Project focusing on optimizing workflows, integrating technology and improving data management processes.

Managed partnerships with schools, community organizations and healthcare facilities to deliver educational programs on humane animal treatment and responsible pet ownership. Coordinated pet therapy sessions, ensuring animals were suitable for various therapeutic settings.Trained and supervised students/volunteers.Managed program logistics and budget, including leading the Canada Summer Jobs grant application process for the organization.Key Highlight:Developed a camp fund for vulnerable and disadvantaged children through sustainability practices, which included:- Building community partnerships to secure donated materials, reducing spending on supplies.- Replacing paid field trips to popular destinations with visits to local rescues and sanctuaries. These trips were funded by camper fundraising efforts, with any additional funds donated to the cause.

Supervised licensed and unlicensed before-and after-school programs, as well as youth center programming, focused on 3 key provincially and municipally funded areas:1. Employment and educational supports2. Social and recreational opportunities3. Health, nutrition and wellnessOversaw program staff across 6 sites, ensuring compliance with required program content and staff-to-child ratios.

Ontario Trillium Foundation - Youth Opportunities Fund (YOF) RecipientYOF invests in community-led projects that play an essential role in creating safe spaces, empowering youth and families, supporting career pathways and addressing issues faced by communities.Supporting grassroots groups and community-based collaboratives led by people who share identities, lived experiences and who face the same systemic barriers as those who will benefit from their projects is integral to YOF’s funding priorities.Program Goal:Work to reduce high school dropout rates in a diverse community by building strategic partnerships and implementing initiatives that respected the unique cultural values of the population, while encouraging educational engagement and long-term opportunities for youth.

Intern, Ontario Internship Program (OIP) - Program & Service Delivery StreamCore Competencies Business-Planning: Identify key business objectives and goals for the organization, considering the variety of factors that impact the organization and establishing goals that account for those factorsProject Implementation: Understand and apply project planning frameworks, tools and best practices that support successful outcomes/performance optimizationEvaluation: Determine the effectiveness of a service or program based on existing practices, systems, and/or policiesProcess Improvement: Identify and implement changes in work processes that can be expected to produce measurable enhancements

Intern, Ontario Internship Program (OIP) - Program & Service Delivery StreamCore Competencies Business-Planning: Identify key business objectives and goals for the organization, considering the variety of factors that impact the organization and establishing goals that account for those factorsProject Implementation: Understand and apply project planning frameworks, tools and best practices that support successful outcomes/performance optimizationEvaluation: Determine the effectiveness of a service or program based on existing practices, systems, and/or policiesProcess Improvement: Identify and implement changes in work processes that can be expected to produce measurable enhancements

MSW Placement Program: Healthier Urban Families Organization that advances the development, health, and well-being of children and their families through research, education, and community engagement.Program Goal: Addressing issues relevant to parents, grandparents and the professionals who serve them, through community engagement and education.Key focus areas:- Life skills group programming- Professional development training (curriculum development and facilitation)

MSW PlacementProgram: Juvenile Justice ServicesOrganization functioned as a Care Management Organization (CMO) with the Wayne County Department of Children and Family Services providing: case management services; assessment; service coordination; community linkage; crisis intervention services; monitoring service; court attendance; treatment; team coordination.Program Goal:To ensure youth and families receive services they need to be successfully released from the juvenile justice system and achieve their personal goals, while ensuring community safety.Key focus areas:- Group programming- Case management services