Life Skills Coach

Child & Family Development; Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Child & Family is seeking a Life Skills Coach to support Semi-Independent Living and Independent Living Programs. You will help create individualized transition plans, build life skills for youths aged 16-20, and coordinate with treatment teams to promote independence through community-based services.

The role is hybrid with 20% remote work; statewide travel is required and bilingual Spanish is preferred. A strong background in social services and collaboration with community partners is

Qualifications

• Associate degree in social work, psychology, or related field required; bachelor’s preferred.
• 1+ years in human services, housing or homeless services; life coach experience preferred.
• Ability to travel statewide and communicate with diverse communities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate life skills trainings and develop curriculum updated to client needs.
• Assess learning abilities and adapt problem-solving activities.
• Build relationships with parents, DCYF, schools and community resources.
• Coordinate with treatment teams to support self-sufficiency plans (employment/education).
• Collaborate with outside workforce orgs and refer clients to job opportunities.
• Maintain trauma-informed environment with empathetic, confidential communication.

Skills

Organizational skills

Critical thinking

Time management

Communication skills

Spanish language

Teamwork

Interpersonal skills

Education

Associate degree in social work or related field

Bachelor’s degree in social work or related field preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing

You will work across the Semi-Independent Living and Independent Living Programs to assist with the client's treatment team to create an individualized plan for successful transition to permanence and independence through building life skills specific to vocational training, Financial and educational goal attainment. The Life Skills Coach will provide before and after transition services and integration of behavioral health treatment in the community for successful independence whether in the Independent Living Program (ILP) reunification with family or aging out of the system. The Supportive Independent Living and Independent Living Programs work with youth ages 16-20 years of age.

Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

• Facilitate individual and group life skills trainings, ensuring that trainings are tailored to meet the needs of each individual; develops and implements workshops, training, seminars on various life skills domains and update program curriculum as needed.
• Assess client’s learning capabilities and problem-solving skills.
• Apply relevant resources to designed curriculum to meet the client’s needs.
• Build professional relationships with individuals within the client’s community (i.e., parents, police departments, Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), schools, etc.)
• Communicate with treatment team in support of each client’s self-sufficiency plan (i.e., employment, vocational and/or educational needs)
• Work with agency team to prioritize and implement solutions to address clients with differing abilities.
• Collaborate with outside workforce organizations and refers clients to community resources for job placement and career opportunities.
• Cultivate a trauma-informed environment by understanding short/long term impacts of trauma and neglect, maintains trauma-sensitive language and approaches, and responds to clients and their families/caretakers with empathy, sensitivity, and confidentiality.

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities:

• Associate degree in social work, Psychology, or related field required; bachelor’s degree in social work, Psychology, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 1 years’ experience in Human Services, housing services, and/or homeless services required; experience as a Life Coach preferred.
• State wide travel is required.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Bilingual in Spanish strongly preferred.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• Must have valid driver's license, auto insurance and car registration.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.