Executive Director Mental Health
Resume:
BENJAMIN KOFI
DZIVENU TSIKATA
Psychologist and OD Consultant
EXPERIENCE
May 2007
Mar 2022
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Ben Newman Hope Care Foundation
Achimota (Accra, Ghana)
Functions:
Provide regular oversight responsibility of the
Organization, i.e. Administrative, Managerial,
Planning, Development & Implementing of
policies, Appraisal, System Monitoring &
Evaluation and Engineered winnable Proposals.
Achievement:
-Provide leadership oversight for the
organization for fifteen years running till I resign and move on.
-Transform the organization from Community
base to National in character in implementing
1million and above projects.
-Develop policies such as organizational manual,
accounting policy, workers appraisal document,
Assets register and monitoring & evaluation
manual.
-Provide international visibility for the
organization through participation & presenting
our best practices regarding noncommunicable
diseases, SDG, UN environmental program, join
the UN Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC),
present on bigger platforms such as AIDS, TB,
SDG, AIDS Vaccine, World Bank and UN human
Right Council meetings and conferences.
- Was very instrumental in getting the Ghana
Information and Tobacco plus the Public Health
Bills before Parliament and its passage into law.
-Secured the first 1million dollar fund project for the organization, and manage it till the
completion of the project.
- Negotiate and secure five year project from the
Ghana AIDS Commission under the Global Fund
to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, under NFM II.
Apr 2022
Mar 2023
SECURITY SUPERVISOR
Ultimate Security Services
Moreno Valley, Cabazon, Victorville Riverside
County CA
Functions:
Supervising & Scheduling Guards
Achievements:
Scheduling 68 guards in a week and patrol, make
sure all the guards report to work clock in and
Out respectively, provides guards with system
apps for clocking and reporting incidence.
Travel for field visit three times a week, to have at first hand information what, how and when,
the security guards are performing or working.
Provide feedback and recommendation to
management for better system transformation.
May 2023
Present
COUNSELOR
Magic Hand LLC
Van Nuys, Danney Los Angeles CA
Functions:
Provide psycho-social, mental health, drug and
alcohol abuse counseling.
Achievement:
Have provided professional service in mental
health in six mental health facilities which had
been contracted Magic Hand LLC, where I had
be able to transform fourteen individuals to
stability, (as they suffering from Toxoplasmosis)
Provide psychological counseling to help in
rehabilitating twenty one (21) individuals, to quit from alcohol and drug respectively.
Provide psycho-social counseling for eight (8)
inmate released from jail, as they integrate into
society/community.
Feb 2005
Mar 2006
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Vital International Foundation
Zoti Korle-bu Greater Accra Ghana
By executing total quality leadership expertise, in managerial supervision and seeing effective and
efficient job delivery from employees.
Organize and hosted fundraising event and was
responsible for drafting five major funding
proposal for the organization
EDUCATION
Jul 2021
Aug 2022
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & INCLUSION
University Georgia Georgia, United State
Description:
The ability to identify, develop and maintain
working relationships in a way that is of benefit
to communities in pursuing civic engagement.
Achievement:
Having implemented civic engagement plan, i
have exhibited Leadership Skill by creating a
shared vision, Strategic thinking, Collaboration,
Facilitating diversity, Inclusion, Ethical action
and Leveraging on technology to help bring
about positive change in the society /
community.
Civic Engagement brings out important factors
such as " Democracy, Political institutions and
Political parties, Civic Society and Civic
engagement, Interest groups and NGOs/CSos and
Inclusion, it help in calling government to
address societal needs and holding elected
officials accountable, in effect reducing
corruption.
Jun 2017
Nov 2019
MSC (OD) ORGANIZATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
University of Development Studies
Northern Region Tamale, Ghana
Effort that focuses on improving an
organization's capability through the alignment of strategy, structure, people, rewards, metrics, and management processes.
OD is a science-backed effort focusing on five
phases of strategies that leads to system
transformation, these includes Entry, Diagnosis,
Feedback, Solution and Evaluation. If the
aforementioned, are deployed it would really
shows the health of the organization.
As OD practitioner, I always deploy very
important skills: such as the following, Data
collection and analysis, project management,
management, emotional intelligence, business
acumen, communication, collaboration and
facilitation.
