Therese Genis Email & Phone Number

Manage County-wide employee wellbeing program. Create a culture of wellbeing at work. Lead County-wide wellness committee. Health & wellbeing communication and promotion. Create wellbeing, mindfulness and health content and programming for county employees, leaders and teams. Support healthy aging initiatives in the community. Manage healthy aging grants.

Minnesota

• Strategize to bring best fitting community health programs to our communities through community needs assessment, evaluation, and analysis
• Oversee food security programs for Fairview including healthy food prescription programs, and food resource referrals.
• Oversee community nutrition and culinary skills programming
• Incorporate LEAN principles and practices into work through strategy deployment meetings, daily engagement, and A3 thinking
• Co-lead equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility work group for community advancement department

Midtown

• Coordinator of a community center that focus on culturally specific wellness for Latino, Native American and East African youth and their families
• Supervise and coach team of staff members
• Teach nutrition, physical activity, sexual health, and community action project curriculum to youth ages 7-18
• Implement program evaluation, improvement, and budget mangement
• Coordinate program community involvement in Twin Cities in Motion races, nutrition family nights, and health coaching

Dakota County Government Center

• Instruct yoga and creative arts curriculum to teenage girls on probation with the county
• Lead group discussions on ethics, health and well-being, teach art projects, and behavior modification techniques

Saint Paul, Minnesota

• Work in Health Risk Assessment unit researching emerging contaminants of concern in Minnesota’s drinking water
• Extract relevant chemical information from literature and present it to lead toxicologists
• Contribute to reports and materials for environmental media and the public

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Work on a study piloting the use of text messages to effectively collect momentary data from Latina adolescents
• Recruit teens at high schools, facilitate parent outreach, designed instruction manual and work on survey design
• Contribute to manuscripts and research paper writing for study and data organization
• Helped coordinate a bi-national study on the effects of migration on Latinos
• Assisted with writing study curriculum and protocol, paper writing and editing, balancing budget, organizing study events and data
• Performed research literature searches and reviews

Department Of Surgery

• Worked directly for primary investigator on three major transplant donation studies
• Tracked and collected data for 3,500+ donors; provided data to national transplant databases
• Communicated with donors, physicians and medical facilities to follow up on health issues
• Presented and conducted research surveys with patients
• Gathered and organized information that was published in two major journals

Solid Organ Transplant Floor

• Worked on Solid Organ Transplant Unit, applying culturally appropriate nursing care to patients and families
• Trained in basic medical care for patients at various ages and stages of life development

Master Public Health, Environmental Public Health

Gradaute Certificate (1 Year Program), Complementary And Alternative Healing Practices

Music Therapy, Avervedya, Traditional Tibetan Medicine, Yoga Philosophy, Reiki, Shamanism, Ethnobotony and Pharmacology

Ba, Healthcare Specialized In The Latino Community