Youth Empowerment Specialist – PT

• To supervise and monitor resident activities to maintain a safe and stable living environment.
• Maintain professional relationships with all residents.
• Supervise and ensure the safety of the milieu.
• Communicate in a timely and accurate fashion within the program (i.e. client intakes incident reports contact with youths families facility inventories and all shift log entries) and complete all required documentation.
• Support and implement the policies and philosophies of the program and of La Casa Norte including but not limited to Harm Reduction and Sanctuary Model frameworks.
• Utilize de-escalation and crisis intervention skills when needed in a supportive and caring manner.
• Working in a team approach to assist residents in achieving service plan goals.
• Conduct intake needs assessment create an initial action place and refer residents to appropriate services.
• Engage youth in discussions relevant to goals strengths and barriers to stability.
• Coordinate with other staff including Drop-in Case Manager to ensure continuity of services
• To help youth develop important life skills.
• Model effective and respectful communication with residents and other staff members while creating a standard of healthy communication for other staff and residents.
• Create and foster leadership opportunities for youth to encourage their personal development and the overall health of the community of Low Threshold Shelter Program.
• Take advantage of teachable moments to help youth develop skills in decision making conflict resolution time management etc.
• Provide and coordinate life skills workshops to youth focused on personal hygiene sexuality financial literacy household management conflict resolution anger management and other areas as needed.
• Implement established structure of support and accountability within the program to allow youth to fully develop in all areas of their life.
• To implement standards of cleanliness and maintenance by performing duties and requesting repairs.
• Leading residents in the upkeep of the Low Threshold Program and working with residents to ensure that necessary tasks are completed.
• Cleaning and sanitizing areas as needed to ensure standards of cleanliness and sanitation are always kept up.

• Attending bi-weekly staff meetings monthly staff meetings and other staff training as assigned.
• Participating in La Casa Nortes fundraising events.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Bachelors degree preferable but not required with relevant experience
• Ability to interact with youth to alleviate social emotional or environmental crisis
• Skilled in the techniques of de-escalating aggressive behavior
• Demonstrate desire and ability to work with homeless runaway and at-risk urban youth
• Be knowledgeable in the social economic and cultural patterns of Latino and African American populations
• Be willing to work in a diverse environment in regard to race ethnicity culture sexual orientation and gender
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be willing to work flexible hours as needed including nights and/or weekends
• Have the desire creativity and flexibility to work in a new and fast-growing agency
• Must be bilingual (English Spanish)

Required Experience:

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