Shakira Dixon
bronx,NY
Summary
Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills. Poised to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Ready to tackle new challenges and advance organizational objectives with dedication and enthusiasm.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Behavioral Health Coordinator
Barrier Free Living Apartment
03.2024 - Current
- Assisted clients with navigating complex healthcare systems, advocating for their needs and ensuring access to appropriate services.
- Complete program Intake/Assessment of new tenants.
- Develop, monitor, and update service plans that are mutually developed with each tenant.
- Follow up meetings with tenant including home visits to discuss related service plan goals and benchmarks.
- Provide individual supportive counseling with tenants to assist in developing skills to stabilize their medical, psychosocial and behavioral health status.
- Provide crisis intervention and other services to assist tenants to develop better coping skills.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to obtain strategies to assist tenants in achieving identified goals to maintain stability.
- Accompany tenants to Family/Criminal/Housing Court hearings and advocate for tenant as needed
Provide referrals for legal assistance and any other service provider within the community as needed. - Assist tenant with any ACS or Prevention services requirements .
- Complete ongoing apartment inspections, tobacco assessment, and vocational assessments as required by DOHMH contract .
- Monitor tenants ability to pay rent and utility bills to ensure housing stability
Participate in staff/case conference meetings, supervision, and required training. - Ensuring timely and accurate entry of progress notes in AWARDS
Comply with all agency and program policies and procedures
Data Manager/Administrative Assistant
Center for Educational Innovation
03.2023 - Current
- Managed the quality after school programming which was funded by 21st Childcare Information Center (CCIC) grant, Incorporating Literacy Arts, Fitness and Community Service/Leadership Development
- Serves as a data manager to organize and assure the organization is compliant with 21st CCIC
- Manages all the organization systems to help implement and maintain data privacy
- Utilize EZ Report data system to track quantitative data weekly for attendance
- Oversees all operational activities and maintain all required documents
- Manage multiple databases, and oversea the creation of an effective team
- Assisted in addressing the needs of students and parents, also responds to feedback provided to enhance programs
- Serves as the team lead for monitoring the health safety standards and regulations
- Assisted the site Director to coordinate, schedule and conduct monthly parent meetings/ family night
- Provide expert knowledge and guidance to help develop employees to assist them in understanding the organization process, so that they can perform their functions effectively and efficiently
- Serves as a team member to identify the issues and resolve all shortcomings of the organization
- Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences.
Data Analyst
Theresa's Helping Hands
12.2021 - 03.2022
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Partnered with the executive team to formulate analytical techniques within the homeless population.
- Design and recommend solutions that relate to formulating, developing, establishing, and implementing homeless population surveys.
- Participate in policy development by reviewing and analyzing reports, proposed orders, regulatory and legal decisions and providing comments and recommendations.
- Conduct conferences utilizing graphics and other visual representations of information.
- Collaborated with managers to address problems with the sampling techniques to determine if the homeless population surveys are accurate.
- Provided information regarding to the homeless population to city officials.
- Analyze contractual documents to determine projected homeless population data needs.
- Serve as a liaison between my organization and other organizations that collect homeless population data.
- Serve as the site administrator for the development, and implementation of the knowledge sharing network that is used by peers all throughout the organization.
Education
Master’s in Public Health - Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Monroe College
New Rochelle, NY04.2022
Bachelor’s Degree - Biology COURSEWORK
CUNY Medgar Evers College
Brooklyn, NY04.2018
Skills
- Mental health awareness
- Substance Abuse Knowledge
- Psychosocial evaluations
- Ethical Practice
- Research
- Team Management
Timeline
Behavioral Health Coordinator
Barrier Free Living Apartment
03.2024 - Current
Data Manager/Administrative Assistant
Center for Educational Innovation
03.2023 - Current
Data Analyst
Theresa's Helping Hands
12.2021 - 03.2022
Master’s in Public Health - Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Monroe College
Bachelor’s Degree - Biology COURSEWORK
CUNY Medgar Evers College
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