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About the Role
To advocate for youth participants, ensuring their voices are heard and goals are articulated. The Peer Youth Advocate will engage youth to help them identify needs and achieve goals, acting as an integral part of the Adolescent Skills Center team by participating in supportive, recreational, and educational activities. The primary focus is advocating for youth through a strength-based approach.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a role model for Adolescent Skills Center program participants.
- Collaborates with ASC staff in engaging youth in care planning and advocacy.
- Shares personal knowledge and experiences about youth-serving systems and NYC resources.
- Supports ASC staff with co-facilitation of daily group activities.
- Provides support to youth at appointments, community, and family meetings.
- Educates youth on public health and psycho-education regarding mental health and relevant topics.
- Assists in organizing social, recreational, and educational activities.
- Represents the interests of youth with emotional/behavioral challenges in public forums and advisory groups.
- Promotes problem-solving and decision-making skill development in education, vocation, and social-emotional wellness.
- Carries a caseload of Vocational and D-75 Students, managing charts and ensuring documentation is up-to-date.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Experience with the mental health system as a consumer, family member, or educational experience.
- Completion of a High School Diploma or GED.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Ability to develop new skills in public speaking.
- Basic knowledge of the child/youth serving systems of NYC.
- Basic advocacy and empowerment skills.
- Bilingual and bicultural candidates are encouraged to apply.
- Candidates possessing exceptional skill but not all qualifications are encouraged to apply.
- Vibrant will consider any equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications.
Skills
- Decision Making
- Identifies multi-faceted problems affecting achievement of individual goals and provides solutions.
- Decisions have minor organizational impact that may require consultation with internal and external stakeholders regarding issues, possible solutions and implementation of alternatives.
- Analyzes and interprets issues, realigns responsibilities, commits resources and proposes alternative solutions.
- Implements solutions for minor projects after approval; held accountable if no action is taken.
- Multi-factor decision-making requiring research and analysis, subject to supervisory guidance.
- Public speaking
- Advocacy
- Empowerment
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Some college or college intentions preferred
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Salary/Compensations
- $29.23 to $32.98/hour
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Supplemental income insurance
- Employer paid disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Pre-tax FSA for medical and dependent care
- 401K
About the Company
- Vibrant Emotional Health's groundbreaking solutions have delivered high quality services and support, when, where and how people need it for over 50 years.
- Through state-of-the-art technology-enabled services, community wellness programs, and advocacy and education work, we are building a society in which emotional wellness can be a reality for everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- Vibrant Emotional Health is an equal opportunity employer.
- Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, creed, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship status, national origin, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, caregiver status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
- Vibrant will consider any equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education and experience to meet minimum qualifications.
- If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role.