Youth Mental Health Fellow

About the role

The AmeriCorps Youth Mental Health Fellow program combines AmeriCorps service and Century College coursework focused on supporting middle and high school students with individual and whole-school mental health supports. This program is open to 18-24 year olds interested in Behavioral Health career fields who are currently enrolled or committed to enrolling in the Mental and Behavioral Health Worker Certificate program at Century College.

Member Duties

• Establish and foster strong caring adult relationships with assigned student caseload.
• Provide weekly support to students through 1:1 meetings or small group facilitation aimed at increasing youth mental health, academic engagement, school attendance, and social and emotional skills.
• Proactively build relationships with teachers, campus staff, community partners, and families for a student-centered approach to support.
• Meet regularly with the site Youth Success Team to review data and identify youth to serve, track student progress, and align interventions with student needs.
• Provide attendance and behavior coaching for students targeted for needing assistance as determined through the multi-tiered system of support approach; promote positive behavior expectations.
• Maintain data collection and entry for program records, complete ongoing youth assessments, and submit weekly and monthly reports using an online database system.

Program Benefits

• Childcare assistance if eligible
• Training
• Living Allowance
• Education award upon successful completion of service

Terms

• None

Service Areas

• Children/Youth
• Education

Skills

• Counseling
• Communications
• Education

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Contact

To apply, call 612-476-0732 or email asoth@mnyouth.net. For more information, visit this link.