Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities, Episode 3, Part 2

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Building Diverse Talent Pipelines: Lynn Vaden, Account Manager

Contact and Bio
Email: lvaden@fatherssupport.org
Website: www.fatherssupportcenter.org
Twitter: @fatherssupport
Facebook: Fathers Support Center
LinkedIn: Fathers Support Center
What are specific requests for St. Louis or others? We are always seeking businesses to partner with in the service of employing our program participants.

​Lynn Vaden, Account Manager for Fathers Families and Support Center graduated with a bachelors in Urban Affairs from St. Louis University. He began his career with ServiceMaster Contract Services, Inc. He served as President of Specialty Cleaning Division and Sales Manager prior to taking the COO position. As Chief Operating Officer for over 18 years, he worked to create a culture of excellence and professionalism throughout the company. For the next 14 years, he became Senior Sales Consultant and created opportunities and developed relationships to sell contract janitorial and specialty cleaning services to facility services buyers in the health care, educational, manufacturing, government, transportation and construction industries. As Account Manager, he now builds relationships with a range of St. Louis companies and shepherds people from FFSC employment training programs into companies. He works closely with companies to learn program participant stories, their assets, and their unique gifts and to support employer advocacy for employees and in creating trauma-informed cultures.

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Episode 3, Part 2: Lynn Vaden, Account Manager, Fathers and Families Support Center

• How employment training programs work and the ongoing roles FFSC plays in creating bridges between employers and program participant graduates, now employees
• An explanation of the transition from justice systems to employment – the kind of learning stance employers need to become more trauma-informed
• Lynn’s training as a manager before coming to FFSC – he was expected to do everything the people he hired did so he could better understand how to advocate for them financially and personally. This meant refinishing floors, scrubbing toilets, and more and what that did for company cultures and for retaining talent and saving time.
• Lynn’s breakdown of the range of companies who are hiring FFSC program participants – from fast food to high paying companies.
• More insight into the unique gifts and talents justice-involved people and people who have been overcoming tremendous obstacles bring to companies

Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™ methods this podcast features

• Trauma-informed workplace cultures 
  • Understanding how people are treated at times in different environments in our region and insight into reactions that signal trauma.
  • See our workshops on The Power of Our Stories to Build Bridges and Shift Organizational Cultures; Building Emotional Intelligence; Bridge-Building Communication through Stories - Building Bridges and Maximizing Cultural Expertise.