Mentor

About the role

The Mentor (Youth Reentry) provides mentorship, case management, and care coordination to justice-involved youth, with an emphasis on reentry navigation and engagement. Builds trusting relationships with youth participants to promote stability, healing, and personal growth, while linking the youth to community-based services and supports. Draws from lived experience to guide participants through complex systems and support successful transitions back into their communities.

Responsibilities

• Build supportive, trust-based relationships with youth participants through regular mentorship and guidance
• Conduct outreach to identify and enroll eligible youth participants
• Complete intake and exit assessments and develop individualized care plans
• Maintain contact with each participant at least twice weekly, including one in-person interaction, and document all interactions
• Provide ongoing case management and connect youth with appropriate services, including education, employment, housing, and behavioral health supports
• Accompany participants to appointments, offer transportation assistance, and provide coaching as needed
• Partner with external service providers and refer youth to additional supports when appropriate
• Monitor participant progress and update care plans at least every six months
• Exit youth who have completed services or are no longer actively engaged
• Maintain a full caseload of up to ten youth and support outreach efforts to keep caseloads filled
• Participate in County-mandated trainings, events, and meetings
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation of all case notes and care activities
• Other duties and special projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Prior history of justice-system involvement, AND/OR being directly impacted by the justice involvement and/or incarceration of a family member(s)
• Experience working with individuals with system involvement, mental illness, SUD, or experiencing homelessness, AND/OR experience assisting community members in navigating health and social service systems
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands

• Stand: -1/3
• Walk: -1/3
• Sit: 2/3+
• Reach with hands and arms: 2/3+
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel: 2/3+
• Climb or balance: -1/3
• Bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl: -1/3
• Talk or hear: 2/3+
• Taste or smell: None
• Carry, push or pull: -1/3
• Lifts Weights or Exerts Force: Up to 10 pounds: -1/3
• Up to 25 pounds: -1/3
• Up to 50 pounds: None
• Up to 100 pounds: None
• More than 100 pounds: None
• Use vision: 2/3+
• Use hearing: 2/3+

Work Environment

• Environmental variables that may be indicated as applicable to the position: Working near mechanical parts: None
• Work in high, precarious places: None
• Fumes or airborne particles: None
• Toxic or caustic chemicals: None
• Outdoor weather conditions: -1/3
• Extreme cold (non-weather): None
• Extreme heat (non-weather): None
• Risk of electrical shock: None