Abigail Menjivar Cartagena

• Provides comprehensive case management services to all participants including intake and needs assessments, goal setting, progress monitoring, advocacy, and referrals with the goal of ensuring the identified students are successful in school.
• Supervises Case Management Tutors including scheduling and payroll management.
• Facilitates professional development for the Case Management tutors.
• Works with a cohort of identified students conducting individual check-ins to monitor well-being, attendance, and academic progress based on referral or performance in the classroom.
• Connects students and their families to available school and community resources.
• Develops and maintains resource connections with external and internal partners.
• Conducts outreach and service coordination activities.
• Completes administrative duties such as attendance tracking, filing student documents, and updating student check-in notes.
• Maintains appropriate student and family files.

• Collaborates with school administration in planning events and organizing parent workshops to support the students.

• Supports students’ social and emotional needs.
• Monitors completion of the college application process and financial aid process
• Collaborates with school administration and staff to develop students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes that promote personal, social, emotional, and academic growth.
• Helps students effectively utilize the schools’ educational opportunities; recommends available resources within the school, school system, and community to meet the needs of individual students; and assists in making referrals and contacts.
• Developed and implemented individualized academic plans for students.
• Maintains knowledge of all expanded learning programs and services at the school site and encourages students to participate.
• Works with community outreach organizations to bring additional resources, services, and programs to campus.
• Delivered supportive and knowledgeable counseling to students with academic or personal concerns.
• Planned and promoted career planning presentations, work experience programs and career workshops.
• Oversaw career and job fairs to connect students with area schools and employers.

• Works on school site to coordinate daily after-school programs that may include some evening or weekend activities.
• Represents the After School Program to the school community, including students, parents, staff, faculty, and community partners.
• Responsible for outreach, recruitment, and enrollment of students in the after-school program.
• Submits monthly programs calendar and daily schedule of all after-school programs and activities.
• Submits monthly program budgets and approved staff hours.
• Works on payroll and has managed up to more than 20 frontline staff members at a time.
• Works with school and partner agencies to implement new programs and activities.
• Is available to students during the school day and after school; helps students choose after-school activities as well as develop programs based on student interests and needs.
• Works with community outreach organizations to bring additional resources, services, and programs to campus.
• Attends Professional Development and other program-related meetings.

• Recruit and promote school activities with parents through phone calls and in-person presentations.
• Lead parent focus workshops and built parent partnerships with other community representatives on campus.
• Front desk responsibilities: greeted parents and students, provided information over the phone, and translated for parents and administrators.
• Assisted other school personnel with their duties such as the PSA with critical attendance phone calls, the PSW with mental health awareness for our students, and the Athletic Department with supervising home games.

• Collect daily attendance records for all activities and entered into cityspan and maintained compliance, based on grant requirements.
• Responsible for distributing and collecting records of students' emergency forms.
• Provided weekly attendance reports for submission to the site coordinator for compliance purposes.
• Managed and kept notes on staff performances in programming and staff expectations.
• Responsible for outreach, recruitment, and enrollment in partnership with the Parent Center.
• Communicated and led programming, while the site coordinator was absent, with all school support staff and administration.
• Counseled students before and after school for program activity promotions.