Shannon Bruin Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Working to help businesses thrive in areas of social impact, employee engagement; and mission driven work. Using a Dream Coach approach to lowering employee attrition through innovative engagement, skill building, and dreaming.

Wyoming, Mi

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Employee recruitment, selection, onboarding, training; retention. Management. Budgeting. Policy creation and implementation. Workplace culture. Process Improvement. Community outreach, engagement, and development. Monitoring and Evaluation. Grant Writing. Grant Reporting. Contract Management. Interested in issues of social justice, wealth creation, entrepreneurship, organizational psychology, and leadership. Special projects in Monitoring and Evaluation, Global Initiatives, Business Development, Grant Writing, Board development, Civic Engagement, Community Outreach and Teaching.

Supervise a full team of Case Managers, manage program evaluation and monitoring, promote therapeutic interventions, treatment planning, and service provision through a trauma-informed lens. Coordinate program budgets, service planning, staff development and attorney recruitment.

Manage 2 program staff within a Therapeutic Foster Care program serving Refugee adolescents and youth from a trauma- informed lens. Maintain a small case-load of foster care and fost-adopt cases.

Therapeutic Refugee Foster Care Trained in Trauma-based therapeutic intervention Practice Crisis Intervention, Safety Planning and Goal Planning within a therapeutic context Provide quality social services within a culturally competent and diverse settingInvited to speak publicly on working with survivors of Human Trafficking by the Red Cross and Grand Valley State University

Improved empathy, communication skills and application of theories of underlying human behavior to real world scenarios. Demonstrated Crisis Intervention, Safety Planning, Strength-Based Therapy, Client- Centered Interventions in a variety of social and community issues. Worked one-on-one with special needs students of diverse ages and cultures Young Life Leader 2004- 2008 Williamston High School (WHS; Constructed community relationships with school officials, students and parents Applied skills in counseling to multiple helping relationships with youth Advised a team of 5 other MSU students at WHS to plan 2 weekly social events Composed weekly presentations; Lectures Partnered to lead and counsel a cabin of high school girls at camp; planned daily activities, led group discussion, and created helping relationships Organized multiple fundraising events with community members and students

Recruited members of the community for participation Coded transcriptions, specializing in emotional labor Analyzed focus group and interview transcriptions

Masters Of Public Administration- Nonprofit Leadership, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Msw, Social Work

Activities and Societies: El Salvador Study Abroad; Needs Assessment in Guatemala

Ba, Psychology And Spanish

Activities and Societies: Young Life

Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology; Spanish; Investigated Culture; Language, Economics And Sociology

Activities and Societies: Ecuador Study Abroad