Parent Advocate

The Jewish Board; New York (NY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation time and holidays

Affordable health/dental/vision plans

Tuition assistance and loan repayment

Free continuing education

403(b) retirement plan

Flexible spending accounts

EAP (24/7)

Life and disability insurance

Diversity and inclusion groups

Job summary

The Jewish Board is seeking a Family Peer Advocate to provide case management and advocacy for caregivers of children and adolescents within CFTSS programs. You will use a culturally competent, person-centered approach to help families access services and build skills to improve functioning and resiliency.

The role requires lived experience and licensing as a Family Peer Advocate, with a focus on serving diverse communities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency is required.
• Fully licensed or Provisional License as a Family Peer Advocate is preferred.
• Lived experience parenting a child with serious emotional disturbance or related mental health challenges.
• Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, economic groups; bilinguals are a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide advocacy through outreach with providers across the child-serving system.
• Work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services.
• Participation in weekly supervision.
• Participation in staff meetings.
• Identify formal services and informal resources for families with mental health challenges.
• Assist families with identifying needs, strengths, and challenges.
• Monitor family progress to determine goals met.
• Collaborate with care providers and community supports to help families meet their goals.
• Develop a resource directory for services for families with mental health challenges.

Skills

Lived experience as a parent

Bilingual capacity (Russian/Spanish/Ur

Education

High school diploma or equivalency

Tools

Electronic Medical Records

Microsoft Office

Job description

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us

If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs. With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live. Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance. We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co‑pays. You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference

The Jewish Board's Child and Family Treatment Support Services (CFTSS) programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. The staff use a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities. The successful candidate will provide Case Management and Advocacy services for caregivers of children and adolescents, and their families. The Family Peer Advocate will help plan, access, and coordinate services for children and their families.

Responsibilities

• Provide advocacy through outreach with providers across the child serving system
• Work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services
• Participation in weekly supervision
• Participation in staff meetings
• Work to identify formal services and informal resources for families experiencing social‑emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges
• Assist families with identifying needs, strengths, and challenges
• Monitor family progress to determine goals met
• Collaborate with care providers and community supports to help families meet their goals
• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of providers
• Develop a resource directory to identify formal services and informal services for families with mental health challenges/or at risk of experiencing mental health challenges
• Conduct outreach/information sessions/workshops with providers across the child serving system
• Using an electronic database, document demographic data on all individuals seen, document and track family's goals, and all services provided to parent/caregiver; participates in quality improvement activities
• Any additional duties assigned

Core Competencies

• Must have lived experience with the child welfare system as a parent

Educational / Training Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalency

Experience / Language Preference

• Lived experience in parenting a child or adolescent with a serious emotional disturbance and/or lived experience of mental health challenges
• Fully licensed or Provisional License as a Family Peer Advocate
• Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, economic groups
• Background in advocating mental health and/or in the educational system
• Bilingual in Russian/Spanish/Urdu/Chinese is a strong plus

Computer Skills

• Experience working with electronic medical records and proficiency with use of Microsoft Office
• The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs

Work Environment / Physical Effort

• Office based work environment in busy community based mental health clinic
• Ability to work evenings as needed

If you join us, you'll have these great benefits

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.