Operational Bilingual advocate/Shelter Manager at The ARK Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Shelter (2024-05 – Present)
- Submit payroll to Financial Director
- Scheduling/ finding coverage for shifts
- Oversee advocates
- Managed weekends, overnights and evening shifts alone
- Lead staff meetings
- Hotline crisis
- Lead nonresidential meetings
- HR experience
- Case manage with clients
- Trained new hires
- Assist with community events
- Worked with student volunteers
- Network with different agencies
- Assisted clients with WIC and Food stamps
- Attend conferences both virtual and in person
- Assist with HHSC Reporting
- Work with Brownwood Housing Authority
- Assist with coming up with policies regarding program to follow guidelines of grants
- Work with Police Department in Brown, Coleman and Comanche County
- Led Domestic Violence group and Parenting group
- Apart of Sexuality Coalition
- Cofacilitate Peer support group
- Worked with victims of human trafficking
- Transport clients
- Work with the hispanic population
- Work with LegalAid of Northwest Texas
- Crisis intervention with clients and staff
Intern at Center for Life Resources (2023-08 – 2024-04)
- Join advocates on accompaniment
- Sit in CRCG for Brown County
- Practice documenting
- Go to the jails for education classes
- Go to schools for case management for kids
- Travel to different cities to visit with kids
- Organize different rooms
- Sit with adult case management
- Build a network outside of the agency
- Attend trainings
- Work with other student interns
- Weekly supervision meetings
