Kevin Tanguma

• Oversees campus movement, coordination between activities, and safety of staff and youths during shift
• Responds to incidents and uses appropriate intervention methods that seek to aid in learning and correcting behavior
• Prepares serious incident reports; and collaborates with the Serious Incident Administrator (SIA); and reports to the Office of the Inspector General Incident Reporting Center (IRC) critical incidents, serious incidents, and the suspected mistreatment of youth
• Observes youths in the facility suicide alert list and all other youth to identify behaviors requiring intervention
• Collaborates with the Regulation Safety Team (RST) to maintain the physical security of the campus; and ensures compliance with established procedures and standards
• Engages in competency-based training in the techniques and capabilities needed to coach youth under the Texas Model of trauma-informed corrections; and coaches and models appropriate Texas Model techniques and ideals to other JCOs and staff
• Acts as coach and role model to other levels of JCOs to help them learn appropriate methods and interventions, with a strong focus on retention and support for newly hires
• Provides services to potentially aggressive/combative youth in a correctional setting with a wide variety of temperaments (volatile, mentally ill, suicidal) and specialized needs (chemically dependent, sexual offenders, emotionally disturbed, etc.)
• Physically restrains and secures, if necessary, sometimes aggressive youth and participates in follow up debriefing conversations to assess the relationship and determine alternative strategies to avoid future physical restraints.

• Works to help youth to achieve progress in learning and applying methods to identify and manage reactions to stress and trauma and react in more socially appropriate ways
• Interacts and engages with youth in ways that both maintain appropriate structure and exercise
• Maintains healthy relationships and boundaries with youth and consistently recognizes progress and good choices made by youth.

• Provides supervision / direct care for staff and youth in a residential correctional facility
• Works to help staff and youth use appropriate intervention methods in response to behavioral issues that seeks to aid in learning and correcting behavior
• Interacts and engages with a 14-hour living schedule and adheres to the development in youth with complex trauma
• Assists and overlooks documentation staff processes daily, follows and communicates understanding of policy and procedure to fellow staff members
• Works as Case Manager, Security, Supervisor, Mentor, Mediator between the staff to staff relationship and staff to youth relationship.

Special Tactics and Response (STAR) Team Member Since April 2019

STAR Team Sergeant Since 2022 In charge of general, extraction training, and recruitment

• Create/rearrange schedules for all the South Texas within in a timely manner
• Perform random site inspections, verify that proper uniform standards were met
• Verify daily activity reports, gas logs, and incident reports
• Conduct disciplinary actions based upon the violations
• Coaching system for individual officers based on their action(s) to which follow-up is needed on a daily, weekly, and/or bi-weekly basis with retraining if necessary
• For On-The-Job-Training, create site-specific forms that would coincide with the clients' policies and procedures
• A three to six-month follow-up was created for all employees to ensure an understanding of their job duties, responsibilities, company and client policies; and lastly meeting with clients to provide direct feedback of the company's services
• Take all observations into consideration when rewarding a subordinate with an employee of the month award.

• Assigned to patrol various locations which involved constant vehicle patrol, aid the client's Loss Prevention departments with the apprehension of shoplifters until local authorities arrived.

• Assigned to cover any open shifts within short notice
• I would also be required to assist my local Field Supervisor with vehicle maintenance, delivering of schedules, provide training to all new hires and assist with interviews.

• Perform job interviews, host job fairs, create schedules for 100+ employees ranging from Laredo, TX to South Padre Island, TX
• Provide coverage of shifts when officers would call in short notice
• Met bi-weekly with all company clients in the South Texas Region and met on a weekly basis with my Client Services Manager.

• Assigned to two separate job sites with two officers to manage
• Would provide fellow officers with on-site training as per the current client and would schedule according to their availability
• Would provide a safe atmosphere for any event that occurred, assisted the on-site owners in medical situations, and would meet with them for billing purposes.

• Verified that all employees had proper ID Badges prior to entering the facility
• Assisted on-site with K9 Officers
• Verified that all vendors and clients had proper Bills of Lading, directed them to their proper areas for prompt service.

• Provided a safe atmosphere by patrolling the interior and exterior of the Work Force Buildings.

• Provided police officers with sensitive information of vehicles, individuals, criminal backgrounds, etc and dispatched officers when such calls came in
• Called out via paging system to all volunteer fire fighters, then would page them out via walkie-talkie system
• Provided them with crucial information about the location.