Dereck Devon Cooper

Over two decades of experience working with at risk youth in secular and religious settings. Focused on mentorship and counseling youth in the Melbourne and Palm Bay areas. Loyal, steadfast, and dependable. Skilled at team building and ensuring a pleasant work environment for staff, clients, customers, or church goers alike. Executing plans, policies, procedures, scheduling, meeting deadlines and time management, as well as attention to detail. Proficient in assessing the needs of others, the client and or community | company specifically. Able on a broad scale to meet long term goals, vision casting, risk assessment, and rolling out processes to make those aspiration's a reality. Experience with Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, and familiar with other systems, willing and eager to learn.

• Supervision & Pastoral Care of teens with 16 years of experience.
• Liaison between parents, school administration, Law Enforcement, Church Administration.
• Able to execute diplomacy in all circumstances to meet the needs of all involved parties.
• Inventory management and Daily Operations of staff and program for optimal success.

• Establishes relationship and builds bridges between Church & schools, youth, or businesses and clients | patrons to meet the collective goal.
• Cultivates personal & professional development, peer mentorship, training and project management with colleagues.
• Focuses on organization and strategies to overcome obstacles as they arise.
• Maintains open lines of communication and reserves availability to be able to meet the needs of staff, students, administration, and parents.
• Create an environment for individual growth & routinely invests in coworkers to facilitate the team meeting objectives at hand and long-term goals.