Recreation Coordinator
About the role
Develop, plan, and implement therapeutic recreation services which support the resident treatment plans by improving the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social abilities of residents. Nexus Family Healing is located approximately 30 miles south of Kankakee and 45 miles north of Champaign-Urbana, just a few miles off of I-57 on a historic site in Onarga, IL. Nexus Family Healing provides boys ages 10 to 20 years old a structured, homelike environment where they can safely address a variety of unhealthy behaviors and mental health issues as well as childhood trauma. Nexus Onarga youth attend our onsite private, therapeutic Grand Prairie School which offers special education with small classes for grades 5th-12th. At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.
Responsibilities
- Develop, coordinate, and implement physical education and leisure activity programs for clients while maintaining the safety of clients, staff, and the community.
- Utilizes assessment tools, client survey data and child and family team input to determine individual resident needs pertaining to physical education/recreation.
- Develops, plan, supervise and participate in recreational activities and events that support the goals of the recreation department and enhance the therapeutic treatment environment.
- Models and teach healthy leisure values, attitudes and social skills in all recreational activities and events.
- Collaborates and communicates with program staff to integrate the recreation treatment goals, objectives and methodology, and support the emphasis of a trauma-informed, strengths-based therapeutic treatment environment as part of the overall treatment plan.