Jacque Thomas
Menifee,California
Summary
Dynamic Peer Support Specialist and seasoned Business Owner with a proven track record in mental health advocacy and efficient business management. Excelled at NAMI by enhancing peer empowerment and developing innovative business solutions. Skilled in motivational interviewing and effective collaboration, consistently fostering recovery and support with empathy and strategic insight.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Peer Support Specialist/Wellness Advocate
IHOT North/MHS
San Marcos, California
07.2016 - 10.2022
- Developed meaningful and trusting relationships by acting as a mentor, focused on peer empowerment.
- As part of a team, I have helped link participants to resources throughout San Diego County.
- Compiled notes in an efficient and timely manner.
- I stayed up to date on county trainings.
- Assisted clients with developing healthy coping skills to manage stressors.
- Completed detailed documentation of sessions, patient notes and recommendations.
- Conducted assessments to identify needs, strengths, and resources of clients.
- Instilled hope by promoting positive self-disclosure and actively listening to client needs.
Certified Peer Support Specialist
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
- Public Speaker for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), to groups such as law enforcement, attorneys, doctors, hospitals, and treatment facilities
- Course work completed in: CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), Grief and Loss, Suicide Prevention, Mental Health First Aid, Functional Skills, Symptom Management, Art Therapy, and W.R.A.P. (Wellness Recovery Action Plan).
- Additional Trainings, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, Mental Health 101, Male and Female Survivors of Sexual Trauma and Abuse, L.E.A.P (Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner), Motivational Interviewing, Co-Occurring, and Drug and Alcohol Awareness.
Business Owner
- Created systems and processes for efficient business practices and promotion of services
- Responsible for development and distribution of business promotional materials
- Managed acquisition and verification of project permits, inspections and documentation
- Responsible for all aspects of project management, including proposals bids and dispatch of personnel
Wellness Advocate
- As part of a team, I have helped link participants to resources throughout San Diego County
- Compiled notes in an efficient and timely manner
- Stayed up to date on county trainings
- Collaboration with attorneys for participants who were incarcerated while supporting these participants during the process of rehabilitation, probation and release of while incarcerated
- Made court appearance and reported to the judge on behalf of the participants in hopes that the participants could be released on conditions that they receive, Examples such as: treatment at treatment facilities, sober living so that the participants can be main streamed back into society
- Drug and alcohol training
- Co-occurring for teen and adult development
Business Owner/General Office Manager
Journey Man Electric/Professional Electric, Inc.
La Quinta, California
- Successfully contributed in building electrical contracting company, operating from the ground up, providing services for new construction and custom homes, remodeling jobs that included commercial, business and residential phase for electrical work
- Responsible for setting up the office so that it could successfully run efficiently
- Designing flyers, brochures, business cards for all advertising
- Devised a system for setting appointments, scheduling jobs with new clients and other general contractors
- Created a practical system for dispatching
- Responsible for pulling city permits and scheduling inspections for each job when ready
- Assisted in writing proposals as well as bidding each contract
Skills
- Self-care management
- Empathy development
- Effective collaboration and interaction
- Stress reduction techniques
- Mental health advocacy
- Recovery assistance and support
- Issue resolution
- Communication
- Relapse prevention
- Behavioral health
- Peer support ethics
- Motivational interviewing
- Wellness recovery action plan
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Peer Support Specialist/Wellness Advocate
IHOT North/MHS
07.2016 - 10.2022
Certified Peer Support Specialist
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Business Owner
Wellness Advocate
Business Owner/General Office Manager
Journey Man Electric/Professional Electric, Inc.