Youth Support Partner

Child and Family Focus Inc.; Marple Township (PA); On-site; USD 19,320 - 27,517; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Vision Benefits

Dental Benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

401K plan with company match

17 days of Paid Time Off

$50,000 Life Insurance Policy

Job summary

A community support organization is seeking a Youth Support Partner to assist youths with emotional and behavioral challenges. The role requires personal experience with child-serving systems and focuses on guiding youth towards developing their own support teams. This full-time position offers a competitive hourly wage and a variety of benefits, including health insurance on the first day of employment.

Qualifications

• Prior experience handling complex emotional and behavioral needs is required.
• Life experiences that provide understanding of struggles faced by youth is essential.
• Successful navigation of child-serving systems like mental health and education is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and guidance to youth during the High Fidelity process.
• Help youth develop their own team of natural and community supports.
• Model navigation of systems using personal life experiences.

Skills

Handling complex emotional needs

Navigating child-serving systems

Personal life experience with youth struggles

Job description

Overview

Join to apply for the Youth Support Partner role at Child and Family Focus Inc.

The High-Fidelity Wraparound process, known in Delaware County as High Fidelity Family Teams, is a needs-based planning process to improve the lives of children with complex mental health needs and their families by empowering the families and youth to have their voices heard through an individualized planning process.

The individualized plan is child-centered and family-focused, with the process focusing on strengthening the natural family, extended family and social supports for the child and family by developing a team to support the family throughout the process and in learning the skills of the model.

Please note that in order to be a Youth Support Partner, it requires you to have had personal involvement with a child-serving system. WORK-RELATED EXPERIENCE DOES NOT COUNT.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the High Fidelity Team providing support and guidance to the youth throughout the process, during meetings, and in completion of the individualized plans developed by the youth and their family.
• Help the identified youth develop their own team of supports (natural, community, and systems).
• Model, using personal life experiences, how to navigate systems using the youth's voice to meet their needs while developing natural supports within their own community to reach their family vision.

Required Qualifications

• Have prior experience handling complex emotional and behavioral needs.
• Have life experience which provides a diverse understanding of the struggles youth with complex emotional needs endure.
• Have successfully navigated child-serving systems (mental health, child welfare, probation, education).

Compensation and Benefits

• Hourly rate of $17.00
• Annual salary increase and bonus
• Medical and Vision Benefits offered on first day of employment, 3 plan options offered by Independence Blue Cross
• Dental Benefits offered on first day of employment, 2 plan options offered by Guardian
• Ancillary Benefits offered on first day of employment, such as Accident, Critical Illness, Cancer, Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability and $50,000 Life Insurance Policy provided by CFF
• 9 Paid Holidays
• 17 days of Paid Time Off with additional days added through years of service
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401K plan with company match and profit sharing
• Mileage and Expense reimbursement for travel and training
• Clearance Reimbursement

Other information

CFF is an equal opportunity and drug free employer. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or genetics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Job Details

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• Employment type: Full-time
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