Ondine Miranda Quinn, Msw, Csw, Cse Email & Phone Number

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Senior Director of Programs plays a key role in building and leading Provide’s multi-functional programs division to ensure frontline providers have the support and tools they need to provide compassionate care and abortions referrals in the most restricted-access communities in the continental US.holds The SDP holds primary responsibility for ensuring effective, strategically aligned implementation of Provide programming, including but not limited to the program development, outreach and engagement, and technical assistance functions.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Grow an innovative programming portfolio by leading the development and execution of program development and delivery strategies that drive and expand Provide’s programmatic reach and impact. Includes leading department staff in the following areas and activities: piloting new programming, content development and implementation, trend tracking, tool portfolio development and technical assistance delivery. Oversee the Department’s work through the creation of individual and departmental work plans, organizational processes and efficiencies, and approaches to carry out emerging and planned programming.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Lead the strategy and implementation of Provides’s national technical assistance program in order to support the practice of abortion referral making within health and social service agencies. Develop technical assistance templates and tools and supervise Provide’s state based teams in the delivery of technical assistance to regional health and social service organizations. Participate in the biannual revision of Provide’s referrals curriculum, as well as the development of new curricula as needed. Support training teams by providing coaching around facilitation and group management, and through training observation and feedback.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Coordinate state/regional work to increase access to abortion through:Outreach/assessment: Research, identify, assess and recruit training sites among community health, rural health, social services, perinatal health and primary care agencies, focusing on those agencies where there is the most opportunity to promote access through pregnancy options counseling and referrals for agency patients/clients.Training: Provide introductory training to agency staff in pregnancy options, counseling and referral-making, and other reproductive health information and skills based content.Technical Assistance: Provide hands-on technical assistance to targeted agencies in the process of integrating or enhancing abortion referrals into their institution's practice and policies.Identify and strengthen abortion provider relationships to inform and include them in any referrals activities of interest.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

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Lexington, Kentucky Area

DUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTSDUTIES: Provide a full range of client specific social work/case management activities for (English and Spanish speaking clients), such as intake and assessment, case planning, referral, liaison/brokering, education and advocacy. Keep up to date about current HIV/AIDS research, prevention initiatives and housing information. Managed the HOPWA TBRA housing subsidy program. Designed and implement workshops, training sessions and social events for clients. Provided HIV testing and counseling as needed.ACHIEVEMENTS:Successfully managed a monthly caseload of approximately 80-100 clients.Designed and implemented a monthly newsletter to share information and resources with clients across the state.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

DUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTSDUTIES: Developing a broad and diverse base of skilled, active and politically conscious leaders, developing growing and active local chapter, contributing local and statewide issue committees and campaigns, using voter empowerment strategies to build grassroots power & advance issue campaigns, supporting strategic communications about KFTC’s goals, issues and activities, conducting grassroots fundraising, and contributing to the development and success of staff teams.ACHIEVEMENTSOrganized a campaign which led to the Lexington-Fayette urban county government passing a resolution in support of restoring voting rights to former felons in KentuckyTrained over 200 people on how to be effective citizen lobbyistsHelped local chapter members to organize grassroots fundraising events totaling in over $10,000Organized a local campaign to research and publicize the existence of safe, accessible and gender neutral restrooms for trans-identified persons and people with disabilitiesMobilized local leaders to register and mobilize over 5000 votersCreated ongoing content (blog posts, email blasts, etc.) for the website and for KFTC’s newsletter “Balancing the Scales”Developed and implemented grassroots workshops on the following organizing issues and tactics:Immigrant rights in Kentucky Building power through multi-racial coalitionsDe-escalation tactics Non-partisan voter mobilization and education, Effective 1:1 conversations, Grassroots lobbyingStrategies for developing winnable issue campaignsAllyship to the LGBTIQ communitiesThe intersections of environmental and economic justice Transitioning Appalachia to a cleaner energy economyCoal and climate change in KentuckyRecruiting and retaining members in community organizations, Using personal stories in community organizing

Lexington, Kentucky Area

DUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:DUTIES: Grassroots leadership and staff development, recruit faith communities to become institutional members of the organization. Manage the agency’s fundraising and grant writing efforts and collaborate with board of directors to develop an organizational strategic plan. Develop and implement successful direct-action organizing issue campaigns and political education workshops for members. Cultivate a commitment to equity and inclusion and an understanding of how to work effectively in and with diverse communities particularly low-income communities and communities of color.ACHIEVEMENTS:Organized a campaign leading to the investigation of housing code violations and landlord abuses within nine trailer parks in Lexington-Fayette County.Organized a campaign leading to an increase in access to care at the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.Organized a campaign to implement research based violence prevention programs in the Lexington-Fayette County middle schools.Wrote and was awarded a total of $33,500 in grants and raised $45,000 from private donors

Certificate: Sexual Health Certificate Program At University Of Michigan/Sexuality Education, 2018., Human Sexuality

Master’S Degree, Social Work, 4.0

Presented at the 2016 Kentucky Association of Social Work Education conference on destigmatizing abortion care in social work.

B.A., International Studies, Political Science, Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: English Conversation Partners, Alpha Psi Lambda, SROP Participant, University Council of Hispanic Organizations.