Reintegration Mentor

About the role

The REGIONS Site Secure Program is a secure residential treatment program for up to 16 male youth. The mission is to provide a home-like environment with a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, gender-specific, linguistically appropriate, strengths-based, and relationship-driven milieu for the youth to improve their social, physical, and emotional well-being.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Clinician to engage the youth, family, and community resources in preparation for program admission.
• Facilitate youth and family team meetings with Clinician.
• Work with family and other identified supportive individuals, empowering them to develop a support system.
• Reinforce the youth's individual treatment plan.
• Aid the family and Juvenile Probation Officer with the transition to community after-care services.
• Serve as a role model and reinforce the youth's individual treatment plan as well as provide continued support for the youth and family after program completion.
• Establish meaningful, supportive, and long-term connections with the community including community vocational opportunities and training.
• Analyze and evaluate the accomplishment of program objectives.
• Perform quality assurance audits to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Comply with all funding and reporting requirements.
• Establish and maintain professional boundaries with all staff, youth, and providers.
• Model pro-social behaviors as necessary.
• Utilize approved verbal and/or physical de-escalation techniques to eliminate youth's harm to self, harm to others, significant property/program destruction, and escape, maintaining communication with necessary parties.
• Participate in all required training.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in human services, Psychology, Criminal Justice, or other related field, or equivalent experience and training in lieu of education.
• Lived experience.
• Experience working with youth, residential treatment programs, mental health crisis intervention, and family engagement.
• Knowledge of the juvenile justice system preferred.
• Understanding and knowledge of gender-specific, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and linguistically appropriate issues and needs.
• Knowledge of behavior motivation and psychosocial interventions.
• Knowledge of child psychology and development.
• Strong emotional intelligence.
• Ability to interact with multi-cultural populations.
• Leadership, decision-making, communication, interpersonal, and organizational/prioritization skills, adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Belief that people can change and individuals in need deserve quality services and an opportunity to succeed.
• Familiarity with relevant state and federal laws.
• Valid CT driver's license and reliable transportation.
• Flexible schedule including on-call hours, evening, and weekend coverage.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

Qualifications

• Must share the belief that people can change and individuals in need deserve quality services and an opportunity to succeed.
• Must have and maintain a valid CT driver's license and reliable transportation.
• Must be able to transport a youth to appointments for community reintegration efforts, and to facilitate family visitation/sessions and home passes.

Skills

• Strong emotional intelligence.
• Ability to interact with multi-cultural populations.
• Leadership, decision-making, communication, interpersonal, and organizational/prioritization skills.
• Adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Belief that people can change and individuals in need deserve quality services and an opportunity to succeed.
• Familiarity with relevant state and federal laws.
• Valid CT driver's license and reliable transportation.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

Benefits

• Training requirements and conditions.

Pay

$27.42 per hour

Schedule

Tues. 11am-7pm; Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat 10am-6pm