Laura Lindroth

Experience

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  Skills and Training

  Jan 2000 - now

  Additional

  • Created professional development training for all IL schools on children’s grief for the Center for Childhood Resilience, March 2022 • Presented workshop on the efficacy of peer support groups as a suicide prevention intervention National Suicide Summit, University of Wisconsin/LaCross, Oct 2021 • Certified in Self-Care for Educators During COVID-19, IL State Board of Education, Feb 2021 • Certified in Walking Wounded: Healing the Damage of Racial Trauma, Mental Health America, Feb 2021 • Certified in ACE Interface Training of Trainers, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, March 2020 • Certified in Trauma-Informed Policymaking, HMPRG, July 2019 • Certified in Youth Psychological First Aid, Children’s Research Triangle, April 2019 • Certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid, National Council for Behavioral Health, April 2019 • Certified in Psychological First Aid, Chicago Department of Public Health, July 2018 • Trained in CDC DEBI Interventions: Healthy Relationships (2010) and Popular Opinion Leaders (2005) by the U.S. Center for AIDS Intervention Research• Certified Health Education Specialist, The National Commission for Health Education, 2002-2009 Show less

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  Peace Corps

  Jul 2000 - Jun 2002

  Program Cordinator, Income-Generating Project

  Supervised clients living with HIV on an income-generating project, hosted workshops, developed initiatives and researched materials for communication strategies, conducted media interviews and live broadcasts, and collaborated with a broad range of government and community-based organizations.Major accomplishments: • Increased sales 300% by improving the product and promotion, and widening the market.• One of two, from over 100 volunteers, chosen by the Country Director to represent Peace Corps/Jamaica in an exclusive article for Air Jamaica magazine.• As Executive Board member of the St. James parish AIDS action committee, assisted in securing $30K in USAID grant funding and wrote a strategic plan for addressing high HIV incidence rates.• Briefed visiting United States Ambassador, Susan Cobbs, on the project for her presentation to the United Nations on successful income-generating projects for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.• Wrote and won a highly competitive USAID small project assistance grant of $2K through the Peace Corps office for directing prevention programs to marginalized populations. Show less

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  College of Charleston

  Nov 2002 - Aug 2008

  Coordinator, Health Education

  Researched, developed and implemented comprehensive health prevention and wellness education by creating award-winning, nationally-recognized, peer education programs. Annually taught a 300-level Human Sexuality class to 30 students, initiating the addition of a community service requirement. Major accomplishments:• Decreased student rate of smoking by 42% in three years, in a tobacco-growing state, by implementing prevention, control and cessation programs, and received South Carolina’s 2005 “Advocate of the Year” award and $20K in grant funding from the American Cancer Society.• Designed an informational wallet card for pregnancy prevention now used at colleges nationwide, helping secure an annual $5K grant for Emergency Contraception promotion for two years.• Selected twice as one of only seven national college health programs for inclusion to highly competitive grant-funded pilot studies of web-based promotion programming.• Led a campaign for a more smoke-free campus by developing a strategic plan, creating a reform committee, collecting data, and advising senior admin to implement a tobacco control policy. Show less

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  Chattanooga CARES

  Oct 2009 - Feb 2010

  Program Specialist, Prevention Education

  Developed materials and presentations for interactive sexual health prevention workshops, teaching adults and at-risk youth in schools, community groups, medical facilities, and rehab centers in 23 counties.Major accomplishments: • Improved analyses of programs to potential funders by initiating SPSS data-driven spreadsheets.• Assisted in the development and design of innovative, science-based prevention programming.

