Aisha Stemmons
Springfield,Illinois
Summary
Passionate and driven face liaison/emerging social worker with over 8 years of experience supporting underserved students/populations through outreach, education, family engagement events, mentorship, and resource coordination. Skilled in building strong community relationships, facilitating workshops, hosting family engagement events, and collaborating with local organizations to obtain resources for students, clients, and their families. Committed to empowering individuals and promoting equity through compassionate, client-centered advocacy. Education professional with a proven ability to design and deliver impactful parenting programs. Expertise in developing curriculum tailored to diverse family needs and fostering positive parent-child interactions. Known for collaborative teamwork and achieving meaningful outcomes while adapting seamlessly to evolving requirements. Authorized to work in the US for any employer.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Parent Educator/Case Manager
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DIST 186
08.2014 - Current
- This position is closely linked to the school social worker
- Job duties include but not limited to, event planning, many clerical duties dealing with Title1, writing monthly newsletters, liaison between parents and teachers, counselor to the parents and children as needed
- Many other duties as needed
- Serve as a role model to parents and students, and assist families in-home/school relationships to build family partnerships with the school by leading and enhancing the family and community engagement team
- Provide parents training to facilitate student learning at home
- Make home visits to actively involve parents, to discuss school-related concerns, and work to deepen school communication at all levels
- Make referrals to appropriate community resources
- Help create a culture of learning and build a welcoming school environment with parents, students, and staff
- Provide data and documentation, as needed for Title 1 evaluation purposes and federal program compliance
- Provide PD on parent engagement opportunities to staff
- Create and market many opportunities for parents to fully participate in family and community engagement team, and develop parent leadership in school-level decision-making
Family and Community Liaison
Springfield Public Schools - District 186
07.2014 - Current
- Create deep levels of community partnerships, make referrals, to appropriate community resources, provide data documentation, as needed, for federal program evaluation purposes and federal program compliance
- Plan transportation for parent activities, conferences, home visits, plan and implement family events aligned to school improvement goals
- Make home visits to actively engage with families in solving school-related concerns, provide families with training and to facilitate student learning at home
- Provide school staff with professional development to deepen and grow trusting relationships with all families
- Help families obtain proper living conditions
- Help our families who are homeless or in transition rebuild their lives in order to be productive citizens
Rape Crisis Advocate/Rape Hotline
Prarie Casa, Illinois Coaliton Against Sexual Assult
06.2021 - 08.2023
- Provides direct client advocacy to survivors of sexual violence in English through the 24-hr Rape Crisis Accompaniment
- Advocate respond to in-person accompaniment calls to our Safe Harbors or locations
- Advocates will work closely with SART, including forensic nurses, law enforcement, the District Attorney's Office, and other community partners
- Approved by our Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) within one hour in order to provide support to victims of sexual violence
- Rape Crisis Advocate has strong advocacy skills that embrace understanding, and compassion, and have experience working with vulnerable communities
- Provide in-person advocacy to victims of sexual violence in need of support with forensic exams, crisis counseling, interviews, filing police reports, or other types of advocacy
- Advocate must respond to calls within ONE hour of receiving notice of the accompaniment
- Advocate for client needs with law enforcement, District Attorney's Office, and another outside agencies
- Provide referrals, assessments, crisis intervention, advocacy, and follow-up services for victims of sexual violence; follow-up must happen within 72 hours
- Submit client forms on a weekly basis to the SART Coordinator
- Participate in outreach opportunities with community partners, which may include resource fairs, or presentations to bring awareness to our services
- Performs other duties as assigned by Rape Crisis Program Manager
Shelter Coordinator
The Salvation Army
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Adhere to all rules, policies, and procedures as set forth by Salvation Army Center
- Attend relevant conferences, training, and meetings
- Maintain a professional, courteous, and helpful demeanor at all times when working at or representing Salvation Army Center or its programs
- Allow flexibility in scheduling and job function
- Respond to any job function as requested by the supervisor
- Abide by confidentiality at all times
- Make public speaking presentations to the community and/ or service agencies as assigned
- Help with problem-solving for the residents with issues
- Help find permanent housing/ apply for public assistance in all forms
- Intake and Assessment: Conduct intake interviews, assess needs, and create care plans for residents
- Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and confidential records of residents, incidents, and services
- Facility Management: Ensure the shelter is clean, safe, and well-maintained
- Crisis Intervention: Respond to and de-escalate crisis situations
- Referrals: Connect residents with appropriate resources and services
Activity Coordinator
