Mesa, Arizona, United States
Specialties: Recovery, Leadership, Discipleship, Capacity Building, Substance Abuse, Adoption, Child Welfare, Program Development, Proposal Development
- Currently serve as pastor of discipleship and recovery for Focus314, a church in one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the United States. - Currently serve as the regional director for Celebrate Recovery in the Mountain Region (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming). - Worked as project manager for the National Speakers Association. - Provides a variety of program, capital, organizational and development planning services to grant-making and grant-seeking entities and nonprofits in a variety of different fields. Clients have included the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Believers World Outreach, and many others.
-Collaborate across program and web content teams to create new and updated content on the Child Welfare Information Gateway site (childwelfare.gov). -Write articles and other publications on Child Welfare and related areas. -Represent Information Gateway at national and regional child welfare conferences -Mentor junior staff through providing guidance on customer responses and presenting training and brown bags on relevant topics
-Responsible for the management of a wide range of learning and development activities for all United Way agencies worldwide. -Responsible for the production of learning materials including online tools, web-sites, multi-media presentations, podcasts, webinars and job-aids. --Collaborate across learning and brand teams to create new and updated products.
Research and design trainings and technical assistance clinics for thousands of youth workers across the nation Policy evaluation and development for 750+ Runaway and Homeless youth agencies and for general policies related to the NRCYS Administered trainings to NRCYS trainers and thousands of youth care workers across the nation
Grant writing and program development for the adolescent substance abuse program. Case management responsibilities, facilitation of individual and group therapy for adolescents with chemical dependency and co-occurring disorders. Residential youth care trainer of 20 employees. Successfully lobbied in Washington, D.C. on the behalf of the agency and helped U.S. Senator's and U.S. Representatives formulate policy on substance abuse issues.