Aug 2002
Sep 2004
MSC JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY
University of Gavle Gavle, Sweden
Referred to as psychotherapy, that is done
thorough, analytical approach to talk therapy
that seeks to bring balance and union between
the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
it must be noted that people who suffer from
mental health, drug or substance abuse and
alcohol, this is a method used to access,
experience and integrate unconscious material
into awareness, and the therapy gives credence
to emphasizes helping people find their true
selves, and it often uses tools like art and myth to help patients make contact with these deep
feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. The therapy is
often used to treatment to the following,
Depression
Anxiety
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Phobias
Personality disorders
Psychosomatic illnesses
Sep 1997
Oct 2001
BSC PSYCHOLOGY
University of Ghana Legon, Accra Ghana
At the University of Ghana i worked hard as a
student, my hard work produce me an outcome
that help me got a scholarship to study abroad. I
had a first class at the University of Ghana.
PROJECTS
ACHIEVEMENTS
CERTIFICATIONS & COURSES
Certificate in Management, from the University of California, (UCLA) Certificate in Management, from the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA)
PUBLICATIONS
REFERENCES
Festus Nicol
Administrative Manager
Ultimate Security Service
Jerry Tanzy
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Brian Watkins
Office of Global Engagement
Director of International Initiatives
University of Georgia
1324 S. Lumpkin Street
Athens, GA 30602
***-**-****-984-015
p: 706-***-****
e: brianwuga.edu
w: international.uga.edu
Dr. Mr. Gabriel G. Bernaaku
Educational Psychology/Special needs, UDS
Independent Consultant
Email: ************@*****.***
Professor Ake Tilander
Head of Psychology Department
University of Galve, Sweden.
ake.tilanderspray.se
********@*****.***
14540 Heartland Street Van Nuys
Dec 30, 1976
Ghanaian
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OBJECTIVE
Proactive, business-oriented experienced
professional psychologist, specialized in
psychological and psycho-social counseling, and
well experience motivated expert OD consultant,
as well as international health activist, and WHO
advocate.
SKILLS
LANGUAGES
English: Fluent in writing and speaking
Native
Ga Adamgbe, Twi and Ewe: Fluent in writing,
speaking and understanding
Community Civic Engagement project, where four communities had been disenfranchise during a public election by the electoral commission of Ghana.
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Community empowerment project, at Tarkwa Nsuayemu (Mining community), an effort with community members build a clinic that will help pregnant mothers, in other to reduce maternal mortality.
(2017 to 2018)
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Health outreach at Moree Fishing community (2018) in the Central Region, with foreign volunteers and fellows from US, UK, Canada & Finland.
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Greater Accra Regional Chairman of Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health.( From 2017 to 2022)
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Continental Treasurer for Union Africa Region (UAR) from (2016 till date)
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Overall Best Student at University of Development Studies (UDS)
(2019)
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Co-chair for Africa on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Platform (2018 to 2021) on the CSO front.
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Branch Chairman for National Democratic Congress Party (NDC)
(2016 to 2022)
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Early Childhood Development, By Canadian International Development Agency & Ministry of Women and Children Affairs Ghana.
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· TB in Children, By National TB Control Program
TB Surveillance, By Nuguchi Memorial and Research Institute Ghana.
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TB/HIV Workplace Policy Development, By Rotary Club International, Washington DC.
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TB/HIV Advocacy, By ICW International/Treatment Action Group in Entebbe Uganda.
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TB/HIV Media Champion Training, By Results
International/Action/The
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· Lilly MDR-TB PARTNERSHIP, in Johannesburg South Africa. TB/HIV Advocacy Training, By Treatment Action Group US / ICW, in Johannesburg South Africa.
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TB/HIV Activism Training, By World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva Switzerland.
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· Budget Tracking, By Global Fund to Fight AIDS MALARIA and TB TB/HIV Media Advocacy, By Results International/Action/The Lilly MDR-TB PARTNERSHIP, in Berlin Germany
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The "EFFECT OF AIDS ON PATIENTS WITHOUT ART/VACCINE." issued on. 8, 2007, pp. 4 of AIDS Vaccine abstract Journal
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Child Safety should be a priority. The weekend Spectator, 6 May 2017, pp. 23
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"AIDS WITHOUT ART ON PATIETS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES" The weekend Spectator, 27 May 2009, pp. 5
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"LEVERAGING ON YOUR EXPERTISE TO GROW YOUR
AMBITION!" The weekend Spectator, 19 June 2018, pp. 23
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· Confident, self-motivation and result oriented.
Ability to work both independently and in a
team environment
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· Good interpersonal relationship
· Community work & Social Mobilization
· Correction & reformation counselor
· Leadership Skills
· Child/youth development counselor
· OD Consulting
· Computer literate
· internent research, browsing etc
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