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About the Role
Transitional Services for New York, Inc. (TSINY) is seeking a Peer Advocate Specialist to support mental health consumers, foster recovery and empowerment, and share personal experiences. The role involves promoting self-help and wellness activities within the Empowerment Center.
Responsibilities
- Provide support, encouragement, and assistance to mental health consumers.
- Share personal experiences to promote recovery and empowerment.
- Model self-help and wellness activities.
- Conduct peer counseling.
- Provide mental health education.
- Lead information workshops.
- Offer advocacy training.
- Facilitate entitlement workshops.
- Assist with housing-related services.
- Engage in homeless outreach.
- Educate on consumer rights.
- Perform conflict resolution.
- Offer substance abuse counseling.
- Conduct cultural sensitivity training.
- Provide consumer governance/technical assistance.
- Deliver self-help services.
- Provide ADL training.
- Conduct voter education/political action.
- Facilitate interpersonal skill development.
- Support social network development.
- Perform telephone outreach.
- Sit or stand as needed.
- Walk for short periods.
- Reach above shoulder heights, below the waist, or lift as required.
- Assume and adhere to assigned Job Action role(s) during a declared disaster.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Requirements
- Must have personal lived experience with the mental health system.
- High School diploma or a combination of education and relevant experience totaling four years.
- Graduate of a Peer Advocate training program.
Skills
- Peer counseling
- Mental health education
- Information workshops
- Advocacy training
- Entitlement workshops
- Housing-related services
- Homeless outreach
- Consumer rights education
- Conflict resolution
- Substance abuse counseling
- Cultural sensitivity training
- Consumer governance/technical assistance
- Self-help services
- ADL training
- Voter education/political action
- Interpersonal skill development
- Social network development
- Telephone outreach
Location
- Jamaica (Queens), NY
Work Type
- Part-Time
Education Level
- High School diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $20.50 / hour
About the Company
- Transitional Services for New York, Inc. (TSINY) is a not-for-profit, community-based mental health organization in New York City.
- We provide a continuum of rehabilitative services to enrich the lives of those recovering from mental illness and facilitate their transition to increased independence.
- TSINY envisions broadening its rehabilitative services and becoming a regional social service provider.
- TSINY staff will deliver effective programs with compassion, integrity, and professionalism.
- We expect all staff to put our clients’ needs first while respecting ourselves and each other as we provide hope to those who participate in our programs.
Equal Opportunity
- TSINY is an equal opportunity employer committed to nondiscrimination in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the New York State Human Rights Law.
- TSINY prohibits discrimination based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, or other protected group status in all employment decisions.