Hi, I’m
Kelsey Pike
Mount Vernon,OH
Summary
Recently graduated non-traditional student inspirited with a passion for engaging challenges and opportunities to gain specialized knowledge. A lifelong learner embedded with resilient work integrity, adaptable nature, and noteworthy interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills that contribute to company growth and success.
Overview
14
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
National Garden ServiceUpper Sandusky, OH
Live Merchandiser
12.2023 - 04.2024
Job overview
- Creating and displaying a variety of outdoor plants
- Creating and maintaining product displays
- Ensuring proper signage is in place
- Maintaining a safe and clean display area
- Removing and recording expired plant material
- Positively interacting with customers
- Building working relationships with Krogers staff
- Using workplace mobile applications for detailed and timely documentation and daily report logs
Specialized Alternatives for Family & Youth (SAFY)
Parent Partner
08.2022 - 09.2023
Job overview
- Support and assist local parents currently involved with Child Welfare with active open cases to achieve safe and timely reunification
- Use lived experience to make genuine connections with parents enmeshed in the system
- Support and facilitate the completion of family case plan
- Community public speaking and advocacy
- Knowledge of current available resources
- Peer support skills
- Active and Empathetic listening
- Knowledge of legal lexicon and formal processes/ timeline relating to child welfare
- Participation in listening sessions and community outreach groups
- Various lectures and presentations supporting furthering education
- Online coursework portion of e-based academy web learning complete for Peer Support certification through OHMAS
- Completion of 2023 Build A Better Future workshop
- Participation in various learning collabs partnered through the QIC-R, University of Maryland, University of Kentucky
- Participation in 2023 Iowa Parent Partner Summit.
Goodwill IndustriesMount Vernon, Ohio
Sales Associate
10.2020 - 08.2022
Job overview
- Former full-time employment
- Primary cashier
- Counting in drawer at the beginning of shift and at close
- Checking out customers
- Applying discounts
- Maintaining clean area behind and around registers
- Addressing questions and selling items from Goodwill's New Furniture section
- Putting away carts of housewares and rack of clothing
- Processing donations in back of clothes and otherwise
- Making up donation receipt slips
- Pricing housewares and clothing to go out on the floor.
Harbor FreightMount Vernon, Ohio
Logistics Associate
03.2020 - 10.2020
Job overview
- Former Part Time employment
- Logistics team member
- Daily hours 4am to 8am, except truck days which were 8 hours
- Printing out the replenishment sheets for the day and completing them in 4 hours or less
- Pushing the cart of filled items to their correct location on the floor
- Completing scheduled price changes on a store wide scale with the rest of the logistics crew, with care to items marked Clearance or Instant Savings
- Answering customers questions about our members only deals and promotions as well as highlighting the benefits of Inside Track Club annual paid membership
- Being present for truck days, unloading large deliveries and incorporating them into the storeroom.
Ohio Hospital of PsychiatryColumbus, Ohio
Mental Health Associate
09.2015 - 06.2016
Job overview
- Patient admissions and discharges
- Processing patient inventory
- Maintain close contact with patients
- Complete all Q15 checks on patients and all related paperwork
- Monitoring and taking patient's vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse
- Lead therapeutic and recreational activities and groups
- Consult with doctors and mental health professionals as part of a team that includes social workers and therapists
- If patients become physically violent, MHAs must be prepared to utilize CPI restraint training, and promptly complete an incident report
- Inventory of hospital supplies
- Help patients with daily living routines, such as eating, dressing, bathing, and pericare.
GigglenasticsMount Vernon, Ohio
Instructor's Assistant
08.2014 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Part time and volunteer work
- Working with kids enrolled in gymnastics class ages 3-12
- Assisting with gymnastics routines and supervising open gym sessions
- Modeling and demonstrating different exercises to students (i.e
- Toe touches and pikes)
- Helping children on the various pieces of equipment
- Running local errands for manager
- Managing front desk
- Assistance with scheduling
- Cleaning, vacuuming, and sanitization of gym floor and all equipment
- Assisting with performances and pre rehearsals
- Shooting photographs and developing prints of class time and open gyms for promotional and decorative uses.
