Vannessa Cendejas, M.S.W. Email & Phone Number

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

Walnut Creek, California, United States

Organizes, implements, directs, supervises, and/or promotes specific arts programs in performing or visual arts, and/or arts education, and recreation activities for adults, senior citizens, and the developmentally disabled at playgrounds, camps, swimming pools, community centers, gymnasiums, and other recreational areas, in cooperation with other staff, contractors, and volunteer groups. Coordinates activities and programs with local schools, adult educational programs, and government agencies; initiates and continues outreach projects to community groups, school districts, and related agencies; assists in liaison work with local groups, supporting agencies, governmental agencies, and other community-based organizations.Recruits, screens, recommends for employment, and evaluates temporary staff and volunteers; supervises/trains temporary employees, contractors, and volunteers; conducts program orientation meetings on departmental policy, procedures, and rules; assists in the supervision of assigned clerical staff.Assists in the preparation of a program’s budget; assists in the development of new programs and sources of funding.Develops and prepares publicity releases, marketing literature, and promotional materials, catalogs, programs, articles, graphics, and related material publication for adult art and Adult 50+ programs.Plans and designs programs and instructional classes while identifying the needs of the applicable community for the programmatic area.Coordinates all in-house Adult 50+ travel/trips for the Arts and Recreation department. Supervises over 50+ contractors/instructors/partners regarding the scheduling of over 250+ adult classes/programs (yearly), drop-in programs and class curriculum. This includes team communications for facility usage, rentals, building attendants, special events and other partnerships.

Walnut Creek, Ca

Oversees the logistics of the day-to-day program delivery at the Civic Park Community Center, which includes the scheduling of the social services programs, drop-in programs, fee-based classes and special events. Responsible for the front desk social services/resources/information that they provide to the public and for renovating the volunteer program and Recreational scholarship program so that it includes all ages. Collaborates with the Walnut Creek Seniors Club, Café Costa (Meals on Wheels Diablo Region), County Services, Senior Legal Services, Covia, Alzheimer’s Association and other organizations in order to meet the needs of our community—which includes free workshops onsite/virtually, appointments onsite/virtually and providing paper resources to the community members who walk-in to our community centers, or access our information online. Manages the Adult 50+ eNewsletter and Walnut Creek Seniors Club monthly newsletter/connection, as well as social media and paper marketing content while using Canva, Constant Contact, and other marketing resources. Plans curriculum for conferences and public special events that range from 30 to 5,000 attendees. Created a senior/caregiver resource packet that we provide to our participants and community members. Coordinates onsite workshops that are free to the communities—these are primarily social services or family activities based (including funding sources, management of staff, timeline, etc.).Teaches stress management, social media, technology and self-empowerment classes to the community. This includes creating an itemized budget per program and finding the funding to sponsor or subsidize events.

Walnut Creek, Ca

*Provided program support in conducting research, helping with special events, shopping for events, documenting events and working on special projects. *Performed administrative tasks such as: tracking instructor contracts, instructor insurance documents, instructor payments, weekly deposits for the Civic Park Community Center, donation acknowledgements, registering participants to our classes, proofread program and event materials, pulling together content for our monthly newsletter and processing Walnut Creek Seniors Club memberships.*Responded to questions from the public regarding our programs, events, classes, and social services. *Resolved customers’ complaints in a professional and respectful manner. *Processed all volunteer applications and reorganized the volunteer structure for the center.*Recruited volunteers for specific needs and placed them in their respective positions. *Created “Volunteer Appreciation” Week for our 150 regular volunteers. *Assisted with keeping the office organized by ordering program supplies, inputting work tickets for building repairs and emailing daily/weekly activity calendar to staff/volunteer members. *Tasked with renovating the volunteer program and Recreational scholarship program.

Clayton, California

*I interned at the American Red Cross with the Services to the Armed Forces division. I focused on my Social Work major concentration, Community Organizing, Planning and Administration, to support my military clients and their families to locate services during emergencies and times of need. *I supported clients from diverse backgrounds in closing over 250 cases in the last 11 months, and attended weekend military events at various bases to provide information of the Services to the Armed Forces in deploying service members or their families. *In my first four months of my internship, I had created a Veterans Resource Booklet that described services in 16 counties in the Northern Coastal Regional Division of the American Red Cross in the following categories: mental health and suicide prevention, transportation (limited or not), financial services, medical, food, dental, vision, veteran's workshops/training's/meetings, miscellaneous, and VA affiliated locations and services. *I developed resource pamphlets that will be the foundation for military families in future years within the four main areas of northern California's Red Cross: California Northwest Chapter, Bay Area Chapter, Silicon Valley Chapter and Central Coast Chapter. These resources were focused on the following topics: housing, food security, clothing, legal assistance, local VA affiliated locations, employment assistance, mental health support, substance abuse support, wounded warriors, American Red Cross services or referrals and miscellaneous services or referrals.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Palo Alto, Ca

*Interacted with families from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds within a semi-medical environment. *Oversaw many functions of the Children’s Activity Room, Teen Room (Cove) and CLIK Room (technology room). Some of the functions include managing over 80 volunteers on a weekly basis, and assessing their needs as a volunteer in these three rooms. *Prioritized and outreached for in-kind donations and organized them according to need for families and programs. *Owned and managed, "The Wishing Tree" program and Santa’s Workshop, which brought in over $10,000 of in-kind donations. *Planned the development of the "House's" 10-week Summer Camp curriculum, and was the contact person for youth groups who wish to support the House. *Assembled and provided meetings every week to siblings within the Sibling Program, which is a program focused on children who's siblings are housed at the Ronald McDonald house.

Silicon Valley/San Francisco Area

Our Allies change their lives and our community through a rigorous AmeriCorps program that combines full-time, paid apprenticeships in nonprofits with intensive skills training, active community-building projects, personalized coaching, and critical reflection. We provide all of this through a nationally recognized approach that’s rooted in a practice of values. *I do not own the wording of this description; it is owned solely by Public Allies*

Master Of Social Work (M.S.W.), Community Organizing, Planning And Administration

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Social Welfare