Prevention Specialist
About the role
At BHcare, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live a healthy, safe, and fulfilling life. Every day, our teams provide compassionate care and support to individuals and families throughout Connecticut through behavioral health, substance use, domestic violence, housing, and community-based services. We are seeking a passionate Prevention Specialist to join our Alliance for Prevention & Wellness (APW) team with focus on our Tobacco grant. This role is ideal for a community-focused professional who is passionate about substance misuse prevention, mental health promotion, coalition building, and creating lasting positive change through evidence-based prevention strategies. Candidates must reside in Connecticut to be eligible for this position.
Responsibilities
- Builds and maintains community partnerships
- Coordinates all aspects of assessment, capacity building, planning, and implementation of the regional workplan
- Conducts outreach
- Facilitates coalition and prevention activities and uses data to guide strategies that improve community health and wellness related to underage tobacco prevention
- Conducts community needs assessments and identifies prevention priorities
- Builds and maintains partnerships with state, regional, and local stakeholders
- Delivers engaging educational presentations, trainings, and prevention programming
- Supports coalition development and facilitates community collaboration efforts
- Develops and implements evidence-based prevention initiatives that address substance misuse and mental health concerns
- Utilizes the Strategic Prevention Framework to guide planning, implementation, and evaluation activities