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Savenia Falquist
NE nd Dr - Vancouver WA ` Savenia `
Director/Manager
Fund Development ` Budget Development & Management ` Program Development & Implementation
Volunteer Recruitment ` Staff Development & Management ` Project Oversight & Technical Assistance ` Public Relations
Experienced professional with focused efforts on equal opportunities for all children through government, tribal, education and community services. Outcome driven leader for the State of Oregon and national victim serving organizations. Recipient of the FBI Director’s Award, University of Oregon Community Award & Oregon Juvenile Justice Professional of Oregon Award.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
African American Health Coalition April – Present
Program Manager
• Responsible for staff and VISTA recruitment, termination, development and policy monitoring.
• Represent the Organization through participating on supervision teams, grant committees and attending various partnership meetings.
• Provide daily supervision through work plans to Program Coordinators to insure implementation that is competent and meets funding requirements/deliverables.
• Develop and maintain project budgets while implementing strategic process.
• Provide infra-structure for sustainable transition to new staff and VISTA’s.
• Create and sustain organizational policies and protocols for office procedures, fiscal operations and staffing requirements.
• Develop and revised standard operating procedures to build infrastructure and organization capacity.
• Supervision to all community partnerships and events.
• Collaborate with internal team to identify funding and develop programs.
• Provide new hire training, cultural competency training, program implementation and fiscal requirement trainings.
• Responsible for all organization decisions in the absence of the CEO.
• Build community capacity through partnerships that bring funding opportunities to the organization.
• Supervision and coordination of major annual events to include; donations, volunteer recruitment/retention and supervision.
• Provide training for all new staff and VISTA..
Bridge the Gap Consulting July - Present
Fund Development, Technical Assistance & Program Development/Implementation
• Currently provide technical assistance on juvenile crime prevention programs for Tribal Court.
• Established partnerships with the school district, county, city and tribes to develop and implement a school-based youth program to address teen victimization and juvenile delinquency.
• Developed working relationships with the University of Oregon, NPC Research, National Center for Victims of Crime and National Crime Prevention Council to address the needs of at-risk teens.
• Wrote and received school-based grants totaling $.M to provide services to K- students.
• Developed and implemented government and community services/programs.
• Monitored and advised many grant projects through grant deliverables, budgets and staffing.
• Contracted with the state and tribes to provide training, program development and program implementation.
• Provide technical assistance on federal grants to ensure best practice programming and supervise timelines for deliverables in tribal communities and general public communities.
• Develop and implement data tracking, measuring and reporting systems for new programs.
Savenia Falquist
NE nd Dr - Vancouver WA ` Savenia `
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jefferson County Juvenile Community Justice May – June
Crime Prevention Specialist/Juvenile Officer III
• Assessed community gaps and strengths in youth services.
• Developed and implemented needed resources for Jefferson County youth and families.
• Collaborated with community partners to obtain state and federal funding.
• Represented Juvenile Department by participating in county and state boards and committees.
• Provided training and presentations to address juvenile delinquency and recidivism.
• Assessed and case managed adjudicated youth and represented Juvenile Department in all court hearings. Provided all resource referrals and supervision needs.
• Facilitated gender specific and cognitive classes for adjudicated juveniles.
YWCA Clark County Sexual Assault Program March - September
Prevention Coordinator/Advocate
• Supervised regional programs for a statewide prevention program.
• Participated on county and city advisory boards.
• Developed and implemented new volunteer orientation trainings.
• Coordinated volunteer recruitment and retention.
• Coordinated grant steering committees.
• Provided legal advocacy for victims of sexual assault.
• Facilitated teen and adult sexual assault support groups.
• Provided sexual assault training to volunteers and community throughout Washington.
Community Interests:
• Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force -
• National Crime Prevention Council -
• National Center for Victims of Crime YOVA Project -
• Jefferson County Adults Mentoring Youth Advisory Board -
• Jefferson County School Safety Committee -
• Jefferson County Prevention Task Force -
• Jefferson County Commission on Children & Families Funding Committee -
Trained Facilitator:
• Darkness to Light -
• Strengthening Families – Train the Trainer -
• Girls’ Circle -
• Truthought Cognitive Restructuring -
References Available Upon Request
