Peer Navigator

About the role

Peer Navigator provides support and supervises the youth within the program utilizing their lived experiences while performing home-life training, assisting with, and participating in therapeutic activities and completing supportive record-keeping functions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of a group treatment team with the responsibility for ensuring each youth person successfully completes the goals set forth in their housing plan.
• Assist the young people with daily life activities.
• Lead, supervise, and participate in recreational activities.
• Conduct life-skills groups to youth in the program on a weekly basis.
• Provide assistance with controlling disruptive behavior using agency approved methods of de-escalation and crisis intervention.
• Collaborate with other staff in planning for the group or its individual members and participate in making decisions.
• Organize and maintain case notes, assessments, case summaries, case records, and other related records as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid Driver's License
• Must have "lived experience" with homelessness, mental health, substance use disorder, or psychological trauma