Youth Mentor - 2nd Shift

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 to help youth improve their social, physical, and emotional well-being.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision and care and assist youth with daily activities including school and groups.
• Maintain a safe, secure, strengths-based, gender responsive, trauma informed, linguistically appropriate and culturally sensitive environment.
• Maintain accountability for the location of youth at all times; have knowledge of and implement all agency/program policies and procedures governing facility operations.
• Mediate and resolve youth problems. Handle all situations in a manner consistent with relational and strengths-based practices, and in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Utilize program behavior motivational procedures as needed.
• Facilitate therapeutic programming under the supervision of the Rehabilitation Therapist.
• Reinforce the youth's individual treatment plan and assist with discharge planning as part of the REGIONS treatment team.
• Conduct both formal and informal counts, and complete internal and external facility security and safety checks.
• Complete all pre-post assignments.
• Serve as role model to youth and staff modeling pro-social behaviors.
• Participate in all required training.
• Conduct “Pat Downs” of Youth and Visitors to maintain security.
• Become proficient with the use of mechanical restraints and apply when necessary (e.g., during youth transport).

Requirements

• An Associate's degree or higher with experience working with at risk or court-involved adolescents and in residential treatment programs.
• A Bachelor's degree in the criminal justice field with a related internship may be considered in lieu of work experience.
• Understanding and knowledge of gender-specific, trauma-informed, culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate issues and needs.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, emotional intelligence, decision making and crisis management skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with a multi-cultural population.
• Must share the belief that people can change and individuals in need deserve quality services and an opportunity to succeed.
• Must be willing to work in a hardware secure environment.
• Must have and maintain a valid CT driver's license and have reliable transportation.
• Must be able to transport clients to appointments and into the community in mechanical restraints, have the capacity to become medication and SCM (Safe Crisis Management) certified, and work additional hours and/or overtime as needed.
• Bi-lingual ability (Spanish/English) preferred.
• Candidates with lived experience are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or higher with experience working with at risk or court-involved adolescents and in residential treatment programs.
• Bachelor's degree in the criminal justice field with a related internship may be considered in lieu of work experience.

Skills

• Understanding and knowledge of gender-specific, trauma-informed, culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate issues and needs.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, emotional intelligence, decision making and crisis management skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with a multi-cultural population.
• Knowledge of universal precautions and related issues including risk of communicable diseases.
• Medication and Safe Crisis Management certification.
• Proficiency with mechanical restraints.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Flexible scheduling options.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Employee assistance program.

Pay

$25.85 per hour.

Schedule

2nd Shift (4:00 pm – 12:00 am), Monday-Tuesday off.