ANNA JAMISON SUAREZ

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Dedicated professional with six years of experience in the counseling profession helping individuals achieve their life goals. Hoping to obtain a position to help bring out the best in individuals and clients through dedicated services.

EXPERIENCE

NOVEMBER 2022 – CURRENT

CASE MANAGER, PUBLIC CONSULTING GROUP

Provide various services for clientele regarding education, employment, and life support, including referrals, counseling, and follow-up sessions. Ensure compliance with federal, state, and agency rules and regulations. Ensure agency and individual performance standards are met and exceeded. Conduct an initial needs assessment with clients to identify skills, aptitude, interests, and supportive service needs. Prepare various forms of testing/assessment for clients. Develop a Work Plan for each client, establishing the client’s career goals, program services, training, and activities.

SEPTEMBER 2022 – NOVEMBER 2022

PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST, MCALISTER INSTIUTE

Provide services such as prevention services, advocacy, support, strength-based coaching, facilitation, and education. Conduct educational skill building groups that teach beneficiaries and their families coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills. Lead activities and coaching to encourage and support beneficiaries to participate in behavioral health treatment. HAIR EXTENSION TECHNICIAN, SELF-EMPLOYEED

Specializing in all types of extensions, wigs, beaded weft installation, sew-in, tape-in, microbead, keratin glue extensions, and clip in.

MAY 2006 – JUNE 2008

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, TEEN CENTER INC.

Working with staff and employees directly to ensure the program was being implemented correctly, conducted interviews for employment, interviewed with the client trying to enter the program, approve and sign off on all staff hours, scheduling employees hours, prepare payroll, training all new staff, went to all court dates and school meetings with clients, made sure clients’ needs were fully met, worked closely with probation officers and social workers, made all appointments for all clients with doctors, physiatrist, distribution of psychotropic medications to clients, case management, incident reports, worked closely with licensing regarding clients reports and facility rules and regulations, planned and approved outings for clients. MARCH 1999 – AUGUST 2001

PROGRAM SPECIALIST, NEIBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION

Case management, working closely with community and clients who are at risk, on probation, outreach in community and schools, counseling such as individual, family, and group counseling, 2

in schools we provided a curriculum that would pertain to the individual's needs, also offering groups for self-esteem, self-confidence, and conflict resolution, held after school program and summer lunch program at our site, organize field trips that we were able to fund and take member of the program to theme parks or education trips to museums. FEBRUARY 1998 – MARCH 1999

ADMINTRATION ASSISTANT, S.Y.T.E.S. (SERVING YOUTH THROUGH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT)

Answering phone, filing, taking minutes during meetings, typing, taking care of ingoing and outgoing mail, setting appointments, opening, and closing office, helping with planning fundraisers, and getting donations for different events also helped with planning award ceremonies.

QUALIFICATIONS

CADTP SUDRC, #14041

NPPES NPI, #149*******

FIST AID CERTIFIED, ACTIVE FOR TWO YEARS

PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST TRAINING, COMPLETED 90 HOURS TRAINING