Trillium FarmsJohnstown, Ohio
Egg Packer
10.2013 - 03.2014
Job overview
- A physical and very fast-paced position
- Continual lifting of egg cartons and boxes that typically weighed 5-35 lbs
- From conveyer belt
- General sanitation and detailed cleaning of machines every night that involved lying under heavy duty machinery and cleaning in often cramped spaces
- Packing the eggs
- Inspecting dates
- Making (folding) large boxes
- Putting correct labels on boxes
- Helping coworkers nearby on the line if they needed assistance
- Cleaning and scraping up fallen eggs from floor
- Mopping floor.
Fiesta Mexicana Inc.Mount Vernon, Ohio
Waitress/ Busser/ Hostess
06.2010 - 01.2014
Job overview
- Served food and drinks to customers
- Waited on tables
- Separated and made checks
- Greeted and sat customers
- Cleaned and cleared tables
- Checked out customers at register
- Handled money transactions
- General restaurant cleaning and maintenance
- Cleaned bathrooms each morning
- Brought chips to tables
- Served drinks from the bar area
- Ran errands for manager occasionally
- Customer service
- Taking back food if need be
- Calling cab for customers.
Education
Ohio Wesleyan UniversityDelaware, OH
Bachelor of Arts from Psychology & English-Creative Writing Concent.
05-2024
Mount Vernon High School
High school Diploma
05.2010
University Overview
Honors: Graduated with Honors
Skills
- Clear Communication
- Attention to Detail
- Courteous and Professional
- Customer Service
- Data Entry
- Record and File Management
- MS Office/Computer Skills
- Team Collaboration
- Management Support
- Cash Handling
- Workplace Safety
- Product Merchandising
- Case Management
- Community & Resource Referrals
- Trauma Informed Care Framework
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Affiliations
*Relating to Child & Family Serving Systems*
Child Welfare New Worker Orientation
- “Recognizing Abuse, Neglect, and More” Training Webinar -Ohio Job & Family Services
Committees related to Child Welfare
- Community Response Guide Meetings (CRG) - Mandated Reporter Practices
- Strengthening Ohio Relationships - Primary & Resource Family Subcommittee
- ‘Language Shift’ Staff Meetings – Hosted by Franklin County Children Services Committee – OH
Community Partnerships for Protecting Children
- Ohio Listening Sessions with Melissa Palmer – Topic: (AP) “Alleged Perpetrator” (web)
- Iowa Parent Partner Summit - Annual Conference – Des Moines, IA
Participation with Clinical Coordination
- Monthly Group Supervisions -under SAFY State Director Tonya Brooks-Thomas
Community Volunteering
- Serving Lunch at The Main Place (Mt. Vernon, OH)
Certification
- Build A Better Future (BABF) Complete Two-day Certification Training Columbus, OH, September 26, 27, & 30, 2022. Credit 18 CEUs
- OHMAS E-Based Academy Peer Recovery Support - Peer Recovery Training Modules – Online
- DEI: Inclusive Workplace Training - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Cohort 2 (SAFY) – OH
- CIT: Back to Basics Series: “Care Plans” - SAFY Clinical Innovation Team
- QIC-R Storytelling/Strength-Based Language - Training Events with Toni Donnelly – OH
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter - QIC-R Virtual Family Engagement Strategies
- Supporting Partnerships and Reunification - ABA Center & Plummer Youth Promise Webinar
- Ohio Peer Parent Support Professional (PPSP) - 2-Day QIC-R Training -OH
- Yoga Team Activity (Gahanna Center) - Mindfulness Training -OH
- Workplace Professionalism - SAFY Office Training – OH
- Ukeru Refresher Course - De-escalation Tactics – OH
- Greenlight Improve - Team Collaboration Training – OH
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Live Merchandiser
National Garden Service
12.2023 - 04.2024
Parent Partner
Specialized Alternatives for Family & Youth (SAFY)
08.2022 - 09.2023
Sales Associate
Goodwill Industries
10.2020 - 08.2022
Logistics Associate
Harbor Freight
03.2020 - 10.2020
Mental Health Associate
Ohio Hospital of Psychiatry
09.2015 - 06.2016
Instructor's Assistant
Gigglenastics
08.2014 - 01.2015
Egg Packer
Trillium Farms
10.2013 - 03.2014
Waitress/ Busser/ Hostess
Fiesta Mexicana Inc.
06.2010 - 01.2014
Ohio Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Arts from Psychology & English-Creative Writing Concent.
Mount Vernon High School
High school Diploma
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