About This Role
This Life Coach position works with youth aged 18-35 who are navigating challenges across three program levels. The role involves identifying youth through community outreach and referrals, facilitating healing through trauma-informed services, and providing support for positive behavior and goal achievement.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate supportive behavior and role model positive appropriate interactions
- Reach out to resistant youth and successfully engage them in services
- Maintain contact with each participant on a weekly basis, at minimum
- Engage and work with youth to understand the importance of school performance and recommended services, and support youth to begin and continue with interventions
- Make external and internal continuum of care services as appropriate to support youth progress
- Actively participate in team meetings, required trainings, committees (AIC, Diversity) and agency events
- Work interdepartmentally to foster UCAN continuum of care and suggest improvements from client's perspective
- Coordinate and facilitate professional development workshops and CBT groups for programming participants
- Possess a basic understanding of the effects of trauma and operate from that perspective when interacting with youth and families
- Act as a mandated reporter
- Work with participants on violence prevention skills (i.e., anger management, conflict resolution, and other life skills)
- Using a strengths-based approach, engage participants in strategies to improve participation in needed services
- Assist participants with setting and completing individual goals
- Assist participants with becoming involved in positive out-of-school time activities such as tutoring, counseling, employment, and recreation
- Collaborate with UCAN Career Services & Workforce Development to assist participants in preparing for and locating jobs; coach participants in positive and productive workplace behavior
- Provide youth and client outcomes as outlined in program requirements
- Establish and maintain relationships with local service providers and faith institutions to enhance community relations and to strengthen referral sources for participants
- Attend community meetings (i.e., VIPS weekly outreach activities, elected officials’ meetings beat meetings, community discussions) and serve as a representative of UCAN
- Behave with integrity, demonstrate high ethical standards, and display a positive image of UCAN
- Act in a professional manner at all times and maintain appropriate boundaries with participants
- Demonstrate accountability for results and keep commitments to others
- Report to work, meetings, training, and job related activities prepared and as scheduled
