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Skills
Google documents and creating trainings for new staff in the field of Independent Living Skills
Organizing and researching for resources corroborating with individual clients' wants and desires for professional employment, SSI or housing. The resources have continued to be used by the clients for about 2-3 consecutive months.
Acquiring new languages and connecting in a culturally sensitive way with people of all ages from 3 - 60 + years old.
Creating lesson plans or service plans with individuals with varying and sliding support needs.
Meal planning, SMART goal planning, budgeting, organizing daily, weekly, monthly agendas for individual clients according to their individual service plans.
About
Since graduating in 2013 for University of California Davis, I did struggle with settling into work places and learning more about my neurodivergence. This undiagnosed state that persists to this day, hasn't stopped me from pursuing working in a multitude of jobs, immersing myself in international experiences, learning new languages or trying a new type of job.
I have worked in all the following jobs, starting from 2013 and going to present:
Pizza worker at Papa Murphy's
Food Server at a retirement home
Animal husbandry worker at a poultry facility
Kid's corner event planner for an International festival
After-school instructor for an after-school program
(Registered) Behavior technician for ABA services for youth
Mental Health worker at a Girls' group home
Overnight Crisis hotline specialist
Plant nursery associate
Amazon floor associate (sort facility)
English language assistant in both the South of Spain and France
Online English language consultant
Independent Living Skills Instructor
Substitute teacher
Instructional Aide
Life coach
Reading specialist for those with reading challenges
Independent Living Skills Assistant manager
Evidently, I like to learn the inner-workings of how we can and do learn. From my experiences spanning over a decade now, I realize I am more neurodivergent and selective of how a company works, I struggle to work in a company that does not give a clear expectation from the beginning of how my skills and expertise can be applied. I would like to contribute to a company that has a vested interest in the human experience, of those it recruits, as well as those they support in their services.
I feel one of my greatest achievements has been living and working abroad, something I never imagined myself capable of. I managed to refresh my French and learn Spanish while overseas and it helped me to forge stronger connections with faculty, staff and students in my journey to learn more about how education works abroad.
Success stories with my clients in ILS and as a reading specialist would be clients realizing the core skills of typing and being able to read sight words as being fundamental to their confidence level to set new goals and ambitions in their personal and professional lives. They state that they can now build upon their basic understanding of reading and typing into their real-world experience of wanting to get their GED, to get gainful employment as well as be able to read at grade level and test out to maintain the progress and sight-reading skills they have.
Success stories with life-coaching clients would be clients coming to terms with past relationships or fear of a steady job interfering with their writing career. That same client has been progressively dating for the past four years and now has had consistent gainful employment in addition to continuing to query their novel, seek beta readers as well as had a publisher reach out about the portion of their novel they had queried.
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