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Chad Coburn
Peer Support Specialist
Dayton,OH
Summary
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Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Peer Support Specialist
MonDay Community Correctional Institute
10.2021 - 11.2024
- Working as Peer Support, assisting the clients in maintaining sobriety
- Improving their mental health, through lived experience
Peer Support Specialist
Goodwill Easter Seals
03.2020 - 10.2021
- Specifically worked for Montgomery County Juvenile Drug Court
- Assisting Phase IV clients reach graduation and stay clean
Personal Trainer
Planet Fitness
01.2020 - 03.2021
- Training clients
- Signing up new members
- Building workout routines
Prep Chef
Ollie's Place
03.2015 - 12.2019
- Developing the menu when the restaurant opened
- Trained new employees when they were hired
Corporate Trainer
Five Guys
09.2009 - 12.2014
- Traveling the East Coast to set up the new stores
- Training an entire new staff
- Retraining store employees not up to par
Education
Associate's Degree - Social Work
09.2025
Presently pursuing
Diploma - General Classes & Business Courses
01.2009
Skills
- Group facilitation
- Client advocacy
- Conflict resolution
- Cultural sensitivity
- Active listening
- Motivational interviewing
- Relationship management
- Self-care and stress reduction
- Behavior modification strategies
- Adolescent counseling techniques
- Mindfulness and cognitive processing therapy
Certification
- CDCA / Phase II
- Peer Support Certification
Accomplishments
- Support Specialist Success, Assisted over 250 clients build a path out from their own misery, towards a stable future
- Court Graduation Assistance, Graduated Over 75 Phase IV clients (youths) from Montgomery County Juvenile Drug Court
- Membership Growth Lead, Increased Planet Fitness memberships by 30% through client training and sign-ups, during a pandemic even
- Effective Corporate Trainer, Trained over 700 new employees and enhanced productivity at Five Guys on the East Coast
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkLocation Preference
On-SiteRemoteHybridTimeline
Peer Support Specialist - MonDay Community Correctional Institute
10.2021 - 11.2024
Peer Support Specialist - Goodwill Easter Seals
03.2020 - 10.2021
Personal Trainer - Planet Fitness
01.2020 - 03.2021
Prep Chef - Ollie's Place
03.2015 - 12.2019
Corporate Trainer - Five Guys
09.2009 - 12.2014
Cincinnati State - Associate's Degree, Social Work
Centerville High School - Diploma, General Classes & Business Courses