• Supervise and mentor the boys assigned to the home, Rainier, ensuring the proper implementation of clinical treatment plans and assignments as outlined by the Treatment Team.• Maintain a therapeutic milieu that meets the emotional and physical needs of the students.• Establish trusting relationships with the students through appropriate boundaries, to reliably intercede and successfully mediate any conflicts at hand, or any time a student needs support and guidance due to escalated behavior.• Assist the Home Director in providing leadership and management. This includes, but is not limited to, managing and training staff assigned to The Spark Academy, assuring Spark Academy program components are consistent, and that treatment care objectives are applied in a true, high-quality manner.

• Worked in a group with two other interns to design a six-week stress reduction workshop.• Assisted in designing an easy to follow, and an interactive workbook that went along with the weekly workshop.• Taught a group of paying clients on how to recognize, reduce, and cope with daily and major life stressors. • Worked with clients to set weekly goals on how to reduce stress levels and how-to better cope with current stressors.• Learned how to control group discussion in order to manage time and member participation.

• Education Specialist/Trainor • Being the first person that new hires met at the company, I was responsible for making a good impression and helping them adjust to the center• Responsible for teaching and helping to understand policies and procedures, trade secrets, techniques, call quality, and adjustment of new hires for first 2 weeks of employment• Responsible for the reeducation of current employees on policy changes• When not training, I was expected to maintain the production standard of the center

• Held title of Student Lead through the transition of 3 supervisors• In charge of 3 – 4 students at a single time• Cleaned and maintained 14 University Buildings and work areas• Responsible for cleanliness of facilities, offices, drinking fountains and work shops• Held position of temporary supervisor until permanent supervisor was found

• Managed the daily care of 3-5 adult males.• Collaborated with the patients’ families, psychiatrist, and the unit program lead to establish a quality patient care plan.• Ensured patients’ environment was stimulating and therapeutic, while being safe and stable.• Observed and documented patients’ daily activities and behaviors; reported any unusual or disturbing behavior.• Assisted in patient therapy by transporting patients to workshop and working alongside them.

• Managed the daily activities of a group of 6-8 special needs individuals.• Organized and instructed activities that produced goods to be sold to outside companies.• Consistently met daily work order quotas for those goods.• Handled disputes and arguments between individuals in a calm, professional manner.• Promoted for excellent performance.