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Susana Ghafur

Escondido,CA

Summary

Motivated professional offering a Sociology in Education degree. With desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Offers excellent technical abilities with software and applications, ability to handle challenging work, and excellent time management skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

MEPA I

SDCOE
Escondido, CA
02.2011 - Current
  • Worked successfully with credit deficient students, from diverse ethnic groups to accomplish goals such as, high school graduation, college applications and careers.
  • Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals in my two hundred students' case load.
  • Constantly checks attendance, grades and credits using it to identified needs of students promptly and efficiently.
  • Successfully run our credit recovery program (Cyber High)five days a week. Recruiting,enrolling, and assigning classes to credit deficient students.
  • Worked with school counselors, teachers, and all other school educators involved in the students education to better promote students' graduation and higher education.
  • Maintained open communication with school counselors and teachers advocating to eliminate gaps in academic outcomes that traditionally hinder marginalized and minority students resulting in successful students' graduation rates.
  • Exceeded students daily participation in the after school program and credit recovery program by finding creative solutions to assistance issues.
  • Recognized by schools' news paper for providing exceptional service and raising the graduation rate on the English Learners students.
  • Maintained schedule of class assignments, tutors and teachers to meet deadlines. Recruited high volume of student for the different educational activities provided by the MEP
  • Maintained flexible schedule of work to meet working students needs. Striving to ensure that students reach their full potential.
  • Able to maintain cultural sensitivity, understand a variety of different dialects and quickly stablish trusting rapport with others from different cultures and ethnic groups.
  • Excels at identifying strengths in others and providing encouragement resulting i positive outcomes.

Case Manager

Mental Health Systems
Escondido, CA
06.2006 - 12.2009
  • Provided case management services including intake, assessment, crisis intervention, advocacy, referral and monitoring of families.
  • Monitored client progress through regular school and home visits.
  • Collaborated with the team, patient, family, and the probation officer to review and monitor appropriateness of client care.
  • Develop and led mandatory center-based activities for girls, where issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, nutrition, fitness and family planning were addressed.
  • Advocated for clients during school visits and supported clients with academic tutoring and literacy raining.
  • Maintained meticulous records, including financial expenditures and client performance/progress documentation.
  • Created and led weekly parenting classes including Julian Pathways parenting classes for Hispanic families.
  • designed gender-specific skill-building curricula that explored a variety of subjects including spirituality, relationships, representation of women in the media, and cultural history-agency was certified as a direct result of the curriculum.
  • Honored with a prestigious award from the Dep. of Probation for outstanding service leading to positive outcomes.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

Cal State University San Marcos
San Marcos, CA
05-2017

Skills

  • Top performing
  • Trilingual with over sixteen year of experience and a strong track record of success supporting trouble youth and their families
  • Honest, dependable, and dedicated self-starter with a heart to help those in need and a commitment to ensuring that students receive the highest level of quality care and support
  • Friendly and caring team player interpersonal skills to easily and effectively interact with individuals at all levels
  • Highly-organized and detail oriented consummate probational who is driven to far exceed expectation and who always maintains the highest level of integrity and confidentiality Fluent in Spanish and Kurdish

Affiliations

  • Mentoring, Crisis intervention, Team Building, proactive Leadership, Strategic Planning

Certification

  • Crisis Response and Sexual assault Advocacy Training, Social Work Training

Languages

Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Kurdish
Limited

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

MEPA I

SDCOE
02.2011 - Current

Case Manager

Mental Health Systems
06.2006 - 12.2009

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

Cal State University San Marcos

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