The Great Communicator
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EDUCATION
****-****, ****-**** ******* University Bloomington/Indianapolis, IN
o B.A. in Political Science, Minor in Criminal Justice, and a Minor in Psychology.
o GPA: 3.35
EXPERIENCE
Child Care Worker: May 2008 to July 2008
Promoted to House Manager: July 2008 to December 2008
May 2008 – December 2008 Tahoe Turning Point South Lake Tahoe, CA
o Responsible for managing the day to day operations of a boys’ group home and for overall supervision of clients placed within Tahoe Turning Point, Inc.
o In Charge of keeping the home, structure, vehicles and grounds clean, safe and in accordance with licensing standards.
o Provided care, guidance and counseling for the six boys in the house by meeting individually with them, by spending quality time with them and by ensuring that their basic needs were met.
o Oversaw all accounting of the house budget, including paying allowance to the boys weekly, writing petty cash checks to the staff, buying food and other supplies for the house, and balancing the house ledger. When I was promoted to House Manager, I was able to reduce the house budget by about $1,000 a month.
Group Leader I / Counselor I: October 2007 to January 2008
Promoted to Group Leader II/Counselor II: January 2008 – March 2008
October 2007 – March 2008 New Dominion School Dillwyn, Virginia
o Provided care, supervision and leadership to a group of ten to twelve troubled teenage girls in a therapeutic wilderness program.
o Offered the members of the group treatment by giving counsel, by working physically with them and by following the group process methodology.
o Lead the group in daily activities, work projects, and group meetings.
o Worked as part of a team of staff members to plan and organize treatment for the individuals in the program.
Paralegal
October 2005 – September 2007 Carolyn W. Rader, Esq. Indianapolis, Indiana
o Prepared and filed legal documents with the courts.
o Managed cases and corresponded with clients.
o Interviewed clients and took notes for the attorney.
o Assisted the attorney in depositions, trial preparation and court appearances.
Peace Corps Volunteer – Community Health and Water Sanitation Sector
June 2004 – September 2005 Peace Corps Nouakchott, Mauritania
o Organized an Agent de Santé Training for 10 women in the Dar el Barka Region.
o Created and presented health information seminars for host country nationals in their native languages.
o Worked extensively with the youth of the village creating educational skits to perform for the rest of the village and to teach the young children basic hygiene.
o Conducted training sessions for Peace Corps Trainees.
o Participated in two large-scale Polio vaccination campaigns throughout the Brakna Region.
Legal Assistant
September 2001- June 2003 Glaser & Ebbs Indianapolis, Indiana
o Established professional relations with police and sheriff departments in six Indiana counties for the purpose of acquiring accident reports.
o Prepared legal documents and client correspondence.
o Created content for the firm’s website.
o Composed firm’s advertising letter and designed the advertising letterhead.
Intern
Summer of 2000 Office of the Secretary of State Indianapolis, Indiana
o Conducted online voting research for the Secretary of State.
o Provided administrative support in the Trademarks Office.
o Drafted constituent correspondence.
o Reviewed news media reports and compiled portfolios for the office.
TRAINING
o Health and Safety Training (30 hours): This training provided information on first aid, HIV/AIDS and STDs, hygiene, and personal and preventative health care for life in a third-world country.
o Technical Training (101.5 hours) as a Community Health and Water Sanitation Peace Corps Volunteer: Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, hygiene, water sanitation and health systems.
o Cross Cultural Training (36 hours) for the purpose of better understanding foreign customs, traditions, gender roles, religious practices, and social norms. Also, for the purpose of being better equipped with strategies necessary to live and work effectively in a foreign culture.
o Certified in First Aid and CPR.
o SAMA (Sartori Alternatives to Anger Management) training (14 hours): This training provided experience in how to deescalate high risk situations and provided hands-on training in how to contain individuals acting in unsafe ways with the smallest possibility of anyone involved getting injured.
o Nonviolent Crisis Intervention training (8 hours) by the Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. This training taught various techniques in de-escalation and in how to restrain an individual who may cause harm to themselves or others.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
o 4 semesters of French at Indiana University: F100, F150, F200 and F250. Teaching focused mainly on proper grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. French is one of the official languages of Mauritania. Through immersion in the culture and much practice, my conversational French is much improved.
o 164.5 hours of Pulaar classes. Pulaar is a tribal language dominant in southern Mauritania and across the African Sahel. At the end of this language training, I achieved an intermediate-mid level of Pulaar as tested by a certified instructor according to ETS/ACTFL standards.
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