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Sonma Philomena Ofoma

Vancouver,Canada

Summary

To create a stable housing environment and a healthy, supportive community. I am passionate about making a difference in people's lives by coaching, mentoring, and assisting physically and mentally challenged children, teenagers, women, and elders. I am industrious and dedicated, with skills in administration, multitasking, cooking, attention to detail and time management.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Tenant Support Worker

Atira Women’s Resource Society
  • Provision of harm reduction, support, and advocacy for our residents and others under-served in our community
  • Performs administrative functions such as record keeping, and data-basing
  • Maintains safety for the building and the residents
  • Ensure the building environment is safe and comfortable by monitoring building access points and security systems
  • Receives supplies, checks invoices against orders and goods received, stores, and distributes supplies
  • Provide crisis intervention work such as mental health decompensations (including suicidal crises), or physical health crises (including violence and sexual assaults):
  • Ensuring tenant safety while calling relevant emergency services
  • Crisis intervention/de-escalation
  • Administration of Naloxone for overdose
  • Taking Logbook entries of daily incidence
  • Regular rounds to ensure the safety of the tenants
  • Acting as a first responder in medical interventions, including overdose response and medical emergencies
  • Meeting with tenants to discuss their practical and emotional needs
  • Providing emotional support by talking to tenants about their needs and listening to their concerns

Volunteer

Catholic Women Organization
  • Teaching youths’ communication skills and developing self-confidence
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Teaching youths about sexually transmitted diseases – causes, prevention, and protection
  • Organizing community sessions
  • Counseling and guidance to high school youths on health challenges, career choices, and well-deserved living lives
  • Sourcing for funds/donations to help the needy
  • Visits to prisons
  • Visiting to orphanage homes

Kitchen Coordinator

Atira Women’s Resource Society
03.2024 - Current
  • Developing, facilitating and implementing all aspects of a community kitchen;
  • Ensure the kitchen has all necessary supplies and meets health & safety guidelines;
  • Coordinating and distributing Food Bank orders;
  • Supporting and supervising volunteers to work in the kitchen;
  • Working within the constraints the women’s experience, such as limited food budgets, lack of access to transportation, lack of proper equipment, etc.;
  • Teaching basic cooking and kitchen skills;
  • Budgeting for supplies;
  • Keeping the kitchen clean/sanitary and promoting/encouraging cooperation among participants;
  • Connecting with like community organizations and programs;
  • Maintain strong working relationships and awareness of complementary programs and groups in the community and have specific knowledge regarding available community resources available to community kitchen programs
  • Facilitate community cooking projects but also connect women to food security programs including organizing outings to the Food Bank, Quest, etc

Building Custodian

Atira Women’s Resource Society
11.2023 - 03.2024
  • Sweeping, mopping, dusting, vacuuming, and disinfecting all high touch point areas
  • Cleaning common areas, hallways, lobbies, bathrooms, elevators and collecting and disposing of trash in garbage containers on a regular basis
  • Ensure that the environment is clean, conducive, and safe
  • Provision of harm reduction and support to the tenants
  • Incidence reporting
  • Worked within applicable standards, policies, and regulatory guidelines to promote a safe working environment

Community Support Worker

RecdoT (Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled, Old and Tramps)
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Assisted clients and their families to access needed community resources and to reach desired mental health and behavioral goals as outlined by a treatment plan
  • Managed a caseload of five to nine families and met with each on a weekly basis; more frequently, if needed
  • Taught interpersonal and coping skills, intervened in conflicts when necessary and communicated with the entire treatment team
  • Wrote weekly progress summaries and completed incident reports

Education

MBA -

University Canada West
Vancouver, BC
12.2024

MSc - Economics

Enugu State University of Science and Technology
12.2011

BSc - Economics

University of Nigeria, Nsukka
12.1998

Skills

  • Problem-solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Conflict resolution
  • Team player
  • Listening
  • Communication
  • Attention to detail
  • Time management
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Dependability
  • Responsibility

Certification

  • First Aid and CPR training
  • Naloxone Training
  • Food Safe
  • WHMIS
  • Serving It Right
  • NVCI, 09/05/24

Degrees

  • University Canada West, Vancouver, BC, MBA, 2024
  • Enugu State University of Science and Technology, MSc in Economics, 2011
  • University of Nigeria, Nsukka, BSc in Economics, 1998

Languages

English
Professional Working

Timeline

Kitchen Coordinator

Atira Women’s Resource Society
03.2024 - Current

Building Custodian

Atira Women’s Resource Society
11.2023 - 03.2024

Community Support Worker

RecdoT (Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled, Old and Tramps)
01.2020 - 12.2020

MBA -

University Canada West

MSc - Economics

Enugu State University of Science and Technology

BSc - Economics

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Tenant Support Worker

Atira Women’s Resource Society

Volunteer

Catholic Women Organization

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