Cynthia Mendoza
Hawthorne,CA
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Caregiver
Helping Hands
Los Angeles, CA
07.2025 - Current
- Provide personal care for clients.
- Assist clients with daily living activities, ensuring safety and comfort in home environments.
- Provide safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
- Develop personalized care plans in collaboration with families and healthcare teams to meet individual needs.
- Perform light housekeeping duties to maintain cleanliness standards while respecting the patient's personal space.
PSA/SSS Intern
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
Los Angeles, CA
09.2025 - 01.2026
- Identify and address barriers to educational achievement.
- Review attendance data and trends related to student.
- Plan attendance incentives and create a safe and welcoming school environments.
- Ensures protection of educational and due process rights for students including, but not limited to, students in foster care, experiencing homelessness, pregnant and parenting, juvenile justice involved, expelled or referred for expulsion, and/or at risk for school failure and dropout.
- Participate in multidisciplinary intervention teams to provide coordinated support and intervention.
- Provide guidance to students, parents/guardians, and school staff regarding school and community resources.
Practicum Student Therapist
Star View Behavioral Group
Carson, CA
08.2024 - 05.2025
- Complete intake assessments, develop and maintain treatment plans with caregivers and clients.
- Conduct sessions in schools, homes, and telehealth if needed.
- Provide mental health services and case management to children, adolescents, adults, and their families.
- Establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with the client and caregivers.
- Document and update the client's information in the database.
ICMS Intern Therapist
Project 180 DTLA
Los Angeles, CA
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Provide individual and group therapy services, intake assessments, treatment plan development, crisis management/intervention support
- Conduct a bio-psychosocial assessment with clients. Develop a recovery plan of action and implement services towards recovery.
- Establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with the client and family members.
- Participate, coordinate, and implement cooperative arrangements and/or team conferences with various interdisciplinary team members in the development and implementation of the client's treatment plan and aftercare plan.
- Document and update client's information in accordance with DMH, DHS, and other county/state standards.
Caregiver
Cambrian Homecare
Long Beach, CA
01.2019 - 08.2023
- Maintain a safe and organized play area free from potential hazards in and out of the home.
- Meal preparation
- Prepare educational and interactive activities that their therapist has assigned.
- After-school activities drop off and pick up.
- Redirected children to encourage safe, positive behavior.
Pupil Service and Attendance Aide
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
Los Angeles, CA
07.2020 - 07.2023
- Contacting parents, authorized caregivers, school personnel, and/or others to obtain health, family, financial, and other related information.
- Provide parents and school personnel with information about State Laws regarding school attendance and provide resources available at the school and at other community agencies.
- Notify parents of student truancy and make referrals to appropriate interventions.
- During virtual schooling assisted with the LAUSD hotline to answer any questions from students, parents, or anyone in the community (enrollment, attendance, protocols during COVID isolation, resources, etc.)
- Collect local district data, as well as attendance not submitted from schools with no purchased PSA counselor.
Community Inclusion Facilitator Sub
Social Vocational Services, Inc.
Torrance, CA
11.2018 - 06.2019
- Provide vocational and skills training to clients with developmental disabilities.
- Assist client in selecting realistic goals and objectives.
- Assess, evaluate, implement and chart client's progress on goals and objectives, and record data.
- Pick up and drop off clients according to written schedules.
- Assist clients with personal and hygiene issues when needed.
After-School Team Leader
Woodcraft Rangers
Los Angeles, CA
09.2017 - 12.2017
- Develop and implement program activities according to program goals and monthly themes. (leadership, art, and journalism club)
- Supervise and participate in students' activities.
- Maintain and turn in attendance daily.
- Write and submit lesson plans of program activities for each session in advance.
- Maintain professionalism at all times, consistent attendance, on time and prepared.
Temporary Pupil Service and Attendance Aide
Los Angles Unified School District
Los Angeles, CA
10.2016 - 06.2017
- Assist counseling personnel by contacting students, parents, and others to obtain and provide information about students with attendance and behavioral problems.
- Check school records for information related to student attendance and behavior.
- Contact students, parents, school personnel, law enforcement personnel and others to locate students with school attendance and behavioral problems.
- Provide information about State laws regarding school attendance and assistance available through school and social service agencies in accordance with established policies and procedures and specific instructions from counseling personnel.
- Make referrals to and appointments with school and social service agency personnel and offering suggestions to students and parents about appropriate clothing for students, interpersonal relationships, and other matters related to student attendance and adjustment
Education
Master of Science - Social Work
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA05-2025
Master of Science - Psychology
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA05-2018
Languages
Spanish
Timeline
PSA/SSS Intern
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
09.2025 - 01.2026
Caregiver
Helping Hands
07.2025 - Current
Practicum Student Therapist
Star View Behavioral Group
08.2024 - 05.2025
ICMS Intern Therapist
Project 180 DTLA
08.2023 - 05.2024
Pupil Service and Attendance Aide
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
07.2020 - 07.2023
Caregiver
Cambrian Homecare
01.2019 - 08.2023
Community Inclusion Facilitator Sub
Social Vocational Services, Inc.
11.2018 - 06.2019
After-School Team Leader
Woodcraft Rangers
09.2017 - 12.2017
Temporary Pupil Service and Attendance Aide
Los Angles Unified School District
10.2016 - 06.2017
Master of Science - Social Work
California State University, Long Beach
Master of Science - Psychology
California State University, Northridge