Life Skills Coach

About This Role

This Life Skills Coach position supports and empowers constituents who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, marginalized, and living in social isolation. The role uses a harm reduction approach to provide holistic services, motivate change, and facilitate learning opportunities through individual and group consultations. The coach guides constituents through self-discovery and behavior identification exercises, fostering an environment that builds self-esteem, empowerment, and independence.

Responsibilities

• Implement, instruct, and coordinate Life Skills to assist constituents in gaining successful integration within the community
• Collaborate with constituents to identify goals for development
• Assess constituents' readiness to make reasonable changes and evaluate their willingness, attitude, and commitment to success
• Work with individuals who may be hostile, oppositional, and volatile, while maintaining composure and behaving professionally
• Network with community resources to provide continuing learning opportunities to supplement and improve constituent life skills
• Research and develop materials necessary to supplement constituent Life Skills
• Collaborate with constituents to develop appropriate skills to identify strategies, self-realization tools, and techniques towards their journey of success
• Collaborate with constituents to foster the development of new or improved coping, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Make recommendations in consultation with the team regarding constituent referral needs
• Develop, implement, and facilitate individualized training and/or group workshops to address constituent needs
• Collaborate with constituents in the formulation of a Comprehensive Service Plan, reviewed and modified regularly based on Medicine Wheel principles and values, and through comprehensive constituent assessment and intake processes
• Formulate and deliver support, treatment, and healing strategies based on individual beliefs and desires, including ongoing input and monitoring of progress, utilizing a combination of traditional methods and values partnered with access to contemporary physical, emotional, and psychological services
• Maintain written and computerized records, compile reports, and complete other program documentation (e.g., S.O.A.P. notes, progress reports, incident reports, on-call logs, letters, assessments)
• Coordinate and monitor referrals to community services and advocate for constituent participation
• Facilitate and provide support to individual and group activities such as personal counseling sessions, Sharing Circles, Sweats, and Retreats
• Maintain thorough and accurate records of all constituent contacts, personal visits and appointments, agency referrals, and document progress towards achieving established goals and objectives