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What You’ll Be Doing

You will be part of the Functional Family Therapy – Gang program, providing support and collaborating with staff and families. You will help enrich lives of gang-involved or at-risk youth through mentorship, preventative efforts, and advocacy. Your role will also include planning community events for Child & Family relevant to our population and collaborating with community stakeholders to increase resources available to our clients.  Your primary role will be to utilize lived experience to advocate for youth needs within juvenile justice, healthcare, school and community systems.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

•    Provide community support by planning and attending community events.

•    Collaborate and engage with community partners to increase presence in the community.

•    Support in-between session learning by practicing skills with client’s family.

•    Collaborate with Clinicians to support youth and family’s engagement daily

•    Attend intake and sessions as needed for additional support to staff.

•    Act as a mentor/coach in the program for life skills and relationship building (e.g. resume building, job interview practice, enrolling in programming).

•    Provide transportation to youth as needed for school, programming, events, interviews, etc.

•    Complete contact notes and upload/transfer documentation to appropriate Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

•    Upload assessments and data to appropriate systems (i.e., YOQ, YOQ-SR, OQ).

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities:

•    High school diploma or equivalent required.

•    CHW certification preferred.

•    Minimum 1 year’s work or lived experience related to the position required.

•    Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

•    Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.

•    Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.

•    Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.

•    Collaboration and teamwork.

•    Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.

•    Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.

•    The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff (Travel as part of position):

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Travel Requirements

Site location: Providence

Statewide travel required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

•    Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.

•    Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.

•    Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.