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Paterson, NJ - USA

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Not Disclosed

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ABOUT NEW CITY KIDS
New City Kids is a high energy creative program for and with youth that trusts teens with leadership as they develop in four key areas: spiritual leadership academic and music. It is a joyful place filled with laughter and hard work and has an excellent staff of dedicated adults who love children. We employ local high school students as interns to lead an excellent and unique musicfocused after school center and summer camp for children ages 613 which provides a platform for a whole host of development opportunities for children. As kids and teens engage New City Kids they discover an invitation to begin a journey with Christ.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Licensed Social Worker will serve as a counselor for our Brighter Day programming who will lead a series of classes and small groups for the children and teen interns at New City Kids which are traumainformed playbased and directly address Adverse Childhood Experiences. In Brighter Day youth learn body safety and socialemotional skills in a safe welcoming group or class setting supporting and empowering one another through the group experience. The Brighter Day Counselor will also provide individual mental health support and/or crisis intervention for children teen interns and their families as needed.

The goal of Brighter Day is lifelong health and wellness for our youth through body safety education abuse prevention and short term mental health support. The Brighter Day Counselor will be trained to teach proven body safety and emotional skills and support youth to process any challenging or traumatic experiences in families schools and neighborhoods. They will also partner with and encourage parents/guardians and school staff to seek out further mental health care for NCK youth as needed through local referrals.

Using the Brighter Day curriculum (based in traumafocused play therapy (TFPT) and traumafocused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT) theories) the Counselor will provide 2 classes and 1 (evening) group per week. Examples of class/group topics include: feelings identification and sharing understanding physical and sexual abuse and neglect identifying safe adults loss and grief (immigration deportation incarceration) depression anxiety & anger dating and relationships suicide/suicidal thoughts pornography LGBTQ and gender identity issues relationships with parents/caregivers managing stress and worry domestic violence.

SCOPE & RESPONSIBILITIES
  • For our ASC students: 24 rounds of 7week body safety classes per semester that meet once a week during regular after school NCK programming teaching students body safety awareness and social and emotional skills.
  • For our Teen Life Interns: 12 12week support and psychoeducational evening group per week (normally same gender group) for any interested Teen Life Intern fall and spring semesters.
  • Crisis Intervention: as needed with NCK children teens and families
REQUIREMENTS



New City Kids Mission

Loving kids for change to create a community of spiritual leadership academic and musical development.

New City Kids offers after school programming for youth in underresourced neighborhoods. Children and teens get a chance to explore music and academics in a creative and fun environmentthese programs give children a safe place to feel and hear that they are valued and loved. New City Kids aims to draw children into hope by developing in them skills talents and desires for their future. By surrounding them with a community of love and development we set youth on a path of transformation that will carry them forward for the rest of their lives.


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