RESUME of Rosa Chan

(aka Rosa Anais Chan or Rosanay Chan )

Email: adtgkc@r.postjobfree.com 669-***-****

Objective: To get hired in a position where I can use all my expertise and can do an excellent job for the organization and the persons that need the services

Who am I ? – Passion. I am a person tremendously passionate about my career and topics as Mental Health Care, Alcohol and drugs prevention and recovery, the development of community, Social Welfare programs & motivational processes towards the participation of different population and groups. I am concerned, with improving the quality of people's that need our support, advise and motivation to overcome their psychosocial problems

Team Work. I like to work promoting the leadership in the staff where I work .Also to seek the support of participants - as well as the public and private resources - to support the accomplishment of the goals of the programs or projects.

Career Summary: I have a long and successful experience in the Social Worker field and in the planning & development of programs for more than 15 years.

Brief Career History

• Director of Social Worker school, Univ Latina, San Jose, Costa Rica 2014-2019 in Costa Rica - where I came back in 2014 - due family reasons.

• Program Manager of Catholic Charities CalWorks Mental Health program for 11years, San Jose, CA from 2000 to 2011where I updated my knowledge in alcohol and drugs and received a certificate as alcohol and drugs Counselor from Behavioral and Health Department of the County based in an intensive training they did to the personnel when opened the CalWORKs program in Santa Clara.

My work in Alcohol and drugs

My experience in alcohol and drugs is wide, I was teacher as my first career, but the Director of the initial National Institute of Alcoholism in Costa Rica proposed me work in this area, starting as social assistant And she will give me opportunity to study Social Work . I studied my MSW,(currently registered in the National Council of Social Work Education ) working in the same area, when graduated I was changed from being the Social Worker in the detox center, to become the director of the Ambulatory Service, In this time I was organizing an association of recovered people and they served as volunteers collaborating actively with the motivation of the clients that were initiating treatment .My duties were coordination, supervision of the interdisciplinary team, social workers, general physician, psychiatrist, Pharmacist and the nurses, also supervise the prevention program in the workplaces and the volunteers . During this period I organized the first Recovery Home for drugs addiction in community for those

alcoholics and drugs addicted that need a positive environment to live, with the Association Commission of Rehabilitation of Alcohol and Drugs

I was trained during this time by Pan American Office and WHO in a program for professionals from Latin America, in alcohol and drugs, a program coordinated by National Institute of Alcohol and Drugs where I had opportunity to go to several States to know how was being applying the drugs treatment . I also was the Director of the Prevention Program Drogas No supported by USAID and United Nations in Costa Rica .During this period I organized the first Recovery Home for drugs addiction with the Asociacion de Reabilitacion de Enfermos de Alcoholismo y Drogas

• Director of various Programs for 22 years (see Career History – full)

.Part time teacher of the Social Work School since graduated, in charge supervision and extension community programs

Management & other relevant Skills: excellent Manager of Teams, love to evaluate & introduce innovations in my Career field - in order to pro-vide the best service and achieve the goals of the program and the institution.

I am an American Citizen, speak English & Spanish.

Accomplishments: a Director or Manager that has always exceeded the goals thru Innovation of Programs & Team work, to motivate them to use all of their potential & an excellent Community integrator that met the needs of the Community.

Education:

Elementary Teacher Graduate from National University, Heredia, Costa Rica. specialty: of Practice Teaching. Internship: reading and writing to Adults workers in a rural community Plantation 1972

Degree in Social Work Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Trabajo. 1978 MCSW [Masters in Clinical Social Work], recognized by the Council of Social Work Education, Washington DC

Community Specialist: Golda Mayer Institute Haifa, Israel 1986

Specialist in Rural Organization and Cooperative Administration Center for Labor Studies for Latin America Tel Aviv 1986

Alcohol and drugs trained by Pan-American Office of World Health Organization

Employments (full)

In Costa Rica

• Director of the School of Social Work of the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica 2014-2019.

Social Worker at the National Institute on Alcoholism in Costa Rica (as Student of MSW)

• Supervisor in charge of the Ambulatory Service and Work Place Prevention Program 1976 -81 at the same place.

• Director of the Community Minors Prevention Program, Ministry of Justice, Costa Rica 1982

• Director of Social Security Department, Ministry of Labor in Costa Rica 1983

•Teacher & Supervisor in the field practice experience at the Universidad de Costa Rica, School of Social Work (part time) 1977-79

• Coordinator of the University Extension program of the Universidad de Costa Rica, School of Social Work 1976-1978 part time weekends

• Professor of Cooperative Administration for the Cooperatives of Coto Brus UNED by contract on weekends – 1987

• Director of the National Drugs Prevention Program JUST SAY NO, financed by USAID and the European Control, Drugs Office of United Nations 1986-1990

NOTE: this Prevention program started developing education and organization of the communities about the Drugs epidemic that was slowly starting in Costa Rica in certain groups, but not still in the communities (ie, 180 groups of adults were educated and a similar number of juvenile groups.

• Social Worker Coordinator of Student Residences of the Earth (an agricultural International University) in CR 1992-1995

In San José California (Silicón Valley)

2000 to 2011

• Manager of the CalWORKs Program of Mental Health Care for the unemployed at the Catholic Charities Organization of Santa Clara County. A contract from the US Behavioral, Health & Welfare administration, which I maintained with great success for 11 years, until I decided to return to Costa Rica for family reasons. 2000-11

Accomplishments:

I have gotten collaboration support of several organizations for the un-employed Clients that CalWORKs was addressing (ie, to get their GED or follow a Career)

2. Club of Women Soroptimist of Santa Clara,

Annual gifts from San Jose Mercury News for the clients,

Scholarship from Wells Fargo Bank, for 10 clients

Training from Small Business Administration (SBA) for Women’s Initiatives,

Volunteers from NASA Moffet Field teaching Mathematics to help GED students, etc.

Catholic Charities gave me an “Award of Recognition” for my services of over 10 years.

Award of Recognizing Catholic as Manager of CalWORKs Program

OCTOBER 2010

FOR HER MANY JOBS WELL DONE.

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Award and recognition for being a caring creative leader

Created a warm and supportive environment for the clients who needed help to overcome their mental health issues

Created community avenues for helping women and families to discover their business skills

Created a community network

As clinician identified key behavioral health needs, traumas from domestic violence

Overcoming their barriers to employment

And help the individuals to find strength and the means to move forward

She and her team develop a collaborative work to integrate their services with other Catholic Charities services in behavioral health, economic development and children and youth divisions

This award was done for ten years of exemplary service and thanked her for her many jobs well done

Signed by the Corporate board of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara To Rosa Chan

RESUME - Rosa Chan,

In Costa Rica, additional Accomplishments

As Director of the School of Social Work of the Universidad Latina for 5 years, 1:

• reviewed & updated study plans of the degree,

• promoted relationships with other Schools of Social Work of Foreign Universities (ie, Southern California University & Jane Adams SW School of Chicago) - in an effort to update the perception of the specialties of Clinical Social Work, School Social in workplaces, etc. New competences and new levels of professional performance were my results

• helped the School of Social Work of Universidad Latina de Costa Rica to grow rapidly. The school experienced a sustained increase in enrollment - doubled & tripled. Currently, the school has the least unemployed graduates of Social Work professionals in Costa Rica.

Some others innovative initiatives in the Social area that I developed in Costa Rica

• Founder of the first Senior Day Center in CR using a participatory methodology in 1976 in the Canton of Goicoechea during my tenure as extension coordinator of the University of Costa Rica, Social Work School.

• Publications: 1) a Book that is currently under review, but soon will published; 2) an Article of my experience, in a Journal of Gerontology from a School of Social Work at the Univ of Canada.

• Founder of the first Home for Alcoholics in Community & the Committee for Rehabilitation of Alcoholics (CREA). The organization later decided to hand it over to the First Lady of Costa Rica to procure the start of the work in CR of the International organization - CREA - that treated - not only alcoholism, but also other addictions.

• Organizer in coordination - with the Maria Reina Catholic Parish, in San Jose, Costa Rica - as a professional practice center of the Social Work School of the Latina University (the 1st Center for the treatment of Mental Health and Social Welfare in a community), as part of comprehensive care to overcome Mental Health problems and Poverty in CR, 2015

• Promoter of Training Courses for Entrepreneurship and Cooperatives for men & women Clients of the Treatment Center,(1) for establishment of small entrepreneur businesses. 2015

(1)NOTE: CR actually have a magnificent generalized health system and in a population of 5 million inhabitants. There are drug recovery government Program, homes, and medication is given in hospitals for mental disorders within a medicalized vision of mental health treatment. However, there is a lack of Community Clinics where mental health issues and social welfare are treated. The other variables are poverty, unemployment, lack of job training within a vision of comprehensive treatment. Hence, the importance of the experience, given that there are 1.3 million people who require mental health and comprehensive care, which considers the variables of poverty, family conflicts, lack of decent housing, etc.

Publications

- Family & Community Diagnosis - Editorial UNED Universidad Estatal a Distancia CR (out of print), was in 1976

-The First Day Care Center for Seniors in Costa Rica using the participatory methodology; an experience to reflect .

Book in edition by Social Work Editorial

• Article: about this experience will appear in a gerontology magazine

• Author of Articles for Academic Journals on issues of Social Administration, Community and Clinical Social Work.

Community volunteer Participation

• Member &Advisor of the Program - “Friendly Cities for Older Adults” in CR [A Pan-American Initiative of Friendly Cities for Older Adults]

Advisor of Divorced Parents Association

• President of Alcoholic Anonymous Association [AAA] of Costa Rica, as custody “A” Class non-alcoholic

Member of International SW Organization OITS

• Member of the Academic Council of the International Organization of Social Work

(OITS)

•OITS has members of the 14 countries in Latin America & Spain. It is a non-profit who’s goals are to promote the interchange & updating of Social Work in the different specialties & expand SW’s role in their different countries.

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