. Provided linkage to SocialSecurity, Human Services, psychiatrists, dentists, and family practitioners. Facilitated weekly group counseling and apartmentmeetings to reduce resident conflict; developed crisis resolutions plans in response to mental health crises.ACHIEVEMENTS: Selected to serve on an departmental development committee that was charged with: o Developing performance standards and reporting protocols for clinical and non-clinical staff o Devising supervisory methododology to support staff in meeting performance standards o Creating a plan to incorporate performance standards into policy and procedures o Designed and implemented core competency and customer service training to mental health staff Designated as member of the Communications Team for the Office of Emergency Management

Directed junior high classrooms in behavior management and modification. Composed daily progress reports to parents andguardians; supervised and implemented goals on Individualized Education Plans; developed quarterly behavior analysis reports;facilitate bi-weekly life skills groupsACHIEVEMENTS: Conceived and developed current events program Researched and implemented life skills curricula Designed individual behaviour modification plans

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Policy And Administration

Master Of Community Counseling, Counseling

Master Of Public Administration, Non-Profit Management

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology