Bilingual Life Skills Coach
Overview:
About Rising Ground
Founded as an orphanage in 1831, Rising Ground has been at the forefront of evolving community needs. Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity, and each year, Rising Ground is a positive force in the lives of more than 72,000 individuals annually.We do this through 101 programs across 138 sites, throughout New York City and Westchester. Our strong belief and commitment to diversity is shown not just through our work with supported persons but is integral to the building of a strong staff that reflects the communities we serve.
Rising Ground is headquartered in New York City.
The Unaccompanied Children Program provides temporary residential care and other supportive services to Unaccompanied Children (UC) who are under legal custody of the Federal Government. Working in collaboration with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, the POH program provides a safe and nurturing environment for 439 youth as well as therapeutic and educational services and other supports that youth need to achieve success through an array of strength-based and targeted interventions as well as link them with family members and/or other sponsors in the United States so they are able to move forward with their lives and thrive.
About the Role
This position will require intensive individual and group life skills training to UC ages 12 to 17 years old who are placed in the Basic Shelter Program. Transitional Foster Care Program and the Long-Term foster Care Program. For children placed in the TFC and LTFC program in the community, IL skills must be provided where the children reside.The life skill coach requires the ability to teach Life Skill Training on daily living skills, self-care, career planning, community engagement, communication skills, housing and money management, job readiness, post 18 planning, among others.
Responsibilities:
- Tutor and mentor youth as needed
- Attend Treatment Team Meetings as requested
- Document all service provided on a monthly basis
- Run monthly IL groups with all children in the LTFC program
- Ensure that materials are available for the execution of each IL training
- Complete and update as needed a comprehensive IL program curriculum
- Ensure that program curriculum includes community involvement activities
- Create an acknowledgment system for program participation and completion
- Track results of IL skills and compare them with the current scores of each child’s life skill assessment
- Network with community-based organizations to provide supplementary services and experiences for the POH children
- Visit children placed in the LTFC program on a weekly basis to follow up and assist in their development of IL skills
- Ability to work effectively with children with developmental disabilities, learning disabilities and emotional disturbances
- Ensure that IL training dates and programming is shared with the Treatment Team and that youth are informed and encouraged to participate
- Facilitate individual and group Life Skills training to all youth in the POH program. Training must be tailored to meet each individual youth’s needs and current ability. For this the Life Skill Assessment for each youth must be completed
- Other duties as assigned by the direct supervisor or Program Director
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in social or related field preferred
- Two years experience in a related program for adolescent population
- Must complete Therapeutic Crises Intervention Training (TCI)
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Bilingual English/Spanish
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Supervisory Responsibility
Yes/No
Work Environment:
Clinic/Field/Corporate Office
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full
- time position.
Work hours options are 9:00 am
- 5:00 pm, 9:30 am
- 5:30 pm, 10 am
- 6 pm.
This positions offers an annual salary of: $51,999.95 plus benefits.
Additional Requirements:
- Authorized to work in the U.S.
- Ability to work in-person in New York City (NY) for at least 3 days or more per week.
- Ability to travel to other Rising Ground sites (if required)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Fairness, and Belonging
Rising Ground is comprised of unique and valued individuals who together make the organization effective in assisting the children, adults and families who come to us for support. We believe that only when all employees contribute fully as their true selves can Rising Ground's true strength, vision, and values come to fruition.We recognize the ubiquitous social biases and structures that impact and shape the experiences of all people, including our own staff and people supported. Among the many biases present in our society that shape our personal and professional experiences race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender expression are all factors that can present hurdles.
As such, Rising Ground is committed to being an anti-racist and inclusive organization that will actively strive to overcome both systemic and interpersonal biases that perpetuate oppression.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.