Oswaldo Perez

• Engaged with at-risk youth daily, providing mentorship, support, and resources.
• Encourage exploration of new hobbies and career opportunities to enhance the quality of life.
• Assisted youth with homework assignments, sports and fitness, art, and literacy.
• Maintained strict confidentiality unless abuse, neglect, or threats were identified.
• Worked with individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting educational or vocational situations.
• Collaborated with teachers, counselors, and administrators to foster access to resources and support.
• Coordinated with community organizations to provide educational and recreational opportunities for youth.
• Assisted in developing intervention strategies for youth involved in or at risk of involvement in gang activities.
• Organized workshops and programs to improve youth's life skills, self-esteem, and resilience.

Conducts outreach to victims of gang violence and trauma, ages 14–25, and provides services and resources in the assigned service area, serving as a liaison between youth, adults, and the community to minimize acts of gang violence and improve community relations. Assists with incident response and delivers Transitional Client Services.

• Work with local neighborhoods to develop dialogues, conversations, agreements, and understandings, resolve conflicts, tensions, and misunderstandings, and focus on troubleshooting efforts to identify solutions.
• Intervene and prevent volatile situations from escalating when appropriate.
• Assist with rumor control.
• Work with all partners to ensure community participation in SNL activities such as sports leagues, violence reduction programming, etc.
• Provide referrals as needed to community members for intervention and/or other identified community services.
• Attend required training sessions and program-related meetings.
• Participate in nightly close-out meetings with GRYD and program staff.