Sylvia Nicole Perry
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Work Experience
Residential Advisor for Job Corps - Detroit, MI July 2024 to June 2025 Served as a mentor, helping students adjust to group living, develop social and life skills, and achieve their educational and career goals while residing in dormitory style living. Monitor the safety of students, enforce rules, and keep track of each student present on site. Resident Advisor for MCHS Family of Services - Detroit, MI Jan 2024 April 2025 ILP for young adults between the ages of 18 to 24. Promoted the well-being of youths by providing supervision, support, teaching of life skills, and completing record keeping functions. De-escalation and crisis intervention. Teaching essential life skills and assisting residents with daily life activities. Overnight Site Coordinator for Freedom House Detroit - Detroit, MI Aug 2024 to Jan 2025 Provided the shelter intake, secure site and client safety, assist with site safety drills, provide transportation, monitor house chores, assist with inventory management, and provide food items as needed or requested from the food pantry. Complete data entry as assigned. Prepare rooms. Maintain accurate inventory of agency equipment and furniture. Complete basic cleanings of staff offices and community rooms.
SSVF Housing Case Management Specialist for Southwest Counseling Services - Detroit, MI June 2023 to Aug 2024
One stop shop for Veterans providing them with financial support for temporary to permanent housing opportunities. Assisted with providing stability in all aspects of veteran basic human needs and helping our veterans accomplish their goals, aiding with anything that will be conducive to their healing and transition giving them access to alternative resources including but not limited to referrals, vouchers for clothing, furniture, food, transportation assistance, healthcare, and psychiatric services. This job requires social work, utilizing HMIS software.
Case Manager for Salvation Army - Modesto, CA April 2022 to June 2023 Greet and interact with clients using compassion, empathy, dignity, and respect. Perform intake screening for new clients entering shelter. Perform routine hourly health and safety checks on all shelter clients. Provided crisis intervention, referrals, housing and healthcare resources. Transport clients to appointments. Track, document, and communicate shelter census and bed inventory. Family Stability Partner COTS Peggy's Place - Detroit, MI Feb 2021 to April 2022 Greeted and welcomed those entering, exiting or calling the Peggy’s Place Emergency Shelter. Perform light clerical and security duties and provide guidance and direction to visitors and families navigating the facility. Distributed over the counter medicine. Completed intakes for CAM referrals. Prepare and clean rooms after resident discharges. Serve meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) to families. This position requires conflict resolution, resourcefulness and tactfulness. Mortuary Transport Facilitator & Office Manager for Trust Mortuary Solutions LLC - Detroit, MI Jan 2017 to April 2022
Contracted to transport deceased and human remains locally to funeral homes, crematories, airports or coroner's offices from hospitals, personal residences, and nursing homes by way of cargo van and hearse in a safe and dignified manner. Bookkeeping,administrative assistance and grief counseling were a regular part of daily job responsibilities.
Education & Affiliations
International Free & Accepted Modern Masons, Inc. & Order of Eastern Star - 2023 Social Worker Certification (CEU) - 2022
General Equivalency Diploma (GED) Indiana Department of Workforce Development - Huntington, IN 2013
DWC (Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network) Training Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative-Provider MI-CEC CEUs