Taisa Hewka Email & Phone Number

United States

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Vending for a local, woman-owned business at weekend farmers markets, in Philly and surrounding counties (closed on 4/30/22)

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Greater Philadelphia Area

• Areas of focus: enhanced data reporting, forecasting, team development
• Newly created position; led all aspects of full-cycle recruitment for 25+ monthly openings
• Developed innovative sourcing strategies to fill talent pipelines
• Hosted open houses for clinicians and for early careers roles
• Collected metrics to shape efforts of a growing Staffing department
• Embedded CCTC’s values into hiring & staffing practices, including trauma-informed Sanctuary model

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Areas of focus: high-volume hiring, community partnerships, ABA staffing
• Full-cycle recruitment for behavioral health staff, from application to onboarding and field placement
• Bilingual recruitment and ongoing staff support, including mentoring of early careers staff
• Cultivated relationships with local, diverse recruiting sources, including schools, community organizations, professional associations and staffing agencies
• Identified and attended talent attraction events
• Assessed staff strengths and potential, and referred to internal opportunities

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Areas of focus: opening new program, complex acute care coordination
• Developed initial training & onboarding forms for care coordination in new facility for ages 5-13
• Facilitated seamless care across a child’s interagency provider team
• Initiated intakes or transfers from local healthcare network partners
• Linked families to appropriate specialized community resources, and ensured each child’s smooth transition to a lower level of behavioral and/or psychiatric care

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Areas of focus: team building, electronic records conversion, complex case management / escalations
• Supervised and hired all BHRS Case Managers, and kept a caseload of ~15 complex cases
• Primary contact with payers (mix of city or county insurances & private insurances)
• Designated as “super-user” during conversion to electronic records (EMR), training and monitoring system use by field clinicians
• Developed new tracking systems for Staffing department
• Weekly consults with Site Director and quarterly with executive leadership

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Areas of focus: care coordination, translation, clinical advocacy
• Managed “wrap-around” services for children of various diagnoses and their families; coordinated efforts of the clinical team
• Designated case manager for all Spanish-speaking families (caseload of ~35 children)
• Conducted internal audits, tracked outcome measures

Toronto, Canada Area

Research project led by Professor Naomi Nagy, Ph.D., Department of LinguisticsThe Heritage Language Variation and Change Project (HLVC) examines usage and change in a range of non-official languages spoken in Toronto, a city where more than 2 million residents’ home language is not one of Canada’s official languages. This multilingual and multi-level.

Hon. Bsc., Psychology, Spanish Language And Literature, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Ukrainian Students' Club executive committee

Spanish Language And Literature