Tameika Tisdale
North Charleston,SC
Summary
Collaborative Leader with the dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote an engaged, empowering work culture. Responsible for designing, delivering, and implementing enhanced systems of support that meet the unique needs of students with disabilities. Extensive experience in collaborating with various stakeholders, such as families, educators, community members, and district leaders, to ensure that all students have access to support to achieve success in a school setting.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Career Specialist
Charleston County School District
02.2023 - Current
- Provides career awareness, exploration, and guidance services to students in public schools, grades six through twelve.
- Help students with work-based learning opportunities, become college and career-ready
- Support K-8 students with career awareness experiences.
- Assist students with Disabilities gain work ready skills by collaborating with Vocational Rehabilitation.
Employment Services Director
Disabilities Board of Charleston County
04.2017 - 02.2023
- Develops specialized support programs in consultation with others to promote continuous efforts for improvement.
- Advancing business practices that support individuals with intellectual disabilities with their career goals and also assisting them in maintaining their positions
- Planned professional development and developed guidelines/policies under the agency's mission
- Performed Supervisory and administrative responsibilities in compliance within the agency, Health and Human Service, and ADA.
- Tracks Services to ensure it was billable under Medicaid regulations.
- Provided support for Diversity and Inclusion
- Nuero diversity advocacy
- Monitoring Transition Students
- Attending IEP Meetings
- Hosting Job Clubs and Informational meetings for Students and parents
- Using Therap as a tool to input career data notes to track employment outcomes
- Planning organizing, directing, coordinating and evaluating day to day delivery of services for the employment program
- Proactive problem-solving to improve performance, quality, and support service satisfaction.
- Developed strategies to recruit and maintain staff.
- Providing administrative management skills
- Hosting Job Fairs
- Collaboratively working with other agencies that provide career or employment services and referrals
- Analyzing data that is related to standard operation procedures for state agency (DDSN) to ensure proper delivery of services to support people with intellectual and related disabilities receiving Individual and Group Employment Services as provided by the Disabilities Board of Charleston County
- Utilize problem-solving, strong oral/written skills, and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with all stakeholders
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
Family Services Specialist , Head Start Program
Charleston County School District
11.2013 - 04.2017
- Enrolling 3 and 4 year old students to the Head Start Program to ensure proper delivery of services to support .
- Receiving and Monitoring files for accuracy according to standards and procedures mandated by federal government
- Adhering to program needs
- Providing Parent Trainings to help parents reach goals
- Create Resumes and conduct Mock interviews for families seeking employment
- Career Explorations Skills
- Conduct SMART goal setting with families
- Provide status updates to Leadership Team
- Facilitate parent meetings, job fairs, job club and Employee appreciation events
- Collect, organize, analyze, and draw sound conclusions from related data
- Provides leadership and guidance in determining resource allocations,
- Give presentations to businesses
- Monitored students' progress and provided students and teachers with assistance in resolving problems.
Employment Specialist/Job Coach
Tameika G. Tisdale, Disabilities Board of Charleston County
08.2005 - 11.2013
- Support individuals with intellectual disabilities find and maintain competitive employment
- Provide employee relations support, and services to clients with disability (MR, autism, ADHD, and other related disabilities
- Maintaining files according to state standards
- Community Engagement
- Building Relationship with families
- Benefit Counseling and Supports
- Job Carving
- Job Retention
- Advocating
- Provide knowledge and guidance on general labor laws
- Career classes
- Provide job coaching services for 50 individuals
- Developing partnerships
- Created contract for special needs individuals to work at various job sites
- Training of new hires
Education
Master’s Degree - Human Services/ Organizational Leadership
Springfield College
Springfield, Massachusetts05.2010
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
Limestone College
Gaffney, SC06.2008
Associate's Degree - General Business
Limestone College
Gaffney, SC08.2005
Skills
- Effective Communication Skills
- Community Outreach
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Organizational Leadership
VOLUNTEER SERVICES
Berkeley County Alumnae Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (2011)
Supporting all fundraising and scholarship activities
Providing outreach services
Timeline
Career Specialist
Charleston County School District
02.2023 - Current
Employment Services Director
Disabilities Board of Charleston County
04.2017 - 02.2023
Family Services Specialist , Head Start Program
Charleston County School District
11.2013 - 04.2017
Employment Specialist/Job Coach
Tameika G. Tisdale, Disabilities Board of Charleston County
08.2005 - 11.2013
Master’s Degree - Human Services/ Organizational Leadership
Springfield College
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
Limestone College
Associate's Degree - General Business
Limestone College
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