Savonna Stender-Bondesson, (She, Her), Lcsw Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

Lead the planning and implementation of target population programs across all geographic areas served by Pivotal. The Director is a member of the Pivotal Leadership Team. Pivotal serves current and former foster youth (public children welfare and refugee foster youth) by connecting them to a 1 to 1 education and career coach that assesses their needs anf coaches them to high school completion, a post-secondary credential, and a career job before exiting program.• Cultivate positive relationships with community college campuses, school districts, DFCS (child welfare) and other essential partners with the goal of ensuring continued collaboration• Develop and maintain processes for working with program partners, including but not limited to county child welfare, juvenile justice system, mental health, and other external partners• Represent Pivotal at external meetings, public forums and presentations goals and objectives of PivotalDirect ongoing design, development and growth of Pivotal target population programs including implementation of a current strategic plan and re-design of our intake process leading to an increase in referrals to our services from 382 children to 524 children in 1 calendar year• Report progress toward program goals to the Leadership and Executive teams• Supervision of a team of coaches that serves high school youth, a team that coaches post-secondary youth, and an intern team comprised of social work masters level interns• Train new cohort of interns and new programs staff 1-2x annually on practice model of Pivotal, motivational interviewing, active listening, dependency system 101, and more• Monitor expense reports and timesheets for staff as well as annual budget for all programs with CFO• Evaluate and track staff performance, conduct annual performance evaluations

San Jose, California, United States

Provide supervision to Pivotal Coaches who provide academic and employment guidance to current/former foster youth from high school through the completion of college. The goals of our Coaching Department are to support youth toward self-reliance. • Provide weekly 1:1 supervision for Pivotal Coaches working with high school, post-secondary and Employment 1st youth to ensure adherence to Pivotal’s program and practice models and adherence to program values (youth-led, strengths-based and future oriented)• Supervised 1 Post-Secondary MSW Intern as a Field Instructor• Ensure successful youth/Coach relationships, including the thoughtful initiation and termination of these relationships• Respond by the end of the work day to phone calls, or within 24 hours to emails, for urgent requests received from coaches. Non-urgent matters can be addressed at regular weekly meetings• Contribute to the ongoing training of all staff coaches and support Pivotal’s Intern Coach program as needed• Monitor Coach task completion• Work collaboratively with the Learning and Evaluation Department to ensure timely and accurate data entry, and assess program effectiveness and plan for continuous improvement• Work collaboratively with the Enrichment Department to refer youth to internal opportunities• Work collaboratively with the Development and Institutional Advancement Departments to support youth summer internship process and agency events as required• Develop and maintain positive relationships with all program partners• Be familiar with, abide by and uphold Pivotal’s mission, vision and values• Report/Check in weekly with direct supervisor• Attend all agency-wide meetings• Facilitate weekly Post-Secondary, High School, and All-Coach team meetings• Promote goals and objectives of Pivotal• Report in accordance with the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting law

San Jose, California, United States

• Manage STEM training sites - Identify sites and coordinate details for seamless program implementation • Manage Hack the Hood and Project Lead the Way relationships• Manage STEM volunteers and other partner relationships• Evaluate and determine master STEM schedule, including locations, times, and curriculum offerings• Supervise STEM curriculum delivery which includes management of 35+ youth and various volunteers• Collaboratively analyze new STEM curriculum ideas • Ensure practice model principles are implemented, including training volunteers and instructors• Provide field instruction for BASW and MSW interns placed in the Emerging Scholars program, in accordance with the requirements of their respective universities, that includes regularly scheduled weekly, face-to-face individual supervision • Initial and ongoing training of all interns• Provide weekly group supervision to BASW and MSW interns in collaboration with other Field Instructors• On-site punctual support and supervision as needed to BASW and MSW interns• Familiarity with supervision policies of the universities placing interns in the program, including SJSU, CSUEB, including but not limited to trainings, meetings, developing learning agreements, intern evaluations, and other reports required of interns’ supervisors/field instructors• Ensure successful youth/intern relationships• Manage and resolve issues arising with interns, interns and youth, interns and schools, schools and Collaborative agencies, or other issues requiring resolution to ensure the smooth functioning of the Emerging Scholars program• Contribute to the ongoing design, development and growth of SVCF HS Programs• Work closely with SVCF staff on day-to-day coordination of the Emerging Scholars program, and with other SVCF initiatives• Weekly collaboration with other Field Instructors• Monitor checkpoints and progress for program• Provide program statistics and metrics

