Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

LaShonda Adams

Saginaw

Summary

Career professional with strong background in guiding individuals toward fulfilling career paths. Adept at fostering team collaboration and delivering impactful results in dynamic environments. Skilled in career assessment, counseling, and development strategies. Reliable, adaptable, and focused on achieving optimal outcomes for clients and organizations.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Career Counselor

Serrato Corps
04.2024 - Current
  • Helps students become more employable through continuous reinforcement
  • Provide support services, to include assisting with UA retrieval; conferring with parents, admissions, counselors, career transition specialist and social service agencies
  • Counselors assess a client’s mental and physical health, addiction, or problematic behavior
  • Leading group counseling sessions
  • Full Time

Counselor

LifeSkills Connection Incorporated
12.2022 - 03.2024
  • Contact assigned students prior to scheduled arrival to welcome them, and provide information about the center, reiterating behavioral standards and expectations, following the center script to ensure students are fully aware, ready and capable to successful enroll and complete the program
  • Monitor, encourage, support, and enforce center attendance rules
  • Ensures the availability of counseling services on weekends and in the event of emergencies
  • Conducts weekly meetings with assigned students
  • Full Time 40 Hours

Center Standards Incentive Officer

Flint Genesee Job Corps
06.2019 - 11.2021
  • Assists in Career Development System of new students to explain the disciplinary system and penalties that may be incurred.
  • Provides assistance and discusses infractions of Center rules and regulations with individual students based on Incident Reports from Residential Advisors, Instructors and other staff.
  • Assists in distributing weekly restriction list to appropriate Center personnel.
  • Assists in maintenance of records of all activities relating to Center discipline.
  • Informs students of appropriate appointments to appear before the Disciplinary Council or Student Personnel Officer.
  • Assists in maintaining each student’s disciplinary record.
  • Full Time 40 Hours

Security Officer

Allied Universal Security Services
05.2018 - 06.2019
  • Ensured the security, safety and well-being of all personnel, visitors and the premises.
  • Respond to emergencies to provide necessary assistance to employees and customers.
  • Monitoring surveillance equipment.
  • Inspected buildings and fire equipment.
  • Obtained help by sounding alarms.
  • Stationed At: General Motors
  • Full Time 40 Hours

Counselor

Bannum Inc. Federal Halfway House
09.2010 - 10.2016
  • Supervised and monitored residents on a daily basis.
  • Experience in Bookkeeping, Fingerprinting, GPS Tracking and assembling.
  • Over three years of experience dealing with specimens being collected and documented.
  • Functioned as an integral member of an interdisciplinary team responsible for communication with Federal Employees such as Probation Officers, and Therapists, from different locations.
  • Ordering, stocking and keeping count of the inventory.
  • Weekly subsistence payments taken and documented.
  • Facilitated communication with residents and families about self-esteem, financial stability, family issues.
  • Full Time 40 Hours

Counselor

Wolverine Human Services
06.2008 - 01.2010
  • Supervised and monitored juveniles in a treatment facility.
  • Demonstrated ability to support young people who have complex needs, which may include motivation, advocacy, counseling, and/or mentoring, provided services to young people as per the program guidelines.
  • Assisted with needs of young people aged 13-17, including planning and delivering programs related to areas such as health, fitness, smoking, drugs, relationships and bullying in a positive and empowering atmosphere.
  • Assessed their needs, established goals, and provided counseling
  • Full Time 40 Hours

Caregiver

St. Charles Home
02.2004 - 05.2008
  • Provided in home personal care which consisted of daily personal hygiene, meal preparation and medication administration.
  • Transportation was provided to doctors’ appointment, schools, and community activities
  • Continued education in universal precautions and safety procedures
  • Administrative tasks and record keeping
  • Full Time 40 Hours

Education

Masters - Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Central Michigan University
12.2024

Bachelors - Criminal Justice

Saginaw Valley State University
12.2020

Associates - Criminal Justice

Delta College
12.2011

High School Diploma - undefined

Stratford High School
Saint Albans, Vermont
11.2006

Skills

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel
  • Team-Player with excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work on multi-disciplinary teams
  • Decision making, critical thinking, organizing and planning
  • Commitment to continually updating skill set through training
  • Currently certified in adult and infant CPR
  • Critical thinking
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Individual counseling
  • Counseling
  • Student evaluations
  • Special needs students

Timeline

Career Counselor

Serrato Corps
04.2024 - Current

Counselor

LifeSkills Connection Incorporated
12.2022 - 03.2024

Center Standards Incentive Officer

Flint Genesee Job Corps
06.2019 - 11.2021

Security Officer

Allied Universal Security Services
05.2018 - 06.2019

Counselor

Bannum Inc. Federal Halfway House
09.2010 - 10.2016

Counselor

Wolverine Human Services
06.2008 - 01.2010

Caregiver

St. Charles Home
02.2004 - 05.2008

Bachelors - Criminal Justice

Saginaw Valley State University

Associates - Criminal Justice

Delta College

High School Diploma - undefined

Stratford High School

Masters - Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Central Michigan University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE