Tyrone Hewitt

Tyrone Hewitt

Hampton Roads, Virginia Metropolitan Area
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Assists transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses with Career…

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  • ACT NOW EDUCATION Graphic

    Coursera Program Manager

    ACT NOW EDUCATION

    - Present 3 years 8 months

    ACT Now Education is a career resources group, designed to provide guidance and the tools necessary to make career goals a reality for the military service members and families. Create a road to personal and professional development.

    Role includes:

    * Registering and enrolling all new Coursera students.

    * Inputting and updating student information into the database to compiling enrollment and course completions.

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    Homeless Outreach Volunteer

    Veterans Homefront

    - 1 year 1 month

    Social Services

    Engaging our homeless and hurting veterans while Mobilizing our community through boots on the ground support in numerous ways. #22VetSuicidesAdayToMany

  • Community Outreach Advocate

    Wave City Care

    - 12 years 7 months

    Wave City Care is committed to assisting hurting individuals and families in Hampton Roads to meet their basic and immediate needs for food, clothing, and shelter. We accomplish this through our Healthy Living Supplemental Food programs, clothing handouts, and shelter referrals. We offer educational services to help empower people through Tutoring, Mentoring and Life Skills courses.

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    Employment Consultant & Facilitator

    Jobs for Life

    - 1 year

    Poverty Alleviation

    Building lives; One job at a time!

    The Jobs for Life training course is designed to be completed in 16 two-hour classes through a combination of classroom instruction as well as individual and group application activities. Through this training, men and women develop character and become connected to a community of support to help them obtain far more than just a job. They experience life, a life filled with confidence, self-control, coaching, learning, and faith.

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    Veterans Homeless Stand Down Volunteer

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    - 1 month

    Social Services

    Volunteered with providing supplies and services to homeless Veterans, such as food, shelter, clothing, health screenings and VA Social Security benefits counseling. Also helped Veterans with receiving referrals such as health care, housing solutions, employment, substance use treatment and mental health counseling.

    This was a collaborative events, coordinated between Hampton VA Medical Center, and other government agencies and community-based homeless service providers.

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    Mentoring Children of Prisoners

    Seton Youth Shelters

    - 2 years 5 months

    Children

    The Seton Youth Shelters Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program matches a youth, aged 4-18, who has an incarcerated parent, with a trained adult mentor. Mentors and mentees commit to a minimum of one year and meet for a minimum of one hour per week. Mentoring time can be spent doing educational, recreational, or cultural activities.

Honors & Awards

  • Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal

    United States Navy

    Volunteered with Wave City Care accumulating over 500 hours:

    • Jobs for Life Instructor - encouraged 16 men and women in developing character and becoming connected to a community of support by helping them obtain more than just a job, by living a life filled with confidence, self-control, coaching, learning, and faith.

    • 8 Thanksgivings - delivered over 570 Thanksgiving baskets to impoverished families and 420 meals to senior citizens.

    • 5 School Makeovers - refurbished…

    Volunteered with Wave City Care accumulating over 500 hours:

    • Jobs for Life Instructor - encouraged 16 men and women in developing character and becoming connected to a community of support by helping them obtain more than just a job, by living a life filled with confidence, self-control, coaching, learning, and faith.

    • 8 Thanksgivings - delivered over 570 Thanksgiving baskets to impoverished families and 420 meals to senior citizens.

    • 5 School Makeovers - refurbished schools by landscaping and painting interior and the exterior of school buildings.

    • One Life Mentoring - empowered young men, and helped them realize they can make a difference in the world by providing life skills mentoring, self-esteem enhancement, and relational skill building.

    • Community Day Volunteer - helped deliver food, gather with the kids, teens and adults for a day of fun, provide games, bike repair, and face painting activities for the kids.

    • Wave City Care 2009 Rock and Roll Marathon - helped raise thousands of dollars.

  • Presidential Volunteer Service Award (2nd)

    Seton Youth Sheltor

    Volunteered 100 hours serving as an at risk youth mentor for children of incarcerated parents.

  • Presidential Volunteer Service Award (1st)

    Seton Youth Sheltor

    Volunteered 100 hours serving as an at risk youth mentor for children of incarcerated parents.

  • President’s Volunteer Service Award

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    ACT Now Education - managed the Coursera program that we offer, where he along with the team have managed to assist over 5,900 participants enroll in 26, 858 courses, totaling 183,983 lessons (111,904 learning hours).

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