Campbell, California/ Tele-Health

Provided individual and group therapy to clients at a private-practice utilizing CBT, arts, and other techniques and interventions for treatment

Campbell, Ca

Provide risk assessments to families throughout Santa Clara County• Provide suicide, grave disability, and homicide risk assessments to high-risk youth in the community• Conduct and document BioPsychoSocial Assessments• Safety Plan with youth and families, when appropriate• Write 5150 holds, when appropriate• Collaborate with psychiatrists, clinicians, families, law enforcement and schools to ensure youths’ safety during mental health crises

Santa Clara County, California, United States

• Investigate CPS referrals that are referred to Dependency Investigations by Emergency Response Social Workers and Juvenile Probation• Receive assignments to caseload when moving from a substantiated referral to a case• Interview and engage families and children regarding referral• Evaluate client problems, develop safety or action plans and follow each case through to Court Disposition• Consults, refers cases, and works actively with other agencies and community groups• Prepare case records, documents, reports and correspondence in a timely manner, as required Write Petitions and Jurisdictional/Dispositional Court Reports• Research through CWS/CMS regarding prior referrals or out of county referrals• Collaborate with inter-agency staff, community agencies, service providers, and resource families in order to provide appropriate services to families• Provide referrals for specific services including parenting classes, substance abuse programs, domestic violence programs, and mental health/therapy services• Initial and ongoing assessment for concurrent home, relative home, and non-relative extended family member placement• Assist families in accessing appropriate community resources, participating, and completing services on their case plan• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing • Participate in Team Decision Meetings, Family Conferences, and other family-centered meetings during the safety plan assessment process and ongoing investigation • Supervise visits • Establish and maintains effective case work relationships• Interpret rules, regulations, policies and programs to clients and the public

Santa Clara County, California, United States

Dependency Investigations Unit

San Jose, Ca

Emerging Scholars is a program partnership between Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children’s Services and Silicon Valley Children’s Fund in which I was an academic mentor.•Case manage six high-school aged foster youth clients•Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including social workers, caregivers, attorney, school guidance counselor, and other stakeholders involved with the youth•Assess educational needs and psychosocial issues impacting educational achievement creating Academic plans geared towards goals of the youth•Familiarity with special education law and general education law regarding foster youth•Participate and advocate for clients in meetings held on their behalf: MYTIME meetings and Individualized Education Planning (IEP) meetings•Developed a working knowledge of educational programs and resources in the community•Maintained and updated client files including creating new files for all six clients who were each new to the program including: Student History, Intake, Exit forms

Salt Lake City, Utah

YWTH is a home for 7 female homeless youth in an 18-month transitional living program.• Helped coordinate dozens of client appointments and community contact appointments; most often, coordinated housing opportunities for my clients through the county and state of Utah• Entrusted to manage office in the supervisor’s absence. Provided timely, courteous and knowledgeable response to information requests; screened and transferred calls; prepared official correspondence and organized 6 other staff during events• Developed relevant life skills training programs for clients transitioning into independence from homeless• status.• Developed Case Management goals and intake forms to better suit the facility’s differing clientele; helped to Case Manage up to 7 different clients at one time• Developed the curriculum for and ran employment skills groups for clients• Coordinated education opportunities for clients seeking to further their post-secondary education with 100% success• Continually made it a goal to have better resources and contacts at my disposal using innovative internet search techniques as well as professional meeting and telephone communications with the contacts when needed• Earned excellent marks on performance reviews, with citations for excellence in areas including work volume, accuracy and quality; ability to learn and master new concepts; positive work ethic; and commitment to providing unsurpassed service.• Scheduled urinalysis and dispensed medications• Familiarity with mental health illnesses, solutions and resources for medications and treatment for the client• Prepared training guides and trained new employees• Maintained a facility calendar for staff• Maintained vehicle records as an authorized driver of the facility vehicle in transporting clients and carrying out other facility needs -- assists with planning regular maintenance.• Created, implemented, and maintained meal plans and food orders per weekly grant limit

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Children, Youth, And Families

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa PhiTitle IV-E Student

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Sociology And Anthropology

Certificate in Diversity Certificate in Criminology