Albany, New York, United States
I have twenty plus years experience in non-profit organization, program management, and direct service positions. I seek professional growth, contribution and achievement in a role & capacity where skills in managing, leadership and helping & empowering individuals and groups would be desired assets. Specialties: Crisis Intervention, Editing and Writing Skills, Program Analysis, Counseling, Group Leadership.
Served as Program Director for all Religious Programs. Responsible for scheduling chaplians and programs, supervising visiting chaplians, collecting program relations, providing direct servies to inmates and their families. Designed and oversaw religious programs and worship, presided over Cathoic worship, administering two inmate social organizations, monitored inmate attendance at all religious programs and worship servies and scheduled inmate appointments with chaplians. Provided training and supervision to inmates employed as office staff; recruited, trained, and evaluated outside vounteers as well as minaged an HIV support group, and negotiated conflict resolution. Exhibited a high degree of leadershiop and restored a spirit of cooperation on all levels in the faility while concurrently restoring a sense of dignity and respect at services and programs.
Supported the pastor and the pastoral team in their ministries to the parish community. Responsibilities inclueded planning, leading public worship, counseling the dying and the bereaved, visiting the homebound and the hospitalized, researching and presenting adult education seminars. Chaired three parish committees/ scheduled and supervised volunteers, established staff meeting agendas, and published the monthly schedule of all organization groups and committees.
Served the spiritual needs of the hosital's patients and staff, while creating a healing, welcoming environment. Daily responsibilities included maintaining a pastoral presence thoughout the hospital (centering in the ICU and the ER Departments), often dealing with critical issues (such as end of life treatments) and incidents requiring extreme understanding, compassion and leadership skills. Developed and implemented a patient spiritual needs assessment tool, established patient treatment plans and charted patient progress in medical records. On-Call for emergency crisis-interventions, attending to patient deaths and counseling families in times of stress. Managed scheduling of Pastoral Care Department Personel; updated and revised department polices, tracked performance targets, wrote and edited prayer services and oversaw daily televised worship services.
Served as a member of a five person administrative team that assumed the management of a troubled seasonal shelter for adult men and women in active alchoholism and drug addiction. Responsibilites centered on hiring and supervising shelter staff, establishing protocols for working with area hospitals and police/ambulance departments for detoxing emergencies, establishing personel policies and procedures, recruiting and training volunteeers, intervening in crisis situations, tracking performance targets, managing house expenditures.