Substance Use Program Coordinator

About the Role

The Substance Use Program Coordinator provides overall coordination and leadership for all assigned programs, including BRIDGE, SAFE, SPF, and SUPR, ensuring all activities align with IDHS/SAMHSA requirements and agency goals. This role involves developing and maintaining community partnerships, facilitating coalitions, coordinating needs assessments, and leading the integration of evidence-based screening tools into electronic health records and community partner workflows.

Programs

• Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (SUPR): Provides those impacted by substance misuse and their families with intervention, recovery support, and treatment services that focus on the unique needs of the individual and the community.
• Supplies, Access, Facilitation, and Education program (SAFE): A harm reduction initiative operating under the Substance Use program (SUPR) and within the broader Behavioral Health framework. It is designed to support vulnerable individuals in the service area by reducing the negative consequences of substance use through trauma-informed, person-centered, and culturally responsive outreach.
• Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success (SPF-PFS): Focuses on preventing and reducing substance use among pregnant individuals, emerging adults, and families involved in child-welfare by strengthening community capacity, promoting evidence-based prevention strategies, and addressing risk factors related to substance misuse. The program emphasizes data-driven planning, community partnerships, substance use education, and the development of sustainable prevention systems across the region.
• Building Recovery through Integrated, Digital, and Geographic Equity (BRIDGE): Provides telehealth-based substance use prevention, treatment, harm reduction, recovery support, and peer services to improve access for individuals in rural communities.

Supervision

This position reports to the SUPR/SAFE Program Coordinator - Melissa Brown and supervises Peer Recovery Support Specialists (SAFE, SPF, SUPR).

Work Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week. Afterhours on-call rotation required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Services or a closely related field required.
• Qualifies as a Mental Health Professional (MHP).
• Three (3) years of experience in prevention or community-based programming preferred.
• Experience coordinating grant-funded projects, coalitions, or multi-sector initiatives preferred.

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of substance use prevention and early intervention frameworks, including SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and the Institute of Medicine's prevention model.
• Solid understanding of evidence-based screening tools such as SBIRT, CRAFFT, SURP-P, and ACEs/BCEs, as well as strategies that enhance family resilience and reduce stigma around substance use.
• Experience coordinating multi-sector collaborations and facilitating coalitions that engage schools, healthcare providers, child welfare agencies, and community organizations in prevention initiatives.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder engagement, community outreach, and written documentation.
• Commitment to trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and recovery-oriented practices.
• Ability to foster teamwork, inclusion, and community engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall coordination and leadership for all assigned programs, including BRIDGE, SAFE, SPF, and SUPR, ensuring all activities align with IDHS/SAMHSA requirements and agency goals.
• Develop, maintain, and facilitate community partnerships, coalitions, steering committees, advisory councils, and workgroups, including the SPF-PFS Steering Committee and Southern Illinois Communities for Substance Use Prevention (SI-CSUP) Advisory Council, to strengthen prevention infrastructure, referral pathways, and community engagement.
• Coordinate community needs assessments, surveys, focus groups, data collection activities, and outreach planning efforts to identify community needs, inform prevention strategies, and evaluate program effectiveness.
• Oversee the development and implementation of the Implementation Plan, Education Plan, Evaluation Plan, Outreach Plan, and Strategic Plan for assigned programs, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and in accordance with the project workplan.
• Lead the integration of evidence-based screening tools (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment - SBIRT, Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Family, Trouble - CRAFFT, Substance Use Risk Profile Pregnancy - SURP-P, Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACEs, Benevolent Childhood Experiences - BCEs) into Arrowleaf's electronic health record (CareLogic) and community partner workflows to enhance early identification and intervention.
• Coordinate the delivery of community prevention programs such as Nurturing Pa (continuing from original text).