Alexis Soto-Colorado, AICP

-Collaborates with Community Access Services and Evergreen Health teams to plan, implement and evaluate awareness raising events in the community.

-Conduct on going one to one risk reduction counseling with individual engage in high-risk behaviors.

-Co-facilitate risk reduction groups for individuals who are actively using substances and in treatment.

-Conduct enhanced street outreach and online outreach to promote testing and prevention services.

-Coordinate daily work activities and scheduling of Peer Educators in collaboration with other staffs.

-Provide assistance in data and Geography Information System (GIS) analysis.

-Support the creation of a community plan to improve the health outcome of the community.

-Provide technical support in healthy homes inspections.

AWARDED in 2012:
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary's Award for Community Foundations
"in recognition of exemplary public-private philanthropic partnerships"

Duties:

-Program Management for the first integrated community management asthma program in Buffalo, NY

-Collected indoor environmental data and made evaluation for individual housing and the overall conditions of all housing in the Lower West Side of Buffalo, NY.

-Created plans to improve the air quality of the community and individual housing.

-Collaborated in the creation of a Green and Healthy Housing Plan for the whole City of Buffalo, which included D'Youville College, Buffalo School Board, and others.

Collaborated initial phases of the creation of a community plan for one section of the Lower West Side of Buffalo,NY (The Belle Center Adjacent Area) by doing asset mapping, survey of vacancy, land use study, and data analysis of the health and economic situation of the community. In addition, I also provided support to the Board of Block Clubs of Buffalo & Erie County.

Located and visited the addresses from which the Census Bureau didn't receive questionnaires, in order to determine the status of each address on Census Day, and to complete the census questionnaire for each address.

-Provided geo-spatial support for non profit organization.

-Responsible for the creation of cartography work, demography analysis to create strategic community health plans that addresses the epidemic of HIV/AIDS and other diseases that challenge health and welfare of urban communities in Erie County.

-Prepared and organized data for conversion into geo-database format

-Manipulated raster data to model population growth, age characteristics and economic use patterns in several suburban communities

-Used vector data to update graphic displays and maps of bus routes

-Collected data from commuters, public transit agencies and private employers to aid in planning decisions

-Assisted in the preparation of a wide variety of reports and other geographic materials, including abstracting geographic information from maps, census reports, and other sources.

-Reviewed maps and geographic reference files for accuracy of geographic boundaries, names, codes, and other geographic information.

-Performed operations associated with encoding maps into the integrated geographic information system and the less complex editing activities required to ensure the accuracy of the associated files

Researched the creation of FAQ (Frequent Asking Questions) for some of US Census's products.

Clerical work and preparing post-graduated application materials to be evaluated by the entrance committee.

Mapped cave and caverns of Puerto Rico by using GPS and manual cartographic techniques. The objective for creating the maps was to support the creation environmental and cultural management plans.