WAY Home Coach (DSS)
The Children's Village
Location
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Salary
$31 / HOUR
Quick overview
The WAY Home Coach provides mentor support to youth in residential and community settings, assisting them with education, employment, and permanency goals. Responsibilities include conducting regular face-to-face visits, facilitating workshops, and maintaining accurate data records.
Requirements summary
Candidates should possess a bachelor's degree or at least two years of experience working with at-risk youth. Strong communication skills and a deep understanding of the NYC community and the specific needs of Black and Latino adolescents are required.
Job description
Position Overview
Provides mentor support to DSS and RTA youth who reside at Children’s Village residential and who live in the community. As a WAY HOME Coach, staff works to recruit, engage, and support the young people of WAY in progressing towards their education, employment, savings goals, and permanency. The Coach will conduct 2 or more face to face visits weekly with their youth in residential and the community. Also, the coach will assist in facilitating workshops monthly where the youth participating in the program will strengthen their independent living skills.
Knowledge of city-wide community resources is required. Coaches will be responsible for organizing groups, meals for each group session, community activities, advocacy, 1:1 coaching, and assisting in areas of social, education, employment, permanency, with emphasis on social and networking development as well as data entry into connections.
The goal of the program is to help build positive peer relationships and strengthen social transitions for young people exiting foster care and living in the community.
Position Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Preferred or Minimum 2 years or more experience working with at-risk youth.
- Demonstrate initiative and creativity, particularly with adolescents.
- Demonstrate experience in group work.
- Demonstrate understanding of the issues of the NYC community.
- Demonstrate understanding of the issues facing Black and Latino adolescents.
- Ability to work as a team member and independently.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with youth and staff.
- Demonstrate ability to effectively use a multi-cultural approach in working with special needs youth.
- Excellent oral communication skills.
The children’s village does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee or contractor because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic predisposition, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction history or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
