High School Director

Richard Amos

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City: Menomonie

State: WI

Zip: 54751

Country: USA

Phone: 612-***-****

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Primary Skills/Experience:

[Trained Staff, Housing Placement/Homeless Advocate Director] with [10] years of Direct experience. Specialty areas include Family Homeless Prevention Advisory Committee (Hennepin County). The program was hands on assessing clients barriers that caused them to become homeless, stay locked in to a non progression stage, and case managing to prevent those causes from appearing in their future then repeat their homelessness. We located landlords who would rent to our clients with barriers like evictions, criminal, and low incomes histories, to move in with our case management supports. Our program became a national model, for re-housing homeless families, because we're result oriented we had contractual numbers to meet as part of our Government Contracts. Therefore, we had to learn from our mistakes and have the clients benefit from this knowledge. Our clients respected us from being service driven, versatile, innovative, skilled, compassionate, patience, and respected, because we are on time, disciplined, and effective at what we do..

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from Minneapolis Technical and Community College, Minneapolis MN 1/2001 to 7/1997 (Chemical Dependency Counseling)

Job History / Details:

Professional Overview

[Trained Staff, Housing Placement/Homeless Advocate Director] with [10] years of Direct experience. Specialty areas include Family Homeless Prevention Advisory Committee (Hennepin County). The program was hands on assessing clients barriers that caused them to become homeless, stay locked in to a non progression stage, and case managing to prevent those causes from appearing in their future then repeat their homelessness. We located landlords who would rent to our clients with barriers like evictions, criminal, and low incomes histories, to move in with our case management supports. Our program became a national model, for re-housing homeless families, because we're result oriented we had contractual numbers to meet as part of our Government Contracts. Therefore, we had to learn from our mistakes and have the clients benefit from this knowledge. Our clients respected us from being service driven, versatile, innovative, skilled, compassionate, patience, and respected, because we are on time, disciplined, and effective at what we do..

Core Qualifications

Conference presentation

Advisory board member

Staff supervision

Active Listening

Counseling

Group Instruction

Lecturer

Program Development

Public Speaking

Teaching Empowerment

Teaching Critical Thinking

Goal Setting and implementation

Staff supervision

Graduate advising

Academic planning

Research in [employment fields and Housing trends]

Chemical Dependency 12 Core functions demonstrated.

RentWise (Tenant Education)

GCDF (Certificate) Group Facilitation.

Accomplishments

Training:

(We created a National Model called Rapid Exit Housing First where we cold called landlords who would rent to our homeless families whom had barriers which prevented them from being accepted into housing on their on calls and we advocated to the landlord to give them another chance and stated that we would case manage them durring their tenancy for 6 months. In addition, we agreed to lower the landlords risk by agreeing to pay the eviction cost if things when bad.)

If you look on the National Alliance to End Homelessness you'll find the organization I worked for 18 years St. Stephen's there.

[Contributed towards creating RentWise with the University of Minnesota Housing Department which is a Tenant Education Curriculum which educates tenants on how to be a great tenant and know your rights and landlord responsibilities.

Research:

I would research materials to share with our participants whom were seeking employment, empowerment, and housing. Sharing with them how to change their past into a positive future.

Teaching:

We shared with social workers and participants how to obtain housing, what landlords looked for in a tenant, and whom to target as a landlord if your client has multiple barriers.

Education

1997 Minneapolis Technical and Community College Minneapolis, Minnesota

Associate of Science Chemical Dependency Counseling

Certification- Chemical Dependency Counseling

Associate of Science- with Honors

Certification- Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF)

Certification- Mini MBA (University of St. Thomas

Certification-Offender Workforce Development (OWDS)

Experience

January 2000 to January 2010

St. Stephen's Human Services Minneapolis, Mn

Director

Supervised staff,Managed collaborations, and resident assistants.Performed in- and out service presentations to share knowledge with colleagues.Advisory members of the Homeless fields, students, Foundations/Government Contractors, on the best practice's, researched academic plan on Human Stability, and courses tried/true successful outcomes.Built strategic alliances with other organizations that resulted in reductions within the homeless populations looking for housing in most of the years I was homeless director or created strategic avenues of housing services to house them quicker, and they stayed stable longer..

Designed course on (Housing Offenders or people whom have multiple barriers).

Lectured on [Re Housing The Homeless and Ex Offenders].Organized theme-related courses and events to demonstrate best practise models.

Presented at National Alliance to End Homelessness, Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, and Minnesota Housing Finance, Minnesota Housing Partnership, Continuum Center, Minnesota Department of Corrections Transitions Group, and St. Stephen's Human Services[conferences].

Fellowships and Awards

1997 Outstanding student award: Fall 2008

2005 Going The Extra Mile The City of Minneapolis

2006 Un song Hero Award (Judge Bruce Peterson and wife)

2008 Desmond TuTu Making Friends of your Enemies Award (Peace Jam)

2009 Adolfo PerezEsquivel "Breaking The Cycle of Violence (Peace Jam)

Publications

Assisted with the creation of RentWise (UM)

Assisted with Re-Entry Transitions from Mn Corrections

Presentations

St. Stephens Human Services

Minnesota Coalition for The Homeless

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

Minnesota Department of Corrections

Minnesota Housing Partnership

National Alliance to End Homelessness

Minneapolis Public Television

North folk Virgina Human Services

Memberships/Scholarly Societies

1995-2010 FHPAP Advisory (Hennepin County)

1995-2000 Minnesota Coalition to End Homelessness (Board Member)

2001-2010 Minnesota Housing Partnership (Board Member)

1997- present Obsidian Artist Group

2000-2010 Masjid An-Nur Board member

2010- present Northside Artist Collective (member)

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