Salmana Bah Email & Phone Number

My favorite experience as a young rising professional you ask? Making connects and building rapport with the children I serve. I get to color, play with toys and talk about trucks all day long. These moment are more than what they seem. I am impacting their lives by improving their cognitive and behavioral functions! Seeing how happy the children get during our interactions, made me realize that I wanted to serve this community and provide for individuals with behavioral health disabilities. Currently, I am a public health major at Temple University, working part time as a direct support professional at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, serving children with intellectuals and developmental delays. Besides playing with toys, I am primarily responsible for assisting individuals with activities of daily living, leading programming activities and implementing interventions to decrease any challenging behaviors they may exhibit. Although challenging, the role has made me very flexible, a successful problem solver, and a great team player. I am also the co-founder and president of Al-Zaahidat, a community-based youth organization for young Muslim women in need of a space to better themselves. In this role, I am responsible for managing the operations of the organization by scheduling, creating objectives and goals, recruitment, fundraising, social media outreach, research for educational material, and creating official documents. It has improved my leadership, public speaking and intrapersonal skills.In the near future, I want to gain experience via interning at behavioral health programs and facilities, work as a program director or coordinator, and to attain masters in both social and behavioral science and healthcare administration. My career goal is to become a Behavioral Health Director (and professional color-er) for undeserved populations who experience substance abuse, mental illness, and/or intellectual or developmental delays.

Listed skills include Customer Service, Research, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, and 12 others.