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Michigan City, IN, US

Michigan City, IN

Michigan City, Indiana, United States

Michigan City, IN

Michigan City, IN

• Planning, designing, coordinating, and evaluating family services and family/community engagement programming
• Collaboratively working with the management team, staff, and parents to develop policies and procedures, forms, activities, trainings, and Parent Committees according to the Head Start Performance Standards and current.
• Writing and securing grants for advanced family engagement activities and programming.
• Supervising and coaching Family Advocates in their family case management, and monitoring case progress and success

Detroit, MI

• Analyzed, developed, and recommended agency practices and policies in the Strategic Planning areas of Diversity & Inclusion, Race Equity, and Community Engagement for an agency with ~500 employees
• Researched and designed a resident engagement toolkit for the Vista Partnership community development project in Southwest Detroit
• Wrote agency's quarterly Community Engagement Newsletter (Apr-Jun, Jul-Sept, Oct-Dec)
• Designed a 'Community Engagement' manual for the executive leadership team regarding best practices in community engagement, incorporating experiences of key neighborhood stakeholders
• Assisted in the planning and implementation of community meetings (including outreach, facilitation, note-taking, and asset-building activities)

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Collaborated with 60 local organizations, non-profits, and governmental entities (including neighborhood organizations, ethnic associations, places of worship, businesses, arts centers, etc.) and engaged more than.
• Organized a 30+ member city-wide steering committee and three Indianapolis neighborhood welcoming committees (Near West, Near Eastside, and Lafayette Square), each with 15+ partners from both native-born and.
• Planned and facilitated monthly committee meetings and neighborhood meetings
• Facilitated neighborhood and city-wide discussions regarding immigrant integration
• Developed presentations, tools, and trainings fostering dialogue, cultural competency, cross-cultural networking, and learning.
• Secured $22,000 in grant funding for implementation of programmimgSpecific events I coordinated include: -Welcoming Week 2013: Coordinated partnership with 22 organizations and 11 immigrant-owned restaurants to host 28.

Indianapolis, IN

-Connected organizations and agencies to CORUS (Community Research Utilities and Support), a platform for finding and sharing tools for community engaged research (CEnR)-Researched and conducted outreach to local and national entities engaged in CEnR-Compiled database of national resources and best practices practicing CEnR, particularly related to.

Iupui, Indianapolis, IN

-Monitored more than fifty research participants and collected data in one-on-one lab sessions, ensuring correct procedure in data acquisition for a social psychology research project looking at effects of confrontation self-efficacy and perceived confrontation outcomes on prejudice confrontation-Coded data received to retrieve results on prejudice.

Valparaiso, IN

• Supported social service staff in promoting fulfillment of behavior plans and encouraging sustainable life choices
• Administered needs surveys and conducted interviews one-on-one with more than 60 consumers, ensuring plans of action were appropriate for promoting self-sufficiency
• Accompanied program specialists in meetings with clients, their legal guardians, and case workers to develop behavior plans, thereby gaining skills in direct social work case work

Valparaiso, Indiana

-Offered affordable tutoring for children aged 5-11 who were reading, spelling, or doing math below their grade levels during summer break-Researched and created weekly teaching curriculum in math, reading, and spelling

Iupui, Indianapolis, IN

• Developed educational programming and events and identified expert, student, and community panels in order to encourage positive student discussion on religion and societal issues
• Arranged and conducted club meetings, which included writing and submitting budgets and developing event goals
• Engaged over 400 community members, students, and faculty during nine events at IUPUI, including: Misconceptions About Islam, Can Religions Go Green?, Eating Ethically in a McDonald's World, Bhutan: Taking the Middle.

Valparaiso, IN

-Tutored children ages 4-18 in the Kumon program, an after-school math and reading program in Valparaiso, Indiana

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Community Organizing, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Community Based Initiative Scholar Community Based Initiative (CBI) Program.

Psychology (B.A.); Religious Studies (B.A.), 3.95 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Religious Studies Student Association: President (2010-2012), Member (2009-2010) Alpha Lamba Delta/Phi Eta Sigma.