Maternal and Child Health Coordinator

Daisy Aldana

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Education

University of La Verne, La Verne Scholarship and Honors:

Bachelor of Arts and Science 2013 Landis Scholarship

Major: Anthropology Order of Omega Honors Society

GPA: 3.2

Community/volunteer Health Experience

Peace Corps Coordinator: Maternal and Child Health Project

February 2014- March 2016 Guatemala

●Facilitated a monthly departmental Training of Trainers Workshop with a focus on sustainability, leading to 40 Rural Health Technicians gaining skills in order to educate their employees in each of their 24 health districts on topics including behavior change, adult learning principles and lesson planning.

●Developed materials for and co-facilitated weekly maternal and child health trainings and lectures resulting in 15 local health personnel including doctors, nurses, the Rural Health Technician and community health promoters sustainably implementing improved adult teaching methodology to educate mothers in the community.

●Coordinated with health personnel to conduct monthly house visits in five communities in order to encourage mothers to timely vaccinate their children.

●Founded a community-based women’s group and provided health awareness trainings on women’s health issues. The health sessions provided an introduction to topics of: sex and gender, emotional and physical health, social status, human rights, women’s empowerment, and health awareness.

●Designed culturally appropriate lesson plans utilizing imagery and interactive activities, specifically to empower illiterate women to understand the concepts of maternal care and women’s health.

●Organized, recruited, and facilitated monthly midwives and pregnancy support groups in the community, conducting several lectures on: safe and proper ways of childbearing, family planning, stages of pregnancy, exclusive breastfeeding, nutrition pre/post pregnancy, newborn care, warnings signs during pregnancy, and hand washing, resulting in women adopting practices leading to safe pregnancies and healthy infants.

●Mentored and empowered mothers with malnourished children by presenting educational sessions on nutrition.

●Co-planned and coordinated with ICTA (The Science, Technology, And Agricultural Institute) and “Brave Mothers” to organize and lead the construction of a community garden at the Health Center in order to promote the nutritional well-being of mothers with malnourished children.

●Arranged, categorized and updated lessons plans on nutrition for 50 Maternal and Child Health Peace Corps Volunteers and Guatemalan health post personnel from communities located in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Held monthly meetings, to implement new ideas, projects, as well as reviewing and correcting Spanish grammar of lesson plans.

●Support health personnel with managing and maintaining the census in 6 communities (population 12,597). The purpose of the census was to record the number of families, pregnant women, children, infants, and animals in order to manage and take inventory of the amount of medicine needed in the community.

Skills

Language: Spanish (native speaker); Computer: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint

Reference: Carlos Julajuj ********@**********.***

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisy-aldana-6a764179

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