Bilingual Promotores Outreach Worker

About the role

Casa Esperanza is currently seeking an enthusiastic bilingual Promotores Outreach Worker (Promotores) who is passionate about promoting public health and individual and family well-being. The Promotores initiative is focused on reducing rates of drug overdose deaths and suicide in our Latine community.

Responsibilities

• Work with Promotores Project Managers to develop and implement an outreach and community mapping strategy for reaching at-risk Latines.
• Engage existing community connections to conduct educational activities that increase community understanding of addiction and mental illness, work to reduce the stigma associated with mental health and substance use disorders as well as the stigma associated with seeking and accepting treatment, and help community members in need of mental health and substance use treatment navigate the system of care.
• Conduct outreach and educational activities to build and strengthen wellness and recovery-oriented relationships and networks across the Latine community in Greater Boston and promote local services to reduce stigma associated with mental health issues, reduce access barriers, increase service utilization, and navigate people to behavioral and mental health services they can trust.
• Service Delivery: Provide bilingual health education services to promote engagement in healthy, pro-social, recovery-oriented activities.
• Provide transitional support as a community member for individuals who wish to access Casa's behavioral health services, including Detoxification/Withdrawal Management, Clinical Stabilization, Outpatient, Residential Treatment and Supportive Housing.
• Work with other Promotores and Community Health Workers to ensure cohesive messaging across events and activities.
• Work to reduce barriers/stigma to initiating or continuing health care by providing accurate information to families, community members, healthcare and social service providers, and other community organizations.
• Represent the agency by providing education and participating in Boston community health events.

Qualifications

• Bilingual Spanish/English required.
• Must be community focused and have established connections in the community.
• Must be willing to leverage their reputation in the community as a well known and trusted individual in the community to promote mental health and SUD support.
• Must reside in the community served.
• Must be available to work weekends and evenings, as needed.
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Awareness or be willing to learn about the intersection of culture, addiction, mental illness, trauma, health, and homelessness.
• Ability to meet the physical and training requirements of the position.

Skills

• Necessary for the position: Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.
• Experience doing outreach to individuals at risk for addiction, mental illness, trauma, and violence.

What We Offer

• Benefits Package: Compensation: Monthly Stipend: $720–$1,440 per month based on hours worked (calculated at $18.00/hour)
• ComPsych Guidance Resources - EAPEducational Opportunities
• Employee Ticket at Work (Discounts for Entertainment, travel, movies; etc.)
• Career Advancement Opportunities
• and more...

Physical & Mental Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.