Maheshwari Balan

Experience

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  Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital(PGIMER)

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Psychologist

  1. Record case history of clinical cases2. Write and discussion of case intervention plan3. Counselling sessionsWorked with clients diagnosed with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, mental disability, substance abuse, suicidal ideations etc

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  Nipccd, Government Of India

  Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

  Career Counselor

  1. Administer learning disability, aptitude, interest, and adjustment tests.2. Conduct career guidance sessions.3. Support in project writing.

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  Salwan Public School

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

  School Counsellor

  1. Conduct group and individual counselling sessions for children, staffs, parents, and management.2. Take life skill classes for children from class 1st to 12th.3. Conduct sessions/workshops for children and parents on examination anxiety, mental health and well-being, identity crises, adolescent issues, coping strategies, abuse, assertiveness, parenting styles, learning disability.4. Collaborate with special educator for making individual care plan for children with learning disability.5. House in Charge for extracurricular activities and programs. Exibir menos

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  Don Bosco National Forum for the Young at Risk

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

  1. Prepare campaign timeline, activities and implementation and effective communication of the plan.2. Coordinate campaign implementation, across 11 provinces and 100 plus child care institutions across India though online and offline medium.3. Network with other NGO’s.4. Conduct more than 10 online sessions for children, youth, and management on the topics related to drug addiction, drug abuse, side effects of drugs etc. 5. Managing and coordinating online awareness sessions by taking care of technical and other aspects.6. Prepare awareness materials like flipbook, snippets, quick tips, resource kit7. Managed and increased organization’s Instagram reach by 100%. Exibir menos Managed and coordinated 3 campaigns and 3 projects and was involved in decision making of the organization activities.1. Networking with more than 100 NGOs across 11 Provinces. 2. Head of research desk of the organization.3. I Initiated the system of data collection, cleaning, documentation and publication of the impact and reach of the organization across India.4. Collaborated in construction of Don Bosco Standards of Care for child care institutions.5. Conducted and trained 20+ field staff on process of social audit. Exibir menos 1. Coordinated and implemented the project across 38 migrant desks across India. 2. Constructed survey forms for migrants in transit, source and destination.3. Managed database of 32,000 plus migrants across India through spreadsheets and Google forms.4. Responsible for data cleaning, analyzing and restoring. 5. Designed 15 live data dashboards to evaluate, monitor and analyze the live data collected for intervention planning and project writing at State and National level.6. Conducted 20+ trainings for the management on use data dashboards for decision making.I am also part of meetings conducted by Catholic Bishops' Conference of India – CBCI’s for creating synergy to work for the rights of the migrants’ workers across India. Exibir menos 1. Head of research and analysis team under the project HomeLink Network. 2. Took leadership in managing and coordinating data entry teams of 83 child care Institutions of DB YaR Forum across India.3. Used analytical skills to clean and manage database of more than one lakh children across India. 4. Implemented and trained management on importance of data driven approach in NGOs.5. Initiated the system of documentation in 80 plus NGOs across India. 6. Changed the organization's implementation strategy by helping them understand the change in target population with support of data.7. Published research and snippets on topics like child labour, street children, child abuse, children involved in begging, sexual abuse etc.Under this project, I was given an opportunity to be a speaker in United Nations side event on topic “Ending Homelessness through Technology” Exibir menos

  • Choose Life . Not Drugs - Campaign Manager

    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Senior Manager, Partnerships

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Don Bosco 4 Migrants - National Coordinator

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  • National Coordinator and Researcher

    Jul 2018 - Jan 2023

  • Project Researcher

    Jul 2019 - Jan 2023

  • Every Child Safe Online - Campaign Assistant

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Prevention of Trafficking of Children - Campaign Assistant

    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
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  ANMA Integrated Development Association

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Child Friendly Dimapur & Shillong - Project Consultant

  Project Name: Child Friendly Dimapur and Child Friendly Shillong.1. Capacity building and supporting the teams to conduct child led survey.2. Supervise the project implementation in Dimapur and Shillong.3. Guide and evaluate the teams on budget, target, and documentation.4. Providing resource materials relevant to the field.5. Help the team in networking with civil society members.6. Assisting the team in time of challenging situations on the field.

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  Itwillbe.org

  Jan 2023 - now

  Board of Director
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  Aangan Trust

  Jan 2023 - now

  Senior Manager

  Working as Senior Manager for Knowledge & Impact. The role includes tasks related development, implementin and evaluation of monitoring tools to capture the impact created by the organization in various States. A major part of the work focuses on data analysis and vizualization for creating data-driven approches in the organization.