St. Joseph Home
03.2015 - 11.2019
- Provide companionship, socialization, mental and physical stimulation to residents in a nursing home setting
- Help to improve activities of daily living skills while promoting memory reconidtion
- Planning and Organizing Activities: Developing a diverse calendar of activities, including on-site and off-site events, workshops, and outings
- Encouraging Participation: Motivating and engaging participants to join activities, ensuring a safe and inclusive environment
- Assessing Needs: Evaluating the interests and needs of participants to tailor activities accordingly
- Collaboration: Working with staff, volunteers, and external vendors to ensure smooth execution of activities
- Logistics: Managing bookings, reservations, and transportation for activities and events
- Safety: Ensuring activities are safe and appropriate for all participants
- Record Keeping: Maintaining records of activities, attendance, and participant feedback
Lead Youth Development Specialist
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois
08.2017 - 05.2019
- Plans and implements activities within budget constraints to achieve program objectives in coordination with the site director
- Prepares monthly reports for Site Director and or Project, reflecting, including attendance and program participation
- Provides Site Director with regular schedules and reports of activities
- Takes direction and implementation requests from the Site Director on program development, implementation, supervision, and outcome measurement
- Assists Site Director with recruiting participants for the program
- Focuses on participants' personal development through diverse program offerings, with a focus on increasing their interests and attendance, program participation, knowledge, and abilities
Shelter Supervisor
Contact Ministries
06.2017 - 04.2019
- Overall management of emergency shelter operations
- Follow all safety and security procedures for emergency shelter
- Welcome and orient new residents to shelter including review of Communal Living Guidelines, Safety Procedures, & Clients Rights/Responsibilities and Grievance Procedures
- Provide intake/Assessment of clients for service eligibility
- Provide crisis intervention, legal advocacy, individual counseling/emotional support, life skills, and general advocacy via Crisis Hotline and in-person
- Organize and prioritize daily services and responsibilities to ensure that client needs are met including service plans
- Ensure professional relationships with clients to create an atmosphere of empathy, safety, and support
- Maintain accurate and current information regarding issues and policies impacting survivors of domestic violence
- Update and enhance knowledge of community resources and materials relevant to the clients served
- Coordinate and communicate responsibilities with team members to ensure client needs are met
- Ensure fulfillment of grant objectives and expectations
- Update and maintain client files in a timely and accurate manner
- Maintain knowledge and adhere to internal organizational guidelines, philosophies, and protocols
- Demonstrate diplomacy and tact in all interactions with various system representatives and community partners
- Collaborate with other providers on behalf of the clients we serve
Certified Nursing Assistant/Tech
St.johns Hospital
02.2015 - 10.2018
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): Assist patients with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, eating, and mobility
- Hygiene: Provide personal hygiene care, including oral care, hair care, and peri-care
- Mobility: Assist patients with getting in and out of bed, transferring between beds, wheelchairs, and other locations, and with ambulation
- Feeding: Assist patients with eating, ensuring they receive appropriate nourishment and hydration
- Comfort: Provide comfort measures, such as backrubs and special skin care
- Vital Signs: Monitor and record vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure
- Patient Condition: Observe and report any changes in patient condition or behavior to the nursing staff
- Intake and Output: Monitor and record fluid intake and output
- Medication: Assist patients with medication reminders and assist with medication administration as directed
Paraprofessional/Autism
Springfield school district 186
08.2015 - 08.2018
- Work with special needs children in a school setting as a group or one on one
- Help them to understand school work, help with basic life skills, and help the teacher with all of her needs
- Help coordinate events with rules based on Title 1, and family engagement
- Assist teacher with the students in the classroom
- Assist teacher with supervision of students in the lunchroom, on the playground, and when proceeding to and from the buses
- Use copying machine with teacher supervision to make materials for the classroom
- Assist with feeding/toileting of students requiring total care
- Assist with lifting and positioning of non-ambulatory students.Assist student with self help skills
Behavioral Health Specialist
Lincoln PRAIRIE
10.2013 - 01.2015
- Must be aware of human behavior when watching patients
- Give informative and motivational speeches to the patients each day
- Identify a need for therapeutic interventions when need
- Maintain safety and securities of patients
- Provides direct patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse, facilitating a therapeutic and safe milieu by appropriate interaction with clients and ensuring the proper level of resident supervision is maintained
- Recording patient vital signs, assisting with head to toe assessments and proper clinical documentation, maintaining all patient health data and records, running therapeutic group sessions, maintaining a safe and therapeutic milieu including crisis intervention and performing Q15 observation rounds while working within the ethical boundaries of the field
Certified Nursing Assistant
