Youth Mentor - 3rd Shift

About the role

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

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.
• Use DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) Coaching with the youth and conduct groups to eliminate negative behaviors.
• Monitor youth visiting, maintaining professional boundaries with youth and their families/visitors.
• Maintain and complete accurate logs and forms as required.
• 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.
• Knowledge of universal precautions and related issues including risk of communicable diseases.
• Serve as role model to youth and staff modeling pro-social behaviors.
• Promote a culture of respect, empathy, mutual support, belonging and work to eliminate any unconscious bias or discrimination in our beliefs, rules and systems.
• Establish and maintain professional boundaries with all staff, youth and providers.
• 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).
• Perform all other duties as required.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have 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.
• Able to interact effectively with a multi-cultural population.
• Willing to work in a hardware secure environment.
• Must have and maintain a valid CT driver’s license and have reliable transportation.
• 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.
• Experience working with at risk or court-involved adolescents and in residential treatment programs.
• 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.
• Able to interact effectively with a multi-cultural population.
• Willing to work in a hardware secure environment.
• Must have and maintain a valid CT driver’s license and have reliable transportation.
• 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.