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  Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti

  Feb 2010 - Oct 2010

  Director, Communications and Development

  Successfully coordinated vast details of medical missions for disaster relief efforts immediately following the January 2010 earthquake, working overtime to increase potential funders during this crucial crisis period. Assessed the potential for expanding current fundraising efforts, identified strategic opportunities and new avenues for revenue growth, recommended priorities for development work and public relations, supported the work of a revitalized board development committee, and offered creative and active leadership for the organization at large.Major accomplishments: • Led a major fundraising campaign using new media approaches resulting in the most financially successful fund drive in a 12 year history of the organization, increasing donations by 69%. • Developed a strategic and innovative marketing and promotional campaign to increase awareness, improve fundraising and entice investors to bring in a projected $900K in 2011. • Trained Board members in new fundraising strategies, designed event displays, developed presentations, redesigned the website, maintained social media sites, and submitted press releases.• Frequently traveled to Haiti, enduring severely harsh living conditions, to obtain media footage of disaster relief and program efforts for use in promotional materials and information for funders. Show less

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  North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Director, Development

  Researched and sought grant funding for an environmental organization working to protect the watershed in Hamilton and Sequatchie counties in Tennessee. Major accomplishment:$140K grant funding secured, and $1,665,000 applied for with future possibility of obtaining.

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  Rainbows for All Children

  Sept 2015 - Aug 2022

  Director, Programming and Community Engagement

  Directed efforts to build relationships with community-based organizations, encouraging, training and supporting them to lead peer support groups for grieving and traumatized youth and young adults. Reviewed, informed, created and assessed evidence-based program training and curriculum, including developing adaptations for specific, targeted audiences. ● Led the charge for the second most utilized SEL intervention in Chicago Public Schools, including revision of the training and curricula, providing on-going staff orientations, and encouraging widespread use; over 1400 trainings purchased in two years.● Revised and updated program curricula to address community crises after COVID-19 pandemic, including transferring all curricula to be able to hold support groups virtually; led twice weekly Zoom activities for youth and families during isolation.● Consistently increased support and outreach to communities; added more than 3000 new sites in seven years. ● Developed adaptations of the training and curriculum for children and adolescents in foster care, neurodivergent youth, children and families in domestic violence shelters, and those experiencing community crises. ● Co-chaired the health and wellness action team of the youth-focused Evanston Cradle to Career collective impact for past five years; also served as a member of the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition, Skokie Resilience Community Coalition, Evanston’s mental health task force and the Missing Pieces Coalition for Child Loss. ● Researched, developed, tested, and implemented a Pre- and Post-Test formative assessment of program impact. ● Frequently presented to graduate schools, colleges, community associations, district leaders, schools and youth. ● Created awareness and marketing strategies and materials to increase the organization’s visibility and donor base. ● Supervised 10-15 undergrad and graduate student interns, as well as practicum and service-learning students, each semester. Show less

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  PrimeMyBody

  Sept 2018 - now

  Global Health and Wellness Brand Partner

  Global brand partner with a health, wellness and lifestyle network marketing company that embraces the movement to raise awareness on the importance of living a clean and healthy lifestyle; what you put in and on your body matters. This is literally the best hemp (CBD) extract on the global market, and the only one backed with published scientific studies. We were recently published in peer reviewed journals for our studies on former NFL players and our Focus hemp extract, demonstrating how it is showing improved regulation of the brain. See: www.neuroregulation.org/article/view/22585/14577Why? We utilize a unique liposomal delivery system and sonicated technology which dramatically improves the bioavailability (absorption rate) of the hemp. That, coupled with high quality, pharmaceutical-grade ingredients really make this a superior product. Seven terpenes work synergistically with multiple phytocannabinoids, including cannabigerol (CBG) to produce what is called an "entourage effect." Our products are dietary supplements and contain hemp extract derived from the stalks and stems of the mature industrial hemp plant, which delivers healthful benefits, without having the psychoactive or “high" effect associated with this type of botanical. This is a broad spectrum hemp extract with zero THC.For more information, please visit my website at https://lauralindroth.primemybody.com/. Show less

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  City of Chicago

  Mar 2023 - now

  Senior Project Manager--Community Development Grants under $250k

  Began an exciting new position helping redirect Covid Recovery funds into communities in Chicago that are most in need of support. I am thrilled to be part of an amazing team of people providing grant funding to small businesses and nonprofits to support neighborhood growth and development.

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  Irie Life Hospitality

  Jan 2024 - now

  Owner