Home Instead Senior Care
08.2013 - 01.2015
- Observed and documented patient status and reported patient complaints to the case manager
- Read and recorded temperature, pulse and respiration
- Massaged patients and applied preparations and treatments, such as liniment and alcohol rubs
- Assisted with adequate nutrition and fluid intake
- Planned, prepared and served meals and snacks according to prescribed diets
- Provided transportation
- Assistance and companionship to clients
- Performed household tasks such as laundry, dusting, washing dishes and vacuuming
- Positioned residents for comfort and to prevent skin pressure problems
- Exhibited compassionate care and communication with regard to issues of death and dying
Telerecruiter
Central Illinois Community Blood Center
01.2008 - 07.2014
- Set appointments for the donors who are coming into donate blood
- Answer all incoming calls and transfer if needed.Answer all medical and traveling questions
- Data Entry
- Copying, filing
- Guaranteed positive customer experiences and resolved all customer complaints
- Telephoning prospective donors from established call lists/files, scheduling donation appointments and maintain accurate donor records
- Interact in a positive, friendly, and customer-focused manner with donors
Waitress/Front of House Manager
Ruby Tuesday
09.2005 - 08.2007
- Recorded customer orders and repeated them back in a clear, understandable manner
- Served fresh, hot food with a smile in a timely manner
- Took necessary steps to meet customer needs and effectively resolve food or service issues
- Communicated clearly and positively with co-workers and management
- Quickly and efficiently processed payments and made accurate change
- Served orders to customers at windows, counters and tables
Secretary/Receptionist/Page
House Of Representatives
08.1998 - 10.2000
- Answers and screens telephone calls for the Member and other staff members and takes messages when appropriate;
- Greets and screens visitors;
- Provides staff-led tours of the Capitol for constituents and other guests
- Assists persons who have appointments with the Member or the staff and works closely with the Member's Scheduler to ensure that the Member's appointments are on time and that the Scheduler is aware of the visitor's arrival;
- Drafts both form and individual responses to constituent mail and e-mail in co-ordination with the legislative staff and the office systems manager;
- Assists the office systems manager with processing of constituent mail;
- Responds to constituent requests for information;
- Maintains literature regarding the district and House offices for distribution to visitors;
- Manages recycling functions for the office;
- Purchases supplies for the office from the House Office Supply store as instructed by the Office Manager;
- Signs for deliveries and forwards all materials delivered to the office to appropriate staff members in a timely manner;
- Acts as a liaison with constituents, interest groups, committee and agency staffs in assigned issue areas;
- Temperament to communicate with a variety of personalities in a tactful, pleasant, and professional manner;
- Ability to work cooperatively and courteously with others;
- Meets attendance requirements as established by the office;
- Works well under pressure and handles stress;
Education
Master's degree - Mental Health and Wellness
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ04.2022
Bachelor's - Psychology
Benedictine University
Springfield, IL12.2017
Associate of Arts - Education
Lincoln Land Community College
Springfield, IL01.2014
High School Diploma - General
Springfield Southeast High School
Springfield, IL01.2000
Skills
- Classroom Management
- Home Health
- Reliability
- Teaching
- Case Management
- Time management
- Microsoft Word
- Special Education
- Medication Administration
- Senior Care
- Cna Certified (10 years)
- Experience Working With Students
- Social Work
- Problem-solving
- Tutoring
- Developmental Disabilities Experience
- Retail sales
- Mental Health Counseling
- Crisis Intervention
- Organizational Skills
- Curriculum Development
- Behavioral Health
- Team Work
- Special Needs
- Group Therapy
- Flexibility
- Autism Experience
- Event Planning
- Presentation Skills
Certification
- Certified Nursing Assistant Present
- CPR
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Paraprofessional February 2015 to February 2021
- This allows me to teach and work with prek through age 21. Children In a school setting
- Crisis Prevention Intervention October 2016
Affiliations
Habitat for Humanity Present
Timeline
Rape Crisis Advocate/Rape Hotline
Prarie Casa, Illinois Coaliton Against Sexual Assult
06.2021 - 08.2023
Shelter Coordinator
The Salvation Army
10.2020 - 04.2021
Lead Youth Development Specialist
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois
08.2017 - 05.2019
Shelter Supervisor
Contact Ministries
06.2017 - 04.2019
Paraprofessional/Autism
Springfield school district 186
08.2015 - 08.2018
Activity Coordinator
St. Joseph Home
03.2015 - 11.2019
Certified Nursing Assistant/Tech
St.johns Hospital
02.2015 - 10.2018
Parent Educator/Case Manager
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DIST 186
08.2014 - Current
Family and Community Liaison
Springfield Public Schools - District 186
07.2014 - Current
Behavioral Health Specialist
Lincoln PRAIRIE
10.2013 - 01.2015
Certified Nursing Assistant
Home Instead Senior Care
08.2013 - 01.2015
Telerecruiter
Central Illinois Community Blood Center
01.2008 - 07.2014
Waitress/Front of House Manager
Ruby Tuesday
09.2005 - 08.2007
Secretary/Receptionist/Page
House Of Representatives
08.1998 - 10.2000
Bachelor's - Psychology
Benedictine University
Associate of Arts - Education
Lincoln Land Community College
High School Diploma - General
Springfield Southeast High School
Master's degree - Mental Health and Wellness
Grand Canyon University
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