Alejandro Romo
Tucson,United States
Summary
Master Level Social Worker trained in navigating and executing administrative, organizational, and mental health needs of high school students. Familiar with college preparatory requirements and strategies for scaffolding students for both university and technical school training. Focused on keeping students on-track with a supportive and evidence-based approach.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Coordinator for HS and College Engagement
Lapan Sunshine Foundation
07.2023 - Current
- Increased event attendance to Lapan events developing outreach strategies and forming rapport with students serviced.
- Collaborate with educational experts, counselors, and community members to create curricula, workshops, and activities that foster academic growth, skill development, and personal growth.
- Develop comprehensive High School Strategic Plan that outlines organization's short-term and long-term goals for impacting area high school students in program.
- Built partnerships with TUSD organizations that enhanced program offerings and expanded outreach efforts.
- Launched new initiatives that addressed identified gaps in services, expanding organization's offerings to better meet community needs.
- Executed development of organizational Standard Operating Procedures for various clubhouse processes and standing programs for reference using Notion platform.
Social Work Intern
Pueblo High Magnet School
06.2022 - 05.2023
- Spearheaded Pueblo's LGBTQIA "Live Out Loud" Program consisting of fifteen participants over seven-month period
- Offer short-form counseling for youth experiencing grief and loss
- Execute Crisis Intervention/ Suicide Prevention for youth
- Collaborated in joint projects with local NGOs offering support for teens
- Conducted research and wrote reports to provide accurate and up-to-date summaries of client conditions
- Represented organizations within local communities to provide advocacy services to clients and establish relationships with other organizations
- Facilitated group therapy sessions to help clients develop coping skills and improve communication
Site-Based Mentor
Boys To Men Tucson
08.2021 - 06.2022
- Lead support groups in mixed communities alongside school appointed counselors and school social workers
- Facilitate discussion based around empowering youths in building resiliency against systemic trauma
- Create and execute program plans that encourages leadership, practicing accountability in challenging and safe environment
- Coordinated services with other agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare professionals to provide useful benefits to clients
- Utilized trauma-informed approach to promote healing and empowerment for clients
Prefectural Advisor
Wakayama Prefectural Government Office
05.2018 - 10.2021
- Relay information from the governing board to local government communities in Wakayama
- Manage JET procedural matters, Japanese and home country taxes, health insurance, re-entry permits, visas, Japanese culture, driving in Japan, daily life in Japan, and a variety of other issues for local foreign language teachers within the prefecture
- Organize and execute orientations, training seminars, and cultural events
- Mediate between JET participants and their contracting Organizations
- Created individualized mentoring plans for mentees, promoting personal growth and development
- Worked with supervisor to modify and implement COVID-19 safety practices
Assistant Language Teacher
Kimino Board Of Education
04.2017 - 09.2021
- Supported Japanese teachers/students in foreign language acquisition
- Supervised foreign language activities, during or after school in junior and senior high schools
- Coordinated class activities, homeroom activities, student council affairs, club events, school events
- Held theme days focused on various English speaking countries to promote cultural literacy in students
- Reinforced positive classroom behavior to maintain enjoyable classroom experience
- Prepared daily lesson plans for students to correspond with district curriculum
Education
Master of Social Work - MSW - Public Administration and Social Service
ASU Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions
Phoenix, AZ05.2023
Bachelor of Arts - International/Global Studies
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ05.2016
Skills
- Strengths-Based Counseling
- Career Development Counselor
- Case Management
- Life Skills Counseling
- Strategic Planning
- Community Resource Development
- Project Management
- Event Coverage Planning
Certification
safeTalk: suicide alertness education, Visual Communication with Adobe Photoshop, Motivational Interviewing Living Works, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist
Additional Information
- Honors-Awards David L. Boren Scholarship (Alternate) Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Gabe Zimmerman Community Partnership Domingo Rodriguez Victoria Foundation
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Japanese
Professional Working
Timeline
Program Coordinator for HS and College Engagement
Lapan Sunshine Foundation
07.2023 - Current
Social Work Intern
Pueblo High Magnet School
06.2022 - 05.2023
Site-Based Mentor
Boys To Men Tucson
08.2021 - 06.2022
Prefectural Advisor
Wakayama Prefectural Government Office
05.2018 - 10.2021
Assistant Language Teacher
Kimino Board Of Education
04.2017 - 09.2021
Master of Social Work - MSW - Public Administration and Social Service
ASU Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions
Bachelor of Arts - International/Global Studies
University of Arizona
safeTalk: suicide alertness education, Visual Communication with Adobe Photoshop, Motivational Interviewing Living Works, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist
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